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December 27, 2022

Not to be confused with Geoinformatics.

Geomatics is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as the "discipline concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing, presentation of geographic data or geographic information".[1] Under another definition, it consists of products, services and tools involved in the collection, integration and management of geographic (geospatial) data.[2] It is also known as geomatic(s) engineering (geodesy and geoinformatics engineering or geospatial engineering). Surveying engineering was the widely used name for geomatic(s) engineering in the past.

A surveyor's shed showing equipment used for geomatics

History and etymology

The term was proposed in French ("géomatique") at the end of the 1960s by scientist Bernard Dubuisson to reflect at the time recent changes in the jobs of surveyor and photogrammetrist.[3] The term was first employed in a French Ministry of Public Works memorandum dated 1 June 1971 instituting a "standing committee of geomatics" in the government.[4]

The term was popularised in English by French-Canadian surveyor Michel Paradis in his The little Geodesist that could article, in 1981 and in a keynote address at the centennial congress of the Canadian Institute of Surveying (now known as the Canadian Institute of Geomatics) in April 1982. He claimed that at the end of the 20th century the needs for geographical information would reach a scope without precedent in history and that, in order to address these needs, it was necessary to integrate in a new discipline both the traditional disciplines of land surveying and the new tools and techniques of data capture, manipulation, storage and diffusion.[5]

Geomatics includes the tools and techniques used in land surveying, remote sensing, cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), global-navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Compass), photogrammetry, geophysics, geography, and related forms of earth mapping. The term was originally used in Canada but has since been adopted by the International Organization for Standardization, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and many other international authorities, although some (especially in the United States) have shown a preference for the term geospatial technology,[6] which may be defined as synonym of "geospatial information and communications technology".[7]

Although many definitions of geomatics, such as the above, appear to encompass the entire discipline relating to geographic information – including geodesy, geographic information systems, remote sensing, satellite navigation, and cartography –, the term is almost exclusively restricted to the perspective of surveying and engineering toward geographic information.[citation needed] Geoinformatics has been proposed as an alternative comprehensive term, but its use is only common in some parts of the world, especially Europe.[citation needed]

The related field of hydrogeomatics covers the area associated with surveying work carried out on, above or below the surface of the sea or other areas of water. The older term of hydrographics was considered[by whom?] too specific to the preparation of marine charts, and failed to include the broader concept of positioning or measurements in all marine environments.

A growing number of university departments which were once titled "surveying", "survey engineering" or "topographic science" have re-titled themselves using the terms "geomatics" or "geomatics engineering", while others have switched to program titles such as "spatial information technology", and similar names.[8][9]

The rapid progress and increased visibility of geomatics since the 1990s has been made possible by advances in computer hardware, computer science, and software engineering, as well as by airborne and space observation remote-sensing technologies.

Science

See also: Geographic information science

Geospatial science or spatial information science is an academic discipline incorporating fields such as surveying, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and cartography. Spatial science is typically concerned with the measurement, management, analysis and display of spatial information describing the Earth, its physical features and the design environment.[10]

The term spatial science or spatial sciences is primarily used in Australia. Australian universities which offer degrees in spatial science include Curtin University,[11] the University of Tasmania,[12] the University of Adelaide,[13]Melbourne University[14] and RMIT University.[15]

In the U.S., Texas A&M University offers a bachelor's degree in Spatial Sciences and is home to its own Spatial Sciences Laboratory.[16] Beginning in 2012, the University of Southern California started to place more emphasis on the spatial science branch of its geography department, with traditional human and physical geography courses and concentrations either not being offered on a regular basis or phased out. In place, the university now offers graduate programs strictly related to spatial science and its geography department offers a spatial science minor rather than the original geography major.[17]

Spatial information practitioners within the Asia-Pacific region are represented by the professional body called the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI).[18]

Engineering

Geomatic(s) Engineering, Geodesy and Geoinformatics Engineering or Geospatial Engineering is a rapidly developing engineering discipline that focuses on spatial information (i.e. information that has a location). The location is the primary factor used to integrate a very wide range of data for spatial analysis and visualization. Geomatics engineers apply engineering principles to spatial information and implement relational data structures involving measurement sciences, thus using geomatics and acting as spatial information engineers. Geomatics engineers manage local, regional, national and global spatial data infrastructures. Geomatics Engineering also involves aspects of Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and Civil Engineering.

Geomatics is a field that incorporates several others such as the older field of land surveying engineering along with many other aspects of spatial data management ranging from data science and cartography to geography. Following the advanced developments in digital data processing, the nature of the tasks required of the professional land surveyor has evolved significantly in recent years, and for more and more people the term "surveying" no longer accurately covers the whole range of tasks that the profession deals with. As our societies become more complex, information with a spatial position associated with it becomes more critical to decision-making, both from a personal and a business perspective, and also from a community and a large-scale governmental viewpoint.

Therefore, the geomatics engineer can be involved in an extremely wide variety of information gathering activities and applications. Geomatics engineers design, develop, and operate systems for collecting and analyzing spatial information about the land, the oceans, natural resources, and manmade features.

The more traditional land surveying strand of geomatics engineering is concerned with the determination and recording of boundaries and areas of real property parcels, and the preparation and interpretation of legal land descriptions. The tasks more closely related to civil engineering include the design and layout of public infrastructure and urban subdivisions, and mapping and control surveys for construction projects.

Geomatics engineers serve society by collecting, monitoring, archiving, and maintaining diverse spatial data infrastructures. Geomatics engineers utilize a wide range of technologically advanced tools such as digital theodolite/distance meter total stations, Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment, digital aerial imagery (both satellite and air-borne), and computer-based geographic information systems (GIS). These tools enable the geomatics engineer to gather, process, analyze, visualize and manage spatially related information to solve a wide range of technical and societal problems.

Geomatics engineering is the field of activity that integrates the acquisition, processing, analysis, display and management of spatial information. It is an exciting and new grouping of subjects in the spatial and environmental information sciences with a broad range of employment opportunities as well as offering challenging pure and applied research problems in a vast range of interdisciplinary fields.

In different schools and in different countries the same education curriculum is administered with the name surveying in some, and in others with the names geomatics, civil engineering surveying, geomatics engineering, geospatial (information) engineering, surveying engineering, or geodesy and geoinformatics. While these occupations were at one time often taught in civil engineering education programs, more and more universities include the departments relevant for geo-data sciences under informatics, computer science or applied mathematics. These facts demonstrate the breadth, depth and scope of the highly interdisciplinary nature of geomatics engineering. The job of geospatial engineer is well established in the U.S. military.[19][20]

Applications

Application areas include:

Areas of knowledge

Geomatics integrates science and technology from both new and traditional disciplines:

See also

Main category: Geomatics

References

  1. ^ ISO/TR 19122:2004(en) Geographic information/Geomatics — Qualification and certification of personnel [1]
  2. ^ "About Us". Applied Geomatics Research Laboratory. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  3. ^ "ACSG - Association canadienne des sciences géomatiques (Section Champlain) /// Des références utiles en géomatique". acsg-champlain.scg.ulaval.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  4. ^ Arrêté du 27 décembre 1994 relatif à la terminologie de la télédétection aérospatiale, retrieved 2019-11-04
  5. ^ Paradis, Michel (September 1981). "De l'arpentage à la géomatique". Le Géomètre Canadien (in French). 35 (3): 262.
  6. ^ Boehm, Richard G.; Mohan, Audrey (2010). "Geospatial Technology: Curricular Keystone of Applied Geography". International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research. 1 (1): 26–39. doi:10.4018/jagr.2010071602. ISSN 1947-9654.
  7. ^ Scholten, H.J.; Velde, R.; van Manen, N. (2009). Geospatial Technology and the Role of Location in Science. GeoJournal Library. Springer Netherlands. p. 1. ISBN 978-90-481-2620-0. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  8. ^ "Geomatics engineering & geographic information systems (GIS)". University of Colorado Denver- College of Engineering. University of Colorado Denver. Retrieved October 3, 2021.
  9. ^ "White Mountains Community College- Spatial Information Technology Transcript Checklist". PDFFiller. PDFFiller. Retrieved October 3, 2021.
  10. ^ . Archived from the original on 2008-07-19. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
  11. ^ . Archived from the original on 2015-09-10. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
  12. ^ University of Tasmania, Centre for Spatial Information Science, Courses 2008-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ (PDF). adelaide.edu.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  14. ^ Melbourne University - Spatial Information Science[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ "Surveying and geospatial sciences - RMIT University".
  16. ^ Texas A&M University, Spatial Sciences Laboratory Archived 2008-09-05 at archive.today
  17. ^ . Archived from the original on 2012-11-24. Retrieved 2012-10-20.
  18. ^ Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI)
  19. ^ "Geospatial Engineer Jobs (12Y)". goarmy.com. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  20. ^ "12Y Geospatial Engineer - National Guard". www.nationalguard.com. Retrieved 2 April 2018.

Further reading

  • Geomatics Canada Ottawa: Natural Resources Canada ISSN 1491-5480
  • Dermanis, Athanasios; Grün, Armin; Sansò, Fernando (2000). Geomatic Methods for the Analysis of Data in the Earth Sciences. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-67476-4.
  • Kavanagh, Barry F. (2003). Geomatics. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-130-32289-0.
  • Yvan Bédard, "Geomatics" in Karen Kemp (2008), Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science, Sage. [2]
  • Yvan Bédard (2007),“Geomatics”: 26 years of history already!, Geomatica, 61(3):269-272. [3]
  • Gomarasca, Mario A. (2009). Basics of Geomatics. Springer. ISBN 978-1-402-09014-1.
    • "Geomatics", Chap. 1 in Mario A. Gomarasca (2009) Basics of Geomatics, Springer.[4]
  • "Geomatics", sec. 1.3 in Mathias Lemmens (2011), Geo-information: Technologies, Applications and the Environment, Springer. [5]
  • Ogaja, Clement (2016). Geomatics Engineering: A Practical Guide to Project Design. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-439-89511-5.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Geomatics.
  • International Master's Program Geomatics at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
  • Namibia's Geomatics Program
  • Bachelor of Science in Geomatics 2016-07-28 at the Wayback Machine at Nicholls State University
  • Geomatics program at the University of Florida
  • Canada's Northwest Territories Centre for Geomatics 2020-01-28 at the Wayback Machine
  • UK's
  • GIM International Lemmer, the Netherlands: Geodetical Information & Trading Centre ISSN 1566-9076
  • (in French) Géomètres sans Frontières : Association de géometres pour aide au développement.
  • Geomatics at Curlie
  • School of Rural and Surveying Engineering at National Technical University of Athens (MEng)

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Not to be confused with Geoinformatics This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Geomatics news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Geomatics is defined in the ISO TC 211 series of standards as the discipline concerned with the collection distribution storage analysis processing presentation of geographic data or geographic information 1 Under another definition it consists of products services and tools involved in the collection integration and management of geographic geospatial data 2 It is also known as geomatic s engineering geodesy and geoinformatics engineering or geospatial engineering Surveying engineering was the widely used name for geomatic s engineering in the past A surveyor s shed showing equipment used for geomatics Contents 1 History and etymology 2 Science 3 Engineering 4 Applications 5 Areas of knowledge 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory and etymology EditThe term was proposed in French geomatique at the end of the 1960s by scientist Bernard Dubuisson to reflect at the time recent changes in the jobs of surveyor and photogrammetrist 3 The term was first employed in a French Ministry of Public Works memorandum dated 1 June 1971 instituting a standing committee of geomatics in the government 4 The term was popularised in English by French Canadian surveyor Michel Paradis in his The little Geodesist that could article in 1981 and in a keynote address at the centennial congress of the Canadian Institute of Surveying now known as the Canadian Institute of Geomatics in April 1982 He claimed that at the end of the 20th century the needs for geographical information would reach a scope without precedent in history and that in order to address these needs it was necessary to integrate in a new discipline both the traditional disciplines of land surveying and the new tools and techniques of data capture manipulation storage and diffusion 5 Geomatics includes the tools and techniques used in land surveying remote sensing cartography geographic information systems GIS global navigation satellite systems GPS GLONASS Galileo Compass photogrammetry geophysics geography and related forms of earth mapping The term was originally used in Canada but has since been adopted by the International Organization for Standardization the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and many other international authorities although some especially in the United States have shown a preference for the term geospatial technology 6 which may be defined as synonym of geospatial information and communications technology 7 Although many definitions of geomatics such as the above appear to encompass the entire discipline relating to geographic information including geodesy geographic information systems remote sensing satellite navigation and cartography the term is almost exclusively restricted to the perspective of surveying and engineering toward geographic information citation needed Geoinformatics has been proposed as an alternative comprehensive term but its use is only common in some parts of the world especially Europe citation needed The related field of hydrogeomatics covers the area associated with surveying work carried out on above or below the surface of the sea or other areas of water The older term of hydrographics was considered by whom too specific to the preparation of marine charts and failed to include the broader concept of positioning or measurements in all marine environments A growing number of university departments which were once titled surveying survey engineering or topographic science have re titled themselves using the terms geomatics or geomatics engineering while others have switched to program titles such as spatial information technology and similar names 8 9 The rapid progress and increased visibility of geomatics since the 1990s has been made possible by advances in computer hardware computer science and software engineering as well as by airborne and space observation remote sensing technologies Science EditSee also Geographic information science Geospatial science or spatial information science is an academic discipline incorporating fields such as surveying geographic information systems remote sensing and cartography Spatial science is typically concerned with the measurement management analysis and display of spatial information describing the Earth its physical features and the design environment 10 The term spatial science or spatial sciences is primarily used in Australia Australian universities which offer degrees in spatial science include Curtin University 11 the University of Tasmania 12 the University of Adelaide 13 Melbourne University 14 and RMIT University 15 In the U S Texas A amp M University offers a bachelor s degree in Spatial Sciences and is home to its own Spatial Sciences Laboratory 16 Beginning in 2012 the University of Southern California started to place more emphasis on the spatial science branch of its geography department with traditional human and physical geography courses and concentrations either not being offered on a regular basis or phased out In place the university now offers graduate programs strictly related to spatial science and its geography department offers a spatial science minor rather than the original geography major 17 Spatial information practitioners within the Asia Pacific region are represented by the professional body called the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute SSSI 18 Engineering EditThis article may need to be cleaned up It has been merged from Geomatics engineering Geomatic s Engineering Geodesy and Geoinformatics Engineering or Geospatial Engineering is a rapidly developing engineering discipline that focuses on spatial information i e information that has a location The location is the primary factor used to integrate a very wide range of data for spatial analysis and visualization Geomatics engineers apply engineering principles to spatial information and implement relational data structures involving measurement sciences thus using geomatics and acting as spatial information engineers Geomatics engineers manage local regional national and global spatial data infrastructures Geomatics Engineering also involves aspects of Computer Engineering Software Engineering and Civil Engineering Geomatics is a field that incorporates several others such as the older field of land surveying engineering along with many other aspects of spatial data management ranging from data science and cartography to geography Following the advanced developments in digital data processing the nature of the tasks required of the professional land surveyor has evolved significantly in recent years and for more and more people the term surveying no longer accurately covers the whole range of tasks that the profession deals with As our societies become more complex information with a spatial position associated with it becomes more critical to decision making both from a personal and a business perspective and also from a community and a large scale governmental viewpoint Therefore the geomatics engineer can be involved in an extremely wide variety of information gathering activities and applications Geomatics engineers design develop and operate systems for collecting and analyzing spatial information about the land the oceans natural resources and manmade features The more traditional land surveying strand of geomatics engineering is concerned with the determination and recording of boundaries and areas of real property parcels and the preparation and interpretation of legal land descriptions The tasks more closely related to civil engineering include the design and layout of public infrastructure and urban subdivisions and mapping and control surveys for construction projects Geomatics engineers serve society by collecting monitoring archiving and maintaining diverse spatial data infrastructures Geomatics engineers utilize a wide range of technologically advanced tools such as digital theodolite distance meter total stations Global Positioning System GPS equipment digital aerial imagery both satellite and air borne and computer based geographic information systems GIS These tools enable the geomatics engineer to gather process analyze visualize and manage spatially related information to solve a wide range of technical and societal problems Geomatics engineering is the field of activity that integrates the acquisition processing analysis display and management of spatial information It is an exciting and new grouping of subjects in the spatial and environmental information sciences with a broad range of employment opportunities as well as offering challenging pure and applied research problems in a vast range of interdisciplinary fields In different schools and in different countries the same education curriculum is administered with the name surveying in some and in others with the names geomatics civil engineering surveying geomatics engineering geospatial information engineering surveying engineering or geodesy and geoinformatics While these occupations were at one time often taught in civil engineering education programs more and more universities include the departments relevant for geo data sciences under informatics computer science or applied mathematics These facts demonstrate the breadth depth and scope of the highly interdisciplinary nature of geomatics engineering The job of geospatial engineer is well established in the U S military 19 20 Applications EditApplication areas include Aeromagnetic surveys Airborne geophysics Air navigation services Archaeological excavation and survey for GIS applications Coastal zone management and mapping Disaster informatics for disaster risk reduction and response The environment Infrastructure management Land management and reform Natural resource monitoring and development Seismic Interpretation Subdivision planning Urban and regional planning Oceanography Meteorology Parks Resource Management Climate Change Environmental MonitoringAreas of knowledge EditGeomatics integrates science and technology from both new and traditional disciplines Geodesy Geodynamics Global positioning system GPS or global navigation satellite system GNSS Surveying including land cadastral aerial mining and engineering surveying Hydrography Navigation Location based services Cartography and digital mapping Geographic information systems GIS spatial database management and geographic information technology GeoIT Spatial analysis spatial data mining and knowledge discovery and spatial statistics Computer aided design CAD and scientific visualization Geovisualization Geovisual Analytics Visual communication design graphic design and multimedia technology Remote sensing Digital Earth Image processing Photogrammetry Computer vision Land information systems LIS Land management cadastre real property law Applications programming Project management Geoinformatics Land Surveying LIDAR Digital terrain modellingSee also EditMain category GeomaticsReferences Edit ISO TR 19122 2004 en Geographic information Geomatics Qualification and certification of personnel 1 About Us Applied Geomatics Research Laboratory Retrieved 2 April 2018 ACSG Association canadienne des sciences geomatiques Section Champlain Des references utiles en geomatique acsg champlain scg ulaval ca Retrieved 2019 11 04 Arrete du 27 decembre 1994 relatif a la terminologie de la teledetection aerospatiale retrieved 2019 11 04 Paradis Michel September 1981 De l arpentage a la geomatique Le Geometre Canadien in French 35 3 262 Boehm Richard G Mohan Audrey 2010 Geospatial Technology Curricular Keystone of Applied Geography International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research 1 1 26 39 doi 10 4018 jagr 2010071602 ISSN 1947 9654 Scholten H J Velde R van Manen N 2009 Geospatial Technology and the Role of Location in Science GeoJournal Library Springer Netherlands p 1 ISBN 978 90 481 2620 0 Retrieved 2022 01 28 Geomatics engineering amp geographic information systems GIS University of Colorado Denver College of Engineering University of Colorado Denver Retrieved October 3 2021 White Mountains Community College Spatial Information Technology Transcript Checklist PDFFiller PDFFiller Retrieved October 3 2021 Queensland University of Technology Undergratuate Program Spatial Science Surveying Archived from the original on 2008 07 19 Retrieved 2008 06 14 Curtin University Spatial science courses Archived from the original on 2015 09 10 Retrieved 2016 07 31 University of Tasmania Centre for Spatial Information Science Courses Archived 2008 07 25 at the Wayback Machine University of Adelaide Major in Ecology and Spatial Science PDF adelaide edu au Archived from the original PDF on 21 August 2014 Retrieved 2 April 2018 Melbourne University Spatial Information Science permanent dead link Surveying and geospatial sciences RMIT University Texas A amp M University Spatial Sciences Laboratory Archived 2008 09 05 at archive today Spatial Sciences Institute USC Catalogue Archived from the original on 2012 11 24 Retrieved 2012 10 20 Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute SSSI Geospatial Engineer Jobs 12Y goarmy com Retrieved 2 April 2018 12Y Geospatial Engineer National Guard www nationalguard com Retrieved 2 April 2018 Further reading EditGeomatics Canada Ottawa Natural Resources Canada ISSN 1491 5480 Dermanis Athanasios Grun Armin Sanso Fernando 2000 Geomatic Methods for the Analysis of Data in the Earth Sciences New York Springer ISBN 978 3 540 67476 4 Kavanagh Barry F 2003 Geomatics Prentice Hall ISBN 978 0 130 32289 0 Yvan Bedard Geomatics in Karen Kemp 2008 Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science Sage 2 Yvan Bedard 2007 Geomatics 26 years of history already Geomatica 61 3 269 272 3 Gomarasca Mario A 2009 Basics of Geomatics Springer ISBN 978 1 402 09014 1 Geomatics Chap 1 in Mario A Gomarasca 2009 Basics of Geomatics Springer 4 Geomatics sec 1 3 in Mathias Lemmens 2011 Geo information Technologies Applications and the Environment Springer 5 Ogaja Clement 2016 Geomatics Engineering A Practical Guide to Project Design CRC Press ISBN 978 1 439 89511 5 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Geomatics International Master s Program Geomatics at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences Namibia s Geomatics Program Bachelor of Science in Geomatics Archived 2016 07 28 at the Wayback Machine at Nicholls State University Geomatics program at the University of Florida Canada s Northwest Territories Centre for Geomatics Archived 2020 01 28 at the Wayback Machine UK s Environment Agency Geomatics Group GIM International Lemmer the Netherlands Geodetical Information amp Trading Centre ISSN 1566 9076 in French Geometres sans Frontieres Association de geometres pour aide au developpement Geomatics at Curlie School of Rural and Surveying Engineering at National Technical University of Athens MEng Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Geomatics amp oldid 1126156296 Engineering, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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