Neither, it seems, do the public know what Geomatics means.
Geomatics: An integrated, systematic approach to
meet the needs for spatial information.
So if Geomatics makes its practitioners unhappy, what might replace it?
Something that resembles my approach of those years,
in what we called"contextual management" taking advantage of"Geomatics management".
Therefore a new scientific and technical figure who combines
expertizes of Computer Science, Environmental Engineering and Geomatics is needed.
In 2016,
she moved to Canada where she completed an MSc of Geodesy and Geomatics at the University of New Brunswick.
In many of the Canadian provinces, Geomatics has been attached to engineering,
suggesting that surveying might be another branch of that discipline.
OpenSource has grown with tools such as gvSIG and Quantum GIS, making it part of the broad
market segment that now represents the software for Geomatics.
In Australia Geomatics has generally fallen into disuse and
has been replaced by“spatial science” which itself is losing ground to the more recent and progressively ubiquitous term-“geospatial science”.
In Australia Geomatics has generally fallen into disuse
and has been replaced by“spatial science” which itself is losing ground to the more recent and progressively ubiquitous term-“geospatial science”.
Furthermore, the
evidence suggests that the GPGB of the RICS is no longer convinced that Geomatics is a term that it wishes to continue to use in its title.
Geomatics division has a professional group of multidisciplinary
team having rich experience in the field of airborne and satellite data processing, GIS, Surveying, Photogrammetry, Geology, civil engineering, Computer Science and Digital Image Processing.
In response to the findings from a recent poll by the Geomatics Professional Group Board(GPGB)
of RICS, Brian Coutts traces the evolution of the word'Geomatics' and argues that the time has come to consider a change.
Research conducted by the author in 2014, and the very fact that the GPGB has seen fit to raise the issue, indicates that there remains
at least a residual dissatisfaction with the use of Geomatics as a descriptor for… something.