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    This document discusses geographic information and geographic concepts. It defines geography as the study of the earth and its features. It explains that geography studies the location of natural and human-made phenomena and their relationships. It also defines some core geographic concepts like maps, location, attributes, scale, and relationships between features. Maps are described as a way to represent locations and relationships between features on the landscape. Location, attributes, and relationships are the three main types of geographic information conveyed by maps.

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    This document discusses geographic information and geographic concepts. It defines geography as the study of the earth and its features. It explains that geography studies the location of natural and human-made phenomena and their relationships. It also defines some core geographic concepts like maps, location, attributes, scale, and relationships between features. Maps are described as a way to represent locations and relationships between features on the landscape. Location, attributes, and relationships are the three main types of geographic information conveyed by maps.

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    This document discusses geographic information and geographic concepts. It defines geography as the study of the earth and its features. It explains that geography studies the location of natural and human-made phenomena and their relationships. It also defines some core geographic concepts like maps, location, attributes, scale, and relationships between features. Maps are described as a way to represent locations and relationships between features on the landscape. Location, attributes, and relationships are the three main types of geographic information conveyed by maps.

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    Lect 01 - Understanding Geographic Information

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    Fall Semester, UG-2008

    9/14/2011

    CE-322 Introduction to GIS and Remote Sensing

    Understanding Geographic Information

    BUSHRA NASEEM IGIS-SCEE

    Geography
    Geo the earth Graphy refers to writing

    Institute of Civil Engineering (NICE-NUST)

    Fall Semester, UG-2008

    9/14/2011

    Geography
    The study of the earth's surface includes people's responses to topography and people s climate and soil and vegetation.

    y The study of natural and human constructed phenomena relative to a spatial dimension.

    Think about Geography!!


    What is Geography The 3 Ws of Geography
    What is where Why is it there Why do I care

    Institute of Civil Engineering (NICE-NUST)

    Fall Semester, UG-2008

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    Geographic Information
    The main method of identifying and representing the location of geographic features on the landscape is a map. A map is a graphic representation of where features are, explicitly and relative to one another.

    Geographic Information
    A map portrays 3 kinds of information b t hi features. about geographic f t The Location and extent of the feature Attributes (characteristics) of the feature Relationship of the feature to other features

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    Geographic Information
    Location Data
    H How M Many Wh t Kind Wh What Ki d Where

    Scale of Data
    Local to Global

    Data Presentation
    Words, Charts, Graphs, Tables, or Maps
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    Geographic Information
    Attributes
    Th tt ib t f ib The attributes of a f t feature d describe or characterize the feature. This is what the feature is.

    Relationship
    The relationship of a feature to other features is implied from the location and attributes of all features.

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    Location

    (Coordinates on Earth)

    North Pole Meridians Longitude Equator Parallels Latitude South Pole


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    Earths Coordinate System


    North Pole Lat = 30 Long = -6 0 Lat = 0 Lat = -30 South Pole

    X is Longitude and is measured E and W from Greenwich, England. West is negative, East is positive Y is latitude and is measured N and S from the equator. North is h N h i positive and S is negative.

    These are called Geographic Coordinates


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    9/14/2011

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    Scale

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    Data Presentation

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    Attributes

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    Attributes

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    Relationship
    London cholera epidemic 1854
    Soho

    + Cholera death
    Water pump

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    Fall Semester, UG-2008

    9/14/2011

    THANK YOU

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