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Transportation and logisticsBog'liq 4 PROFESSIONAL ENGLISHTransportation and logistics
Moving people and things around often involves enormous logistical challenges. Consider a
hospital that wants to provide its patients with the best and fastest route to their facilities at a
particular moment, a municipal government that wants to establish optimal bus and light rail routes,
a manufacturer that wants to ship its products as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, or an
oil company that wants to plan its pipeline locations. In each of these scenarios, the analysis of
location-based data is vital in making informed business decisions.
Energy
Energy exploration is a highly spatial enterprise, with data from satellite images, surface geology
mapping and subsurface remote sensing determining the economic viability of pursuing operations
in a certain site. Energy and utility companies are dealing with massive proliferation of
geographical data, because industrial sensors are now everywhere – from airborne-mounted lasers
to surface data sensors during drilling to pipelines monitors. Mapping and spatial analytics provide
the necessary insight for making decisions that help achieve compliance, ensure accurate site
selection and locate resources.
Retail
As consumer reliance on smartphones accelerates and wearables become more common, brick-and-
mortar retailers can use geospatial technology to get a better picture of customer behavior, both past
and present. This is because geospatial data goes beyond location–the geometry of a point on a map
– to include attribution about those geometries, such as customer demographics or where people
spend the most time within stores. All of this data can be used to inform decisions on store
locations, merchandise mix and arrangements and other aspects of the customer experience.
Defense and intelligence operations
Geospatial technology has changed defense and intelligence operations in every part of the world,
wherever military personnel are deployed. Defense leaders, analysts and other staff rely on accurate
GIS data to carry out mission-critical activities strategically and successfully, with efficient
collaboration across all phases of planning and operational activities. GIS aids situational
assessment (provides complete visual displays of tactical information to personnel in command or
in the field), land operations (reveals terrain conditions, elevations, routes, vegetation cover,
facilities and population centers), air operations (conveys weather and visibility data to pilots;
guides troops, supplies and targeting) and maritime operations (reveals currents, wave conditions,
tides and weather).
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