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GIS Day 2007
Welcome to GIS Day 2007. This initiative is sponsored by Bath Spa University along with Getmapping PLC & the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc). In every type of business and in every part of our lives, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geography helps people to do a better job and make a difference. Since 1987, the National Geographic Society has sponsored Geography Awareness Week to promote geographic literacy in schools, communities and organisations with the focus on education. GIS Day is intended to promote the understanding of GIS in schools around the world.
Teachers and students, can click this link if you want to find out more about GIS.
Click on the following link to discover what GIS is all about What Is GIS?
Geospatial technologies are the tools that allow us to combine different types of data to create a GIS. To find out more click the following link Geospatial Technology
Who uses geospatial technology? We all use geospatial technology these days whether as individuals for running our daily lives, in business to plan and manage assets, or in government departments to plan and manage all the aspects of running a country such as schools, health and emergency services, transport and so on. Geospatial data and technology touches our everyday lives in many ways. To see some examples of GIS at work follow the link Who Uses GIS?
GIS uses data from a wide variety of different sources from satellite images to census data. To see examples of some of these sources click on the link Data Sources
The principal sponsors of Global GIS Day are National Geographic Society, The Association of American Geographers (AAG), University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), The Library of Congress, The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Sun Microsystems, ESRI
