Geographic Information Systems

"Geographic Information Systems" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Computer systems capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified according to their locations.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Geographic Information Systems" by people in this website by year, and whether "Geographic Information Systems" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 26 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2012
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