Geospatial Technology: Application and Challenges

Geospatial data is data about objects, events, or phenomena that have a location on the surface of the earth.

The location may be static in the short-term, like the location of a road, an earthquake event, malnutrition among children, or dynamic like a moving vehicle or pedestrian, the spread of an infectious disease.

• Geospatial Technology is an emerging field of study that includes Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Positioning System (GPS).

Issues/ Challenges

• The full benefits have yet to percolate to the public; and there is no major contribution to the nation’s GDP.
• Absence of Market: Among the most ....