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TR 311: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Lecture 3: Data Acquisition and Data Entry

Instructor: Ms L.Kato

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OUTLINES
• Data acquisition
– Direct and indirect data acquisition
– Spatial data from elsewhere
• Digitizing from existing documents
– Digitizing techniques
– Scanning
– Vectorization
• Data preparation
– Data checks and repairs
– Combining data from different sources
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GIS data acquisition-data types

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GIS data acquisition-data types

• Spatial Data
– Point data (0 dimensional)
– Line data (1 dimensional)
– Area data (2 dimensional)
– Continuous surface (3 dimensional)
• Attribute data
– Describes spatial object

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GIS data sources and acquisition
techniques
Data Source Techniques
• Paper Maps • Field surveying
• Aerial Photographs • Photogrametry
• Satellite Images • Remote Sensing
• Land Surveying data • Census and social
• Tables, cd, tapes,net survey

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GIS spatial data sets
• Environmental information (soils, water
sources and courses, vegetation,
wildlife)
• Infrastructure information (Utilities,
Buildings, Transport, Communications)
• Cadastral Information (tenure, valuation,
land use)
• Socio-economic (Health, Welfare,
Population, Marketing)

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GIS Data Acquistion-Techniques
• The GIS data may be obtained
• From a supplier
• by digitizing Analogue Maps (Digitizing
Cadastral plans)
• by carrying out survey of
Geographical data(e.g Cadastral
surveying for land parcels)

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DIRECT SPATIAL DATA ACQUISITION

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INDIRECT SPATIAL DATA
ACQUISITION
• Data derived from existing sources
• Data that have been collected for other
purposes
• Secondary data

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INDIRECT SPATIAL DATA
ACQUISITION

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Spatial Data from Elsewhere

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Digitizing
Is the process of converting the Information
represented in analogue form to digital Form

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Digitizing Paper Maps
 Cost-effective indirect method of data
capture in the digiting of existing map
 Requires the conversion of an analogue
map into a digital map
 2 basic types of digitising techniques:
 On tablet digitising
 On screen digitising

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Digitizing process

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Digitizing technique

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Digitizing technique

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ON-SCREEN AGAINST ON-TABLET
DIGITIZING
• more comfortable for the operator
• more accurate (zooming facilities)
• faster (semi-automatic, digitising and
editing at the same time)
• up-dating procedure (geometrically
corrected satellite imagery and scanned
aerial photo’s can be overlaid with the old
vector data)

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SELECTING A DIGITIZING METHOD
• Manual: complex documents / interpretations
from satellite imagery or aerial photographs
• Semi-automatic: simple documents that
require some interpretation
• Automatic: simple documents with one type of
information

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SELECTING A DIGITIZING METHOD

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