To maintain its prominence, realize its potential, and fulfill its mission to develop and distribute these national data assets in a fast-moving information technology environment, USGS needs a coordinated geographic information science (GIScience) research presence that provides the scientific underpinning for these operations and exerts leadership in research that is critical to serving USGS’s unique role. USGS founded its Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS) in 2006 to perform this task.
Given CEGIS’s size and resources, it needs focus among the huge list of possible research topics encompassed by its mission. Consequently, USGS asked the National Research Council’s Mapping Science Committee to convene a study panel charged to
- Identify current and future USGS needs for GIScience capabilities;
- Assess current capabilities in GIScience research at the USGS and recommend strategies for strengthening these capabilities and for collaborating with others to maximize research productivity
- Using knowledge of the current state of the art in GIScience, make recommendations regarding the most effective research areas for CEGIS to pursue.
A special committee was formed for this and over a course of 11 months, the committee met three times and received input from many. This report is the result of the recommendations made by the committee at various workshop and public committee meetings held as part of this study. The review of this report was overseen by Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara.
You can read the report online or download it for free at the following link
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