Thinking like a Geographer-Jacob
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
The connection or impact on jobs, income, wealth and MONEY.
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
