ABSTRACT
Surveying and mapping has recently undergone a transition from discipline oriented technologies, such as geodesy, surveying, photogrammetry and cartography into a methodology oriented integrated discipline of geoinformation based on GPS positioning, remote sensing, digital photography for data acquisition and GIS for data manipulation and data output. This book attempts to present the required basic background for remote sensing, digital photogrammetry and geographic information systems in the new geoinformation concept, in which the different methodologies must be combined depending on efficiency and cost to provide spatial information required for sustainable development. In some countries this concept is referred to as ‘geomatics’.
