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Jaknouse at English Wikipedia [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)]
A Geographic Information System (GIS) "integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. (ESRI)"
There are many applications for GIS, spanning a variety of disciplines. Some examples include:
- Architecture and design: population growth, urban development, infrastructure, urbanism
- Biological Sciences: migration patterns, species diversity, fisheries management
- Health Sciences: epidemiology, noise pollution
- Historic Geographic Analysis
- Digital Humanities
- Emergency Services: wildfire spread, missing person location, least-cost paths to accident sites
- Environmental Sciences: soil/groundwater contamination, drainage networks, erosion
- Social Sciences: crime rates, food deserts, population dynamics
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