Introduction Professor Wenwen Li GeoDa, SGSUP Arizona State University

Lecture 1 Overview Content 1.Course Introduction 2.Course Schedule 3.Introduction to Cyberinfrastructure (CI) 4.A CI research project

Course Objectives By the end of the semester, you will: – Obtain a basic understanding of CyberGIS concept, component and techniques – Grasp the progress and trend in CyberGIS research – Be ready to conduct multi-disciplinary research utilizing Cyberinfrastructure – Develop critical thinking skills

Course Introduction ASU blackboard/Google drive Main communication channel. Updating information. Submitting assignments. Checking website regularly for updates.

Instructor: Professor Wenwen Li GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning Phone: (O) Office/Hours: COOR 5644 Tuesday 10am or by Appointment Course Introduction: Instructor

Instructor’s Research Area Geospatial cyberinfrastructure Distributed geographic information processing Geospatial semantic search Spatial data mining and knowledge discovery Spatial optimization

Administrative Matters Announcements through blackboard and/or only to ASU accounts No homework, no exams Course Introduction

Course Introduction: Grading Class attendance and discussion (70%) Final paper (30%)

Grade Points A+>96 A93-96 A B B83-86 B C C73-76 C D60-69 E<60

Class Policies Attendance ： – Arrive on time – Turn cell phone to vibrate – Using lab computer for non-class activities during lecture is not allowed Incompletes: – Only in the rarest of circumstances will an Incomplete grade will be given. – Per university policy, an incomplete automatically reverts to an E after one year if agreed upon work has not been successfully completed.

Lecture 1 Overview Content 1.Course Introduction 2.Course Schedule 3.Introduction to Cyberinfrastructure (CI) 4.A CI research project

Course Schedule

Ongoing Research Projects NSF Polar Cyberinfrastructure Spatial Optimization, Regionalization and Political Redistricting Spatial Pattern Analysis

Lecture 1 Overview Content 1.Course Introduction 2.Course Schedule 3.Introduction to Cyberinfrastructure (CI) 4.A CI research project

What is Cyberinfrastructure? High performance computing Data, data analysis and visualization Virtual organizations for distributed community Learning and workforce development

Who are the CI people? Shaowen Wang, UIUC Distributed and high performance computing Chaowei Yang, GMU HPC and Cloud Computing, Spatiotemporal Computing Ming Tsou, SDSU Social network

Other Scholars Mike Goodchild, UCSB Luc Anselin, ASU Serge Rey, ASU Mark Gahegan, Univ. Aukland Liping Di, GMU Steve Liang, University of Calgary Chuanrong Zhang, Univ. of Connecticut Diansheng Guo, South Carolina

Younger generation- CyberGIS fellow

CI organizations/communities Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers University Consortium of Geographic Information Science Earth Science Information Partnership (ESIP) NSF Earthcube

Who to fund CI researchers NSF – IIS: Information and Intelligent systems – Polar CI – GSS: Geography and Spatial Sciences – MMS: Methodology, measurement and statistics NASA – ROSES: Research Opportunity for Space and Earth Sciences

Big Cyberinfrastructure Project

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Big Cyberinfrastructure Program

Cyberinfrastructure What is Cyberinfrastructure? What are the building blocks of Cyberinfrastructure? What is GeospatialCyberinfrastructure? What is CyberGIS? Is GCI the same as WebGIS? How Cyberinfrastructure can be applied to different disciplines besides Geography? What is missing in existing CI definitions or implementations? What makes a CI most useful for geographical research? How can you utilize CI in your own research?