by Gelogia Team | Apr 18, 2025 | Physical Geology & Geomorphology
Aerial cameras and their use for aerial photography are the simplest and oldest of sensors used for remote sensing of the Earth’s surface. Cameras are framing systems that acquire a near-instantaneous “snapshot” of an area of the surface. The camera uses a lens to...
by Gelogia Team | Apr 17, 2025 | Physical Geology & Geomorphology
Data Classification is the process of sorting or arranging groups or categories on a map, and also the process of representing members of a group by the same symbol ( usually defined in a legend). It is used in GIS, cartography, and remote sensing to generalize...
by Gelogia Team | Apr 16, 2025 | Physical Geology & Geomorphology
Geocoding is the conversion of spatial information into digital form. It involves capturing the map, sometimes also capturing the attributes, and often involves address matching. It is the process of transforming a description of a location, such as a pair of...
by Gelogia Team | Apr 14, 2025 | Physical Geology & Geomorphology
ASPRS adopted a definition of remote sensing as “ The art, science, and technology of obtaining reliable information about physical object of the environment, though the process of recording, measuring and interpreting imagery and digital representations of energy...
by Gelogia Team | Apr 12, 2025 | Physical Geology & Geomorphology
Wilkinson (1996) summarized three main ways in which remote sensing and GIS technologies can be combined to enhance each other, Remote sensing is used as a tool for gathering data for use in GIS, GIS data are used as ancillary information to improve the products...
by Gelogia Team | Apr 11, 2025 | Physical Geology & Geomorphology
In a geographic information system (GIS), analysts transform geographic data into geographic information by applying a complex series of functions and processes. Geographers begin with raw positional feature data that include attributes. They then overlay these data...
