IV. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements. Explain Why.
1. A geographic information system (GIS) is an information system for capturing, storing, analyzing, managing and presenting data.
2. GIS technology can be used only in geography.
3. GIS was invented by the ancient people and since then had never been changed.
4. CGIS was crated for commercial purposes.
5. Modern GIS appeared in USSR in 1962.
6. Tomlinson is the “father of GIS”.
7. ‘SYMAP’, ‘GRID’, and ‘ODYSSEY’ were created in 1980s and became more common than GIS.
8. CGIS is used initiative to determine the land capability by mapping information about soils, agriculture, recreation, wildlife, waterfowl, forestry, and land.
9. Now every common user can use GIS data for different purposes.
10. GIS is the tool for map making.
V. What new information have you learned from this article? What information of your own about the history of GIS can you add?
The main techniques used in GIS
The basic terms
I. Learn active vocabulary:
Digital - цифровой
data creation – организация данных
hard copy map – печатная карта
survey – землемерная съемка
Medium - формат
ortho-rectified – правильно выверенный
heads-up digitizing – управляемая оцифровка
to trace – следить, прослеживать, отслеживать
tablet - таблица
aerial – воздушный, надземный
elevation – повышение, возвышенность
database – база данных
to convert – преобразовывать
remote sensing – дистанционное зондирование
Layer - слой
to represent – изображать, представлять
discrete object – отдельный объект
continuous field – неприрывные данные
Raster - растр
distinct – отдельный, особый, отчетливый
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