{"id":412,"date":"2009-08-05T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2009\/08\/05\/did-you-know-2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T18:03:00","slug":"did-you-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2009\/08\/05\/did-you-know-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know? #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">What is GIS an acronym for?<\/p>\n<p>GIS can mean Geographic Information System or Geographic Information Science and both are correct. GIS is a powerful tool that enables geographers and other researchers to:<\/p>\n<p>View<br \/>Store,<br \/>Manage<br \/>And analyze geographically referenced information (maps, imagery, and tables).<\/p>\n<p>The individual components of a GIS that perform the above jobs are:<\/p>\n<p>Computer Hardware, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/AIRMARKET\/maps\/images\/giscompcircle.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;float: right;width: 324px;height: 194px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/AIRMARKET\/maps\/images\/giscompcircle.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Computer Software,<br \/>Data,<br \/>Methods,<br \/>And People.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/AIRMARKET\/maps\/images\/giscompcircle.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">GIS is an essential tool that allows the graduate students and staff at MAGIC to bring you maps, google mash-ups, and other geographic data. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;width: 320px;height: 195px;text-align: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8_Fszb0X5EE\/SnnaeWaiOAI\/AAAAAAAAAB0\/fh3NF6s_x7I\/s320\/20090728_Brandon_Jeff_Blog_GIS.png\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Jeff and Brandon interpret aerial photography using GIS at MAGIC&#8217;s GeoCommons<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">For more information about GIS visit <a href=\"http:\/\/magic.lib.uconn.edu\/\">http:\/\/magic.lib.uconn.edu\/<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gis.com\/\">http:\/\/www.gis.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Connecticut also offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geography.uconn.edu\/graduate\/GIS-Certificate.pdf\">certificate program in GIS<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is GIS an acronym for? GIS can mean Geographic Information System or Geographic Information Science and both are correct. GIS is a powerful tool that enables geographers and other researchers to: ViewStore,ManageAnd analyze geographically referenced information (maps, imagery, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2009\/08\/05\/did-you-know-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL4O-6E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}