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GIS – Terms and Definitions

The following are Wikipedia entries that should help you learn more about GIS.

·  Aerial photography

·  Atlas

·  Cartography

·  Contour line

·  Digital elevation model – DEM

·  Digital Line Graph – DLG

·  Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle – DOQ

·  Digital Raster Graphic – DRG

·  FIPS place code

·  FIPS state code

·  Geographic information system – GIS

·  Geography

·  Geologic map

·  Geospatial

·  GeoTIFF

·  GIS file formats

·  Grass GIS

·  Global positioning system – GPS

·  Historical geographic information system – HGIS

·  Landsat program

·  Latitude

·  Longitude

·  Map

·  Map projection

·  Orthophoto

·  Public Participation GIS

·  Remote sensing

·  Spatial analysis

·  Spatial Data Transfer Standard – SDTS

·  Topo map

·  Topographic map

·  Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing – TIGER, TIGER/Line

·  U.S. postal abbreviations

·  United States Geological Survey – USGS

·  Universal Transverse Mercator – UTM

Hassan Samson Mshelia

GIS Specialist

Msheeli GisLite

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