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Analyzing the Role of Geospatial Technology in Smart City Development

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Geospatial Technology and Smart Cities

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Geospatial technology helps in the creation, management, analysis, and visualization of spatial data. For Smart city management and functional applications; geospatial data and geospatial technology are instrumental. In this paper, geospatial technology and its role have been broadly discussed to assess its significance in smart city development. A smart city concept is considered to transform the quality of life in cities through the digitalization of different infrastructure sectors such as transportation, health, energy, education, and environment. Identifying and obtaining valuable information from large amounts of data that is generated in the growing urban areas. Smart city ideas have been implemented in many countries to seek solutions toward resource scarcities, congestion, and environmental issues. Concepts like open data, interconnected systems, internet of things, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data, and geospatial intelligence are innovative technologies that are expected to help in various fields of smart city development and give solutions to a variety of problems that the cities are facing.

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Abbreviations

AI:

Artificial Intelligence

APIs:

Application Programming Interfaces

BI:

Business Intelligence

ELINT:

Electronic Intelligence

FININT:

Financial Intelligence

GEOINT:

Geospatial Intelligence

GIS:

Geographic Information Systems

GLCF:

Global Land Cover Facility

GNSS:

Global Navigation Satellite System

GPS:

Global Positioning Systems

HUMINT:

Human Intelligence

ICT:

Information communication technologies

IMINT:

Imagery Intelligence

IoT:

Internet of Things

M2M:

Machine-to-Machine

MASINT:

Measurement and Signature Intelligence

ML:

Machine Learning

OGC:

Open Geospatial Consortium

OSINT:

Open-source Intelligence

RFID:

Radio Frequency Identification

SIGINT:

Signals Intelligence

TECHINT:

Technical Intelligence

UI:

User Interface

UNCTAD:

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UN-GGIM:

Global Geospatial Information Management

USGS:

United States Geological Survey

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