The field of geoinformation within the systematics of sciences

Abstract

In connection with the dynamic development of methods and technology concerning geoinformation, an urgent need arises to separate and determine a branch of knowledge focusing around this important type of information. In Poland, next to the concepts geomatics and geoinformatics, a name geoinformation science and technology is also suggested, defined as a scientific-technological discipline dealing with assembling, analyzing, interpreting, popularizing and practical application of geoinformation. In connection with the evolution of a new discipline, a kind of terminological disorder prevails. This article attempts to order the terminology concerning the field of geoinformation, by defining the terms. Moreover, it also tries to determine the position of geoinformation science in the systematics of sciences.