Geographic Information System

1. A computer application used to store, view, and analyze geographical information, especially maps.

Example Sentences

They then used geographic information system software to generate spatial probability estimations based on these known outbreaks.

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The county’s claims that these two sites are the only possible locations — narrowed down from an initial 70,000 possibilities using a geographic information system, then to 206 after further screening — strains credibility.

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They built their algorithms using these data samples for soil organic carbon, matched to precise geographic information system locations.

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Adi Ben-Nun, the manager of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Geographic Information System Center, has surveyed damage along the potential buffer zone up until Jan. 17.

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To build his 3-D model, he entered a 3-D map made from geographic information system, or G.I.S., data and a Google satellite map into Maya, and then layered in the historical photographs.

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