14717 IUPAC Gold Book - geographic information system 10.1351/goldbook.14717 14717 current initialism: GIS 1 Computerized system to handle spatial data at a reasonable cost; most allow one to archive, organize, integrate, statistically analyze, and display many kinds of spatial information using a common coordinate system. PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 891 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14717/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14717/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14717/plain Citation: 'geographic information system' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14717 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-23T14:50:23+00:00