Article: What's new about GIS?. (The "G" In GIS).(Column)

Soon after writing my January 2002 column, "GIS Supports the War on Terrorism in Many Ways," I told the same stories to Guy Gugliotta of the Washington Post. I showed him New York City's exquisite 3-D GIS, told him how it had been lost in the World Trade Center attack and then resurrected by volunteers, and explained how it had helped in the aftermath. I showed him the central role of GIS in the anthrax investigation at the Brentwood Postal Facility. I demonstrated how the Landscan Global Population Database is used routinely worldwide to estimate populations at risk. I showed him a simulated biological attack on a Middle East city, with an anthrax plume floating ...

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