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The geospatial technology industry is an information technology
field of practice that acquires, manages, interprets, integrates,
displays, analyzes, or otherwise uses data focusing on the geographic,
temporal, and spatial context. It also includes the development
and life-cycle management of information technology tools to support
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The geospatial technology industry is concerned with the design, development, implementation and use of geographic information systems technologies. GIS technologies include a wide array of technologies, such as GIS software, global positioning systems (GPS), location-based services (LBS), mobile GIS, remote sensing, and Web GIS.
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The broad domain of geographic information science & technology
(GIS&T) represents a body of knowledge that focuses in an analytic
fashion upon various aspects of spatial and spatio-temporal information
and therefore constitutes, in some of its aspects, a science. In
other aspects, where the focus is largely upon the utilization of
GIScience to attain solutions to real-world problems, it has more
of an engineering flavor with attention being given to both the
creation and use of complex tools that embody the concepts of GIScience.
The focus of GIS&T education is concepts and methods for geographic
problem solving in a computation environment. |
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The geospatial industry engages, at a variety of spatial scales, in the acquisition, integration, analysis, visualization, management and distribution of data having an explicit spatial and temporal context. A critical component of the industry involves the design, construction and testing of both hardware and software tools to support these activities. Because of the highly technical nature of the industry it is essential to include in any definition those organizations and individuals in the higher education community who are engaged in relevant instructional activities.
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