Abstract
This scientometric study describes the state of the art of scientific production, with a focus on the use and production of geotechnologies, based on a survey of the research groups in the Midwest region of Brazil. Information on the research groups registered in the Research Groups Directory of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CNPq) was collected using the terms, “Geotechnologies”, “Geoprocessing”, “Remote Sensing”, “Cartography”, “Pantanal Geotechnologies”, “GPS”, and “GNSS”. These terms were searched as part of the name of the research group, the line of research, or as keywords in the line of research. The survey showed that there are a considerable number of research groups using Geotechnologies, both in research and in teaching institutions of the region, across different areas of knowledge. From the 117 research groups of the Midwest region of Brazil registered at CNPq, 49 reported working in Remote Sensing, 48 in Geoprocessing, 33 in Cartography, 28 in Geotechnologies, two in Pantanal Geotechnologies, six in GPS, and one in GNSS. With respect to the areas of knowledge, 22% are from Engineering disciplines (Sanitary, Forestry, Agricultural, and Civil), 19% are from Geography, and 14% from Agronomy, while the other areas of knowledge represent 1–5% of the remaining groups. Further, it was found that that 6 of 15 institutions in the region host 78% of the research groups.
Highlights
Scientometry is known as the quantitative study of scientific production, which allows a better understanding of the nature and outreach of research activities carried out in different areas of knowledge and countries, as well as by different institutions and researchers
The term Geotechnologies has become to be used at the beginning of 2000’s and according to Tommaselli (2016) the utilization of the geotechnologies by the mankind may be related to the human history itself, because since its beginning, man needed to know his position in the environment and many times needed to materialize this positioning
The following search terms were used for this purpose: geotechnologies, geoprocessing, remote sensing, cartography, GPS, and GNSS
Summary
Scientometry is known as the quantitative study of scientific production, which allows a better understanding of the nature and outreach of research activities carried out in different areas of knowledge and countries, as well as by different institutions and researchers. The term Geotechnologies has become to be used at the beginning of 2000’s and according to Tommaselli (2016) the utilization of the geotechnologies by the mankind may be related to the human history itself, because since its beginning, man needed to know his position in the environment and many times needed to materialize this positioning. In this context, the term Geotechnologies has been used in the well concepted British Magazine, Nature (Gewin, 2004), where it has been affirmed that, at that moment, the geotechnologies were one of the three areas of the human knowledge with more growing. This proposition from Gewin (2004) about a world demand on professional with know how to deal with satellite images and geographic data is still current
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