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<p>Geomatics is defined in the <a href="/facts/ISO/TC_211/ca8yqGD3">ISO/TC 211</a> series of standards as the "<a href="/facts/Academic_discipline/pKoQHpYL">discipline</a> concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing, presentation of <a href="/facts/Geographic_data_or_geographic_information/FUSjSQ71">geographic data or geographic information</a>". Under another definition, it consists of products, services and tools involved in the collection, integration and management of geographic (geospatial) data. Surveying engineering was the widely used name for geomatic(s) engineering in the past. Geomatics was placed by the <a href="/facts/UNESCO/QSbkRv3o">UNESCO</a> <a href="/facts/Encyclopedia_of_Life_Support_Systems/HrkalzcX">Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems</a> under the branch of <a href="/facts/Technical_geography/a7zQvPql">technical geography</a>. </p>