Geog3315-GIS-Quiz1

What is the purpose of GIS?

What is the possible focus of terrain analysis in GIS?

Which technology is NOT commonly associated with GIS?

What is the primary advantage of using raster data?

The main purpose of GIS is to capture, analyze, store, edit, and ____ georeferenced data

Which company is a pioneer and current leader in the GIS market?

In what year was ESRI, a pioneer in the GIS industry, established?

What is spatial analysis?

Which of the following is an example of a raster data model?

Which of the following is not one of the five main elements

Who is known as the "father of GIS"?

Which of the following is an example of a vector data model?

When was the first GIS (CGIS) developed?

What is georeferencing?

Which of the following technologies is a data input source for GIS?

Which of the following is a function of GIS?

What was the first GIS called?

Which method in GIS refers to calculations performed on raster data for spatial analysis?

What was the first major change that brought GIS to non-professional audiences?

What type of map did Pierre Charles Dupin create in 1819?

The data that are linked to map features are known as

What is the main role of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC)?

In what year was the first commercial satellite image company (SPOT Image) created?

What was one of the first uses of GIS in environmental management?

The first GIS was developed in which country

Which of the following is NOT a component of Geospatial Technologies

What does GIS stand for?

What is the significance of the year 1985 in the history of GIS?

In the 1960s, who defined the principles of a system called MIMO?

Who created what is considered one of the first examples of analytical cartography in 1854?

What does the acronym DEM stand for in GIS?

What is the primary advantage of using vector data?

MIMO stands for

Which of the following is not a web browsing application?

The "S" in GIS can stand for "systems" or

GIS stands for

What approach in cartography seemed to predict the future needs of geographical data?

Which satellite mission released elevation data covering 80% of Earth's surface in 2000?

What was the purpose of the MIMO system developed by Waldo Tobler in 1959?

Within a data frame, a GIS map may contain many different