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Geospatial Data / Georeferenced Data

Spatial data located in reference to standard coordinate system for the earth
Map Projection
System for transforming known location on non-flat earth to a flat plane
Transaction Processing System - Definition

Computer responds immediately to user requests (i.e. transactions).

Like an electronic filing cabinet

Transaction Processing System - Features
Optimize data quality, minimize cost

Emphasis on storage/retrieval
Decision Support Systems - Definition

Applications that analyze data and presents it in a way useful to making decisions

Involves Modeling

Query Oriented Info Systems
Problem specific databases
Ancillary Data

Data that comes from other sources (that created data for other reasons and uses)

e.g. query-oriented studies, product-oriented studies

ArcCatalog

Data Management Tool for viewing geographic databases, metadata, and maps

ArcMap
Map-centric application to work w/ map data and create cartographic output

ArcToolbox

Interface to geoprocessing tasks

Type of Data

Coverages, shapefiles, geodtabases, grids, images, TINs, CAD data sources

4 major components of geographic features

Geographic Position - Location

Attributes - descriptive data

Spatial Relationships-Association

Time - Occurrence