GEOG 307 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Census Tract, A Priori And A Posteriori, Census Block
10 Feb 2020
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Gis set of tools that helps process spatial data into information. Can store, retrieve, manipulate, analyze and display geographic data. Gis is a set of tools that allows for spatial discovery. Used to redline districts in brooklyn outline where ethnic minority/ economically depressed people live to avoid giving them loans. John snow cholera map indicated where the cases of cholera were and found their water sources found out that that was the source of the outbreak. Intervisibility when you are at a point how much can you see: buffers. Location allocation: can find information on the services that are provided by a hospital and how far away those users are/ accessible. Spatial imaging: displaying data within a spatially defined coordinate system: level 1: used for real time monitoring, finding services, gps based. Database management storage of data: monitoring facilities for power outages, emergency management.
