LATEST FINAL GISP SET: ALL KSAs 100% SOLUTION

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) A United States government committee which promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis. ISO 19115-2 Content standard that adds elements to describe imagery and gridded data as well as data collected using instruments (monitoring stations and measurement devices) Quality control This is product-oriented and focuses on defect identification - finding and eliminating sources of quality problems. Archiving Captures, manages and analyzes data changes (most often done with databases) Geomatics The science and technology of gathering, analyzing, interpreting, distributing, and using geographic information (includes surveying, mapping, remote sensing, GIS, GPS). Merge Combines multiple input datasets of the same data type into a single new output Clip Extracts input features that overlay the clip features (keeps the input's attributes) Intersect Extracts features which overlap in all layers to a new feature class (joins the attribute tables) Ground surveying Based on the principle that the 3D location of any point can be determined by measuring angles and distances from other know points Disadvantages of ground surveying Expensive and time consuming GPS receiver