Uuit1 What is Geomatics
(什么是测绘学) Geomatics Defined(测绘学定义) Where does the word Geomatics come from
(Geomatics-测绘或地球空间信息学,这个名词是怎么来的呢
) GEODESY+GEOINFORMATICS=GEOMATICS or GEO- for earth and – MATICS for mathematical or GEO- for Geoscience and -MATICS for informatics
(大地测量学+地理信息学=GEOMATICS 测绘学 或者 geo 代表地 球,matics 代表数学,或者 geo 代表地球科学,matics 代表信息学) It has been said that geomatics is many things to many people
(据说测绘学这个词对不同的人有不同的 理解) The term geomatics emerged first in Canada and as an academic discipline; it has been introduced worldwide in a number of institutes of higher education during the past few years, mostly by renaming what was previously called “geodesy” or “surveying”, and by adding a number of computer science- and/or GIS-oriented courses
(这个术语【term 术语】作为一个学科【academic discipline 学科】