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New language of Geomatics Time flies—with every ticking of the clock the earth changes, revolving and transforming into a world shaped by its inhabitants and the environment; inhabitants and environment who change as well—the baby crying his need for a milk growing to a wrinkled old man sleeping on his rocking chair, the caterpillar crawling his way to a cocoon metamorphosing to a beautiful butterfly spreading its wings to fly and the sunflower seeds planted along the University avenue blooming into bright yellow flowers during summer. Everything grows and change— indeed, change is inevitable. Much like this world, Geography changes its face also as time passes by as expounded by Robinson—A New Look at the Four Traditions of Geography. The language of Geography through time because of the changes brought up by the evolution of the world. The evolution of technology through its advancements changed also the look of the field of Geodetic Engineering as well as how people perceive it. Before, Geodetic Engineering equals surveying only—the more tedious way of gathering spatial information in the form of XYZ coordinates. However, because of the emerging technologies, the potential of geodetic engineers expands. Instead of creating traverses (series of connecting points) to create control points (points with known XYZ coordinates), the use of global positioning system equipment make it possible to establish control points in a less wearisome way. Moreover, changes in the ways of creating maps especially topographic maps are brought up because of the influx of modern softwares such as AUTOCAD and ArcGIS compared to the manual way before. The language of Geodetic Engineering also transformed with the arrival of remote sensing and photogrammetry. In this field, aerial or satellite photographs are used for which measurement are made on it to

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New language of GeomaticsTime flieswith every ticking of the clock the earth changes, revolving and transforming into a world shaped by its inhabitants and the environment; inhabitants and environment who change as wellthe baby crying his need for a milk growing to a wrinkled old man sleeping on his rocking chair, the caterpillar crawling his way to a cocoon metamorphosing to a beautiful butterfly spreading its wings to fly and the sunflower seeds planted along the University avenue blooming into bright yellow flowers during summer. Everything grows and changeindeed, change is inevitable. Much like this world, Geography changes its face also as time passes by as expounded by RobinsonA New Look at the Four Traditions of Geography. The language of Geography through time because of the changes brought up by the evolution of the world. The evolution of technology through its advancements changed also the look of the field of Geodetic Engineering as well as how people perceive it. Before, Geodetic Engineering equals surveying onlythe more tedious way of gathering spatial information in the form of XYZ coordinates. However, because of the emerging technologies, the potential of geodetic engineers expands. Instead of creating traverses (series of connecting points) to create control points (points with known XYZ coordinates), the use of global positioning system equipment make it possible to establish control points in a less wearisome way. Moreover, changes in the ways of creating maps especially topographic maps are brought up because of the influx of modern softwares such as AUTOCAD and ArcGIS compared to the manual way before. The language of Geodetic Engineering also transformed with the arrival of remote sensing and photogrammetry. In this field, aerial or satellite photographs are used for which measurement are made on it to extract spatial information such as the position of a specific object on the photographmaking spatial information gathering in a non-contact way suitable for areas of large extent. By knowing the projection of the image, three-dimensional wireframes or models are createdletting the visualization of areas be easier. With these technological breakthroughs, the meaning of Geodetic Engineering transformed similar to how Geographys language has changed. New and easier ways of gathering spatial information emerge broadening the extent of applications into different fields. Indeed, spatial tradition of geography has now its new dictionary because of the trends in the present and changes made in the past.