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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Saturday, February 14, 2004  

Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

1. City Governments Map Trends
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62131,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_8
2. ESRI: Join the Spirit of Mars Exploration
http://www.esri.com/mars/index.html
3. Earth Satellite Corporation: GIS Services
http://www.earthsat.com/env/gis/index.html
4. GIS.com: Your Internet Guide to Geographic Information Systems
http://www.gis.com/
5. GISlounge: History of GIS
http://www.gislounge.com/ll/historyofgis.shtml
6. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
http://www.ucgis.org/

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology crosses many disciplines in research and encompasses a wide range of applications. The technology can be integrated with a system that combines aerial (or satellite) photography, census figures, crime statistics and other information and then overlaid on a highly-detailed interactive map. This Topic in Depth covers some of the current uses of GIS and resources for learning more about the technology.

City governments have found various uses for GIS technology, (1) including helping firefighters avoid closed roads when navigating through New York City. Moving even beyond Earth, GIS was also used to gather planetary geography and geographic characteristics in the rover mission to Mars (2). Visitors to this website can learn more about Martian GIS and visualization tools and find image viewers for the advanced and beginner users of GIS that allow you to get a closer look at Mars, Venus, the moon, or your hometown here on earth. The Earth Satellite Corporation (3) provides this overview of some applications for satellite imagery combined with GIS technology. This website, Your Internet Guide to Geographical Information Systems (4), provides general information on GIS, sample images, and ways to get software, training and data. To gain some perspective on the expansion of GIS, the GISlounge provides links to where you can learn more about the history of GIS (5), and describes the history project, which includes a "critical history" that asks the question, "What were the precursors and ways of understanding the world that provided the conditions of possibility for GIS to emerge in the forms that did?" To give you a better sense of the rapid growth that has occurred in the field of geographic information and steps being taken to ensure that a coherent view emerges, visit this website of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)(6) [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

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