Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Fundamentals

1. The Digital Globe

1.1 The Earth’s surface

1.2 Euclidian Space

1.3 Cartesian Coordinate Systems

2. Representing Geographic Information

2.1 Digital Data Representations

2.2 Discrete spatial phenomenon on the Earth’s surface

2.3 Indiscrete spatial phenomenon on the Earth’s surface

3. Applications of Data Models in GIS

3.1 Telecom Assets data and Discrete Data representations

3.2 RF data and Continuous Fields

4. Conclusions