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Influence of modern spatial data concepts and data collection technologies on economic development

One of the characteristics of modern globalized World is extensive usage of spatial information. This usage is presently defined with the concept of Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) as a basic platform and number of application concepts like Smart cities, Intelligent transportation systems, Precise farming or Smart environment. All those concepts rely of the fact that today modern technologies are capable to provide sufficient amount of accurate, reliable and timely spatial data about phenomena on the Earth. Among those modern technologies most promising and recently growing in use for data collection are global navigation satellites systems (GNSS) and Earth observation (EO) technologies from space. Implementation and usage of mentioned factors, SDI, GNSS or EO is influencing economic development. Existing GNSS systems (American GPS and Russian Glonass) connected with mobile communication infrastructure enable completely new approach to the navigation and positioning, providing location for any object on the Earth’s surface instantaneously, influencing numerous business sectors. With the modernization of existing and setting up new systems like European Galileo and Chinese Beidou2 systems, influence of GNSS technologies on economy will further grow. Complementary to GNSS, fast development in space technology has boosted EO from space providing daily enormous amount of spatial data. Commercial and especially public satellite services, like those provided through European Copernicus program boosted usage of satellite images and other measurements giving to geoinformatic industry new frame and meaning. Influence of SDI, GNSS and EO on economy has been investigated in many studies showing their great potential for economic growth. Still, there are many open questions what are the areas and where are the limits of economic growth when synergetic influence of SDI, GNSS and EO is observed. There is great potential in their synergetic implementation, but it is also visible that there are several challenges present. Among challenges, lack of skilled professionals, now and in future, and educational capacities able to deliver new profile of specialists and educate present ones, are recognized as critical. In order to investigate joint potential of SDI, GNSS and EO on economies in the region and threats coming from main obstacles research has been conducted in frame of several projects (SYNERGY, BESTSDI, EO4GEO) in past five years using four countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia) as test sample. Beside the known influence of INSPIRE and GNSS itself investigation has been launched about synergy and synergetic influence of those two developments on spatial data providers, mainly surveying and geoinformation companies, and spatial information users, mainly governmental bodies and public agencies and combined with EO influence. For this purpose, two surveys have been conducted in mentioned four countries simultaneously among two target groups, data providers and users, and gathered data analysed. Analysis results are then used to estimate effects of educational challenge on development of geoinformatics industry.

Spatial data, Infrastructure, GNSS, Copernicus, SYNERGIE, BESTSDI, EO4GEO

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