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The advancement of geospatial technology leading to the automation and user-friendly analysis to make spatial research faster, easier and in a more accurate manner. Further, the availability of high-resolution satellite data has marked a significant tied with global information system which is a key element of geoinformatics. S.W.Aleksandrowicz (2001), a geologists, considers ‘geoinformatics’ to be a good field for the specialists engaged in mutually dependent and complementary disciplines in a collaborative way for multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary research. According to him, Geoinformatics can be understood as the union of informatics and the earth sciences from a semantic point of view. In this edited volume of Geoinformatics in Research and Development the emphasis has been given on the methodology of environmental data collection using indigenous, cost-effective and user-friendly tools through satellite-based navigation system, application of geospatial technology in physical-social-cultural research for humanitarian and societal development