Geographic Information Sciences

Authors: Pickles, J.
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Mappings;
Abstract: This book discusses the societal implications of geographic information systems in how they radically modify our conceptions of earth and space and our capacity to control them. The essays in this anthology look at issues such as st...
Year: 1995

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Authors: Obermeyer, Nancy J.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Secondary Title: Research Trends in Geographic Information Science
Abstract: This paper recommends that virtue ethics be used to help educate GIS professionals on the moral obligations inherent in their daily practice. The paper links the idea of virtue ethics to the Weberian concept of professionalism and a...
Year: 2009
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88244-2_3
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88244-2_3

Authors: Morris, Norma ; Balmer, Brian
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: In a study of volunteers in medical research the authors found contrasting readings of “being comfortable” by the volunteer research subjects and the researchers. Although the experimental process (testing a new kind of diagnostic t...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1080/08989620600654019

Authors: Ghose, Rina
Publication Type: Syllabi
Abstract: This course explores the interconnected relationship between society and the field of Geographic Information Systems, and explores questions such as the following. How will GIS affect and alter the society it is intended to represen...
Year: 2009
URL: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/esence/289/

Authors: Newman, Elana ; Willard, Traci
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Describes the development of the Reactions to Research Participation Questionnaire (RRPQ) designed to address the shortcomings of institutional review boards. Presentation of a series of exploratory and confirmatory analyses investi...
Year: 2001
DOI: 10.1080/08989620108573983

Authors: Cox, Steven ; Johnson, Shawana
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An employee for International Satellite Images, who is finishing off the final details with a contract for the Japanese government contractor is told by the president of the company to include the original launch date for the satell...
Year: 2008
URL: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/files/sites/file/satellite_contract_case(2).pdf

Authors: Ghaly, Ashraf
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics
Abstract: This article describes an ethics module that addresses the spatial presentation of data using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) GIS is a powerful tool that can be used to compile large amounts of data into an easy to read map. Ho...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Ghaly%20-%20Ethics%20Across%20the%20Curriculum%20and%20Geographic%20Information%20Systems.pdf

Authors: Snow, Mary ; Snow, Richard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: The article discusses how the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is expanding to become an effective tool used in many different disciplines. Because GIS can visually quantify or qualify spacial data to serve the purpose o...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Snow-The%20Universal%20Language%20of%20Maps.pdf

Authors: Harvey Francis ; DiBiase, David ; Wright, Dawn
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A nuclear submarine crashed into a 2000 meter underwater volcano that did not appear on the submarine's navigational charts, which had not been updated since 1989. ...
Year: 2008
URL: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/files/sites/file/submarine_crash_case.pdf

Authors: Wright, Dawn ; DiBiase, David ; Harvey Francis
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection hires a contractor to identify potential sites for a 500 acre storage facility for low-level radioactive waste. One part of the project is to assemble a statewide GIS database ...
Year: 2008
URL: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/files/sites/file/llrw_siting_map_case(1).pdf

Authors: Harvey, Francis ; DiBiase, David ; Wright, Dawn
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A GISP working for a national security agency is tasked to create an analysis that delineates expected civilian casualties associated with a missile attack on the suspected urban headquarters of an alleged insurgent leader in a fore...
Year: 2008
URL: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/files/sites/file/collateral_damage_case.pdf

Authors: Wright, Dawn ; Harvey, Francis ; DiBiase, David
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A GIS Professional at the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events is contacted to assist in a community mapping project whose object is to map the geographic locations of different Muslim populations around Los Ang...
Year: 2008
URL: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/files/sites/file/mapping_muslim_neighbors_case.pdf

Authors: Harvey, Francis ; DiBiase, David ; Wright, Dawn
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A volunteer organization GISCorps,is working with a number of other organizations to help create maps of an area devastated by a tsunami. A company has donated a number of licenses of its product for use by local authorities, but du...
Year: 2008
URL: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/esence/279/

Authors: Harvey Francis ; Wright, Dawn ; DiBiase, David
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An environmental consulting from is hired by a natural gas utility to produce a map of a proposed pipeline through a portion of northeast Alaska in preparation for a public hearing attended by potential funders of the project. Along...
Year: 2008
URL: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/files/sites/file/caribou_routes_case.pdf

Authors: Wright, Dawn ; Harvey, Francis ; DiBiase, David
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In the 1990's the County of Santa Clara, California signed an agreement with a private contractor to digitize the County's existing print parcel maps. The agreement signed by the County and the independent contractor agreed to spli...
Year: 2008
URL: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/files/sites/file/data_access_case(4).pdf

Authors: Boxall, Susanna Flavia ; Potthast, Adam ; Funke, Rhiannon D. ; Funke, Michael B. ; Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Myers, Gretchen A.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Microsoft has recently filed a patent for a navigation application which allows pedestrians to choose the safest walking route by combining GPS technology with "information from maps, weather reports, crime statistics, and demograph...
Year: 2012
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/There%20is%20an%20App.pdf

Authors: Wright, Dawn ; Harvey Francis ; DiBiase, David
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In a study published in Nature, a group of researchers tracked the movements of mobile phone users using records provided by an unidentified private telecommunications company The findings of the study may be useful to scientists co...
Year: 2008
URL: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/files/sites/file/mobile_phone_tracking_case(1).pdf

Authors: Boxall, Susana Flavia ; Funke, Rhianon D. ; Myers, Gretchen A. ; Potthast, Adam ; Association of Practical and Professional Ethics ; Funke, Michael B.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Microsoft has recently filed a patent for a navigation application (app), which allows pedestrians to choose the safest walking route by combining GPS technology with “information from maps, weather reports, crime statistics and dem...
Year: 2012
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/There%20is%20an%20App.pdf

Authors: Shilton, Katie
Publication Type: Syllabi
Abstract: Taught during the Spring Quarter of 2010, this course, developed and taught by Katie Shilton of the Department of Information Studies of the University of California at Los Angeles explores the potential for using mobile technologie...
Year: 2010
URL: http://urban.cens.ucla.edu/technologies/ppr/