Welcome to the GeoVISTA Center!
 
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We conduct and coordinate integrated and innovative research in GIScience, with strong emphasis on geovisualization. Our goal is to develop powerful human-centered methods and technologies that make it possible for scientists and decision makers to solve scientific, social, and environmental problems through computer-supported, visually-enabled analysis of the growing wealth of geospatial data.
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Craig McCabe graduated this summer with his Master's Degree in Geography. Craig's thesis looked at the effects of data complexity and map abstraction on the perception of spatio-temporal patterns in animated maps. Using a 10-year dataset of weekly measles infections in Niger, Craig administered an experiment that employed temporal aggregation and moving-window averaging approaches in combination with geographic and schematic map representations to measure participants' abilities to complete a series of map-reading tasks. During his 2 years as a research assistant at Penn State, Craig collaborated closely with the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics to create novel methods of exploring patterns and possible environmental drivers of measles epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Alexander Klippel awarded two NSF grants

Alex Klippel and Rui Li receive award at COSIT

Featured Projects
Human Factors in GIScience Lab
GeoCAM: Geographic Contextualization for Accounts of Movement
NEVAC: North-East Visualization and Analytics Center
Software
GeoViz Toolkit
Visual Inquiry Toolkit
ConceptVISTA