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Home>Prism Update>Student Presentations 2005 - Joel Plummer

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

by Joel Plummer

These captioned videos are the components of a 30 minute presentation by Joel Plummer on the topic of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), presented September 29, 2005 at the University of Kansas.

The movies are available in AVI format. Size of each is shown.

The text script for the entire lecture and slide show are provided for those who cannot view the movies.

Title	Video, Voice & Caption
Introduction	29 MB
What is GIS?	28 MB
Why is GIS Important?	30 MB
Spatial Joins and Queries	32 MB
Other Things We Can Do With GIS	30 MB
Some Real-World Examples	28 MB
Using GIS to Plot Ice Thickness	36 MB
Under The Ice Sheet	38 MB
Resources For Learning More About GIS	32 MB


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