GIS - Coordinate Systems

Definition of GIS

• computer system for processing, analyzing and displaying stored data

• computer system for capturing and editing images.

• computer system for capturing, storing, querying, analyzing and displaying geospatial data

• information system for querying, analyzing the text data

Applications of GIS

• disaster management

• Telecom and Network Services

• Environmental Impact Analysis

• All the Above

• None of the above

In case study, Earthquake in Japan triggers

• Flood

• Soil erosion

• Heavy Rainfall

• Tsunami

What are the characteristics of Road?

• Time, work

• length, name, speed limit, and direction

• Bridges, Maintenance work

• Survey by civil engineer

The first operational GIS is developed by

• David Harvey

• Halford Mackinder

• William Morris Davis

• Roger Tomlinson

The coordinate system provides

• spatial reference

• reference data

• Relationship among the data

• None of the above

Geographic coordinate system expressed in

• Maps

• Satellite Images

• longitude and latitude values

• Numerical Values

The process of projection transforms the Earth’s surface to a

• Plane Surface

• Spherical Surface

• Elliptical Surface

• Statistical Data

Which of the statement is / are correct?

• Latitude: the angle north or south of the equatorial plane

• Longitude: the angle east or west of the equatorial plane

• Longitude: the angle east or west from the prime meridian

• Latitude: the angle north or south from the prime meridian

Based on preserved property, map projections are classified into how many classes

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6