What Exactly is Pipeline GIS?

By Georgio Galveston

Any nation has its own style and approach in trade, especially in importing goods, oil and other raw materials or product from other countries. Transporting the products from the point of origin to the drop off point is one very critical part. However, modern as we are today, there are already available transportation modes to use where these imported products can be moved. You have the cargo planes, oil tankers, ships and a pipeline. All other transportation facility has its own monitoring system. Particularly the pipelines, it uses a very high tech system of monitoring - the pipeline geographic information system.

Pipeline geographic information system or most commonly known as the pipeline GIS is an interface of data stored in a system that can be analyzed, edited, displayed or presented, shared or integrated into the system. These data are useful for a pipeline company to monitor the ins and outs of their pipeline system, which sometimes takes miles and miles to track. GIS made the tracking for these pipeline companies easy. Data can be gathered and analyzed in a snap.

What is this thing called GIS that are used by pipeline companies? As a system, these are set of tools used to gather and analyze data. This information system is often used for investigation, asset management, logistics, marketing, and many monitoring purposes. ESRI, Intergraph, Autodesk, and MapInfo are some of the known software developers of GIS applications.

Although many are still questioning the use of GIS system, the future for this technology is very promising and very helpful to a business. The market, in a way, became more competitive with this technology. As the GIS applications continually improve, in terms of hardware and software, there is no doubt that it will be a big hit in the market several years from now. With the vast use of internet, satellites, and GPS technologies, GIS is one technology that is rapidly becoming popular today.

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