Editing Geomatics (section)

{{Short description|Geographic data discipline}}
{{distinguish|Geoinformatics}}
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[[Image:Survey instruments-2.png|thumb|A surveyor's shed showing equipment used for geomatics]]

'''Geomatics''' is defined in the [[ISO/TC 211]] series of standards as the "[[academic discipline|discipline]] concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing, presentation of [[geographic data or geographic information]]".<ref>ISO/TR 19122:2004(en) Geographic information/Geomatics — Qualification and certification of personnel [https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:tr:19122:ed-1:v1:en]</ref> Under another definition, it consists of products, services and tools involved in the collection, integration and management of geographic (geospatial) data.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.appliedgeomatics.net/about-us.html|title=About Us|website=Applied Geomatics Research Laboratory|access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref> Surveying engineering was the widely used name for geomatic(s) engineering in the past. Geomatics was placed by the [[UNESCO]] [[Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems]] under the branch of [[technical geography]].<ref name="Haidu1">{{cite journal |last1=Haidu |first1=Ionel |title=What is Technical Geography – a letter from the editor |journal=Geographia Technica |date=2016 |volume=11 |pages=1–5 |doi=10.21163/GT_2016.111.01|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=Sala1>{{cite book |last1=Sala |first1=Maria |title=Geography Volume I |date=2009 |publisher=[[Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems|EOLSS]] UNESCO |location=Oxford, United Kingdom |isbn=978-1-84826-960-6 |edition=1}}</ref>