GIS Specialist

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer system capable of capturing, storing, analyzing, and displaying geographically referenced information; that is, data identified according to location. Environmental studies, agriculture, geography, geology, planning, business marketing, and other disciplines have benefited from GIS tools and methods. Together with cartography, remote sensing, global positioning systems, photogrammetry, and geography, GIS has evolved into a discipline with its own research base known as geographic information sciences.

Using data integration, GIS can perform complex analysis of an area by incorporating many types of information. The geographic information specialist combines the functions of mapping science and surveying into a broader field concerned with the collection and analysis of geographic data.