Resumen

PEREZ-GUERRA, Gabriel Alberto; SOSA-FRANCO, Ivett; MACHADO-GARCIA, Neili  y  RUIZ-PEREZ, María Elena. GIS Tools, Review of their Foundations, Types and Relationship with Spatial Databases. Rev Cie Téc Agr [online]. 2023, vol.32, n.3  Epub 01-Sep-2023. ISSN 2071-0054.

Geographic information systems offer an environment capable of integrating, storing, editing, analyzing, sharing and displaying geographically referenced information. They are tools that allow users to create interactive queries, analyze spatial information, edit data, maps, present the results of all these operations. This article describes the basic concepts of these systems. Likewise, the forms of data representation are shown, as well as the use of the main current spatial database software. Several works that establish comparisons between the main geographic information systems of the market are analyzed. Finally, the use of geographic information systems in agriculture is addressed.

Palabras clave : Geographic information system; spatial database; representation of spatial data; GIS development tool.

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