PrintPenn State’s GeoVISTA Center
Penn State’s GeoVISTA Center has its GeoCollaborative Crisis Management Research Project underway that addresses two fundamental problems that impede effective coordinated work with geospatial information in crisis management activities. First, current geospatial information technologies are hard to use and designed for use by individuals; they do not support group work effectively. Second, there is limited scientific understanding of how groups (or groups of groups) work in crisis management using geospatial information and technologies that can range from large screen displays in a command center to PDAs for field personnel.
Students interested in exploring more about this project can read about this Penn State Research Project.
The GeoVISTA Center is involved in studying Geovisual Analytics. This field is an emerging interdisciplinary field that integrates perspectives from Visual Analytics (grounded in Information and Scientific Visualization) and Geographic Information Science (growing particularly on work in geovisualization, geospatial semantics and knowledge management, geocomputation, and spatial analysis). Geovisual Analytics tools help identify relevant geospatial information, data, and knowledge by supporting analytical process that meld innate human abilities of vision and cognition with computer-based visual interfaces that provide flexible connections to relevant data and supporting knowledge, and that are specifically designed to provide support for analytical reasoning.
Students who are interested in exploring more about this Penn State Center can read about it at the GeoVISTA Center website.