Annals of Geomatics, a peer-reviewed quarterly journal founded in 2003, is published by the Polish Association for Spatial Information (PASI). It publishes papers on closely related fields of geomatics, geospatial technology, and geoinformation science, presenting advances in methodology and technology of gathering, storing, processing, delivering, managing, and using geospatial information. As such it covers selected topics of information and communication technology, remote sensing and artificial intelligence.
The journal is multidisciplinary and its thematic scope includes technological, semantic, legal, organizational and economic aspects of geospatial information of interest in various disciplines of Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Medical and Health Sciences, Agriculture Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, such as for instance:
- Geography,
- Cartography,
- Geodesy,
- Geology,
- Photogrammetry and remote sensing
- Forestry
- Environmental sciences,
- Public administration,
- Land management,
- Disaster management,
- Security and defence
One of the key issues is methodology and technology of spatial information systems and infrastructures.
Annals of Geomatics is a print journal available also in its electronic version as an open access journal under the Creative Commons Attribution License, version 3.0 Unported in 2014-2019 and version 4.0 since 2020. They require users of the published materials to attribute the authors and the Polish Association for Spatial Information as owners of the rights to these materials. The details of the relevant license conditions are available on the Creative Commons website.
In order to achieve the long term preservation of the published digital materials, their copies are safely stored. The printed versions are delivered to the most important libraries in the country.