Integrating Remote Sensing and GIS: A Real Game Changer to Make Human Life Better

Abstract A geographic information system (or GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographical data. What goes beyond a GIS is a spatial data infrastructure, a concept that has no such restrictive boundaries. Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object and thus in contrast to on-site observation. Remote sensing is used in numerous fields, including geography and most Earth Science disciplines. It also has military, intelligence, commercial, economic, planning, Mineralogical and humanitarian applications. Remote sensing has applications in numerous fields including Radars, Lasers, and Weather Satellites. Many research organizations, governments and space monitoring agencies use Remote Sensing day in and day out for numerous models and weather changes.