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91190AAG_Cover-R4.qxp 8/17/06 9:26 AM Page 1 GIS&T Body of Knowledge GIS&T Body Edited by David DiBiase, Michael DeMers, Ann Johnson, Karen Kemp, Ann Taylor Luck, Brandon Plewe, and Elizabeth Wentz Edited by Di B iase, De M ers, Johnson, K emp, Luck, Plewe, and Wentz AAG The Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge may be ordered online from the AAG at www.aag.org/bok or by mailing or faxing this form to: AAG Publications, 1710 Sixteenth St., N.W. Washington, DC 20009; Fax: 202-234-2744. UCGIS Name__________________________________ Address_________________________________ Check enclosed Credit card payment (MC/Visa) #______________________ Exp. __________ Signature _______________________________ ISBN-10: 0-89291-267-7 ______ Copies at $20 each $_____________ Plus shipping $____5.00_____ AAG Total $_____________ 91190_FMpages_R2.qxd 8/7/06 2:40 PM Page i Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge First Edition 91190_FMpages_R2.qxd 8/7/06 2:40 PM Page ii 91190_FMpages_R2.qxd 8/9/06 11:27 AM Page iii Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge First Edition Edited by David DiBiase, Michael DeMers, Ann Johnson, Karen Kemp, Ann Taylor Luck, Brandon Plewe, and Elizabeth Wentz with contributions by The Model Curricula Task Force and Body of Knowledge Advisory Board An Initiative of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Published by the Association of American Geographers Washington, DC 91190_FMpages_R2.qxd 8/9/06 11:27 AM Page iv Published in 2006 by Association of American Geographers 1710 Sixteenth Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20009 www.aag.org Copyright © 2006 by the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be printed or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or any other information stor- age and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Cover design by Brandon Plewe ISBN-13: 978-0-89291-267-4 ISBN- 10: 0-89291-267-7 A C.I.P. Catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 91190_FMpages_R2.qxd 8/7/06 2:40 PM Page v Table of Contents Foreword. vii Douglas Richardson Introduction . 1 David DiBiase I. What is Geographic Information Science and Technology?. 5 The Domain of GIS&T. 5 II. Why is a GIS&T Body of Knowledge Needed?. 9 Workforce needs . 9 The GIS&T education infrastructure . 15 Applications of the GIS&T Body of Knowledge. 23 III. How Does the Body of Knowledge Relate to GIS&T Curriculum Planning Efforts? . 27 Longstanding concern about GIS&T education . 27 National-scale curriculum development efforts . 28 IV. How Was the Body of Knowledge Developed? . 33 Model Curricula vision. 33 Advancing the vision . 36 V. GIS&T Knowledge Areas . 39 Format of the GIS&T Body of Knowledge. 39 Knowledge Area: Analytical Methods (AM). 43 Knowledge Area: Conceptual Foundations (CF). 58 Knowledge Area: Cartography and Visualization (CV) . 69 Knowledge Area: Design Aspects (DA). 80 GIS&T Body of Knowledge v 91190_FMpages_R2.qxd 8/7/06 2:40 PM Page vi Knowledge Area: Data Modeling (DM) . 89 Knowledge Area: Data Manipulation (DN) . 97 Knowledge Area: Geocomputation (GC). 102 Knowledge Area: Geospatial Data (GD) . 112 Knowledge Area: GIS&T and Society (GS). 127 Knowledge Area: Organizational and Institutional Aspects (OI) . 135 VI. Where is the UCGIS Model Curricula project headed? . 145 Evolution of GIS&T . 145 Evolution of the GIS&T education infrastructure. 145 Future Model Curricula products and services . 147 References . 149 Acknowledgements . 157 Editors (2004-06). 157 Model Curricula Task Force (1998-2003) . 157 Body of Knowledge Advisory Board (2004-2006). 158 Index . 159 vi GIS&T Body of Knowledge 91190_FMpages_R2.qxd 8/7/06 2:40 PM Page vii Foreword GIS&T: Transforming Science and Society Former National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Rita Colwell, in her article “The New Landscape of Science: A Geographic Portal” (Colwell, 2004), pointed out that geography and its revolutionary new technologies are “well poised at this watershed juncture to help shape the new landscape of science.” This book marks an important step in that process. Geographic Information Science and Technologies (GIS&T) have today become critical components of the global cyberinfrastructure, both in the university and in society. The integrative capabilities of these and related technologies have extended research frontiers across many fields, in areas ranging from biocomplexity to epidemiology to transportation engi- neering. Technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS) also have increasingly become the common ground for sharing data across disciplines, or the “glue” which connects large-scale interdisci- plinary research, including much that is funded by NSF and other federal agencies. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge will have application and impact far beyond geography. To the extent that many multidisciplinary research and application projects now depend on the integrative and analytical power of new geographic technologies, many disciplines with- in the academy are also finding it essential to incorporate spatial concepts and perspectives into their curricula and educational programs (NRC, 1997). The technical expertise and theoretical insights which have been developed over the recent decades within the Geographic Information Science & Technology infrastructure constitutes a Body of Knowledge increasingly necessary to advancing research agendas across the university campus in programs ranging from statistics to biology, from engineering to law, and from sociology to computer science. As Harvard President Lawrence Summers noted on May 5, 2006 at the launch of Harvard’s new Center for Geographic Analysis, “By embracing the new geography, I think Harvard is taking an important step today. This is an opportunity to explore vast intellectual territo- GIS&T Body of Knowledge vii 91190_FMpages_R2.qxd 8/7/06 2:40 PM Page viii ry…intellectual territory that can now be approached with new perspectives, new tools, and in newly important ways” (Richardson, 2006). The call for collaborative, cross-sectoral, and interdisciplinary research agendas encompasses a wide array of themes, such as dynamic modeling, change studies, environmental assessments and interven- tions, complexity studies, assessments of how technologies are impacting lives, evaluations of political processes, and many more. The revolutionary new geographic technologies developed over the past several decades create far-reaching opportunities for individual researchers and collaborative teams in the social sciences, the natural sciences, and the humanities. GIS and related technologies can help to catalyze new research, scholarship, and teaching within these fields, without diminishing traditional methods of research or threatening the richness and diversity of traditional approaches within individual disciplines. The GIS&T cyberinfrastructure also plays a central role in the larger society. A transformational feature on the GIS&T landscape, and a significant opportunity for our society, for example, will be the wide- spread continued development and implementation over the next several decades of real-time interac- tive Geographic Management Systems (GMSs) as core daily operations management networks within most governmental and business organizations (Richardson, 2001; Abler and Richardson, 2003). Currently evolving examples of GMSs range from simple applications, such as real-time management of vehicle fleets or delivery companies, to the continuous interactive management across space and time of the extensive fixed and mobile assets and workforces of highly complex operations, such as those of major electric utility companies, most modern military organizations, governmental emergency response agencies, national park agencies, automated transportation and logistics systems, and international dis- aster and humanitarian relief operations. GMSs’ dynamic space and time interactive core capabilities create a powerful platform for integrating many other technologies and applications, including wireless communications, environmental sensors, work-order processing, remote sensing and imagery, software agents, econometric modeling, and others. This book will be an important reference and guide for these existing and future GIS&T infrastructures in science, in society, and in education. Significant credit for the development of the GIS&T Body of Knowledge goes to Duane Marble, who both advocated for and pioneered the development of the Body of Knowledge throughout the 1990s. Without Duane Marble’s early efforts in this arena, this book would not exist. More recently, the work begun by Marble has been continued by many, including the UCGIS education committee, ably chaired by David DiBiase. This current work, the First Edition of the GIS&T Body of Knowledge is, as it must be, a work in progress. The AAG, as publisher, is committed to working with others to enhance, extend, refine, and continuous- ly update this work in future editions. Subsequent editions will seek to extend the work to curricular implementations, to encompass new and rapidly evolving technologies in the GIS&T fields, and to broad- en its focus as the science and technologies themselves become broader and more fully
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