Transform geospatial software contributed by communities into open software for geospatial big data

Establish best practices for computational reproducibility in computation- and/or data-intensive scientific research and education that are dependent on geospatial software

Advance high-performance geospatial software while making synergistic contributions to the National Strategic Computing Initiative

Goal

Conceptualize GSI as a long-term hub of excellence in geospatial software to serve diverse research and education communities

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Blog Posts

Software Support for Socio-Environmental Synthesis

(reposted from URSSI blog) What do sociologists, ecologists, economists, engineers, anthropologists, geographers, hydrologists, evolutionary biologists, and environmental scientists all have in common? Software! Science at the intersection of humans and the environment increasingly requires collaborative, interdisciplinary work among researchers with varied computing backgrounds to gather insights from highly diverse data at multiple scales. Reliable software […]

Conceptualizing a national geospatial software institute to unleash the power of geospatial data and sciences

Numerous fields are increasingly dependent on geospatial software that is defined to transform geospatial data (i.e. data with geo and/or spatial references) into geospatial information, knowledge, and intelligence. The growing benefits and importance of geospatial software to science and engineering is driven by tremendous needs in these fields such as agriculture, ecology, emergency management, environmental […]

Workshops

Workshop 1: GSI vision

Date: January 28-30, 2018
Location: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Workshop 2: GSI Use Cases and Core Capabilities

Date: July 15-17, 2018
Location: Chicago, IL

Workshop 3: GSI Strategic Plan and Roadmap

Date: July 14-16, 2019
Location: Annapolis, MD

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Contact

CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies
Room 1062, Natural History Building
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1301 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

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Geospatial Software Institute (GSI)

Towards a National Geospatial Software Ecosystem