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Chapter 1 It’s a Geospatial World Out There
Google Earth, while touching on aspects of all of this book’s chapters. There
are also questions throughout the lab for you to answer based on the tasks
you’ll be doing.
Important note: The references for this chapter are part of the online companion for this book and can be found at http://www.whfreeman.com/
shellito1e.
Key Terms
geospatial technology (p. 2)
Geographic Information System
(GIS) (p. 2)
remote sensing (p. 2)
satellite imagery (p. 2)
aerial photography (p. 2)
Global Positioning System (GPS)
(p. 2)
geospatial data (p. 8)
non-spatial data (p. 8)
Google Earth (p. 11)
virtual globe (p. 11)