World War II: The War Against Japan . In World War II, for the first time, the United States had to fight a war on two fronts.
A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data.he first known use of the term geographic information system was by Roger Tomlinson in the year 1968 in his paper A Geographic Information System for Regional Planning. Tomlinson is also acknowledged as the father of GIS.
GIS is a very powerful decision-making tool that has a massive range of applications, whatever your business â resource management, logistics, planning, transport, surveying, demographic studies, epidemiology and environment, to name but a few.Changes in a particular area or feature over time can be measured.eed and pest management. Invasive weeds and pests can lead to massive economic costs. GIS is used to determine the areas infested by mapping in the field (recording perimeters of infested areas or recording individual points/sightings) or using satellite imagery/remote sensing.