Relationship between Systems Engineering and Geospatial/Geodetic Engineering

Geospatial Aspects in INCOSE's Cross-Cutting Systems Engineering Methods and Specialty Engineering Activities

Systems Engineering and “architecture definition activities include optimization to obtain a balance among architectural characteristics and acceptable risks. Certain analyses such as performance, efficiency, maintainability, and cost are required to get sufficient data that characterize the global or detailed behavior of the candidate architectures with respect to the stakeholder and system requirements” (INCOSE 2015). Looking at the dedicated Specialty Engineering activities from (INCOSE 2015) and at the plethora of geodetic and geospatial technologies and services available, at least the following Specialty Engineering activities can benefit in particular from Geospatial Engineering activities or need to include respective geospatial considerations.

Environmental Engineering/Impact Analysis

Interoperability Analysis

Logistics Engineering

Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability

Resilience Engineering

System Safety Engineering

Usability Analysis/Human Systems Integration

INCOSE (2015) also lists so called Cross-Cutting Systems Engineering Methods, including Modeling and Simulation, which are also heavily related to geospatial and GIS technology. The next section will shed more light on potential geospatial contributions to these dedicated activities.