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1 GIS in context
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What six parts do Geo information systems consist of?
People
software
data
procedures
hardware
network -
What are the 5 main geoinformation services?
Inventory andstatus :
- Mapping & Measuring
Detection of changes:
- Monitoring
Research: analysis and predcition:
- Modelling
Organisation and maintenance:
- Management -
What is the definition of Geo-Information Science?
Geo-Information Science is the discipline dedicated to reflection on and discussion of
- Collecting,
- the storage,
- the handling,
- the visualisation
- the exchange,
Regarding the (societal) usability of geographical data/Geo-spatial data
by geoinformation Systems and Services in a variety of applications (5M's) -
What are the first disciplines Geo information Science is coming from?
Land surveying and geodesy
computer science
geography
Cartography -
2 week 2
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What are the characteristics of SDIs?
Allow for efficient and flexible sharing of geodata
based on agreements about techincal, institutional, and legal ways of goedata exchange
geodata remain under the administration of the data owner
access to data via metadata
SDIs predominantly administered by the government
but all actors (users, private companies, government) have to comply to SDI standards to make it work -
What are the groups of standards in SDIs? + 1 example each
Standards for data (.shp)
Standards for data services (WMS)
Standards for metadata (Dublincore)
standards for Catalogue service (CSW) -
What is syntactic ineroperability?
Defined as the ability to exchange data and is associated with dataformats -
What is semantic interoperability?
Two communicating systems interpret the information in the same way -
What are the meta data functions ?
It is a data label
enable finding the datasets
help to interpret dataset
describe access and use restriction
describe (partly) data lineage
are standardized -
What are the different SDI bind techonologies/standards?
WMS -Webmapping service - only viewWFS -web feature service -access to data (feature )
WCS - web coverage servicce - access to data (raster)
GML - Geography markup Language -
GeoJSON
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