Dr. Michael Goodchild held the Jack and Laura Dangermond Chair of Geography. He was the Director of UCSB’s Center for Spatial Studies. His research and teaching interests focus on issues in Geographic Information Science, including uncertainty in geographic information, discrete global grids, and Volunteered Geographic Information. He directed or co-directed several large funded projects, including the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, the Alexandria Digital Library, and the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science. He was elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2002, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2010.
Abstract: Emergency response is often discussed in terms of four stages, from preparedness to mitigation. At each stage the geospatial dimensions are critical and raise issues of geospatial data sharing, GIS, uncertainty, and privacy. Today many of these issues can be addressed through high-performance computing and Artificial Intelligence. This webinar will discuss issues of governance, response times, access to proprietary data, wearable technology, and resilient communications.
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