This is a brief description,

Geomatics engineering is a rapidly developing discipline that focuses on spatial information (i.e. information that has a location).

The term is thought to be developed by B. Dubuisson in 1969 from the combination of GEODESY and GEOINFORMATICS terms.

Geomatics is a new term incorporating the older field of surveying along with many other aspects of spatial data management. Following the advanced developments in digital data processing, the nature of the tasks required of the professional land surveyor has evolved and the term surveying alone does not any more describe the whole range of tasks that the profession deals with.

As our societies become more complex, information with a spatial position associated with it becomes more critical to decision-making, both from a personal and a business perspective, and also from a community and a large-scale governmental viewpoint.