geographic information system

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geographic information system

n. Abbr. GIS
A computer application used to store, view, and analyze geographical and statistical information.
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This comes in line with the Abu Dhabi vision to provide the new generation of government services under the concept of "integrated journey" by employing innovative technologies of government services and geographic information systems in order to provide efficient, Fast and proactive services to enrich the customer experience.
Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with 78 employees, DTS is in asset management and geographic information systems within the North American market.
Utility Testing and Geographic Information Systems, a company that provides contact voltage testing, water leak detection, sign asset management services and GIS mapping, has launched its Advanced Contact Voltage Testing services after developing a new line of electrical safety testing instruments.
Prince Sultan bin Salman, president of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA), received an excellence award at the SCTA headquarters in Riyadh on Sunday for the implementation of a comprehensive geographic information system (GIS) detailing the Kingdom's heritage sites, road networks and other tourism-related information.
The event is one of the most important international conferA[degrees] ences in the field of geographic information systems, offering over 500 presentations.
Geographic information systems in water resources engineering.
Potential contributions of spatial analysis to geographic information systems for transportation (GIS-T).
More than a century-and-a-half after Snow's discovery, advanced geographic information systems are making their mark within every public health discipline.
The college's Geographic Information Systems program, meanwhile, will receive $45,000 per year grant for four years to purchase remote sensing technology to be implemented in a planned Geographic Information Systems lab.
GE's PII Pipeline Solutions business has launched a new version of PipeView[TM] SheetGen, a software tool that is said to automatically generate alignment sheets directly from relational databases and geographic information systems. SheetGen provides up-to-date, construction-quality drawings of a pipeline system for field use as well as analysis and decision-making purposes.
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