Certification
a procedure, often voluntary, through which individuals who've verified a stage of knowledge
within the profession are identified to the public and different stakeholders by using a third
celebration
What did URISA discover in 1999?
Formed a committee to explore GIS certification and this work cause the creation to the GIS
Certification Institute
Surveyors
decide actual function of features and the angles and distances between them. Surveyors may
acquire attributes as they collect locations consisting of x,y,z values, time, and other attributes
Mappers
create visible representations of real international places and use thematic mapping to reveal
places and attributes
Photogrammetrists
Find positions of functions and the angles and distances among them with the aid of measuring
from snap shots and analyze records to determine landcover
CAD (Computer Aided Drafting)
Use AutoCad and Microstation to create targeted plans for structures and collect some
attributes
How is GIS distinctive than CAD, Photogrammetrists, & Cartographers?
GIS introduces spatial and temporal analysis
What are the GISCI code of ethics?
Read definition on-line (www.Gisci.Org/ethics/codeofethics.Aprx) possibly a query about warfare
resolution
,What are the four duties of a GISCI expert?
Society, Employers and Funders, Colleagues and Profession, Individuals in Society
What does HIPPA stand for? What is it for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. HIPPA legal guidelines shield
individuals' clinical statistics and other non-public health data.
How might you follow HIPPA laws if asked to map clinical statistics?
Data anonymization, hex map, warmness map, and many others
What is does OGC stand for?
Open Geospatial Consortium
What does FGDC stand for?
Federal Geographic Data Committee
What does ISO stand for?
International Standards Organization.
What does the Federal Bureau of the Budget do with regard to mapping?
Publishes the National Map Accuracy Standards (NMAS)
What does the OGC do? What does F.A.I.R. Stand for?
The Open Geospatial Consortium is an inner industry consortium of groups, authorities groups,
and universities. OGC standards are advanced by means of individuals to make location facts
and offerings FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reuseable).
Give four Examples of File Based Standards from the OGC
KML/KMZ, GML, OGC and ISO Simple Features, Geopackage
Give five Examples of Web Based Standards from the OGC
Web Feature Service, Web Map Service, Web Coverage Service, Web Map Tile Service, Web
Processing Service
,What is a .Gpkg? What is it primarily based on? Can it save both vector & raster information?
A geopackage
Universal document layout for geodata primarily based on SQLLite.
Yes, it helps both.
Who is in the FGDC? What does the FGDC do?
It's an employer of federal geospatial specialists chaired by means of the Department of the
Interior.
Provides oversight and route for geospatial choices throughout the federal government
What are some requirements that the FGDC publishes?
Addressing, metadata and content material standards, geographic data records quality, soil
code standards, type of wetlands, National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy
Does the FGDC create metadata standards and the NMAS?
No, the Bureau of the Budget creates both metadata requirements and the national map
accuracy standards (NMAS)
What is the required horizontal accuracy of 1) A map large than 1:20,000 and B) A map
1:20,000 or smaller?
1/30 (.033) and 1/50 (.02)
What percentage of points on a map should in shape the horizontal accuracy to bypass the
NMAS fashionable?
Ninety% for both smaller or large than 1:20,000
What is the vertical accuracy and percentage of points to pass a NMAS standard?
At least half of the contour interval, ninety% (once more)
What is the minimum amount of points to test for every dataset, in step with the FGDC?
20 check points have to be as compared to a high accuracy statistics source
What is RMS Error? What is RMSE?
, The common of the distances among the mapped region and the real region.
Both are the equal.
What is geometric accuracy?
How near a mapped location is to its actual international counterpart
What is thematic accuracy?
Are the attributes associated with the region correct?
(Is it a four lane street, or a 2 way avenue? The records may be geometrically correct however
no longer thematically accurate and vice versa)
What is precision? How is it extraordinary from accuracy?
Precision is ready procedure and consistency. If you take 5 GPS locations using the same tool,
do all of them fall within the same place?
A vicinity can be precise but faulty.
What level of accuracy is wanted for any given challenge?
Accuracy and precision depend upon the enterprise needs of the consumer
What is a planar measurement?
A planar dimension is something measured in 2D space
Can a place measured in GIS be exclusive than a legal area?
Yes. Legal regions typically do no longer line up with GIS measurements.
What are three kinds of accuracy for Remotely Sensed Imagery?
Spatial Accuracy (is what's being returned in the proper spot?)
Spectral Accuracy (is what's being lower back actual?)
Classification Accuracy (person defined classification)
What is "fuzzy tolerance"?