Canada Geographic Information System

The Canada Geographic Information System (CGIS) was developed in the 1950s and 1960s to assist in regulatory procedures of land-use management and resource monitoring. The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is for the legal term For regulation of genes see Regulation of gene expression. Land management can be defined as the process of managing the use and development (in both urban and suburban settings of land resources in At that time, Canada was beginning to realize problems associated with its seemingly endless boundaries, in combination with natural resource availability. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Natural resources are naturally occurring substances that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified ( natural) form The government therefore decided to launch a national program to assist in management and inventory of its resources. Inventory is a list for goods and Materials, or those goods and materials themselves held available in stock by a Business. The simple automated computer processes designed to store and process large amounts of data enabled Canada to begin a national land-use management program and become a foremost promoter of GIS.

CGIS was designed to withstand great amounts of collected data by managing, modeling, and analyzing this data very quickly and accurately. As Canada presented such large datasets, it was necessary to be able to focus on certain regions or provinces in order to more effectively manage and maintain land-use. A data set (or dataset) is a collection of Data, usually presented in tabular form The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second largest country in total area. CGIS enabled its users to effectively collect national data and, if necessary, break it down into provincial datasets. Early applications of GIS with Canadian datasets benefited land-use management and environmental impact monitoring programs.

Development

In 1960, Roger Tomlinson was working at an aerial survey company in Ottawa, Spartan Air Services. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Roger F Tomlinson CM, BSc, MSc, PhD, DSc (hc (born 17 November 1933 is a geographer and the primary originator of modern Aerial survey is a Geomatics method of collecting information by utilising Aerial photography or from Remote sensing Imagery using other bands Ottawa (ˈɒtəwə or sometimes /ˈɒtəwɑː/ is the Capital of Canada and the country's fourth largest municipality. The company was focused on producing large-scale photogrammetric and geophysical maps. Photogrammetry is the first Remote sensing technology ever developed in which geometric properties about objects are determined from photographic images Geophysics, a major discipline of Earth sciences, is the study of the Earth by quantitative physical methods especially by seismic, electromagnetic In the early 1960s, Tomlinson and the company were asked to produce a map for site-location analysis in an east African nation. East Africa is the Easternmost Region of the African Continent. Tomlinson immediately recognized that the new automated computer technologies might be applicable and even necessary to complete such a detail-oriented task more effectively and efficiently than humans. Eventually, Spartan met with IBM offices in Ottawa to begin developing a relationship to bridge the previous gap between geographic data and computer services. International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology Tomlinson brought his geographic knowledge to the table as IBM brought computer programming and data management.

The Canadian government and Tomlinson began working towards the development of a national program after a 1962 meeting between Tomlinson and Lee Pratt, head of the Canada Land Inventory (CLI). Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Canada Land Inventory (CLI is a multi-disciplinary land inventory of rural Canada Pratt was charged with creation of maps covering the entire region of Canada's commercially productive areas by showing agriculture, forestry, wildlife, and recreation, all with the same classification schemes. Not only was the development of such maps a formidable task, but Pratt understood that computer automation may assist in the analytical processes as well. Tomlinson was the first to produce a technical feasibility study on whether computer mapping programs would be viable solution for the land-use inventory and management programs, such as CLI. He is also given credit for coining the term geographic information system and is recognized as the "Modern Father of GIS. "

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