Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer based information system used to digitally represent and analyse the geographic features present on the Earth' surface and the events (non-spatial attributes linked to the geography under study) that taking place on it. The meaning to represent digitally is to convert analog (smooth line) into a digital form.
"Every object present on the Earth can be geo-referenced", is the fundamental key of associating any database to GIS. Here, term 'database' is a collection of information about things and their relationship to each other, and 'geo-referencing' refers to the location of a layer or coverage in space defined by the co-ordinate referencing system.
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Upcoming GIS Conferences
- Shallow Survey 2008; Conference on High-Resolution Surveys in Shallow Water; Centre for Coastal and Ocean Mapping and the UNH Joint Hydrographic Centre
- 2nd International Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues in Geographic Information Systems (SeCoGIS 2008)
- URISA 2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
- 4th Asian Space Conference; National Space Organisation
- 2008 ESRI Latin American User Conference
- 14th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conference (ARSPC)
- Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference, incorporating GISSA 2008
- 7th International Conference on ASIA GIS 2008; Asia Geographic Information System Association
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