Technical geography

"The Description confider'd 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."

"The technical geography topic presents a range of subjects that provide essential tools to geographical research, teaching, and practice. On one hand it includes geomatics, one of geography’s classical subject matters; on the other it introduces modeling of geographical systems, a field that has gained an important place in modern geography. It contains two articles related to the most traditional geographical techniques: geodesy, topography, mapping, and atlas production. The other three articles present modern techniques now very widely used by geographers: remote sensing, geographical information systems, and modeling."

"In my opinion, Technical Geography is based on two concepts/attributes of the geographical processes and phenomena, i.e. autocorrelation and frequency."

"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."

"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."