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The document is an assignment for a course on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) at the National University of Science and Technology, due on December 5, 2024. It includes various questions related to GIS capabilities, spatial data storage, the relationship between remotely sensed images and geographic fields, rasterization, and data extraction from a database management system. The assignment requires students to provide detailed explanations and examples for each question.

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF APPPLIED PHYSICS


SES 4104: Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Assignment 1

BSc PART IV: DUE 5 December 2024


ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

1. (a) Describe the capabilities of Geographical Information Systems in (GIS) [6]

(b) Explain why scale is not important in spatial data storage, whether in the GIS
or in a separate spatial database. Provide cases of applications or spatial data
use, in which scale may matter in spatial data storage. [3]

2. (a) There exists an obvious relationship between remotely sensed images and
geographic fields, as we have defined them in this chapter, yet the two are not
the same thing. Elaborate on this and discuss what are the differences. [4]

(b) Rasterization of vector data is sometimes required in data preparation. What


reasons may exist for this? If it is needed, the raster resolution must be carefully
selected. Argue why. [5]

3. (a) A rule-of-thumb, natural phenomena are more often fields, whereas man-made
phenomena are more often objects. Provide counter examples from your
favourite GIS application domain to this rule: name at least two natural
phenomena that are better perceived as object(s) and name two man-made [4]
phenomena that are better perceived as field.

(b) There is a strong emphasize that GIS representations of geographic phenomena


are necessarily finite, notwithstanding the naturally continuous or curvilinear
nature of the objects that are being studied. Thus, approximating and are making
errors by doing so. Do you think there is any way of computing what the errors [3]
are that are being making?
(c) Argue why spread computations are much more naturally supported by raster [3]
data than by vector data.
4. (a) Discuss on how you can write queries to extract data from your Data BMS. [6]

(b) Using example(s) describe the relational data model, the structures used to
define the database.
[8]

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