GIS and Remote Sensing

Biography

Biography: Elvis Obeng Boateng

Abstract

A geographic information system (GIS) lets us visualize, question, analyze, and interpret data to understand relationships, patterns, and trends.GIS benefits organizations of all sizes and in almost every industry. There is a growing interest in and awareness of the economic and strategic value of GIS. GIS analysis and processing uses specialized applied geometric, mathematical, and relational operators on the basic features/records in the reource of countries. Nearly all resource management problems are spatial in nature or have a strong spatial component in the resource. The challenges that exist for organizations thinking of distributing GIS capabilities to field offices, a move becoming more prevalent as recent natural resource graduates likely will have GIS experience in coursework, and exposure or training in the field. Some federal agencies make significant amounts of natural resource GIS data available to the public. Recognize that there are factors that hinder an organization’s willingness to share a database. This is the first step to successfully negotiate getting the data. Reluctance to share data may arise in Sensitive inter formation such as endangered species or archeological sites, ownership holdings or management practices and scientific interest. GIS used in natural resource uses basic ecological research in identification of landscape areas meeting particular complex criteria and project objectives, rather than other measures, should be emphasized and can keep personnel focused when setbacks occur.