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Chapter 15 What’s Next for Geospatial Technology?
Chapter Wrapup
So this is it, the end of the last chapter. For 15 chapters now, we’ve looked
at multiple aspects of geospatial technologies, both from the theoretical side
and also from working hands-on with several different aspects of the technologies themselves. The geospatial world has changed a lot in the last few
years (for example, Google Earth only debuted back in 2005), and it’s going
to keep changing (see Hands-on Application 15.9: Some Blogs about Geospatial
Technologies on page 457 for some online blog sources related to geospatial
technologies).
GIS, GPS, remote sensing, and all of their applications are only going to
continue becoming more important in our lives, and even though many people
may still not be familiar with the term “geospatial technology,” by this point
you’ve probably got a pretty good idea of what it is and what it can do. There’s
still one last Geospatial Lab Application. In Geospatial Lab Application 15.1
you’ll be using Esri’s ArcGIS Explorer program to examine a variety of geospatial applications as a “summary” of what we’ve been looking at for 15 chapters.
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
GIS Day (p. 439)
Earth Observation Day (p. 440)
VGI (p. 440)
wiki (p. 440)
OGC (p. 441)
AAG (p. 441)
ASPRS (p. 441)
NCGE (p. 441)
OhioView (p. 441)
AmericaView (p. 442)
StateView (p. 442)
Geographic Alliance Network
(p. 443)
SATELLITES (p. 444)
GLOBE (p. 445)
National Map (p. 448)
GOS (p. 448)
SDTS (p. 449)
ArcGIS Server (p. 450)
API (p. 451)
Map Services (p. 451)
mashup (p. 452)
cloud (p. 452)
ArcGIS Online (p. 452)
SOS (p. 453)
anaglyph (p. 454)
stereoscopic 3D (p. 455)
GeoWall (p. 455)
Chapter 15 What’s Next for Geospatial Technology?
Chapter Wrapup
So this is it, the end of the last chapter. For 15 chapters now, we’ve looked
at multiple aspects of geospatial technologies, both from the theoretical side
and also from working hands-on with several different aspects of the technologies themselves. The geospatial world has changed a lot in the last few
years (for example, Google Earth only debuted back in 2005), and it’s going
to keep changing (see Hands-on Application 15.9: Some Blogs about Geospatial
Technologies on page 457 for some online blog sources related to geospatial
technologies).
GIS, GPS, remote sensing, and all of their applications are only going to
continue becoming more important in our lives, and even though many people
may still not be familiar with the term “geospatial technology,” by this point
you’ve probably got a pretty good idea of what it is and what it can do. There’s
still one last Geospatial Lab Application. In Geospatial Lab Application 15.1
you’ll be using Esri’s ArcGIS Explorer program to examine a variety of geospatial applications as a “summary” of what we’ve been looking at for 15 chapters.
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
GIS Day (p. 439)
Earth Observation Day (p. 440)
VGI (p. 440)
wiki (p. 440)
OGC (p. 441)
AAG (p. 441)
ASPRS (p. 441)
NCGE (p. 441)
OhioView (p. 441)
AmericaView (p. 442)
StateView (p. 442)
Geographic Alliance Network
(p. 443)
SATELLITES (p. 444)
GLOBE (p. 445)
National Map (p. 448)
GOS (p. 448)
SDTS (p. 449)
ArcGIS Server (p. 450)
API (p. 451)
Map Services (p. 451)
mashup (p. 452)
cloud (p. 452)
ArcGIS Online (p. 452)
SOS (p. 453)
anaglyph (p. 454)
stereoscopic 3D (p. 455)
GeoWall (p. 455)