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Geographic Information Systems
Author(s) -
Sweeney Michael W.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
water environment research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1554-7531
pISSN - 1061-4303
DOI - 10.2175/106143000x138382
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , library science , world wide web , information retrieval
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and relational database management system technology have increasingly provided a foundation for integration and analyses of water environment data in context with other geographically related data.. While large scale GIS projects can pose expensive undertakings, an ever-widening variety of applications are enhancing the understanding and management of natural and human-made systems and the relationships and impacts to each other. The degree of data diversity within a geographic framework employed in many water environment applications today extend to include economic, ecological, physical, political and hydrological, to name a few examples. Technical tools, such as global positioning system (GPS) technology, satellite remote sensing and modeling integration, has allowed GIS to con tinue to expand beyond digital mapping to embrace a growing number of water resource protection and management domains.