GIS Research Community
The GIS Research Community
GIS Research Centers
- NCGIA (UC Santa Barbara, SUNY Buffalo, UMaine)
- Center for Mapping (OSU)
- Alexandria (UCSB and partners)
- Many regional and local labs
- Europe: GISDATA and SpaceNet
- Australia: CSIRO
GIS Education
- Degree programs in geography and engineering
- NCGIA GIS Core Curriculum
- TU Vienna: Post-graduate curriculum
GIS Journals
- International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
- Cartography and GIS
- URISA Journal
- Transactions in GIS
- Geo-Informatica
- Geographical Systems
GIS Books
- "Big Book," Maguire, Goodchild, and Rhind
- Laurini and Thompson
- Estes and Star (Remote sensing and GIS)
- Mike Worboys (1996)
- Peter Burrough (1986)
Major GIS Conferences
- Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH). Bi-annual, next meeting in
Delft, The Netherlands, August 1996.
- Large Spatial Databases (SSD). Bi-annual, next meeting in Berlin, Germany,
June 1997.
- Autocarto. Bi-annual, next meeting in Seattle, WA, March 1997.
- GIS/LIS, biggest GIS conference, trade show, next meeting in Denver,
November 1996.
- GIS '9x, the annual GIS conference in Canada.
- EGIS (European GIS conference), trade show, next meeting Spring 1997.
- Many specialized GIS conferences (AM/FM, URISA, transportation, water,
ecology, etc.).
- Workshops (e.g., NCGIA Specialist Meetings, next October 1996, on "Naive
Geography").
GIS Industry
- The big players (ESRI and Intergraph)
- Other major GIS vendors: Smallworld, MapInfo.
- Many other companies (software and data producers)
- The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) (http://www.ogis.org)
Funding for GIS Research?
- National Science Foundation (NSF), Geography and Regional Science. See
also 5-year plan of GEO directorate.
- NASA (EOSDIS)
- Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
- Defense Mapping Agency (DMA)
- Other defense and intelligence agencies
University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
- A non-profit organization of dedicated to advancing our understanding
of geographic processes and spatial relationships through improved theory,
methods, technology, and data.
- Open to U.S. universities and U.S. organizations with a substantial
strength in Geographic Information Science
- Currently 29 member institutions
- Will maintain a national research agenda (Annual Assembly in Columbus,
OH, June 1996).
- http://www.ucgis.org
[ Title | Introduction
| Geographic Information Science | Cognitive
Foundations | Formal Models and Computational
Implementation ]
Last updated on June 5, 1996.
[ Max J. Egenhofer |
NCGIA Maine |
Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering ]