Application of GIS (Grade 11 NSC Matric Geography): Flashcards
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GIS (full form)
GIS (full form)
Geographic Information Systems
AFIS (full name)
AFIS (full name)
Advanced Fire Information System
Problem AFIS was designed to solve
Problem AFIS was designed to solve
Veld fires causing power outages in South Africa
South African Space Agency (acronym)
South African Space Agency (acronym)
SANSA
Two satellite types used by AFIS
Two satellite types used by AFIS
MeteoSat Second Generation (MSG) and MODIS sensors
Hot spots in fire detection
Hot spots in fire detection
Pixels showing unusually high temperatures indicating fires
Georeferencing (definition)
Georeferencing (definition)
Assigning accurate spatial coordinates to data
Map projection (definition)
Map projection (definition)
Method of representing Earth's curved surface on flat plane
Spatial analysis (definition)
Spatial analysis (definition)
Determining relationship between geographic features
Critical requirement for GIS data layers
Critical requirement for GIS data layers
Must all use the same map projection