====== Processing ====== All the operations that a computer can perform on digital data or images. Data processing is an important step in the geographic information processing chain (acquisition, transformation, visualization, diffusion). The purpose of the processing operation is to transform or adapt the information before it is viewed or diffused. In Geomatics and GIS, the term Geoprocessing is currently used. \\ [[glossaire:Traitement|[French: Traitement]]]