A TELEGEOMATICS-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEY AND INFORMATION SERVICE SYSTEM

In the last three decades, GIS, in terms of both its theory and methodology, has been going rapidly towards its maturity from its very infancy. Nowadays, the most fundamental task of GIS is extending its application in different fields. In retrospection, we can find that the most attention has been paid to development planning forecast, and subsequent evaluation and reflection. But few researches have been done on real-time or near real-time monitoring and decision-making, which is a very important field deserving more attention. To perform real-time monitoring and decision-making, support from telecommunication technology is needed. In fact, only through the integration of GIS and telecommunication technology , could real-time monitoring be enabled. In this paper, we argue that a promising direction in GIS applications is the integration of GIS and telecommunication. Then the concept of Telegeomatics is presented, and its basic structural characteristics analyzed.