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请翻译如下句子为中文: The term geomatics emerged first in Canada and as an academic discipline; it has been introduced worldwide in a number of institutes of higher education during the past few years, mostly by renaming what was previously called “geodesy” or “surveying” , and by adding a number of computer science- and /or GIS-oriented courses.