摘要：Remote sensing image analysis Systems and geographie in
formation Systems (GIS) show great promise for the Integra
tion of a wide variety of spatial information as a support to en
vironmental monitoring and managementtasks. Current and
future remote sensing programs are based on a variety of
sensors that will provide timely and repetitive multisensor
earth Observation data on a global scale. GIS offer efficient
tools for handling, manipulating, analyzing and presenting
spatial data that are required for environmental ly sound deci
sion making. To combine the power of both spatial techno
logies, however, efficient synergistic processing techniques
have to be developed to cope with large multisensor image
datasets and to automatically extract information for environ
mental GIS applications. These efforts have to be put in a
broader perspective of an evolving discipline Geoinformatics
as one component of a new and innovative interdisciplinary
approach for academic education. One example of this
approach is the new academic program
Environmental Sciences at the University of Vechta.
