Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
The paper describes the Multipurpose Interactive NASA Information System (MINIS), a data management system for land-use applications. MINIS is written nearly entirely in FORTRAN IV, and has a full range of conditional, Boolean and arithmetic commands, as well as extensive format control and the capability of interactive file creation and updating. It requires a mini or microcomputer with at least 64 K of core or semiconductor memory. MINIS has its own equation-oriented query language for retrieval from different kinds of data bases. It features a graphics output which permits output of overlay maps. Some experience of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Tennessee State Planning Office with MINIS is discussed.
Keywords:
DOCUMENTATION AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Type:
ASP 77-260
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Annual Meeting of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Joint Symposium on Land Data Systems; Feb 27, 1977 - Mar 05, 1977; Washington, DC; US
Format:
text
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