Concept in Definition ABC

Collection, treatment, analysis, interpretation, storage and dissemination of geographic information

Geographic information is extremely important not only because it allows us to identify areas, territories on our planet, among others, that is, it provides us with data referenced spaces that will be of great help for ordinary people who want to locate geographically but also for the work of specific areas such as the science.

The key role that computing plays

Meanwhile, as a consequence that this type of information is vast and complex, geomatics, also called engineering geomatics, which is a discipline that encompasses the activity of various sciences that deal with collecting, treating, analyze, interpret, store, and of course disseminate, the aforementioned geographic information. And in all this work the computing has a key and fundamental role because precisely the study of the surface of the earth is carried out through the technology computing.

A type of information in high demand at this time

We must emphasize that the development of this discipline would not have made sense or been possible if it had not existed, as it has existed for several decades ago, the fantastic demand of this type of information.

In a world as globalized as the one we live in today, the need for geographic information that exists throughout the world is shocking. So, taking into account this context, traditional techniques were joined with new technologies to capture, process, store and disseminate data.

Origin of the concept

The origin of the concept dates back to the eighties and has a Canadian surveyor and geometer named Michael Paradis as his ideologue, since he uses it and imposes it for the first time in a specialized magazine, Le géomètre caadien, by those years.

The influence in today's society

The importance of geomatics in the life of the communities and the people who inhabit it is relevant since any event or question that has a geographic element can be analyzed in a special way by the geographic information systems with which geomatics works.

With a fairly everyday example we can better appreciate the action of this discipline... Smart cell phones, which have GPS and map applications, do not They only allow us to locate ourselves in a geographical place x but also to be able to know nearby places of interest, for example the location closest to where we are from a branch bank.