geographic information systems

Preferred Label : geographic information systems;

Obsolete resource : false;

MeSH definition : Computer systems capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified according to their locations.;

MeSH synonym : information system, geographic; geographic information system; information systems, geographic; geographical information systems; geographical information system; information system, geographical; information systems, geographical; system, geographical information; systems, geographical information;

CISMeF acronym : GIS;

Related MeSH term : global positioning systems; Positioning System, Global; Positioning Systems, Global; System, Global Positioning; Systems, Global Positioning; Global Positioning System;

Wikipedia link supervised : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic information system;

Details

Origin ID

D040362;

UMLS CUI

C0815319;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- supply and distribution [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Geographic Information System [NCIt concept]
- Geographic Information Systems [DeCS]
- Geographic information system [DHI System Category]
- Geographical information systems [UNESCO concept]
- Imerslund-Grasbeck syndrome [ICD-11 More detail]
- Surveillance Implementation Group [NCIt concept]
- global positioning system [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
Record concept(s)
- geographic information systems [MeSH concept]
- global positioning systems [MeSH concept]
See also
- geographic mapping [MeSH Descriptor]
- remote sensing technology [MeSH Descriptor]
- satellite imagery [MeSH Descriptor]
- spatial analysis [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Intellectual Product [UMLS semantic type]

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