Applications

From Explore Your World with a Geographic Information System :

GIS is at work around the world and across your neighborhood. Here's a sample list of ways in which GIS touches everyday life:

• Planning school bus routes based on student residences
• Studying water consumption patterns in arid areas
• Designing noise abatement buffer zones around an airport
• Mapping current sewer service areas and projected need
• Profiling present bank customers by branch office
• Identifying telephone market territories across the country
• Researching changing wildlife habitat in a national park
• Modeling hurricane evacuation scenarios in a coastal city
• Laying out neighborhood newspaper delivery routes
• Analyzing patterns of toxic wastes in area soils
• Documenting archaeological sites and findings

Viewing global vegetation cover from satellite images