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Remote sensing as a GIS input
Geography · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
Satellites and aerial photographs collect data without touching the ground; GIS is what you do with that data afterwards.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- What GIS is and how it stores the world
- Layers, overlay analysis and what GIS is used for
- The five components of a GIS
- Spatial data and attribute data
- Remote sensing as a GIS input
- GPS, digitising and existing records
- Raster and vector data models
- Layers on Kenyan maps
- Siting a hospital on the Nairobi fringe
- Buffers, queries and network analysis
- GIS in health, farming and disasters
- GIS in counties, land and forests
- Advantages, limits and GIS careers