地理信息科学（GISc）是一组空间数字技术的集成，包括与地理信息系统（GIS），遥感（RS），全球定位系统（GPS）和高性能计算设施相关的技术，工具和数据集。这些空间数字技术已在地理学中脱颖而出，并逐渐发展为相关的社会，行为和生物物理科学，以及城市和区域规划，人口与环境的相互作用，工业，政府，卫生科学和医疗保健提供系统。这些空间数字技术提供了机会，可以通过空间分析，定量建模，数据集成和可视化，获得有关变量的空间模式和支配自然生态系统过程，土地利用，土地覆盖变化以及人与环境相互作用的系统行为的最新见解。 。
Geographic Information Sciences (GISc) are an integrated set of spatial digital technologies including techniques, tools, and data sets associated with geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing (RS), global positioning systems (GPS), and high performance computing facilities.<br><br>These spatial digital technologies have gained prominence in geography and are emerging into associated social, behavioral, and biophysical sciences, as well as into city and regional planning, population-environment interactions, industry, government, and health sciences and health care delivery systems.<br><br>These spatial digital technologies offer the opportunity to gain fresh insights into the spatial patterns of variables and the behaviors of systems that govern natural ecosystem processes, land use land cover change, and human-environment interactions through spatial analysis, quantitative modeling, data integration and visualization.