The growth of remote Sensing and GIS in industry saw its inception around two decades ago. A broad chronology of the movement of this emerging science field may be visualized in four phases. At all phases the movement remained development in academia as well as industry anyone following the other.

The first is introduction and application of GIS in few researches in multiple academic disciplines/professional courses as Forestry (green cover estimation), Geology (mineral maps), Agriculture (crop disease estimation), Civil engineering, etc.

The second stage is the utilization of Remote Sensing and GIS techniques in various projects on disaster management, urban planning, etc. of which digital spatial database development was apart.

The third stage, roughly six years old, is the one when Indian ITES/BPO industry came up on strong footing. This was together with the growth of country’s IT industry.

The fourth phase, the contemporary phase, as we call it, is the one when companies entered in the business of customization and development.