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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">Dear colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">Geospatial software has been widely developed and used by numerous communities to transform data with geo and spatial references into valuable insights and significant scientific
knowledge. The growing benefits and importance of geospatial software to science and engineering is driven by tremendous needs in numerous fields such as agriculture, ecology, emergency management, environmental engineering and sciences, geography and spatial
sciences, geosciences, national security, public health, and social sciences, to name just a few, and is reflected by a massive digital geospatial industry.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">The National Science Foundation has recently funded a project (<a href="http://gsi.cigi.illinois.edu/">http://gsi.cigi.illinois.edu</a>) to conceptualize a Geospatial Software Institute
(GSI) as a long-term hub of excellence in software infrastructure that can serve diverse research and education communities. Specifically, broad community inputs are sought to help design the GSI for: 1) transforming geospatial software contributed by communities
into open software for geospatial big data; 2) establishing best practices for computational reproducibility in computation- and/or data-intensive scientific research and education that are dependent on geospatial software; and 3) advancing high-performance
geospatial software while making synergistic contributions to the National Strategic Computing Initiative. This survey aims to gain in-depth understanding of geospatial software challenges and opportunities with regard to requirements for the GSI by various
science communities, and should take about 15 minutes. Your participation by <b>
January 25, 2018</b> would be greatly appreciated.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">To access the survey, please click on the link below:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif"><a href="https://illinoislas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_00YwbyCv2T5aUUl">https://illinoislas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_00YwbyCv2T5aUUl</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">- NSF GSI Survey Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">William Barley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) (Co-Chair)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">Shaowen Wang, UIUC (Co-Chair)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">Donna Cox, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), UIUC
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">Michael F. Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">Daniel S. Katz, NCSA, UIUC
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">Paul Morin, University of Minnesota
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">Anand Padmanabhan, UIUC</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif">Margaret Palmer, University of Maryland
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier",serif">Thanks & best, </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier",serif">-Shaowen</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif;color:black">Shaowen Wang</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif;color:black"> Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif;color:black"> CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif;color:black"> CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information Laboratory</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif;color:black">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif;color:black">Room 2046, Natural History Building, 1301 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif;color:black">Email: shaowen@illinois.edu; Web: <a href="https://www.geog.illinois.edu">https://www.geog.illinois.edu</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier",serif;color:black">Office: +1 (217) 3337608; Skype & Twitter: swuiuc</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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