This Book offers an extended survey of italian applications in Geographical Information Systems, with a special focus on the domain of urban and territorial planning. In this perspective, a number of italian contributions about geomatics and GIS software are also considered, being strongly interconnected. Papers are presented within a frame of current trends: in geomatics (transition from analogical to digital data; development of new sensors for spatial data acquisition; success of positioning devices); in GIS software (the 3D challenge, the shift from local to web processing, the need of interoperability and semantic treatments); in uses (emerging new fields of application such as environment protection, mobility and urban traffic).

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