Geographic Information Systems

In recent years we have seen a growing interest in geographic information, which is increasingly used for various purposes and application domains in areas as distinct as: geosciences, economics and management, sociology and health, engineering, planning and spatial monitoring, among others. A Geographic Information System (GIS) consists of a set of computational tools for geoprocessing, which allows the manipulation and integration of data from various sources, and the creation of a digital database with georeferenced information. It can be seen as: a system of hardware, software, and procedures designed to support, capture, manage, manipulate, analyze, model, and query spatially referenced data; to solve planning and management problems.