The era of the computer and satellite has given new life to the study of geography. We can now map all sorts of things that we barely knew existed a few decades ago. Alaska is a frontier of this study – known as Geographic Information Systems, or GIS. On the next Talk of Alaska, we’ll trace the history of GIS back to its very beginning.
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HOST:
- Steve Heimel, APRN
GUESTS:
- Laura Dassow Walls, author of “The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America”
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LIVE Broadcast: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. on APRN stations statewide.
