GIS DAY Entering the World of GIS Thursday, November Morgan Hall, UC Berkeley 5:30 – 6:15 Careers in GIS, Speaker Panel Alan Rich, City of Milpitas Dennis Wuthridge, Farallon Geographics, Inc. John Radke, Geographic Information Science Center, UC Berkeley (this power point presentation)
Since events of 9/11 the geospatial industry is expected to grow from $3 billion in revenues to $21 billion in the next few years.
What is the geospatial industry? This new information technology field acquires, manages and analyzes data focusing on the geographic, temporal, and spatial context. It also includes development and management of related information technology tools, such as aerial and satellite remote sensing imagery (RS), the Global Positioning System (GPS), and computerized geographic information systems (GIS).
= RS + GPS + GIS = ? slope
What is it good for?? at the very least to create maps, for analyzing the spatial distribution of phenomena, for recognizing patterns in the social or natural landscape, for interpolating and extrapolating sampled landscapes, for modeling scenarios, to understand, predict, plan and possibly explain.
What industry can it help? Those where the following are important… Location – … where are things Association- … what influences them Movement - … where do things need to go Routing- … optimizing and overcoming friction of distance Density- … how many are here Direction- … where do I need to face Distance - … how far … how near …and more
Some of those realized… Planning Transportation Real Estate Security Agriculture Mining Utilities Military Land Management Engineering Politics Retail Delivery Marketing Construction Fabrication Services Government Resource management Public Health
from $3 billion to $21 billion = JOBs GI Technologies have been a growth pole through the 1990s even without the WEB as a data and information delivery vehicle… It will expand as rapidly and as far as the PC, the automobile, the Lap or Palm Computer, and the Cell Phone. As long as we need answers to questions that involve location, association, interaction, basically space … GIS will grow.
Prepare for the Revolution! How do you prepare for the wave of jobs in this area? Training?.. Sit Spot Sit Education? … a better model Where? Your local University The web Research Groups Governments and NGOs Walmart ???
Tech Shows
Where is the technology going… Insert your own map of the world today and point to where the jobs are going tomorrow..
On the many GIS job Listings…
On the many GIS resume Listings…
How do we maintain the edge? Education – stay smart! Don’t just drive the bus….invent the next bus.
The City Job
The Private Job
The County Job
Other Sources