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Geographic Information Science

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Geographic Information Science (GIScience) is a vibrant research field of multidisciplinary research and applications.

Work in GIScience seeks to redefine geographic concepts and their use in the context of geographic information systems (GIS). GIScience draws from and overlaps with more specialized research fields such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, and psychology, while it also contributes to further developments in those fields.

GIScience research in the geography department at UGA includes a wide range of work on remote sensing, cartographic visualization, urban and resource modeling, and qualitative GIS. In addition, the faculty employs or develops state of the art GIS, remote sensing, and geocomputation techniques to explore various geospatial systems in order to advance our understanding of the real-world complexities.

The department has superb computing facilities for GIScience research and instruction. It also hosts the Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping which undertakes interdisciplinary research projects. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of GIScience, the department has strong collaborative ties across and beyond campus. The university is a long-standing member of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS).

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Research Interests: GIScience and Landscape Ecology, including remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), spatio-temporal analysis, geovisualization and geographic object-based image analysis, as applied to landscape-scale biological/physical processes and human/animal-impacts on the environment.

Science Advisor for NASA…

 

Spatially Explicit Machine Learning Geographic Question Answering Computational Sustainability Knowledge Graph/Representation Ontology Engineering Nature Language Processing Geographic Information Retrieval Machine Learning/Deep Learning GIScience Spatial Data Mining Social Sensing and Urban Analytics Spatial Statistic/Analysis

 

Geographic Information Science (GIScience) GIScience for Health and Environment Geospatial Analysis for SoDH, Health Access and Disparity Geovisualization and Cartography Environmental Planning Problem Solving with Geospatial Methods (computational geometry, geostatistics, ABM, GeoAI, etc.)

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