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How to Map Your Site Using GPS/GIS

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a rapidly developing science providing a valuable tool for geographers in understanding processes and patterns in a spatial context and in assisting in the tasks of modeling and making decisions about the nature of the world around us.

GPS/GIS purpose statement
by Will Fellers

Instructions using the following mapping tools:

ArcExplorer 9.1
by Will Fellers

ArcView 3.x

Google Earth

 

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