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Intern: Carlin Wong, UCSB
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Donald Janelle and Dr. Michael Goodchild
Department: Geography |
ARCVIEW AND ARCINFO COOKBOOK
The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science or CSISS is funded by the National Science Foundation. CSISS acknowledges the capacity that space has in human society, and tries to advance the understanding of spatial patterns and processes through research. The main method to integrate this knowledge across different social science disciplines is through Geographical Information Sciences or GIS. To give a person a better comprehension of a place, GIS combines layers of information about that place. These layers combined depend on the purpose. ArcView and ArcInfo are two software products developed by ESRI that allow a person to combine, manipulate, and analyze information layers to create maps. My main duty requires me to explore the applications within both of these programs and document the steps involved to carry out these applications so that someone from a social science discipline will know how to perform the application. We call these “recipes,” and the finished result is called the “Cookbook.” After I develop a recipe, it is entered into the CSISS website via html. Not to mention, for my current task I am assisting in national workshops that introduce GIS and other techniques of spatially integrated social science to young professionals who desire to apply GIS to their field of study.
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