Speaker: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract: CyberGIS represents an interdisciplinary field combining advanced cyberinfrastructure and e-science, geographic information science and systems (GIS), spatial analysis and modeling, and many geospatial domains (e.g., agriculture, emergency management, public health, and smart cities) to enable broad scientific and technological advances. It has also emerged as new-generation GIS based on holistic integration of high-performance and distributed computing, data-driven knowledge discovery, visualization and visual analytics, and collaborative problem-solving and decision-making capabilities. The growing importance of cyberGIS is reflected by increasing calls for solutions to bridge the significant digital divide between geospatial big data and related applications, sciences, and users. This presentation explores frontiers in cyberGIS and geospatial big data with a particular focus on interdisciplinary approaches to digital discovery and innovation for solving various environmental and geospatial problems.