GEOSPATIAL DATA (GISP EXAM) WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

GEOSPATIAL DATA (GISP EXAM) WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS Metadata - answerInformation that describes the content, quality, condition, origin, and other characteristics of data or other pieces of information. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) - answerA United States government committee which promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis. ISO 19115 - answerContent standard developed for documenting vector and point data and geospatial services (web-mapping, data catalogs, and data modeling applications) ISO 19115-2 - answerContent standard that adds elements to describe imagery and gridded data as well as data collected using instruments (monitoring stations and measurement devices) Quality assurance - answerThis is process-oriented and is a good managerial tool: it establishes a good management system and product output, assesses adequacy, and performs periodic audits. Quality control - answerThis is product-oriented and focuses on defect identification - finding and eliminating sources of quality problems. Archiving - answerCaptures, manages and analyzes data changes (most often done with databases) Retrieval - answerExtraction of data from a backup due to data loss or corruption. Geomatics - answerThe science and technology of gathering, analyzing, interpreting, distributing, and using geographic information (includes surveying, mapping, remote sensing, GIS, GPS). Join - answerCombine attribute data from 2 or more attribute tables using a common key between table