Geographic Information Science in a UK Context

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE IN A UK CONTEXT

Alex SingletonDepartment of Geography and Centre for Advance Spatial Analysis ,

University College London

Saturday, 5 December 2009

OVERVIEW• A UK core curriculum?

• The Spatial Literacy in Teaching Project

• Geographical Information Systems and Science

• Geospatial Analysis Handbook

• Outreach Projects - Engaging with learners!

• The CASA MRes

• GIS in Schools


ABOUT ME

• Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and Department of Geography at University College London

• Research and Teaching Interests:

• Socio-spatial structure of cities

• geodemographics

• The geographies of educational inequalities

• Neogeographywww.alex-singleton.comareaprofiles.blogspot.com


http://www.alex-singleton.com

http://www.alex-singleton.com

A UK CORE CURRICULUM

• Undergraduate (3 Years Full Time)

• 1 Full Time Course - Kingston

• Majority Geography Degrees - GIS Component

• Postgraduate

• MSc - ~15 x GIS Courses (1 Year Full Time)

• PhD Training

• Requirement of FundingSaturday, 5 December 2009

SPATIAL LITERACY IN TEACHING


KEY OUTPUTS: BOOKS


• Edition 1 & 2

• 50K Copies World Wide

• Translation numerous Languages

• Accompanied by

• Teaching Guide

• ESRI Virtual Campus

• Slides

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SCIENCE


STRUCTURE

• 5 Sections

• Introduction

• Principles

• Techniques

• Analysis

• Management


INTRODUCTION

• Systems, Science and Study

• Definitions

• Data into Information

• GIS and Science

• Applications

• Contemporary - multiple domains


PRINCIPLES

• Representations

• Vector / raster etc

• Nature of Geographic Data

• Spatial Autocorrelation

• Distance decay

• Georeferencing

• Uncertainty


• GIS Software

• Modelling techniques

• Data collection

• Databases

• Mobile GIS

TECHNIQUES


ANALYSIS

• Cartography

• Geovizualisation

• Query and Measurement

• Summary & Inference

• Spatial Modelling


MANAGEMENT

• GIS & Business

• Return on Investment

• Support / integration

• GIS & Wider Economy


CHANGES FOR 3RD EDITION


GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS

Comprehensive: Principles, techniques

Independent:Software

Topics broadly Link NCGIA Core Curriculum


BOOK

• 3rd Edition due soon

• Print on demand

• No publishers

• Direct to market


KEY OUTPUTS :WEBSITES


OUTREACH & TEACHING



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• 26 countries in America, Europe, Asia and Oceania

• Individual level data for 300 million people (full name and address)

• 10.8 million unique surnames

• 6.5 million unique forenames

• Statistics at postcode level


Singleton


Forename : ALEX - SCOTTISH

Surname : SINGLETON - ENGLISH Overall Classification of this Person - ENGLISH


Welsh Names “aim was to establish a Welsh colony which would preserve the Welsh language and culture”

Mimosa (1865)185 Welsh


MORI（森）


CASA MASTERS

• MRes - Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation

• 3 Components

• GIS and Spatial Analysis

• Urban and Regional Modelling

• Visualisation


GIS AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS

• Introduction to GIS Lecture Series (GIS & Sci 3rd Edition)

• Geospatial Analysis (Geospatial Analysis Handbook 3rd Edition)

• Spatial statistics

• R

• Python


URBAN AND REGIONAL MODELLING

• Cities and Complexity

• Cellular Automata

• Spatial Interaction Modelling

• Agent Based Modelling

• Geodemographics


VISUALISATION

• Cartography

• Data Visualisation

• Neogeography

• 3D Visualisation


GIS IN SCHOOLS

• Recent curriculum requirement to teach some GIS in schools

• But not much!

• Many teachers don’t understand GIS

• Some PGCE now have GIS component


QCA• Key Stage 3

• Students will ‘use varied resources, including maps, visual media and geographical information systems’(QCA, 2007a)

• Key Stage 4

• Students are to ‘become more independent learners through the use of geographical skills, new technologies and enquiry to serve them in their future’ (QCA, 2007b) Teaching will embrace ‘use of new technologies including GIS, to assist geographical investigation’

• A Level

• Students will ‘use modern information technologies, including geographical information systems as appropriate to the content’ (QCA, 2006)


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MANY THANKS!


Geographic Information Science in a UK Context

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