The Benefits of GIS

15 Oct,2012

by Lini

GIS is 'Geographic Information System' based on spatial data, with the support of computer hardware as well as software, applied with system engineering and informatics sciences, to provide a technology system for management, decision-making using spatial data.

From technology point of view, GIS is a technology, methodology and measurement to solve spatial problem.

From science point of view, GIS is an independent technology developed on the basis of Geography, Cartography, Surveying, Computer Science etc.

From function point of view, GIS is capable of spatial data acquiring, storage, display, editing, processing, analysis, output and applications.

From service point of view, GIS is also a service system to provide people with necessary spatial information.

In the current IT chain, GIS technology becomes a robust and efficient productivity deeply followed and chased by all industries. The US government named GIS, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology to be the three most advanced potential technologies in 21st century.

GIS has been widely used in many sectors such as land management, municipally, transportation, resources, environment protection, space technology, agriculture, forestry, education, public health, military, e-government etc.

GIS witnesses a dramatic progress in the past 30 years for almost all industries in national economy. Especially for resource investigation, disaster control and alleviation, city planning, telecommunication, emergency management. The typical GIS includes the following modules:

+ Resource Management
+ Resource Configuration
+ Urban Planning and Management
+ Land Information System and Cadastral Application
+ Environmental Management and Modeling
+ Emergency Response
+ Application in GeoScience
+ Business and Marketing
+ Facilities Management
+ Site Selecting Analysis
+ Network System Analysis
+ Visualization Application
+ Distributed Geographic Information Application