THE GEO-INFORMATICS
1.
What is Geo-informatics?
Geoinformatics encompasses a collection of special techniques,
technologies, and tools for the acquisition, processing, management, analysis,
and presentation of geospatial data. Geoinformatics is based on a range of
synergetic activities including geospatial modeling, geospatial analysis,
geospatial databases, geospatial technologies, information systems, systems
design, spatial cognition, human-computer interaction, mobile computing, wired
and wireless network technologies. Today, numerous applications are benefiting
from geoinformatics techniques, technologies, and tools and with recent
advances in geoinformatics and related technologies, such as Web services and
grid computing, new geoprocessing paradigms and applications are expected to
emerge.
2.Means ,Geoinformatics has been described
as "the science and technology dealing with the structure and character of
spatial information, its capture, its classification and qualification, its
storage, processing, portrayal and dissemination, including the infrastructure
necessary to secure optimal use of this information" or "the art,
science or technology dealing with the acquisition, storage, processing
production, presentation and dissemination of geoinformation".
Geomatics is a similarly used term which encompasses geoinformatics, but geomatics focuses on surveying. Geoinformatics has at its core the technologies supporting the processes of acquiring, analyzing and visualizing spatial data. Both geomatics and geoinformatics include and rely heavily upon the theory and practical implications of geodesy.
Geography and earth science increasingly rely on digital spatial data acquired from remotely sensed images analyzed by geographical information systems (GIS) and visualized on paper or the computer screen.
Geoinformatics combines geospatial analysis and modeling, development of geospatial databases, information systems design, human-computer interaction and both wired and wireless networking technologies. Geoinformatics uses geocomputation and geovisualization for analyzing geoinformation.
Branches of geoinformatics include:
1. Cartography
2. Geodesy
3. Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
4. Global Navigation Satellite Systems
5. Photogrammetry
6. Remote Sensing
7. Web Mapping
Geomatics is a similarly used term which encompasses geoinformatics, but geomatics focuses on surveying. Geoinformatics has at its core the technologies supporting the processes of acquiring, analyzing and visualizing spatial data. Both geomatics and geoinformatics include and rely heavily upon the theory and practical implications of geodesy.
Geography and earth science increasingly rely on digital spatial data acquired from remotely sensed images analyzed by geographical information systems (GIS) and visualized on paper or the computer screen.
Geoinformatics combines geospatial analysis and modeling, development of geospatial databases, information systems design, human-computer interaction and both wired and wireless networking technologies. Geoinformatics uses geocomputation and geovisualization for analyzing geoinformation.
Branches of geoinformatics include:
1. Cartography
2. Geodesy
3. Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
4. Global Navigation Satellite Systems
5. Photogrammetry
6. Remote Sensing
7. Web Mapping
Many fields benefit from geoinformatics, including urban
planning and land use management, in-car navigation systems, virtual globes,
public health, local and national gazetteer management, environmental modeling
and analysis, military, transport network planning and management, agriculture,
meteorology and climate change, oceanography and coupled ocean and atmosphere
modelling, business location planning, architecture and archeological
reconstruction, telecommunications, criminology and crime simulation, aviation
and maritime transport.
