AI, advanced rendering, and unprecedented compute capabilities are redefining GIS and the broader disciplines encompassing geoinformatics. Government agencies, corporations and academic researchers can power through massive amounts of data to gain fundamental insights into the structure and character of spatial information including its capture, classification and quantification, storage, processing, portrayal and dissemination; including the infrastructure necessary to ensure optimal use of this information
From urban planning and land use management, virtual globes, public health, environmental modeling and analysis, defense mapping and logistics, transportation network planning management, agriculture, meteorology and climate change or business location planning (among others), GIS and geoinformatics are fundamentally transforming the way societal infrastructure is developed and deployed.