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← 1.4 Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Advantages, limits and GIS careers

Geography · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

What GIS is good at, where it fails, why output can look too sure, and who gets paid to run it in Kenya.

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  • 7 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
  • 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
  • A quiz that marks itself as you go
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Other lessons in this sub-strand

  1. What GIS is and how it stores the world
  2. Layers, overlay analysis and what GIS is used for
  3. The five components of a GIS
  4. Spatial data and attribute data
  5. Remote sensing as a GIS input
  6. GPS, digitising and existing records
  7. Raster and vector data models
  8. Layers on Kenyan maps
  9. Siting a hospital on the Nairobi fringe
  10. Buffers, queries and network analysis
  11. GIS in health, farming and disasters
  12. GIS in counties, land and forests
  13. Advantages, limits and GIS careers