Welcome to The NCSE Conference

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Welcome to The NCSE Conference

• Purpose
• Being Together and Sharing
• Experiences
• Ideas
• Information
• Values
• Approaches

. . .Thank You For This Opportunity
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You Have A Common Vision Building a Digital
Abstraction of the Earth
An Evolving System for

• Measurement
• Monitoring
• Modeling
• Planning
• Decision Making
• Management

. . . Affecting Our Planets Evolution
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GIS . . . the Language of Geography
Provides A Promising Framework
. . .For Creating A Conversation About Our Future
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We Live in a Changing World

• Population
• Urbanization
• Globalization
• Economic Development
• Environmental Change
• Human Conflicts
• Growing Knowledge
• Advancing Scientific and Technology

. . . Increasingly Complex, Challenging, and
Crowded
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We Need More Understanding
. . . and More Collaboration
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We Use Many Languages to Describe Our World
They Reflect Our Experiences
Software
And Organize Our Reality
Diagrams
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Formal Languages Help Structure Societies
We Use Them To . . .

• Record and Describe
• Think / Conceptualize
• Communicate Ideas
• Create Agreement
• Collaborate

. . . Languages are Living, Evolving, and
Expanding
. . . Responding to Change
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Geography is the Science of Our World
Increasingly Being Seen as a Framework for

• Understanding
• Patterns
• Relationships
• Processes
• Conceptualizing
• Modeling
• Visualizing

. . . Integrating What We Know
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Geography Embodies Formal Concepts, Theories, and
Methods
Flows
Classification
Differentiation
Patterns
Spatial Co-Variance
Events
Diffusion
Circulation
Connectivity
Processes
Spatial Interactions
. . . For Understanding Our World
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GIS is Emerging As a New Language
Introducing New Concepts and Methods
Tool
Geoprocessing
Complex Data Modeling
Interactive Mapping
Modeling
Visualization
Integrating Data
. . . Building on the Theories of Geography
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GIS Integrates Data
Water Resources
Topographic Data
Roads/Infrastructure
Demographics

• GeoReferencing
• Map Overlay
• Spatial Analysis
• Visualization

Land Use/Land Cover
Imagery
Environmental Considerations
. . . Integrating Measurements And Disciplines
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GIS Integrates Workflows
Planning
Management
Science
Operations
Engineering
. . . Supporting Collaboration
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GIS Is Advancing Science
Empowering Human Activities
Take to Action
Plan
Analyze
Measure
Observe
. . . and Applying Science Information To Many
Applications
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GISIs A Promising Framework forIntegration
Organizations
Workflow
Disciplines
Decision Making
Science
Processes
Plans
. . . And Building Knowledge
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A System for Connecting, Communication and
Collaboration
. . . Building Common Understanding
. . . Your Work Provides the Evidence