Join Drs. Alan MacEachren, Alex Klippel and Krzysztof Janowicz of Penn State’s GeoVISTA Center as they discuss cutting-edge research across the breadth of GIScience. The research projects presented in this webinar have real-world ramifications for GIS practitioners whose work involves synthesizing large quantities of data and presenting information in a useful form.
Alan MacEachren will provide an outline of recent and current research at GeoVISTA, covering a broad domain of spatial cognition. He will highlight specific geovisualization and visual analytics projects with applications in public health and crisis management.
Alex Klippel will address the central role that human factors play in the development of spatial information theories and geospatial technologies. Increased multidisciplinary knowledge about human factors allows for improving the design of geospatial tools; in return, both the theoretical and technical contributions that GIScience offer open access to resources of the information society and allow spatial information to be rendered precisely.
Krzysztof Janowicz will highlight ongoing research on sensor networks, mobile computing and the Semantic Geospatial Web. Information from government agencies from different countries, data collected by companies and volunteers, and especially the increasing amount of information from mobile devices such as smartphones needs to be integrated on-the-fly to answer complex scientific, economic and social questions, and the combination of this heterogeneous information requires their semantic integration.
During this webinar, you will learn:
* How academic research in geovisualization and visual analytics is applied in public health and crisis management
* How human factors, such as spatial thinking and cognition, impact the design and development of GIS tools
* How research in the Semantic Geospatial Web, sensor networks, and mobile computing will advance the integration of information
Who Should Attend
This webinar is appropriate for anyone interested in how GIScience research affects the geospatial technology of the near future.
Ed. Note: This is the third in a series of six webinars sponsored by Penn State University that are part of the Inside Geospatial Education and Research Series.
You may apply attendance at most Directions Media webinars to GISCI's GISP EDU-3 Educational Achievement Points Schedule.
You may apply attendance at most Directions Media webinars to GISCI's GISP EDU-3 Educational Achievement Points Schedule.