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SSI’s Yao-Yi Chiang leads publication of new book Since the early 1980s, the computer science and geographic information science (GIS) communities have intersected in their interest in digital map processing. Through the technological advances in digital map processing, researchers across multiple scientific domains have come to realize the great potential of accessing information that has…

SSI’s Christopher Marder Quantifies the Qualitative M.S. GIST alumnus publishes award-winning thesis work The International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing has published “The Role of Precision in Spatial Narratives: Using a Modified Discourse Quality Index to Measure the Quality of Deliberative Spatial Data,” authored by Christopher Marder (M.S. GIST ’19) with Dr. Jennifer Bernstein,…

Identifying “hot streets” to reduce crime MS GIST Alumnus Quincy Tom-Jack publishes thesis work in the International Journal of Geo-Information Law enforcement agencies have long used geographic information systems (GIS) to determine spatio-temporal crime patterns and have used spatial analysis to identify crime “hot spots” -- spatial clusters of high crime areas. However, existing analytical…

Safeguarding Biodiversity With GIS SSI’s Laura Loyola is working to protect an endangered Kenyan primate Deep in the gallery forests of southeastern Kenya, fewer than 1,000 primates known as the Tana River red colobus (Piliocolobus rufomitratus) remain. Flooding, fires, agricultural practices, selective logging and unsustainable wood collection are dramatically eroding the red colobus species forest…