Geospatial Science - Science topic

Photogrammetry has been a cornerstone in mapping history and still functions as one of the key techniques in modern geospatial science and engineering [...]

Immersive technologies are becoming a powerful tool for educators across multiple disciplines including geospatial science. They offer new ways to engage and educate geospatial students, removing barriers that may exist in traditional teaching methods. Especially because the limitations of 2D screens are often exceeded by the complexity of modern d...

ISPRS Student Consortium (ISPRS SC) has played a significant role in bringing students and young researchers closer to the field of remote sensing and photogrammetry in the evolving landscape of geospatial sciences. Innovative strategies and events have been employed by the ISPRS SC to address contemporary challenges and harness emerging opportunit...

One of the critical factors influencing the accuracy of a local geoid model is the quality of the digital elevation model (DEM). A properly selected highresolution DEM can significantly mitigate errors in geoid modeling, gravity anomaly processing, and topography and downward continuation correction. Purpose. Evaluating the accuracy of five global...

The rate at which new information about stream resources is being created has accelerated with the recent development of spatial stream-network models (SSNMs), the growing availability of stream databases, and ongoing advances in geospatial science and computational efficiency. To further enhance information development, the National Stream Interne...

Geospatial sciences (GS) include a wide range of applications, from environmental monitoring to infrastructure development , as well as location-based analysis and services. Notably, graph theory algorithms have emerged as indispensable tools in GS because of their capability to model and analyse spatial relationships efficiently. This article unde...

The influence of increasing anthropogenic pressure on ecosystem integrity, such as land use change, is resulting in many ecosystems experiencing a decline in their ability to maintain balanced functions and services. Identifying and quantifying these pressures over different scales is challenging and thus impacting the achievement or maintenance of...

Delivering value from digital concepts such as Digital Twins is necessary to address systemic national and global issues, such as achieving Net Zero. However, there is still a lack of consensus over what a Digital Twin (DT) is and efforts to clarify this do not consider the Geospatial perspective. With the aspiration for national- and international...

To ensure the sustainable development of artificial intelligence (AI) application in urban and geospatial science, it is important to protect the geographic privacy, or geo-privacy, which refers to an individual’s geographic location details. As a crucial aspect of personal security, geo-privacy plays a key role not only in individual protection bu...

The "Cubes and Clouds" Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) addresses the growing challenges and opportunities in Earth Observation (EO) data analysis posed by the exponential growth of satellite missions and data volumes. This course introduces cloud-native EO concepts and open science principles, facilitating collaboration and data sharing within th...

African governments recognise the challenges they face in education and capacity development in land management. They have embraced international education to improve their education and capacity gaps. One of the educational initiatives that African countries have benefited from is the Master of Science Land Management and Land Tenure (MSc LMLT) pr...

Extended Abstract: Introduction:Undoubtedly, the main motivation of all planning is to achieve sustainable development, regional balance, proper distribution of activities and maximum use of environmental capabilities in the process of regional development. Land is a limited and vulnerable resource, but many of its benefits, if not to be abused, ar...

The launch of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT in late 2022 and the anticipated arrival of future GPT-x iterations have marked the beginning of the generative artificial intelligence (GAI) era. We conducted a systematic review of how to integrate LLMs including GPT and other GAI models into geospatial science, based on 293 papers obtained...

This research article reflects the use of an integrated approach of geospatial and social sciences for the planning and management of micro watersheds in Dharampur Block, Himachal Pradesh. The micro-watershed area had many problems related to soil erosion, scarcity of water sources during the summer season, and unsustainable livelihood options. The...

This dissertation explores the integration of remote sensing and artificial intelligence (AI) in geospatial mapping, specifically through the development of knowledge-based mapping systems. Remote sensing has revolutionized Earth observation by providing data that far surpasses traditional in-situ measurements. Over the last decade, significant adv...

Undergraduate curriculum review at the University of Cape Town, South Africa

Geospatial science is the science of location or place that harnesses geospatial tools, such as geographic information systems (GIS), to understand the features of the environment according to their locations. Geospatial science has been transformative for cancer epidemiologic studies through enabling large-scale environmental exposure assessments....

This book provides a multidisciplinary synthesis of the sustainable management of natural resources. The book presents applicable knowledge of land, water, and forest resources along with in-depth investigations of multiple management pathways. This book also demonstrated the contemporary applications of geospatial technology in data mining techniq...

Background Light exposure is the most powerful resetting signal for circadian rhythms. The objective of this study was to develop and validate a high-resolution geospatial light exposure model that measures environmental circadian misalignment (or solar jetlag) as the mismatch between the social clock and sun clock, which occurs from geographic var...

This book covers theoretical concepts of climate change related phenomena, different components of geospatial technology and application of geospatial technology on analysis of climate changes. Besides the book will also cover different characteristics of climate resilience, how resilience relates to the adaptation and mitigation and role of geospa...

Privacy has been an important topic within the geospatial science community, particularly driven by the widespread adoption of geospatial technologies such as mobile devices and the vast amount of location data they generate. This has sparked considerable interest in location privacy that is specifically dedicated to the protection of location info...

The workshop “Openness in Geospatial and Remote Sensing”, held at the ISPRS Geospatial Week on 4 September 2023, was organised by the ISPRS Intercommission Working Group (ICWG) IV/III/V, titled “Openness in Geospatial Science and Remote Sensing”. This ICWG was established in 2022 following the ISPRS Congress in Nice, France, with the aim to promote...

1 Before Namibia's political independence, land rights in communal areas were exclusively managed by the Traditional Authorities. The rights were allocated without documentation based on local traditions and customs. The system was vulnerable to disputes which arose due to the double allocation of land rights and unclear boundaries. Even in post-in...

In recent years there has been a concern in the geospatial community about the ethical use of geographic information. National Mapping Organizations and other initiatives propose a set of common principles for the responsible use of geospatial and location data. Cartography is the geospatial science that has always recognized the ethical dimension...

The advent of professional consumer-grade software in modern photogrammetry such as Pix4D, Metashape and Zephyr has been nothing short of revolutionary. These tools make the creation of 2D maps and 3D models possible for users not schooled in geospatial science, paving the way for the widespread use of photogrammetry in a multitude of application d...

Remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) are useful techniques in geospatial science in the present era, which are used to study spatial and temporal changes in land use and land cover. In view of the changing nature of the river basin at present, the study of land use is very necessary. In this paper, the study of land use change an...

Geospatial sciences include a wide range of applications, from environmental monitoring transportation to infrastructure planning, as well as location-based analysis and services. Graph theory algorithms in mathematics have emerged as indispensable tools in these domains due to their capability to model and analyse spatial relationships efficiently...

1. Remote sensing (RS) and geospatial sciences already amount to a long history of fostering research in topics related to ecology. Data and methods have mainly been subject to research and experiments, but trends are now emerging that suggest the use of RS in practical applications like nationwide monitoring programs and assisting global conservat...

The world is in the cruel clutch of environmental pollution. Large-scale unplanned developmental activities of man are increasing day by day which in turn is making the problem of environmental pollution worse in general and air pollution in particular. This continuously rising problem of air pollution is also severely affecting vegetation health....

Technological advancements in the fields of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Geospatial Sciences continuously alter the way we collect, process, and interpret datasets. Accreditation bodies and institutions often need to respond to those changes and make timely modifications to stay current with technology changes and industry needs. However, it...

Purpose of review: Tremendous advancements have been made in HIV treatment and prevention during the last 40 years that zero new HIV cases has become an attainable goal declared by international agencies. However, new cases of HIV infection persist. Recent findings: The emerging field of geospatial science is positioned to play key role in the r...

Geospatial data literacy is of paramount importance in an increasingly digital business world. Especially in economic decision-making processes, the ability to judge the trustworthiness of pertinent data sets is inevitable for reliable decisions. Thus, geospatial competencies need to supplement the university’s teaching syllabus of economic degree...

The use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), also known as drones, is increasing in geospatial science curricula within the United States. Four geospatial science faculty members within the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU), Texas, focus on applying imagery obtained from drones to map, moni...

Barnes interpolation is a method that is widely used in geospatial sciences like meteorology to remodel data values recorded at irregularly distributed points into a representative analytical field. When implemented naively, the effort to calculate Barnes interpolation depends on the product of the number of sample points N and the number of grid p...

Frequent technological changes have started the persistent changes in the evolution of human society. Unlimited access to the information is evidently the basic and foremost result of these reconstruction. The next change, not less important, happened in the transfer and the presentation of the information and the knowledge. Developments of mobile...

Terrain mapping is an essential component of physical geography, field geology, biogeography, archaeology, and a variety of other disciplines, which investigates the structure and dynamics of the Earth's surface. Until recently, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become the main source of very high resolution or high resolution (VHR/HR) datasets...

Rapidly changing landscapes and disturbance regimes in the Global South impact the viability of conservation planning. Although conservation planning processes benefit from reliable multi-scale and multi-temporal data on landscape changes, this is not widely understood. In this paper, the authors examine landscape change dynamics and disturbance re...

Multi-agency investments require local coordination, planning, and implementation. GIS allows us to analyze and comprehend real-world processes by constructing and applying manipulation, analytical criteria, and models for daily decision making. This requires a geospatial database with surveyed land, assets, hydro, etc. Survey of India (SOI) is pub...

In regions with sparse in situ monitoring and forecasting, water resources management (WRM) for sustainable development poses several challenges. Over the last decade, the rapid increase of satellite-based information has brought unprecedented ways to support and strengthen WRM. Moreover, traditional barriers to satellite data availability and use...

Data science is one of the fastest-growing professions worldwide. This growth has been fuelled by the massive volumes of data created daily and the growing need for skilled people to make sense of and draw conclusions from the data. To meet this growing demand, an increasing number of universities, including Stellenbosch University, are offering co...

Data science is one of the fastest-growing professions worldwide. This growth has been fuelled by the massive volumes of data created daily and the growing need for skilled people to make sense of and draw conclusions from the data. To meet this growing demand, an increasing number of universities, including Stellenbosch University, are offering co...

Disasters are an uncertain and unavoidable event in nature, which affect adversely social, economic, environmental and humanitarian sectors. Geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) are very useful and effective tools in disaster management. Various disasters like earthquakes, landslides, floods, fires, tsunamis, volcanic eruptio...

For a decade, the Southern and Central Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research has operated with local partners across study sites in Zambia and Zimbabwe that range from hypo- to holoendemic and vary ecologically and entomologically. The burden of malaria and the impact of control measures were assessed in longitudinal cohort...

Incorporating measures of taxonomic diversity into research and management plans has long been a tenet of conservation science. Increasingly, active conservation programs are turning towards multi-species landscape and regional conservation actions, and away from single species approaches. This is both a reflection of changing trends in conservatio...

Processing Earth observation data modelled in a time-series of raster format is critical to solving some of the most complex problems in geospatial science ranging from climate change to public health. Researchers are increasingly working with these large raster datasets that are often terabytes in size. At this scale, traditional GIS methods may f...

Barnes interpolation is a method that is widely used in geospatial sciences like meteorology to remodel data values recorded at irregularly distributed points into a representative analytical field. When implemented naively, the computational complexity of Barnes interpolation depends directly on both the number of sample points and the number of g...

Aquaculture is the world’s fastest-growing food-producing sector, with a mean annual growth rate of 5.3% during 2001–2018. Bangladesh, despite being a densely populated and small country, has managed to ensure its high position in this growing economy. Despite widespread benefits, aquaculture in Bangladesh has recently encountered concerns due to c...

Lung transplantation is an increasingly common lifesaving therapy for patients with fatal lung diseases, but this intervention has a critical limitation as median survival after LT is merely 5.5 years. Despite the profound impact of place-based factors on lung health, this has not been rigorously investigated in LT recipients-a vulnerable populatio...

Climate change and current susceptibilities exacerbated the coastal flood loss and damage resulting in livelihoods and property damage. Urban areas in the Low to Lower-Middle Income Countries are expected to be disproportionately impacted by the disaster, given a higher share of citizens living in the Low Elevation Coastal Zone, limited financial r...

This article addresses the benefits and challenges to including indigenous peoples and their organizations as partners in the geospatial services provided by SERVIR-Amazonia, a USAID and NASA initiative implemented in six Amazon Basin countries: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Surinam. It discusses who the Amazon indigenous peoples are...

The use of geospatial sciences and technologies for the management of grazinglands has fostered a plethora of applications related to ecology, wildlife, vegetation science, forage productivity and quality, and animal husbandry. Some of the earliest use of remote sensing dates to the proliferation of aerial photography in the 1930s. Today, remote se...

The study of banana herbs and fruits is rarely conducted using multidisciplinary approaches. However, a multidisciplinary approach could be useful for gaining information on many aspects, including remote sensing, biodiversity and biogeography, owing to the uniqueness of bananas. The present article reviews a study on banana herbs from an Indonesia...

Smart city is one of the fastest growing socio-economic and scientific initiative in the world. Still, it is only in principle and a mere blueprint for many developing countries. This study reviews literature on smart city in Nigeria and developing countries. Our aim is to explore ways to improve the quality of Nigeria’s urban areas, based on recen...

This study deliberated on the relevance of remote sensing to groundwater prospect- ing in African regions from 2008 to 2019. The total of interrelated published material showed an increase of 10% annually throughout this time indicative of the fact that the depth and extent of exploration in groundwater potential applying remote sensing have enha...

Simple Summary A pilot program was designed using innovative STEM education programming to create a community-driven surveillance network for mosquitoes that transmit La Crosse virus (LACV). This East Tennessee program is called MEGA:BITESS (Medical Entomology and Geospatial Analyses: Bringing Innovation to Teacher Education and Surveillance Studie...

Geospatial technology is a combination of state-of-the-art remote sensing and technology for geographic information systems (GIS) and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) for the mapping and monitoring of landscapes and environment. The main thrust of using geospatial technology is to understand the causes, mechanisms, and consequences of spa...

The purpose of the work is to analyze the system of Earth sciences from the standpoint of their in-teraction with each other in solving urgent problems (including ecological ones) in development of unique sphere of domestic economics – the oil and gas complex (OGC). The OGC in a great extent determines the energy security of the country, the system...

Description Land Reclamation and Restoration Strategies for Sustainable Development: Geospatial Technology Based Approach considers spatial mapping, modeling, risk assessment in land hazards issues, and sustainable management. Each section in the book explores state-of-art techniques using commercial, open source, and statistical software for mappi...

This is the study of economic impacts in the context of social disadvantage. It specifically considers economic conditions in regions with pre-existing inequalities and examines labor market outcomes in already socially vulnerable areas. The economic outcomes remain relatively unexplored by the studies on the COVID-19 impacts. To fill the gap, we s...

JupyterHub [1] has become a popular choice in many scientific communities, offering an easy-to-use interface for users with little to no frontend development work while promoting reproducible and replicable (R&R) science [2]. In the broad geospatial science community, CyberGISX [3] provides such a gateway environment with many cyberGIS (i.e., geosp...

With the rapid development of geospatial science, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing, geospatial artificial intelligence has become the major technique for processing and analyzing geospatial big data, and will be widely used in the scientific research and engineering application of earth science, spatial cognition, and smart c...

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are rapidly emerging as flexible platforms for capturing imagery and other data across the sciences. Many colleges and universities are developing courses on UAS-based data acquisition. Fundamentals of Capturing and Processing Drone Imagery and Data is a comprehensive, introductory text on how to use unmanned aircraf...

The protection and restoration of nature are critical for climate change mitigation. As such, many international initiatives have been launched to champion the implementation of nature-based climate solutions (NBCS) while supporting other societal goals. Given global momentum, it is critical that policymakers proactively define successful NBCS acti...

Remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) are useful techniques in geospatial science in the present era, which are used to study spatial and temporal changes in land use and landcover. In view of the changing nature of the river basin at present, the study of land use is very necessary. In this paper, the study of land use change and...

The Gulf of Guinea and the Cameroonian coastline in particular are situated in a warm tropical environment with high potential, Data sciences and geospatial sciences have demonstrated their ability to improve our understanding of this system for its management as well as for future research. This environment and its surrounding ecosystems have unde...

The Indian Sundarbans region is now one of the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems, facing the challenges laid down by climate change and global warming. The Sundarbans covers a vast area of 10,000 km2 across both India and Bangladesh. This study focuses on the issues in the Indian region. The Indian Sundarbans is a World Heritage site, as announced...

PREFACE The paper contains a brief overview of the professional activities of Professor Gottfried Konecny, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, and his influence on photogrammetry, remote sensing and geospatial information science during his time at the University of New Bru...

The use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), also known as drones is increasing in geospatial science curricula within the United States. Within the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture (ATCOFA) at Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas, seniors in the geospatial science program complete capstone projects to evaluate current geospatial...

Researchers and practitioners across many disciplines have recently adopted computational notebooks to develop, document, and share their scientific workflows - and the GIS community is no exception. This chapter introduces computational notebooks in the geographical context. It begins by explaining the computational paradigm and philosophy that un...

Immersive technologies such as virtual and augmented reality have been part of the technology mindset in computer and geospatial sciences early on. The promise of delivering realistic experiences to the human senses that are not bound by physical reality has inspired generations of scientists and entrepreneurs alike. However, the vision for immersi...

Microbiome data are undergoing exponential growth powered by rapid technological advancement. As the scope and depth of microbiome research increases, cross-disciplinary research is urgently needed for interpreting and harnessing the unprecedented data output. However, conventional research settings pose challenges to much-needed interdisciplinary...

The People’s Republic of China’s creation of artificial islands in the South China Sea (SCS) represents a challenge for cartographers and geospatial scientists due to the rapid development of new geographic features in a politically opaque realm. The sudden construction of these islands enhances Chinese political control over the region at great co...

Geoprostorna znanost (geospatial science) disciplina je koja se fokusira na primjenu informacijske tehnologije za razumijevanje ljudi, mjesta i procesa na Zemlji. Prostorna analiza humanih i fizičkih varijabli temeljna je za tu disciplinu. Daljinsko istraživanje, geoinformacijski sustavi i sustavi globalnog pozicioniranja obično se koriste kao alat...

Smart cities are especially suited for improving urban inclusion by combining digital transition and social innovation. To be smart, a city has to provide every citizen with urban spaces, public services, and common goods that are effectively affordable, whatever the citizen’s gender, culture, origin, race, or impairment. Based on two design worksh...

The creation and implementation, involving key stakeholders, of context-specific forest management practices plays a significant role in the achievements of sustainable forest management. A number of site-growth modelling studies have been funded in recent years with the goal of developing quantitative relations between the site Index and specific...

Indigenous societies provide alternatives to hegemonic social institutions that global capitalism spread around the world, contributing to human caused environmental degradation called the Anthropocene, coterminous with the development of the modern world-system. In this work we describe Indigenous communities using ten social spheres, that balance...

Current challenges of geographers and prospects in Geospatial Sciences

Risks and hazards are two important issues currently threatening humanity and the environment. Flood has claimed many lives and destroyed properties in Malaysia and Africa and Nigeria. It is global catastrophe. The application of geospatial science is, therefore, very important advantages that it offers solutions to flood. This stud uses of Advance...

The Brazilian Cartographic Olympiad (OBRAC) is an educational project that has been held, since 2015, in Brazil. It aims to stimulate interest in science, especially in geospatial sciences; provide teachers with tools for dynamic and participatory teaching in areas covering cartography and also provide teachers and students socialization through te...

Our cities are the frontier where the battle to achieve the global sustainable development agenda over the next decade would be won or lost. This requires an evidence-based approach to local decision-making and resource allocation, which can only be possible if current gaps in urban data are bridged. Earth observation (EO) offers opportunities to p...

The sudden outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) swept across the world in early 2020, triggering the lockdowns of several billion people across many countries, and most states of the U.S. The transmission of the virus accelerated rapidly with the most confirmed cases in the U.S., and New York City became an epicenter of the pandemic by th...