近年来，嵌入式应用技术蓬勃发展，市场迅猛扩大，产品已经深入到工业生产和人们生活的各个角落，制造工业，过程控制，通讯，汽车，船舶，航空，航天，军事装备，消费类产品等都已成为嵌入式计算机的应用领域，给微型嵌入式GIS软件的研究与发展提供了良好的机遇，本文从技术发展背景，含义及特点，应用发展前景，国内外发展动态，我国微型嵌入式GIS软件平台发展的重要意义以及发展微型嵌入式GIS软件平台的技术探讨与建议等几方面对微型嵌入式GIS软件平台进行了详细的论述。

Applied embedded techniques grow rapidly in recent years and the relative products can be found anywhere. Embedded computers have been applied in many fields of manufacturing, such as process control, communication, automobile, watercraft, aviation, spaceflight, military equipment and consuming products, etc. It provides us a good chance for the development of micro-embedded GIS software. In this paper, we have made a detailed discussion on the background of techniques and characteristics, perspective of applied development, and state of the art of micro-embedded GIS software. The significance of developing our embedded GIS software and techniques with independent copyrights is also discussed and some suggestions for the development of embedded GIS software are presented.