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Short note: Importance of GPS and GIS

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GPS provides quick, all-weather 3D positions globally without intervisibility, reducing survey time and cost, and supports navigation and deformation monitoring. GIS stores and analyses spatial data, enabling overlay analysis for site selection, route planning, and utility management, and aids decision-making in disaster and environmental planning.

Write a short note on the importance of GPS and GIS.

GPS (Global Positioning System) gives the three-dimensional position of any point on the Earth from satellite signals. GIS (Geographic Information System) is a computer system for capturing, storing, analysing and presenting spatially referenced data.

Importance of GPS

  • Gives accurate position, height and time quickly, in all weather, day and night, with no need for intervisibility between stations.
  • Reduces the time and cost of control surveys, topographic surveys and setting out.
  • Useful for navigation, tracking, and monitoring deformation of dams, bridges and landslides.
  • Gives positions in a global datum (WGS84), so surveys can be linked together.

Importance of GIS

  • Stores large amounts of spatial and attribute data in one database that can be updated easily.
  • Overlay and spatial analysis help in site selection, route alignment, and planning of utilities.
  • Produces maps and reports quickly, and helps decision making in disaster management, environment and urban planning.
  • Together, GPS supplies accurate locations for data collection and GIS analyses them, so the two are used together in modern surveying and planning.

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