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DISCIPLINES OF
GEOMATICS
FOSTER TADIWANASHE MUKWIRIMBA R2114818H
HAZEL RIYENZI R2117402P
PRECIOUS MHAZO R2110642G
COURAGE MUTAVIRWA R2110996V
ASHLEY NYAMBALO R2117243A
SALLISA N SANGO R2111557M
PRAISE CHANJARATI R2114266R
ANDREW SIBANDA R2113842C
ANOTIDA N NYATHI R2110497E
LEORNARD MACHARAGA R2242717
LIST OF THE DISCIPLINES
• Geographic information system
• Geodesy
• Cartography and digital mapping
• Remote sensing
• Photogrammetry
• Global positioning system
• Land administration
• Surveying(cadastral, topographic, hydrography and bathmetric,
mining and engineering)
 SURVEYING
DEFINITION AND EXPLANATION OF THE SUB DISCIPLINES
SURVEYING( CADASTRAL AND
TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYING)
• Surveying as a whole is the science and art of making all
essential measurements to determine the relative position of
points or physical details above, on or beneath the surface of
the earth and to depict them in a usable form.
• Cadastral surveying is when surveyors work on making property
boundaries.
• Topographic surveying is a combination of methods and
instruments to comprehensively measure and represent details
of the earth’s surface.
SURVEYING( HYDROGRAPHY OR BATHMETRIC
SURVEYING AND MINING SURVEYING)
• Hydrography or bathmetric surveying deals with the measurement and description of features which
affect maritime navigation marine construction and all related activities, compiling and producing
charts or maps of water covered areas of the earth’s surface(Xthrod,2022).

• Mining surveying includes all measurement calculations and mapping which serve the purpose of
ascertaining and documenting information at all stages from prospecting to exploitation and utilizing
mineral deposits both by surface and underground working
SURVEYING( ENGINEERING SURVEY)
• Surveyors are involved in engineering works, consist of
planning and the execution of surveys for the location, design,
construction, operation and the maintenance of civil and other
engineering projects.
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
• Involves making use of a powerful combination of instruments
capable of receiving, recording, recalling, transforming, representing
and processing geo-referenced spatial data.
• Geographic implies an interest in the spatial identity or
locality of certain entities on, under or above the surface of the earth.
• Information implies the need to be informed in order to
make decisions
• System implies the need for staff, computer
hardware and procedures which can produce information required for
decision making i.e data collection, processing and presentation.
CARTOGRAPHY AND DIGITAL
MAPPING
• Is defined as the study and practice of making maps and using
maps for various purposes for example navigation maps. It is
the art of representing the features of the earth on a flat
surface.
• “Cartography takes advantage of traditional domains such as
physics, geometry, design, geography, engineering, with the
addition, during the last century, of methodological statistics and
electronic numerical calculation for the rigorous elaboration of
the data”, say Gomarasca.A(2004,5)
GEODESY
• It can be defined as the science of accurately measuring and
understanding the fundamental properties of the earth that are
geometric shape of the earth, the orientation of the earth in
space and gravitational field. It is branched into three types
geometric geodesy, physical and satellite geodesy.
REMOTE SENSING
• Is the process of obtaining information about objects or areas
from a distance, typically from aircraft or satellite. It comprises
of passive and active sensing Gomarasca(2004,8)
• In passive sensing the sun is the most familiar source of
energy(example-landsat and sentinel).
• In active sensing the sensor itself is at the same time the
emitter and receiver of electromagnetic energy(example-radar-
sat)
GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
• Is a navigation system using satellites, a receiver and
algorithms to synchronize location, velocity and time data for air,
sea and land travel.
• It provides geo-location and time to a global positioning system
receiver anywhere on or near the earth where there is an
unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites
GEOTAB(2020)
PHOTOGRAMMETRY
• Used to determine the position and shapes of the objects by
measuring them on photographic images. Two types of
photogrammetry are aerial and terrestrial (xthrod,2022)
• It was invented in the nineteenth century by Aime Laussedat.
• It allows 3D co-ordinates to be derived from 2D points within the
images that have been taken from slightly different positions
using charge coupled device that is a camera.
LAND ADMINISTRATION
• Is defined as the process of determining, recording and
disseminating information about ownership, value and use of
land when implementing land management policies.
• Was coined in 1993 by the united nations economic
commission of Europe UNECE(1993)
References
• Gomarasca, m. A., 2004. basics of geomatics. In: geomatics.
italy: springer, p. 1.
• XthrodX, 2022. photogrammetry. [Online]
Available at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org
[Accessed 13 june 2022]
• https://www.geotab.com/blog/what-is-gps/&ved
• https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url