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Basics of a Geographic Information System

2018· book-chapter· en· W2804558255 on OpenAlexaff
Terry A. Brase

Bibliographic record

VenueASSA, CSSA and SSSA · 2018
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographic Information Systems Studies
Canadian institutionsTerry Fox Research Institute
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeospatial analysisGlobal Positioning SystemGeographic information systemVariable (mathematics)GeographyComputer scienceInformation systemGIS and public healthGIS applicationsData scienceCartographyEngineeringTelecommunicationsMathematics

Abstract

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a broad-encompassing term used for software that has the capacity to conduct analysis and create maps using geospatial information (i.e. data that has a known geographic location). Geographic Information Systems has been around since the 1960s but was a well-kept secret, used mainly by large corporations or research institutions. It did not become a mainstream technology until the Global Positioning System (GPS) became available in the early 1990s. The combining of the GIS, GPS, and variable-rate equipment technologies provided growers the opportunity to display maps and apply variable-rate treatments. The purpose of this chapter is to provide the components of GIS, functions of GIS, qualities of GIS, and strength and weaknesses of different systems.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.029
Threshold uncertainty score0.098

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.006
Science and technology studies0.0030.005
Scholarly communication0.0100.009
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0290.017

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.216 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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