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Guest articles from GIS professionals. Authorship information is listed at the bottom of the articles.
Diagram showing the integration of radar data from UAVSAR flights in 2010, 2017, and 2020 over Angeles National Forest.

Remote-Sensing Technologies

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Remotely-sensed imagery from aircraft and satellites represent one of the fastest-growing sources for raster GIS data.

What does it take to support a GIS?

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A systems analyst discusses what it takes for the information technology group for a local government to support GIS operations.

U.S. discontinues selective availability of GPS to public

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On May 1, 2000, the U.S. government discontinued "selective availability", which was the intentional degradation of GPS signals.