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Geographic Information Systems: Status at Selected Agencies

IMTEC-90-74FS Published: Aug 01, 1990. Publicly Released: Aug 01, 1990.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on geographic information system (GIS) activities at the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Energy, as well as the Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Highway Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Federal Emergency Management Administration, focusing on: (1) agency missions; (2) GIS applications; (3) estimated GIS budgets; (4) computer hardware and software used for GIS; and (5) planned GIS procurements.

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Computer equipment managementComputer hardwareCost analysisEarth sciencesElectronic data processingFuture budget projectionsGeographic information systemsManagement information systemsNatural resourcesSoftwareSurveys