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Chapter 5 Flashcards

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have varying goals including crime prevention, effective use of police resources, or suspect location.

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Policing strategies

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requires officers to focus heavily on responding to calls for service and solving crimes in a reactive manner with limited input or cooperation from residents.

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Traditional model of policing

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also involves partnerships with the community, gathering intelligence, and relying on evidence-based practices to solve crimes.

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Traditional policing

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strategies typically involve a reactive approach to law enforcement, focused on responding to crimes after they occur rather than preventing them.

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Traditional policing

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Fostering community partnerships, more in-depth problem solving capacity

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Community-oriented policing

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involves the use of partnerships between municipal agencies, businesses, individual citizens, non-profit groups and the media in order to develop methods to police the community.

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Community oriented policing

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These organizations work together to address criminal matters and reduce crime

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Community oriented policing

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is a policing strategy based on the notion that community interaction and support can help control crime and reduce fear, with community members helping to identify suspects, detain vandals and bring problems to the attention of police

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Community oriented policing

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that involves the identification and analysis of specific crime and disorder problems, in order to develop effective response strategies.

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Problem-oriented policing

Policing strategy

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means diagnosing and solving problems that are increasing crime risks, usually in areas that are seeing comparatively high levels of crime (e.g., “hot spots”)

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Problem-oriented policing (POP)

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is challenging in that agencies need to diagnose and solve what could be any of a wide range of crime-causing problems.

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Problem-oriented policing (POP)

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Types of data are?

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Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio

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the data can only be categorized

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Nominal

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the data can be categorized and ranked

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Ordinal:

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the data can be categorized, ranked, and evenly spaced

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Interval:

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the data can be categorized, ranked, evenly spaced, and has a natural zero.

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Ratio:

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is labelled into mutually exclusive categories within a variable. These categories cannot be ordered in a meaningful way.

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Nominal or Nominal data

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preferred mode of transportation is a nominal variable, because the data is sorted into categories: car, bus, train, tram, bicycle, etc.

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Nominal data

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is the least precise and complex level.

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Nominal data

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The word nominal means _____ so this kind of data can only be labelled

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“in name,”

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It does not have a rank order, equal spacing between values, or a true zero value

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Nominal data

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You can categorize your data by labelling them in mutually exclusive groups, but there is no order between the categories.

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Nominal data

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Categorize of normal data are

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City of birth
Gender
Ethnicity
Car brands
Marital status

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Top 5 Olympic medallists

Language ability (eg, beginner, intermediate, fluent)

Likert-type questions (e.g.. very dissatisfied to very satisfied)

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Ordinal

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You can categorize and rank your data in an order, but you cannot say anything about the intervals between the rankings

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Ordinal

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Although you can rank the top 5 Olympic medallists, this scale does not tell you how close or far apart they are in number of wins.

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Ordinal

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You can categorize, rank, and infer equal between neighboring data points, but there is no true zero point

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Interval

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The difference between any two adjacent temperatures is the same, one degree. But zero degrees is defined differently depending on the scale it doesn’t mean an absolute absence of temperature.

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Interval

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The same is true for test scores and personality inventories. A zero on a test is arbitrary, it does not mean that the test-taker has an absolute lack of the trait being measured.

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Interval

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Test scores (e.g.. IQ or exams)

Personality inventories

Temperature in Fahrenheit or Celsius

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Interval

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You can categorize, rank, and infer equal
intervals between neighboring data points, and there is a true zero point.

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Ratio

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A true zero means there is an absence of the variable of interest. In ratio scales, 0 does mean an absolute lack of variable

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Ratio

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Categorize rank and infer equal of ratio are?

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Height
Age
Weight
Temperature in Kelvin

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the Kelvin temperature scale, there are no negative degrees of temperature - zero means an absolute lack of thermal energy what types of data is this?

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Ratio

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According to ______ (2011), there are seven common types of crime pattem. These types are not mutually exclusive, and sometimes they overlap.

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Gwinn

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is examining a crime pattern that does not seem to fit neatly in one category, should categorize the pattern as the type that appears most applicable, based on the characteristics of the crimes involved and the nature of the most appropriate potential police response.

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crime analyst

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A group of similar crimes thought to be committed by the same individual or group of individuals acting in concert

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Series

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A group of similar crimes thought to be carried out by the same individual or group, but with a high frequency within a relatively short period of time. The crimes are so frequent that they appear continuous.

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Spree

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A group of crimes committed by one or more individuals, involving victims who share similar physical characteristics or engage in similar behavior. An example of a hot prey crime would be this series of crimes

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Hot prey

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A group of crimes committed by one or more individuals in which a unique type of property is targeted for theft

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Hot product

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A group of crimes committed by one or more individuals in which a unique type of property is targeted for theft

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Hot product

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A group of similar crimes committed by one or more individuals at locations within close proximity to one another

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Hot spot

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A group of similar crimes committed by one or more individuals at that same location

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Hot product

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A group of similar crimes committed by one or more individuals that are primarily related by the type of place where crimes occurred

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Hot settings

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Presentation of interesting findings related to crime research and analysis based on legal, political, and practical concerns to inform audiences from within the law enforcement administration, and city government, as well as citizens

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Administrative crime analysis

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Performance management system that is used to reduce crime and achieve other police department goals

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CompStat

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It emphasizes information sharing, responsibility and accountability, and improving effectiveness

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CompStat

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Certain problem area in a city where there have been repeated calls to the police

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Hot spot

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Study of a police departments policies and practices. Often it concerns itself with studying a departments allocation of personnel, money, equipment, and other resources.

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Police operations analysis

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Policing strategy that involves the identification and analysis of specific crime and disorder problems, in order to develop effective response strategies.

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Problem-oriented policing

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Analysis that has to do with developing data to better understand long-term increases or decreases in crime.

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Strategic crime analysis

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Daily identification and analysis of emerging or existing crime patterns.

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Tactical crime analysis

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It is the study of recent criminal incidents and activity by examining characteristics such as the who, what, how, when, and where of crime in order to reveal patterns, trends, and potential suspects

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Tactical crime analysis

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Performance management system that is used to reduce come and achieve other police department goals.

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CompStat

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It emphasizes information sharing, responsibility and accountability, and improving effectiveness

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CompStat

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Group of two or more crimes reported to or discovered by police that are unique because they meet certain conditions, such as sharing at least one common factor.

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Crime pattern

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Report issued by a crime analyst or crime analyst unit that summarizes the relevant information about crimes that have been linked together as a pattern

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Crime pattern bulletin

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Group of similar crimes thought to be committed by the same individual or group of individuals acting in concert

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Crime series

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Focused patrol or patrol resources concentrated at the times and in the places with the highest risks of serious crime

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Directed patrol

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When a crime pattern occurs in a relatively small area, it is referred to as a hot spot or a cluster

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Hot spot

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Analysis that integrates information from three distinct, but interrelated, aspects of a crime pattern perpetrated by a single offender.

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Linkage analysis

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Occurs when offenses are reported during a relatively short period of time and the crime analyst is able to identify common attributes among those offenses.

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Pattern detection

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Analysts attempt to profile the subject or the suspect.

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Target profiling

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is a very important tool in managing and controlling crime in an area. By analyzing the spatial and temporal data provided by maps, investigators are able to understand the crime patterns and trend.

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Crime mapping

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It also help law enforcers when it comes to resource allocation, and in geographic profiling of criminals and suspicious locations.

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Crime mapping

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describes the use of geographic information to identify and analyze crime and police data. Before the 1990s,

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Crime mapping

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describes the use of geographic information to identify and analyze crime and police data. Before the 1990s,

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Crime mapping

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referred to any method of geographic analysis, even those that involved pushpins, colored dots, and paper maps.

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crime mapping

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usually means the specific use of computerized geographic information systems (GIS).

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crime mapping

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In 1829, who created the first maps of crime.

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Adriano Balbi and Andre Guerry

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pioneering work to initiate, plan, and develop the Canada Geographic Information System resulted in the first computerized GIS in the world in 1963.

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Roger Tomlinson’s

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Who is he Cordillera police director

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Chief Superintendent Benjamin & Magalong

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developed a G15-based tool in year 2012 for more accurate crime analysis

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Chief Superintendent Benjamin & Magalong

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TYPES OF CRIME MAPS ARE?

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Pin maps
Choropleth maps
Point symbol maps
Statistical maps

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Also known as spot maps are the foundation for most other types of crime maps.

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Pin maps

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They consist simply of mapped locations for incidents, persons, or other geographic data marked with a single symbol, such as a dot or star.

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Pin maps

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aggregate information into larger geographic areas, such as census block groups, grid cells, or reporting districts.

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CHOROPLETH MAPS

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These geographic areas are color-coded or pattemed to reflect volume of incidents.

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CHOROPLETH MAPS.

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Start with a pin map, but change the symbol or color to represent other factors within the data

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POINT SYMBOL MAPS

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superimpose charts and graphs over geographic areas to show more complex quantitative information than can be achieved with choropleth map

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STATISTICAL MAPS.

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Is a law enforcement function that involves systematic analysis for identifying and analyzing patterns and trends in crime and disorder.

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CRIME ANALYSIS

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Is used by analysts in law enforcement agencies to map, visualize, and analyze crime incident patterns.

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CRIME MAPPING

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Is a conceptualized framework that provides the ability to capture and analyze spatial and geographic data

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GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM

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Is any data with a direct or indirect reference to a specific location or geographical area.

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SPATIAL DATA

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Is the temporary data that is valid only for a prescribed time.

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TEMPORAL DATA

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