Empowerment of Geospatial Technologies in Conjunction with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Geospatial technology empowered by its own modern tools has contributed a lot for the benefit of humankind and society. In real world, geospatial technologies intersect with digital technologies for enabling many processes in several applications. Geospatial technologies and digital technologies although are self-driving but the cross linkages can help in solving many complex problems. The empowerment of geospatial technologies in conjunction with key Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has not been widely pondered over. This paper discusses the influence and significance of geospatial technology and digital technologies in conjunction with one another. The paper is also one of the pioneers in discussing conjunction of all key digital technologies with geospatial in single work. Hardware founded technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and software based technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Data Science and Data Analytics are deliberated in this paper. Other than providing introduction to processes of these technologies, coalition of location parameter and related tools is discussed. The discussions of conjunction are further supported by well-established real life implementations in government or business sector.