Portal:Geoinformatics

School:Computer Science → Topic:Geoinformatics

Geoinformatics is a science which develops and uses information science infrastructure to address the problems of geosciences and related branches of engineering.

The three main tasks of geoinformatics are:

• development and management of databases of geodata, georeferences and other GIS objects
• analysis and modeling of geodata
• development and integration of computer tools and software for the first two tasks.

Geoinformatics as a branch of Computer Science that deals with the development and use of Geospatial Information Systems (GIS).

Prerequisites

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Learning materials

• Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)
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Related departments

• Topic:Object-relational databases (ORDs) - Includes a lab that will use object-relational Database Management Systems (ORDBMS) to collect, store and organize geodata.
• Topic:Cartography - map-making and related activities ranging from simple hand-drawn maps to sophisticated computerized GIS data models.

Resources

• Search for Geoinformatics at Wikiversity
• w: Geoinformatics
• Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER)

External links

• U.S. Census Bureau TIGER web page
• Tiger Map Server Browser
• Federal Geographic Data Committee — United States federal government standards agency
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• Open Geospatial Consortium
• USGS - U.S. Geological Survey