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*Penn State's Inside Geospatial Education and Research Series:
**Research Innovations at Penn State’s GeoVISTA Center
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Join Drs. Alan MacEachren, Alex Klippel and Krzysztof Janowicz of *Penn
State’s GeoVISTA Center *as they discuss cutting-edge research across the
breadth of GIScience. The research projects presented in this webinar have
real-world ramifications for GIS practitioners whose work involves
synthesizing large quantities of data and presenting information in a useful
form.

Alan MacEachren will provide an outline of recent and current research at
GeoVISTA, covering a broad domain of spatial cognition. He will highlight
specific geovisualization and visual analytics projects with applications in
public health and crisis management.

Alex Klippel will address the central role that human factors play in the
development of spatial information theories and geospatial technologies.
Increased multidisciplinary knowledge about human factors allows for
improving the design of geospatial tools. In return, both the theoretical
and technical contributions that GIScience offers open access to resources
of the information society and allow spatial information to be rendered
precisely.

Krzysztof Janowicz will highlight ongoing research on sensor networks,
mobile computing and the Semantic Geospatial Web. Information from
government agencies from different countries, data collected by companies
and volunteers, and especially the increasing amount of information from
mobile devices such as smartphones needs to be integrated on-the-fly to
answer complex scientific, economic and social questions, and the
combination of this heterogeneous information requires its semantic
integration.

During this webinar, you will learn:

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   How academic research in geovisualization and visual analytics is applied
   in public health and crisis management
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   How human factors, such as spatial thinking and cognition, impact the
   design and development of GIS tools
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   How research in the Semantic Geospatial Web, sensor networks, and mobile
   computing will advance the integration of information

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*Who Should Attend
*This webinar is appropriate for anyone interested in how GIScience research
affects the geospatial technology of the near future.

*Ed. Note: *This is the third in a series of six webinars sponsored by Penn
State University that are part of the *Inside Geospatial Education and
Research Series*.

*You may apply attendance at most Directions Media webinars to GISCI's GISP
EDU-3 Educational Achievement Points Schedule.*

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When:

Tuesday,
March 22, 2011

2-3 pm Eastern
1-2 pm Central
noon-1 pm Mountain
11 am-noon Pacific
Moderated by:

Nora Parker
Senior Managing Editor
Directions Media

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