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SPATIAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE:
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Creating a better world

We see the world differently: we view it through a spatial lens and use “where” to help address global challenges. As the hub of spatial thinking and analysis at USC, we partner with researchers, businesses, non-profits, NGOs, and other entities to analyze, model, and visualize location-based data. Our internationally-recognized faculty contribute to the rapidly-evolving body of geospatial knowledge. Through our innovative academic programs, we develop the next generation of spatial thinkers, empowering them with capabilities to solve real-world issues.

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90,000 Trees For LA

SSI's John Wilson leads the USC Urban Trees Initiative

Spatial sciences student maps

New York City’s successful move to outdoor dining

Geolocating Fossils

SSI’s Kristiane Hill revolutionizes fossil recovery at the La Brea Tar Pits

Using Drones to Improve Wildfire Response

SSI’s Jason Knowles leads innovations in use of UAS imagery

Creating an Urban Forest in LA’s Eastside

SSI is USC’s project lead in Green New Deal partnership

Mapping for Humanitarian Causes

SSI students participate in annual mapathon for HOTOSM

More LA County residents are hungry during the pandemic

SSI researchers contribute to ongoing study

John Wilson & Kenan Li named COVID-19 Geospatial Fellows

NSF consortium program supports pandemic research and education

USGIF’s 2020 GEOINTegration Summit

SSI Faculty and Students contribute to the analysis of GEOINT’s Renaissance

Continuing a Lifetime of Service

Steven D. Fleming receives the USGIF Distinguished Academic Service Award

SSI researchers study COVID-19 food insecurity

8% of LA residents struggling to afford food

USC Awarded Designation

as an Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence

A Dual Career in Music

Makes USC’s Robert Vos a Better Professor

CONGRATS to the ’20-’21 Geodesign Fellows

SSI’s Robert Vos wins

2019 Case Studies in the Environment Prize Competition

SSI Launches

B.S. in Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence

Real-Life Problem Solving

M.S. HSGI Students Publish Article on Capstone Project Findings

On the World GEOINT Stage

Steve Fleming speaks at the 2020 Defence Geospatial Intelligence Conference

Three Cheers for the Top Three GIST Theses

USC Spatial announces the 2020 M.S. in GIST Thesis Prize Winners

Calculating the Water It Takes to Make Blue Jeans

SSI’s Robert Vos uses spatial analysis to reduce water impact

MS GIST Alumna Sarah Rosenthal

uses GIS to hear the ocean

SSI Faculty Contribute to Award-Winning NGA and DoD Work

GRiD Program receives a 2020 USGIF Achievement Award

On Becoming – and Being – a GeoDesign Major

Senior Courtney Fassett reflects on her USC experience with SSI

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