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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}GIS-200pxl.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 160px; float: right;" />What would you use if you want to see how newly introduced wolf populations affect where moose populations live and breed? Or if you wanted to see if lower-income households live closer to hazardous waste sites? Or if you want to see how urban sprawl has affected agricultural landscapes? All these spatial questions can be mapped and answered with Geographic Information Systems (GIS).</p>
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	No technology has revolutionized the practice, management and strategies of environmental stewardship as much as the development of GIS and associated remote sensing techniques, and Au Sable wants its students to catch the wave through its <a href="/courses/course_information/summer_session_ii_great_lakes/#GIS">Environmental Applications for GIS</a> course.</p>
