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GIS Day 2009 - What is GIS?

November 13, 2009
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) is a computer system for capturing, storing, checking, integrating, manipulating, analyzing and displaying data related to positions on the Earth’s surface. With GIS you can explore the spatial element of your data to display soil types, analyze animal migration and movement patterns, model the path of atmospheric pollution, and make decisions for many types of complicated problems.

Drop by the Hinton Municipal Library on Monday, November 16 between 3 and 8 p.m. and learn how Foothills Research Institute and some of our partners (Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, West Fraser Mills Ltd., Town of Hinton) use GIS to track grizzly bear use of the landscape, to map points of historical importance and interest, or to map all streams and tributaries in a watershed.

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Foothills Research Institute

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