Technical geography
Technical geography
Technical geography is the branch of geography that involves using, studying, and creating tools to obtain, analyze, interpret, understand, and communicate spatial information. The spatial data types a technical geographer employs may vary widely, including human and physical geography topics, with the common thread being the techniques and philosophies employed. To accomplish this, technical geog
"The Description confiderd as to Form is of three Sorts; The first exhibits the Earth, by a Draught or Delineation; the second by Tables, or Registers; and the third by Treties or Discourse. Hence Technical Geography may be divided into Representatory, Synoptical, and Explanatory."
"In my opinion, Technical Geography is based on two concepts/attributes of the geographical processes and phenomena, i.e. autocorrelation and frequency."
"The technical approaches allow Geography to become an anticipatory science. For example, the predictive models based on geospatial data collected via remote sensing and monitoring sensors enable the early identification of natural risks such as floods, earthquakes or climate changes and help with the efficient management of the natural resources and urban development. Technical Geography not only explains past phenomena, but it also plays an active role in shaping the future."
"The risk is that non-geographers mastering these methods analyze the spatiotemporal data and information better than the geographers. That is why the need to deal with competition induced by other sciences claiming the geographic space as their subject of study and research becomes a serious challenge for geographers. Geographers need to test and adapt to the new methods, models and procedures and implement them in all fields and development trends of Geography. By these also, Technical Geography as a new line of research and professional training becomes a necessity."
