digitizer
Water
Device that converts analog information into a digital format; for flat graphic material, such as maps, a digitizer can either be flatbed or scanning.
GIS
- A device that consists of a table and a cursor with crosshairs and keys used to digitize geographic features.
- Title of the person who uses a digitizing device.
- — GIS Glossary retrieved 2014-05-27
Telecommunications
A device that converts an analog signal into a digital representation of the analog signal. Note: A digitizer usually samples the analog signal at a constant sampling rate and encodes each sample into a numeric representation of the amplitude value of the sample. 2. A device that converts the position of a point on a surface into digital coordinate data.