Monday, November 29, 2010

From Community Mapping to Critical Spatial Thinking



Director of the University of California, Santa Barbara's Center for Spatial Studies Michael Goodchild discusses "From Community Mapping to Critical Spatial Thinking: The Changing Face of GIS (geographic information systems)" in this National Science Foundation Distinguished Lecture. He discusses how individuals are using distributed, real-time data enabled by social networks to define landscapes that have been suddenly altered by floods, hurricanes and other acts of nature.


Source: National Science Foundation

1 comment:

Ramze Elzahrany رمزي الزهراني said...

It is great. I highly have enjoyed the lecture. Thank you.