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• Research Initiatives
• NCGIA Personnel
• Chair of the Executive Committee - Michael F. Goodchild
• Director, NCGIA Santa Barbara - Keith C. Clarke
• Director, NCGIA Buffalo - David M. Mark
• Director, NCGIA Maine - Max J. Egenhofer
• Santa Barbara Faculty & Staff
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Products

• NCGIA Publications
• Full Publications List
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• NCGIA Technical Paper Series
• Other NCGIA Publications
• NCGIA Software
• Order Form (pdf file)
• NCGIA Digital Products
• Fundamental Research in Geographic Information & Analysis
• Proceedings of the Third International Conference/Workshop on Integrating GIS & Environmental Modeling
• Spherekit
• Public Domain Data
• The Global Demography Project
• Managed Areas Database in the US
• Snow's Cholera Map
• Core Curricula
• Books from NCGIA Initiatives & Conferences

Education

• Projects
• Core Curriculum Projects
• The GIS Core Curriculum for Technical Programs
• The NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience (current version)
• The NCGIA Core Curriculum in GISystems (1990 version)
• Remote Sensing Core Curriculum
• Community College GIS
• K-12 GIS, Secondary Education Project
• GIS Education Conferences & Meetings
• International IT Conference on Geo-Spatial Education
• First International Conference on GIS Education - GISED '98
• GIS Education: A European Perspective - EUGISES '98
• Third International Symposium on GIS in Higher Education
• Second International Symposium on GIS in Higher Education
• 1996 California GIS Educators' Symposium
• Research Issues for K-12 GIS Education - EDGIS96
• First National Science Foundation-European Science Foundation Young Scholars Institute
• Interoperability for GIScience Education
• Materials
• University Level Materials
• K-12 Level Materials

Meetings

• 2007
  • Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems Meeting

• 2006
  • Digital Gazetteer Research and Practice Meeting

• 2004
  • GIScience 2004
• 2002
  • GIScience 2002
  • Spatial Data Analysis Software Tools Specialist Meeting
• 2001
  • Workshop in Landscape Change
  • Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 2001
  • COSIT '01
• 2000
• International Conference on Discrete Global Grids
• Fourth International Conference on Integrating GIS & Environmental Modeling
• GIScience 2000
• Varenius Workshops & Meetings
• Varenius Then & Now: From Geographia Generalis to Geographic Information Science - Varenius 2000
• Related Meetings Partially Sponsored or Supported by NCGIA
• International IT Conference on Geo-Spatial Education
• Fourth International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences - Accuracy 2000
• Ninth International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling - SDH 2000
• 1999
• University of California GIS Meeting
• Varenius Workshops & Meetings
• Transition from Childhood to the Workforce
• Discovering Geographic Knowledge in Data-Rich Environments
• Multiple Modalities & Multiple Frames of Reference for Spatial Knowledge
• Related Meetings Partially Sponsored or Supported by NCGIA
• Second International Conference on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems - Interop '99
• International Conference on Geographic Information & Society - GISOC '99
• Sixth International Symposium on Spatial Databases - SSD '99
• Conference on Spatial Information Theory - COSIT '99
• 1998
• Workshop on Status & Trends in Spatial Analysis
• Workshop on "Introduction to GIS for Public Health"
• Interoperability for GIScience Education
• Varenius Workshops & Meetings
• Measuring & Representing Accessibility in the Information Age
• Cognitive Models of Dynamic Geographic Phenomena & Representations
• Empowerment, Marginalization & Public Participation GIS
• Place & Identity in an Age of Technologically Regulated Movement
• Ontology of Fields
• Scale & Detail in the Cognition of Geographic Information
• Related Meetings Partially Sponsored or Supported by NCGIA
• Groupware for Urban Planning Workshop
• Third International Symposium on Spatial Accuarcy Assessment in Natural Resourse & Environmental Sciences
• International Conference & Exhibition on Geographic Information - GIS PlaNET '98
• First International Conference on GIS Education - GISED '98
• 1997
• International Conference & Workshop on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems - Interop '97
• Third International Symposium on GIS in Higher Education - GISHE '97
• Geographic Information Systems & Political Redistricting
• The Land Use Modeling Workshop
• Workshop on Geographies of the Information Society
• Conferences organized by NCGIA Maine
• 1996
• Deploying ITS Map Database Interoperability Standards
• Initiative 21: Formal Models of Common Sense Geographic Worlds
• Spatial Technologies, Geographic Information & the City
• Second International Symposium on GIS in Higher Education
• 1996 California GIS Educators' Symposium
• International Young Scholars Summer Institute in Geographic Information
• Conference on Object Orientation in Navigable Databases
• Third International Conference on Integrating GIS & Environmental Modeling
• 1995
• Fourth International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases - SSD '95
• ESF Summer Institute

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Major Research Projects

• Varenius
• Varenius 2000
• Project Description
• NSF Proposal
• Personnel
• Executive Committee
• Advisory Board
• Research Area Panels
• Meetings
• Varenius Then & Now: From Geographia Generalis to Geographic Information Science
• Discovering Geographic Knowledge in Data-Rich Environments
• Multiple Modalities & Multiple Frames of Reference for Spatial Knowledge
• Measuring & Representing Accessibility in the Information Age
• Cognitive Models of Dynamic Geographic Phenomena & Representations
• Empowerment, Marginalization & Public Participation GIS
• Place & Identity in an Age of Technologically Regulated Movement
• Ontology of Fields
• Scale & Detail in the Cognition of Geographic Information
• International Conference & Workshop on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems
• Publications
• Bernhard Varenius

• Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (CSISS)
• Project Mission
• Project Description (153 KB pdf file)
• NSF Award Abstract
• Personnel

• Gigalopolis Project
• NCRST
• Vital Project

Affiliated Projects

• Project Alexandria
• SPHEREKIT: The Spatial Interpolation Tool
• Geoweb
• Human Capital Report
• National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis
• The Global Demography Project
• Spatial Evacuation Analysis Project
• Modeling Elevation Uncertainty Using Stochastic Simulation"
• Moving Maps Displays for Aeronautical Charts
• Encapsulating Simulation Models with Geospatial Datasets
• The Influence of Data Aggregation on the Stability of Location Model Solutions
• A Non Planar, Lane-Based Navigable Data Model for Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Uncertainty in Geospatial Information Representation, Analysis, & Decision Support