A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer system capable of assembling, processing, storing and displaying geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified according to their locations.
ArcView from ESRI is the most popular desktop GIS and mapping software. Providing data visualisation, query, analysis, integration capabilities and with the ability to create and edit geographic data.
Add-ons development through Microsoft’s COM standards and Visual Basic integrated usage to enhance its functionnality. It starts the family of ArcGIS as a scalable geographic data creation software system for management, integration, analysis, and dissemination. For individual, corporate or global utilisation.

NeoSYS developed an interface between ArcView and a geographically referenced image database.
Adding information to images and then grouping them in collections allows it to perform spatial queries retrieving data in a given geographical zone and is being used for underwater research by French IFREMER.