Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are computer based frameworks used to store, organize, manipulate, analyze, and visualize geospatial data. GIS methods and technology are used in a wide variety of scholarly research, and are the foundations of popular applications like Google Maps.
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The University Library works in partnership with Research Computing and the SSRL's Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) to provide GIS services, software, training, and data to the USask community.