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The Role of Geo-technologies

What is a Geo-technology?

The use of advanced technology in the study of geography and in everyday use.

Kinds of Geo-Technologies

Telematics

Location sharing

Remote Sencsing

GIS

Where other people are

GPS

Where you are

Geographic Perspectives

Economic

Social

The connection or impact on people’s lives, families and everyday living.

Environmental

The connection or impact on the environment, ecosystems, organisms

Political

The connection or impact of government decisions, plans laws and choices

Patterns

Dispresed

Evenly spread out

Concentrated

Focused in on one spot only

Outlier

Out of place from others

Absent

Missing or not present

Clusterd

Multiple Groupings

Linear

Follows a line

Interrelationships

Human + Natural

Ex:Humans polution all over the earth in causing climate change

Human + Human

Ex:Human polulation to Cities and houses.. Where ever there is more people there would be more cities and houses.

Natural + Natural

Ex:Plates moving in the Earth causes Earthquakes and Valcanoes

Natural + Human

Ex:Humans cut down forests to make houses,towns and even cities

Understanding Geographic Data

Geographic data can be visualized in 3 different ways.

Graphs

Charts

Maps

Attribute Data is Data that meets or doesnt meet a sartification

Understanding Geographic data is information that has explicit or implicit association with a location relative to Earth.

Trends

Fluctuating

Unpredictable

Unchanging

Decreasing

Increasing