Analyzing the Role of Geospatial Technology in Smart City Development

Abstract

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.