Non-governmental food security organizations provide important services in the global south. In Johannesburg, they operate a range of services, including urban agriculture, food redistribution, and basic-need programs. SSI lecturer Dr. Daniel Warshawsky has studied these organizations in detail, including significant field work. His most recent research paper has just been published in The Professional Geographer: Measuring the…
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Unlocking Old Maps with New Technology
GIS practitioners have long dreaded the process of digitizing older maps or even raster (pixel-based) digital datasets to a vector format where they can be more easily analyzed. It is time-consuming and, frankly, boring. Assistant Professor (Research) Yao-Yi Chiang’s research provides a solution. Like optical character recognition for maps, Chiang’s “Strabo” software extracts meaningful lines…
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SSI Delegation Attends International Online GIS Education Meeting
The Spatial Science Institute’s vibrant online M.S. in Geographic Information Science and Technology has a secret resource to ensure that the curriculum prepares students for the job market. That resource is USC’s 15 year history of engagement with UNIGIS, an international consortium of universities offering online education in geographic information science and pursuing geospatial research.…
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A Bird’s Eye View
Students from USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI) launch an aerial camera attached to a helium-filled weather balloon to photograph the USC University Park campus and raise awareness about the institute’s new undergraduate degree in GeoDesign. By Susan Bell [clear] The passing troupe of blue-uniformed grade school children on a visit to University Park campus…
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