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Michael F. Goodchild
British-American geographer at UC Santa Barbara, a founder of geographic information science, who coined "volunteered geographic information".
Geospatial World, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
Michael Frank Goodchild, born on 24 February 1944, is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also holds the title of Research Professor.1,2 He took a degree in physics at Cambridge in 1965 and a PhD in geography at McMaster in 1969.1 After nineteen years at the University of Western Ontario he moved to Santa Barbara in 1988 with the founding of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, which he directed for over twenty years, and in 2008 he founded UCSB's Center for Spatial Studies.2 He retired in 2012 as Jack and Laura Dangermond Professor of Geography.1
His research is geographic information science, spatial analysis and uncertainty in geographic data.1 He is widely credited with coining "volunteered geographic information", for map data contributed by the public.2 He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and received the Prix Vautrin Lud in 2007.1
He co-edited the Manual of Digital Earth, on the idea of a navigable model of the whole planet, and Urban Informatics, on data and computing in the running of cities.
- affiliation
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- role
- geographer
- homepage
- https://people.geog.ucsb.edu/~good/
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Open-access reference edited by Guo, Goodchild and Annoni, 2020, on the vision, technologies and uses of a digital model of the whole planet.
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Open-access edited volume from Shi, Goodchild, Batty, Kwan and Zhang, 2021, on the data, methods and infrastructure used to sense, model and run cities.
Tags: GIS, geographic information science, Digital Earth