Michael Goodchild

Professor, Department of Geography

University of California, Santa Barbara

"Geospatial Tools in the Humanities”


Thursday, May 8, 2008 • 5:00 p.m.

The Green Room, 1261 Bunche Hall
Reception starts at 4:30 p.m.


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A series of new tools, including geographic information systems, the Global Positioning System, satellite remote sensing, and geobrowsers such as Google Earth have begun to influence work in the humanities. It is now much easier to handle geographic referents such as place names, easier to create, share, and analyze maps, and easier to synthesize geographic information from distributed and often voluntary sources.  Dr. Goodchild will review this domain, using examples to show the kinds of advances that are being made. Spatial perspectives can provide startling insights, and there is growing interest in the fundamental concepts that underlie this form of intelligence.

Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also serves as Chair of the Executive Committee for the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), and Director of NCGIA’s Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Educator of the Year Award from the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Intergraph Award and the Horwood Critique Prize of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association. Please join us for this exciting event!

Seating is limited, please RSVP.

The Green Room is located at 1261 Bunche Hall, Portola Plaza, in the northeast portion of the Westwood campus.  Public parking is available in Lot 3 for $8.00.  We suggest you enter the campus at Wyton Drive and Hilgard Avenue and proceed to the Parking Information kiosk to purchase parking.

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