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unusual facts about GIs


TeleCAD-GIS

By definition, OSP represents all telecom equipment and services related to the network installation from the exchange Main Distribution Frame (MDF) or Optical Distribution Frame (ODF) to the subscriber premises (or to other MDF/ODF).


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9th Parachute Assault Regiment

In Iraq, Operation Antica Babilonia (Italian contingent of Multinational force 2003 - 2006) includes a section of special forces operatives, from the 9th, the Carabinieri's GIS and the Navy's COMSUBIN, mostly deployed for patrol missions, training local police and Army, and to arrest suspects of terrorism.

Ahmed al-Darbi

Al-Darbi identified Damien M. Corsetti, a soldier nicknamed "the King of Torture" by his fellow GIs, as one of his abusers.

Aimsun

Aimsun can exchange data with CAD, GIS, transport modelling, signal optimisation and adaptive control software tools (DWG, DXF, DGN, GIS, Emme, CONTRAM, Saturn, CUBE, VISUM, VISSIM, Paramics, TRANSYT, SYNCHRO, VS-PLUS, UTOPIA, SCATS), SCOOT, ETRA, SICE, Telent, Telvent and ZGZ Prio.

Aligned Assets

Originally working as MapInfo resellers and Geographical Information System (GIS) developers, the company saw early success by securing contracts with companies such as the BBC, Experian and Orange (brand).

Archaeological field survey

Archaeologists use a variety of tools in survey, including GIS, GPS, remote sensing, geophysical survey and aerial photography.

Aviva Rahmani

More recently, Rahmani concurrently studied for a GIS certificate at Lehman College, CUNY (PJIM article, Boetzkes), while finishing a dissertation at Plymouth University, UK.

Deposit model

All this information can be stored on a computer GIS database and analysed and augmented as time goes by and further information is revealed.

Digital Earth

UNEP began actively testing prototypes for a UNEP geo-browser beginning in mid-2001 with a showcase for the African community displayed at the 5th African GIS Conference in Nairobi, Kenya November 2001.

Esri Canada

industry = Software
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)|

European delivery

According to an article by Jonathan Spira, who has authored multiple articles on the topic, the programs have their origins going back to American GIs who brought European ("foreign") cars back with them starting in the 1950s.

Garden International School

Garden International School (abbreviated GIS) is a coeducational day international school in Mont Kiara, a residential area of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with a branch campus in Kuantan, Pahang.

Gippsland Independent Schools

Gippsland Independent Schools (GIS) is an association of schools in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

GIS Live DVD

GIS Basic distribution: Knoppix Software included: GRASS 6.2, UMN MapServer 4.4.1, MapLab 2.0.1, PostgreSQL 8.1.4.2, TerraView 2.0, MapDesk, MySQL 5.0.21, JUMP GIS 1.1.2, Interlis, QGIS 0.8, Thuban 1.0.0, GSdrive, GPSMan

Granada Islamic School

Granada Islamic School (GIS) was founded in 1988 in Santa Clara, California, in memory of Granada, Spain (Andalusia) - the beacon of Islamic civilization in the West.

Gruppo di Intervento Speciale

The GIS members are present in the movies Sensenfukoku and Angels & Demons; in the videogame Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield and in the expansion Athena Sword.

GIS is featured heavily in the Japanese manga series Gunslinger Girl.

Gunawan Steel Group

The group consisted of three steel industry companies; Gunawan Dian Steel Pipe (GDSP) based in Surabaya, Indonesia; Gunawan Iron and Steel (GIS) based in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia and Gunawan Dianjaya Steel (GDS) (Surabaya, Indonesia).

Herman Wildenvey

After living some years in Oslo and Copenhagen, the couple settled in the small coastal town of Stavern in 1923, where they built their home Hergisheim in 1927 ("Herman og Giskens Heim"; "Herman and Gisken's Home").

Historical geographic information system

Anne Kelly Knowles: Past Time, Past Place: GIS for history A collection of twelve case studies on the use of GIS in historical research and education.

Jack Dangermond

In 1969, he co-founded with his wife Laura the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), a privately held Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software company.

Today Esri is the largest GIS software developer in the world and its flagship product, ArcGIS, traces its heritage to Dangermond's initial efforts in developing ARC/INFO.

Land surveying software

For some attributes of GIS software see Comparison of GIS software.

LandView

LandView is a public domain GIS viewer designed to display United States Census Bureau, Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and U.S.Geological Survey (USGS) data.

Osmap

Its goal is to be very simple and easy to use, compared to other data storage techniques such as GIS or OGC.

Philippine comics

Originally inspired by American comic strips and comic books left behind by American GIs, the medium steadily diverged, and by the 1950s, drew more inspiration from other forms of Filipino literature such as komedya, as well as Philippine mythology.

Police IT

It is the Public Distress Response system which uses GSM, Wireless Media, and Computer based Command and control from Police control room, multiple vehicle mount terminals and GIS based navigation and guidance.

Precision viticulture

Precision viticulture depends on new and emerging technologies such as global positioning systems (GPS), meteorologic and other environmental sensors, satellite and airborne remote sensing, and geographic information systems (GIS) to assess and respond to variability.

Public health informatics

The need to extract usable public health information from the mass of data available requires the public health informaticist to become familiar with a range of analysis tools, ranging from business intelligence tools to produce routine or ad hoc reports, to sophisticated statistical analysis tools such as DAP/SAS and PSPP/SPSS, to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to expose the geographical dimension of public health trends.

QA Technologies

QA Technologies signed a multi-year license agreement with Tele Atlas, a global provider of digital maps that delivers GIS mapping content to over 200 countries and provides data for Google Maps.

Quantitative revolution

The greater use of computers in geography also led to many new developments in geomatics, such as the creation and application of GIS and remote sensing.

Reverse mortgage

It therefore does not affect government benefits from Old Age Security (OAS) or Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS).

Rooftop photovoltaic power station

Visual-SOLAR is a Geographic information system (GIS) tool being developed that uses high-resolution Light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-derived Digital Surface Models to accurately recreate the earth’s surface, including building rooftops.

Sol Katz

Sol Katz (August 3, 1947 – April 23, 1999) was an American software developer who pioneered geospatial computer software (a sub-category of GIS) and left behind a large body of work in the form of computer applications and format specifications while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Texas Natural Resources Information System

industry = Geographic Information Systems (GIS)|

Toxin

TOXMAP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) that is part of TOXNET.

Transims

Visualization tools that are commonly used include the original TRANSIMS visualizer, fourDscape and the Balfour (software) visualizer, ArcGIS and similar GIS tools, Google Earth and NASA World Wind, Advanced Visualization (NCSA), and NEXTA.

Viewshed Analysis

A viewshed analysis can be performed using one of many GIS programs, such as GRASS GIS (r.los, r.viewshed), SAGA GIS (Visibility), TNT Mips, ArcMap, Maptitude, ERDAS IMAGINE.


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