Geomatics or Geography, that is the question! This is how the authors' idea of merging Geomatics and Geography in this special issue begins, paraphrasing a Shakespearean citation. The common principle that unites these two scientific disciplines, which attempt to describe the territory in the most straightforward way possible. On the other hand, Geomatics and Geography derived from “gèo- “[greek γεω-], as first element of composed words in learned and scientific terminology, meaning “earth”, “globe”, “land surface”. Geography is the basis of all disciplines that study the territory, its characteristics and its changes over time. It includes the analysis of the forms of territorial and landscape organisation in their physicalenvironmental, economic and historical-cultural components and extends to skills related to the study of economic phenomena and political-administrative structures, population and settlement structures. The research has theoretical and applicative values that are functional to planning and programming, in an interdisciplinary dimension with regard to the study of resources, the use of space, the location of activities, innovation processes, as well as the repercussions on the urban and regional system with reference to the different territorial scales and the plurality of political and geopolitical scenarios. Of fundamental analytical support remains cartography, in particular thematic cartography, integrated with the construction of geographic information systems and multimedia imaging techniques. The fields of study include the various modes of human-environment interaction in terms of the territorial and landscape effects of general and site specific policies, geographical regionalisation, the distribution of settlements, the geography of productive sectors and financial flows, the network of intangible relations concerning production, the distribution of goods and resources, the spatial diffusion of innovation, territorial marketing techniques, reflection on the epistemological nature of the models used. Geomatic is a new neo-logism based on a disciplinary scientific content that concern the acquisition, restitution, analysis and management of data of metric or thematic nature relating to the Earth's surface, or portions of it, including the urban environment, infrastructures and architectural heritage, identified by their spatial position and qualified by the accuracy of the survey. The disciplines covered with Geomatic are geodesy (physical, geometric and spatial), survey, photogrammetry (aerial and terrestrial), cartography, remote sensing (spatial, aerial and terrestrial), navigation (spatial, aerial, maritime and terrestrial) and spatial information systems.

Editorial for special issue. Geomatics application for geography (gag) in geographia technica / Baiocchi, V.; Dardanelli, G.. - In: GEOGRAPHIA TECHNICA. - ISSN 1842-5135. - 16:Special Issue(2021), pp. 1-5. [10.21163/GT_2021.163.16]

Editorial for special issue. Geomatics application for geography (gag) in geographia technica

Baiocchi V.
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2021

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Geomatics or Geography, that is the question! This is how the authors' idea of merging Geomatics and Geography in this special issue begins, paraphrasing a Shakespearean citation. The common principle that unites these two scientific disciplines, which attempt to describe the territory in the most straightforward way possible. On the other hand, Geomatics and Geography derived from “gèo- “[greek γεω-], as first element of composed words in learned and scientific terminology, meaning “earth”, “globe”, “land surface”. Geography is the basis of all disciplines that study the territory, its characteristics and its changes over time. It includes the analysis of the forms of territorial and landscape organisation in their physicalenvironmental, economic and historical-cultural components and extends to skills related to the study of economic phenomena and political-administrative structures, population and settlement structures. The research has theoretical and applicative values that are functional to planning and programming, in an interdisciplinary dimension with regard to the study of resources, the use of space, the location of activities, innovation processes, as well as the repercussions on the urban and regional system with reference to the different territorial scales and the plurality of political and geopolitical scenarios. Of fundamental analytical support remains cartography, in particular thematic cartography, integrated with the construction of geographic information systems and multimedia imaging techniques. The fields of study include the various modes of human-environment interaction in terms of the territorial and landscape effects of general and site specific policies, geographical regionalisation, the distribution of settlements, the geography of productive sectors and financial flows, the network of intangible relations concerning production, the distribution of goods and resources, the spatial diffusion of innovation, territorial marketing techniques, reflection on the epistemological nature of the models used. Geomatic is a new neo-logism based on a disciplinary scientific content that concern the acquisition, restitution, analysis and management of data of metric or thematic nature relating to the Earth's surface, or portions of it, including the urban environment, infrastructures and architectural heritage, identified by their spatial position and qualified by the accuracy of the survey. The disciplines covered with Geomatic are geodesy (physical, geometric and spatial), survey, photogrammetry (aerial and terrestrial), cartography, remote sensing (spatial, aerial and terrestrial), navigation (spatial, aerial, maritime and terrestrial) and spatial information systems.
2021
geomatic; geography; applications
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Editorial for special issue. Geomatics application for geography (gag) in geographia technica / Baiocchi, V.; Dardanelli, G.. - In: GEOGRAPHIA TECHNICA. - ISSN 1842-5135. - 16:Special Issue(2021), pp. 1-5. [10.21163/GT_2021.163.16]
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