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  2. Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis

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    [26] [27] The Laboratory was an enormous influence on the commercial Environmental Systems Research Institute, Esri, founded in 1969 by Jack Dangermond, a landscape architect graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Design who had worked as a research assistant at the Laboratory during 1968 and 1969. Scott Morehouse, the development lead for the ...

  3. Digital geologic mapping - Wikipedia

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    The System for Integrated Geoscience Mapping (SIGMA) within the Earth and Planetary Observation and Monitoring Team] of the British Geological Survey - Digital Geologic Mapping at the University of Kansas Geology; Geopad Project - Information Technology for Field Science Education and Research; Richardson Geological Consulting

  4. Geographic information system - Wikipedia

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    The current trend for geographical information system (GIS) is that accurate mapping and data analysis are completed while in the field. Depicted hardware ( field-map technology) is used mainly for forest inventories , monitoring and mapping.

  5. Remote sensing in geology - Wikipedia

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    Richat Structure by Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Instead of being a meteorite impact, the landform is more likely to be a collapsed dome fold structure.. Remote sensing is used in the geological sciences as a data acquisition method complementary to field observation, because it allows mapping of geological characteristics of regions without physical contact with the areas being ...

  6. Geographic information science - Wikipedia

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    Geographic information science (GIScience, GISc) or geoinformation science is a scientific discipline at the crossroads of computational science, social science, and natural science that studies geographic information, including how it represents phenomena in the real world, how it represents the way humans understand the world, and how it can be captured, organized, and analyzed.

  7. Spatial analysis - Wikipedia

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    GIS-based network analysis may be used to address a wide range of practical problems such as route selection and facility location (core topics in the field of operations research), and problems involving flows such as those found in Hydrospatial and hydrology and transportation research. In many instances location problems relate to networks ...

  8. Esri - Wikipedia

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    In 1969, Esri was founded by the couple, Jack and Laura Dangermond, as Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), in Redlands, California. Esri was established when the couple started working on the technology to integrate human development with environmental stewardship at Harvard University’s lab for computer graphics and spatial ...

  9. Field-Map - Wikipedia

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    Field-Map is a proprietary integrated tool designed for programmatic field data collection from IFER – Monitoring and Mapping Solutions, Ltd. It is mainly used for the allocation of forest ecosystems and data collection during field analysis.