GIS

What is GIS?

GIS is a technology that manages, analyses and disseminates geographic knowledge.

GIS links location to information (such as water quality monitoring sites within a catchment, habitat protected areas within a country or shellfish waters within a country) and layers that information to give you a better understanding of how it all interrelates (for example, location of sewage treatment works and intensive farming units layered with water quality failures). Different "layers" can be selected according to the purpose of the exercise.

The pages listed below are intended to provide Cycleau partners and the public with information on:

• How GIS is being used now and how it will be used later in the project
• Data sets currently exploited and how to access them (Cycleau Partners ONLY) 
• Useful software and websites
• GIS Personnel, their capabilties and expertise 

 If you have any suggestions as how these pages could be improved, please contact Miranda Maybank