Geographic Information System Technology



Geographic Information System Technology

Introduction

Geographical Information System (GIS) is the revolutionized technology which has transformed the ways of assessing the information more effectively. GIS is the computerized system which is especially designed to capture, store, analyze, manage, share and manipulate the geographical information in order to make effective decisions based on that information (Foote and Lynch, 1995).

The computerized system displays the collected information from the geography in terms of map. It uses the process of geo-coding and converts the data into images and maps. The GIS technology converts the information in order to reveal the relationships, patterns, ...