Geography and technology helping us understand the world in which we live.
Welcome to the world of geospatial information and geospatial technologies.
Where we live and how we interact with our environment and each other can influence the outcome of many different things and ultimately the health of our planet and us.
Spatial information? Today just about everything has some form of geographic information associated with it. This can be the gps coordinates (latitude or longitude) that you generate through your mobile phone; a place you mention – such as a town name, a street name or an address; or an image you have captured that may provide a reference to a physical feature such as a landmark or a building or something that is part of the landscape such as a mountain or a river. Regardless of what geographic information is used, all of these examples represents the geography of where you are or about. And much of this information can be mapped.
Geospatial technologies? A variety of technologies can be used to collect geographic information. These can range from gps enabled devices that we carry around today (e.g. mobile phones) to devices that capture information remotely via cameras and other such optical devices (e.g. satellites, UAVs (drones), and house hold items such as robotic vacuum cleaners). Today thanks to the availability of cheap devices it is now possible to collect geolocated information about us and our environment continuously providing us with greater insights into our environment like never before.
Spatial Data Science: Although we have an abundance of information available we still need to be able to make sense of it all. Today many data science methods and spatial analysis methods are needed to gain insights from the data. The skills needed by GIScientists, GIS Analyst, GeoInformatics Specialists, Geo-Information & Earth Observation Specialists or Spatial Data Sciencists are useful for working with geospatial information and technologies.
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