Role and Importance of Field Study in Geographical Research

Geography as an integrating discipline and as a science of spatial attributes has undergone changes in its approach. Basically, geography is considered as an empirical science and most of the data used by geographers are, therefore, empirical. The most common sources of data in geography, therefore, are field studies. The relief data is obtained through various types of surveys. There are several techniques of field study and surveying which provide information such as location and altitude of various places and their space relations. Information obtained through these studies is presented in the form of maps—topographical, geological and other types of maps.