TO REGISTER PLEASE CLICK HERE! This full-day event will include a variety of presentations and panels involving GIS faculty, students and practitioners from around the LA Metropolitan Area and provide many opportunities for networking. Date: February 8, 2013 8:30-5:45 p.m. Location: JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM 100 North Central Avenue Los Angeles, CA 9001 Registration Fee: Students-…
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Geo-Everything is Everywhere
Karen Kemp Mobile apps, geosocial networking, geo- tagging and location-based services are all parts of the geospatial revolution now spreading throughout our society. Thanks in large part to Google Maps, Bing Maps and similar popular Internet technologies; everyone is becoming geo-enabled. At LeWeb Conference in Paris in December 2011, Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President of…
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SSI Attends UNIGIS 2012 International Network Conference in Salzburg, Austria
The UNIGIS 2012 Annual Business Meeting was held last week (October 24-28) in Salzburg, Austria and featured more than 30 representatives from partnering Universities and study centers worldwide, including a delegation from USC Spatial Sciences Institute. Attendees spent three days discussing strategies to advance Geoinformatics in the following core areas: distance learning opportunities, geospatial software interoperability, industry…
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GIS Enhances Research on Medieval Japanese History
USC history Ph.D. candidate Michelle Damian added GIS skills to her research toolbox through SSI’s introductory course. She then found herself using these tools while on a Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship in Japan and shared these thoughts. My project focuses on the maritime cultural landscape of Japan’s medieval (14th – 16th centuries) Seto Inland Sea area, examining how people…
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