Articles
ERDAS Software Used to Reconstruct Ruins
For several years, New Mexico's McKinley County GIS Center has been working with the Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department and Chaco Culture National Historic Park to document and create virtual reconstructions of Anasazi ruins and their surrounding landscapes. Integrating data from disparate sources via GIS technology is the closest historians and archaeologists can come to creating an approximate model of this icon of Southwestern history.
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U.S. Border Patrol Enters New Era of Mapping Intelligence
The modernization of the U.S. Border Patrol combines geographic imaging, GIS, GPS, infrared aerial photography and sophisticated sensors for recording activity along the border. With imagery, the agency can better track and prevent border crossings by illegal immigrants and drug smugglers.
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