A GIS combines the database management system s power to store, retrieve, and analyze information with the ability to produce and manipulate the graphic elements of a map. The ability of various types of automated systems to handle maps and other geographic information has advanced rapidly in the last decade so that planning agencies can now get the capabilities they need at a cost they can afford. The Department strongly recommends that students take GIS and learn this method for saving, manipulating, and displaying spatial data. It is an invaluable skill for business, government, and nonprofit work in today's technological environment.
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Canadian Center for Remote Sensing Established in 1971, CCRS is responsible for the acquisition of Earth observation data and for the development of remote sensing applications and related methodologies and systems.