A brief history of GIS and its use in water resources engineering.

摘要: This chapter reviews the history of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its early applications in water resources engineering and science as well as in other ancillary fields such as natural resources management. The focus is to present a flavor of what early pioneers of GIS envisioned and accomplished with the limited computing resources they had at their disposal using only those projects that have been discussed in the literature. The chapter shows how the role of GIS and geocomputation in water resources science and engineering has not changed much from what early applications tried to do. Due to many separate entities developing their own systems, GIS as a whole grew. Most of the statewide agencies were concerned with land use/land cover (LULC) data from remotely sensed images. Computer technology caught up to research, and in 1990 and 2000s, GIS saw the environmental sciences …