APHUG

GIScience

the analysis of data about Earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies.

GIS

Captures, stores, queries (questions) and displays the geographic data.

Photogrammetry

taking measurements of Earth’s surface from photographs.

Remote Sensing

The acquisition (The act of obtaining information) of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting long distance methods.

VGI

Volunteered Geographic Information

Gall-Peters Projection

 This projection does not distort relative size but it does distort the shape.

Isoline map

•  connects with lines all the places that have particular values

Dot Distribution map

depicts data as points and shows how those points are clustered together or spread out over an area.

Cartogram

a map in which the size of a country or U.S. state is proportional to the value of a particular variable such as the amount of corn produced rather than to the actual land area. 

site

the physical character of a place. Important site characteristics include climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, ,latitude, and elevation. 

Spatial thinking

key skill to understand arrangements

Density

 the frequency with which something occurs in space. This feature being measured could be people, houses, cars, trees, or anything else.

Concentration

How far and wide something is spread out across an area. Close-clustered Dispersed-far. To compare 2 area’s concentration, the area must be the same size, and the same number of objects.

Pattern

how things are laid out or arranged in space. Some patterns are organized while others are distributed irregularly.

Humanistic geography

emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about places and give those place meanings. For example, LGBTQ people may be attracteed to places like LGBTQ friendly spaces.

Assimilation

the process by which a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble another group

Acculturation

the process of changes in culture that result from the meetings of two groups. 

Syncretism

• the combination of elements from  two groups into a new cultural feature. 

Enviornmental Determinism

the belief that physical enviornment caused social development

field observation

Observing and collecting data about people, their behavior, environment, setting, and interaction.

formal region

An area defined by the characteristics such as climate, language or government.

functional region

An area that’s connected by a single point.

global scale

Global scale refers to the analysis of a phenomenon, process, or data across the entire planet.

landscape analysis

the process of studying and describing a landscape with a goal of assessing the impact of humans.

perceptual/ vernacular region

An area defined by someone's opinions.