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18-Geom-A7 Geospatial Information Systems: May 2014

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  1. Question 1 Metadata in a GIS
  2. Question 2 Attribute Data and Spatial Data
  3. Question 3 Automated Cartography, CAD and GIS
  4. Question 4 Basic Functions of a GIS
  5. Question 5 Datums in a GIS
  6. Question 6 Rubber Sheeting and Conflation
  7. Question 7 Vector and Raster Data Models
  8. Question 8 Conformal Map Projection
  9. Question 9 Spatial and Attribute Uncertainty
  10. Question 10 Spatial Statistics and Spatial Analysis
  11. Question 11 Spatial Autocorrelation vs Spatial Correlation
  12. Question 12 Buffers in Proximity Analysis
  13. Question 13 DSM vs DEM, and DEM Sampling Schemes
  14. Question 14 The TIN and How It Is Produced
  15. Question 15 Delaunay Tessellation and Voronoi Diagram
  16. Question 16 The Point-in-Polygon Problem
  17. Question 17 Quad-tree and Run-length Encoding
  18. Question 18 DBMS in a GIS
  19. Question 19 Organizing Map Data into Layers
  20. Question 20 Entity-Relationship (ER) Models
  21. Question 21 Map Generalization vs Spatial Interpolation
  22. Question 22 Spatial Interpolation vs Spatial Extrapolation
  23. Question 23 SQL in a GIS

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National Exams — May 2014 — 04-Geom-A7 Geospatial Information Systems. Closed-book; no calculator permitted. Format: twenty-three short-answer questions of equal value (5 marks each); a candidate answers any twenty, but all twenty-three are solved in full below. Datum and coordinate conventions follow the Canadian spatial reference framework — NAD83(CSRS) horizontally and CGVD2013 vertically.

Reference texts: P. A. Longley, M. F. Goodchild, D. J. Maguire & D. W. Rhind, Geographic Information Systems and Science (4th ed., Wiley, 2015); P. Bolstad, GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems (6th ed., XanEdu, 2019); P. A. Burrough, R. A. McDonnell & C. D. Lloyd, Principles of Geographical Information Systems (3rd ed., Oxford, 2015); M. Worboys & M. Duckham, GIS: A Computing Perspective (2nd ed., CRC, 2004); ISO 19115 Geographic information — Metadata.