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Future Direction of GIScience for Revolution in Science and Society Over the Past 20 Years

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Geographic Information Science (GIScience) plays a vital role in today’s era. Prior to the development of GIScience, all these tasks were done on a human level in which not only a lot of time and capital was used but actual knowledge of the subject matter was also not possible, because it was not always possible to reach a particular place. GIScience is based on Sudur sensor calculators, so that no aspect of the Earth can be hidden. It is partly covered with the various traditional disciplines like environmental science, applied mathematics, geophysics, geography, oceanography, spatial statistics, etc. GIScience came into the market between 1990 and 1992 as a game changer which contributed to the formation of geographical information science (GIS). The work potential of contributing to the work was discovered through this science, including database designing and modeling can be done in any area. This technology is used in scientific research, resource management, asset management, archaeological work, urbanization, and criminology. There are a variety of applied fields of GIScience which are used in current scenarios for the better understanding, interpretation, and visualization of the data.

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  1. College of Agriculture, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Bharat Lal, Susheel Kumar Singh & Abhishek Kumar Shukla

  2. Department of Geography, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India

    Meenu Rani

  3. College of Horticulture and Forestry, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Pavan Kumar

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  1. College of Horticulture and Forestry, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Pavan Kumar

  2. Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Haroon Sajjad

  3. Department of Geophysics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

    Bhagwan Singh Chaudhary

  4. Remote Sensing and GIS, Kumaun University, Almora, Uttarakhand, India

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    Meenu Rani

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Lal, B., Singh, S.K., Rani, M., Shukla, A.K., Kumar, P. (2021). Future Direction of GIScience for Revolution in Science and Society Over the Past 20 Years. In: Kumar, P., Sajjad, H., Chaudhary, B.S., Rawat, J.S., Rani, M. (eds) Remote Sensing and GIScience . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55092-9_15

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