converting information into a digital format In this format, information is organized into discrete units of data called bit Digitization So in digitization basically is the representing an image, an analog signal or an object, as a series of integers. The digital representations are discrete and digitization can only approximately represent a signal but without any loss of information. Advantages Digitization offers the following potential benefits to organizations: The ability for more than one person to access images at once: The potential reduction in physical storage space: Advantages Digitizing map can be used for area division and planning Digitizing map can be used to compile other map Digitizing map can be also used for comprehensive evaluation e.g. land quality evalution,envirmental evaluation and agricultural natural condition evaluation Advantages Digitizing map can be used to study the dynamic change of various phenomena