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Geographic Information System (GIS) is defined as a special type of information system that is used to input, store, retrieve, process, analyze and visualize geospatial data and information in order to support decision making, see e.g., [1,2,3,4,5,6] etc. Hence, a GIS is basically a computer-based information system for handling spatially referenced data and information. In the early years after its emergence in the mid 1960s, GIS was viewed essentially as a mere tool - a spatial decision support tool.
Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making.
—Jack Dangermond, Founder ESRI
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Awange, J., Kiema, J. (2019). Fundamentals of GIS. In: Environmental Geoinformatics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03017-9_14
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