Geomatics department provides three major research areas: Satellite Positioning & Geodesy, Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry, Geospatial Information Science. The most representative example for each of these areas are: Global Positioning System (GPS), Remote Sensing, (RS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and therefore, abbreviated to 3S (GPS, RS, GIS). The relative disciplines and applications include:

• Satellite Navigation
• Geodesy
• Global Positioning System
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems
• Surveying Engineering
• Navigation
• Remote Sensing
• Aerial and Close-range Photogrammetry
• Aerial and Ground-based LiDAR
• Cartography
• Cyber City
• Geographical Information Systems
• Geospatial Information Science
• Computer Graphics
• Earth Science
• Environmental Science