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WEEK 11
TOPIC: GIS APPLICATION
CONTENT:
(a) AREAS OF USE
- Areas of use: Defense, Agriculture, Urban planning, and development, mapping, survey, Transportation, census, etc.
(b) PROBLEMS WITH GIS IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA- power, personnel, capital (cost of hardware and software).
SUB-TOPIC 1: AREAS OF USE
- Defense: Many national security decisions involve geography, whether assessing potential terrorist targets, planning where to strike on the battle fields or deciding where to locate a new building with minimal environmental impact, geography always comes into the equation. GIS increasingly important role in making these types of decisions. GIS software gives you the tools to unlock and reveal meaningful patterns in your geospatial data and provide the intelligence support you need for mission success.
- Mapping: GIS is used as an important inventory visualization and analysis tool in the study of local communities’ development and for local advocacy. GIS is frequently used for inventory and display arrant condition (demographics land use, zoning, transportation, services and is often used to analyze access to community services and to advocate for new services.
- Urban Planning and Development: Policy map provides easy ways to map publicly available housing and foreclosure data from housing and urban development’s, planners and citizens frequently call for policies to shape growth in a way that will reduce rates of increase in land consumption. Planners use GIS as an important tool for understanding, visualizing and quantifying current conditions and recent trends.
- Agriculture: GIS is used for global monitoring for food security, understanding and monitoring food availability and potential insecurity, providing up to date information on potential famine situations. It also plays an increasing role in agriculture production throughout the world by helping farmers increase production, reduce costs, and manage their land more efficiently.
- Surveying: GIS technology integrates with other systems while providing new functionally and a central database. A GIS database gives you a better way to easily manage, reuse, share and analyze your survey data, saving you time, money and resources. Because GIS software solutions are inter-operable with the many data formats used in the field and office you can deliver your data in the format required by clients while maintaining the score integrity.
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