Observation as a source of geographic knowledge

Abstract

The most usual sources of the geographical knowledge tend be the Observation, Geographical Surveys, Spatial Analysis and Terrestrial Space or Real Space Interpretation. Here it is understood that the observation, according to the current senior approaches that use geographers, relates to the visual examination of objects, areas and spatial systems of the land surface and is sought to draw a way that make to emerge the properties of observation as source of the geographical knowledge. For case, are explored several observation forms linked to the terrestrial space notions, that geographers are reducing to geographical space and some, more accostum, they conceive as the organized space an the spatial organization. With respect to the various meanings for terrestrial space from geographical point of view, contribution lets in clear paper of the Geographer as ‘observer’, the land inhabited by human beings as ‘object’ of knowledge, and, wisely, the ‘observation’ as logic connection between the observer and what is observed.