Question 15 Marks
Write about hardware and software.
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View full question & answer→A computer is a very important electronic device for analyzing, processing and directing information.
1. Hardware:
Computer physical equipment that can be touched and viewed is known as computer hardware.
In addition to keyboards, mice, monitors, printers, processing units, pendrives, there are also computer hardware such as digitizers, scanners, plotters, etc. to use geographical software and analyze information.
2. Software:
A program in a computer that can perform a certain task in digital form is called software.
Microsoft Office, Open Office, Windows operating system, Linux operating system, Mozilla Firefox, etc. are computer software.
Digitizer this tool is used to co-ordinate the information about a fixed point and area required for computer mapping.
Software like Erdas Image and Envi are used to get geographical information by processing various images received by satellite.
Software like GRASS-GIS, Arcview, Geo Media, Gram ++, I-Gis, SPSS, SAS, Open Office, Calc, Ms Office Excel etc. are used for creating maps and graphs.