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1. Question While Using Arc Catalog, Do You Rely On The Default Templates Or Usually Go For A Customized One?
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Well, it depends on the project really. Some of the default templates are really good and safe to use. I make the choice based on the project caliber.
2. Question Which Applications Of The Arc GIS Desktop Are You, Familiar, With?
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I am familiar with Arc Map, Arc catalog, and Arc toolbox.
3. Question Differentiate Between GIS Commands And Tools?
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Commands do not require interaction with the map, they just rely on the surface. Tools, on the other hand, require interaction with the map canvas.
4. Question What Are The Top 5 Skills A GIS technician Must Have?
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Skills in spatial data handling, algorithms, data conversion, model building, and database programming.
5. Question What Is The Difference Between Geo-coding And Geo-referencing?
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Geo-coding is when you associate a place name or an address with map coordinates. Geo-referencing is the process of associating plain digital images taken from a satellite or a plane with map coordinates so that they can be overlaid on street maps.
6. Question Name The Two Data Structures That Have The Capacity To Hold Spatial Data.
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The two data structures that can hold spatial data include raster and vector.
7. Question What Is The Basic Work Of A Gis Technician?
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A GIS technician works closely with end-users to identify GIS data requirements and handle technical issues. It is also the job of a GIS technician to manage data maintenance and manipulation and handle extraction activities along with ensuring the preparation, planning, and updating a variety of maps and drawings to be part of a GIS database.
8. Question Define Remote Sensing?
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Remote sensing refers to the detection and classification of objects on or in the earth without physical contact, generally attained through aerial sensors.
9. Question What Are The Key Factors In Determining The Period For Record Retention?
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Nature of data, government rules, and policies regarding data retention and data privacy factors.
10. Question Do You Know Which Software Does Dc Gis Use?
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The District GIS software standards consist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. (ESRI) products and Google Inc. geospatial services and software. The ESRI standard includes the ArcGIS line of desktop and server software product lines. The Google standard includes the Google Earth Enterprise line of server-side products and Google Maps for mashup type applications. Other geospatial software packages and vendors can be accommodated if necessary to meet specific business requirements.
11. Question What Is A Geographic Information System?
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GIS is a system of computer software, hardware, data, procedures, and personnel combined to help, manipulate, analyze, and present information that is tied to a geographic location.
12. Question What Is Gis Data Mining?
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GIS or spatial data mining is the application of data mining methods to spatial data. Data mining, which is a partially automated search for hidden patterns in large databases, offers great potential benefits for applied GISbased decision making. Typical applications including environmental monitoring. A characteristic of such applications is that spatial correlation between data measurements require the use of specialized algorithms for more efficient data analysis.
13. Question What Is Spatial ETL?
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Spatial ETL tools provide the data processing functionality of traditional Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) software, but with a primary focus on the ability to manage spatial data. They provide GIS users with the ability to translate data between different standards and proprietary formats, whilst geometrically transforming the data en route.
14. Question What Is Geostatistics?
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Geostatistics is a branch of statistics that deals with field data, spatial data with a continuous index. It provides methods to model spatial correlation, and predict values at arbitrary locations (interpolation).
15. Question What Is Hydrological Modeling?
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GIS hydrological models can provide a spatial element that other hydrological models lack, with the analysis of variables such as slope, aspect, and watershed or catchment area.
16. Question What Is Gis Technologies?
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Modern GIS technologies use digital information, for which various digitized data creation methods are used. The most common method of data creation is digitization, where a hard copy map or survey plan is transferred into a digital medium through the use of a CAD program, and georeferencing capabilities.
17. Question Which Of The Following Are Important Characteristics Of A Sdss?
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o They are easy to use.
o They incorporate spatially explicit models.
o They are designed to make full use of available data.
18. Question Which Of The Following Are Examples Of Non-cartographic Output?
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o Charts
o Tables
o Dynamically linked graphs
19. Question What Is A Linked Display?
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A set of graphs and maps where items are linked in separate displays.
20. Question What Does The Abbreviation Vrml Stand For?
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Virtual Reality Modelling Language
21. Question What Is Chart Junk?
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chartjunk: Unnecessary detail around maps and diagrams
22. Question Do You Know The Role Of Gps In Gis?
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Competent decisions can only be rendered by reliable data and through GIS is an amazing data management tool, using it with GPS helps in validating the data analysis and results.
23. Question What Is Remote Sensing?
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Remote sensing refers to the detection and classification of objects on or in the earth without physical contact, generally attained through aerial sensors.
24. Question What Are Gis Tools?
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GIS tools, on the other hand, require interaction with the map canvas.
25. Question What Are Gis Commands?
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Commands do not require interaction with the map, they just rely on the surface.
26. Question What Is Geo-referencing?
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Georeferencing is the process of associating plain digital images taken from a satellite or a plane with map coordinates so that they can be overlaid on street maps.
27. Question What Is Geo-coding?
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Geocoding is when you associate a place name or an address with map coordinates.
28. Question Discuss Briefly Data “information” As One Component Of Gis
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There are two basic types of map information in a GIS: Spatial and Aspatial (DESCRIPTIVE-attribute)
o Spatial refers to geographic features that are represented as a raster (pixel) or vector (POINTS, LINES, and POLYGONS)
o Aspatial or Descriptive refers to TABULAR DATA which records characteristics of the geographic features
29. Question What Is The Difference Between GIS And LIS
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Land Information System (LIS) is typical to GIS but related primarily to the large-scale and parcel-based system such as Automated Mapping and Facilities Management (AM/FM)
30. Question What Is The Difference Between Automated Cartography, Cad, And Gis
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GIS - Adds the analytical capabilities (graphic+ attribute) while automated cartography and CAD lack (graphic only)
31. Question Discuss Briefly The History Of Gis Between 1960 To 2000
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o 1963: Computing comes of age (Establishment of the Urban and Regional Information System Association URISA and the first GIS Conference in Ottowa, Canada in 1963).
o 1964: Canada GIS-Roger Tomlinson “Father of GIS”
o 1964: Harvard Lab for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis
o 1970s GIS software evolves rapidly (more GIS companies appeared e.g. Intergraph, ESRI, Governmental departments introduced GIS e.g. The US Bureau of the Census)
o 1980s GIS software advances significantly (more budget and human resources allocated for GIS, by the end of the 1980s more than 4000 GIS/CAD software are introduced)
o Digital data becomes available (TIGER, World Data Bank, DIME)
o The 1990s (integration of Raster and Vector-based systems, Multi-media GIS, software become more user-friendly)
o 2000: Web-based GIS
32. Question List Four Of The Advantages Of Gis:
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o Time minimization
o Accuracy improvement
o Data can be managed efficiently
o High cost/benefit ratio
33. Question List The Main Components Of Gis
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o People
o Data
o Hardware
o Software
o Methods
34. Question Discuss Briefly The Impact Of The Internet On Gis
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o Exchange and Sharing of ideas via- electronic mail (e-mail) and online lists.
o Online forum (video conferencing).
o Data transfer (File Transfer Protocol- FTP).
o Browsing (websites).
35. Question Discuss Briefly The Gis Functions
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o Data acquisition (spatial and non-spatial).
o Data processing (data management).
o Data analysis (Spatial & statistical analysis).
o Data storage (Store data more efficiently).
o The data output (Maps, graphs, tables, reports).
Saif Ullah is a remote sensing (RS) expert and geographic information system (GIS) analyst. He has done BS and MS in RS & GIS from prestigious institutes in Pakistan and has more than 5 years’ experience in his field. He is a dedicated researcher and is very keen to learn new knowledge and skills and share his skills and expertise with others.
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