GIS DAY 2004 - Entering the World of GIS

Thursday, November 18101 Morgan Hall, UC Berkeley

5:30 – 6:15 Careers in GIS, Speaker Panel

Alan Rich, City of MilpitasDennis Wuthridge, Farallon Geographics, Inc. John Radke, Geographic Information Science

Center, UC Berkeley (this power point presentation)

Since events of 9/11

the geospatial industry is expected to grow from $3 billion in revenues to $21 billion in the next few years.

What is the geospatial industry?

This new information technology field acquires, manages and analyzes data focusing on the geographic, temporal, and spatial context.

It also includes development and management of related information technology tools, such as aerial and satellite remote sensing imagery (RS), the Global Positioning System (GPS), and computerized geographic information systems (GIS).

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RS + GPS + GIS = ?

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What is it good for??

at the very least to create maps, for analyzing the spatial distribution of phenomena, for recognizing patterns in the social or natural

landscape, for interpolating and extrapolating sampled

landscapes, for modeling scenarios, to understand, predict, plan and possibly explain.

What industry can it help?

Those where the following are important…Location – … where are thingsAssociation- … what influences themMovement - … where do things need to goRouting- … optimizing and overcoming friction of

distanceDensity- … how many are hereDirection- … where do I need to faceDistance - … how far … how near…and more

Some of those realized…

Planning Transportation Real Estate Security Agriculture Mining Utilities Military Land

Management Engineering

PoliticsRetailDeliveryMarketingConstructionFabricationServicesGovernmentResource managementPublic Health

from $3 billion to $21 billion = JOBs

GI Technologies have been a growth pole through the 1990s even without the WEB as a data and information delivery vehicle…

It will expand as rapidly and as far as the PC, the automobile, the Lap or Palm Computer, and the Cell Phone.

As long as we need answers to questions that involve location, association, interaction, basically space … GIS will grow.

Prepare for the Revolution!

How do you prepare for the wave of jobs in this area?

Training? .. Sit Spot Sit Education? … a better model

Where? Your local University The web Research Groups Governments and NGOs Walmart ???

Tech Shows

Where is the technology going…

Insert your own map of the world today and point to where the jobs are going tomorrow..

On the many GIS job Listings…

On the many GIS resume Listings…

How do we maintain the edge?

Education – stay smart!Don’t just drive the bus….invent the

next bus.

http://www.gisc.berkeley.edu

http://www.gjc.org/

http://www.gisjobs.com/

The City Job

The Private Job

The County Job

Other Sources

http://www.geojobsource.com/ http://www.geosearch.com/ http://www.giscareers.com/ http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/gis-jobs.html http://jobsearch.monster.com/