Geographic Information Science

Geographic information science studies spatial data and advances methods for their production, computational analysis, visualization, and theorization across a number of application domains in both human and physical environments, including cities, wildlands and protected areas, marine environments, forests, and hydrological systems. GIScience methodologies represent a set of approaches for asking and answering geographical questions in ways that emphasize relationships between digitally encoded spatial phenomena (for example, relationships between urban inequality and disease incidence), processes (for instance, the effects of the urban built environment on surface temperatures), patterns (such as tracking the movement of wildlife), and modelling different scenarios in data intensive environments (including flows of resources across networks, such as a public transit system or a river). GIScience research encompasses remote sensing, geographic information systems, geovisualization and digital mapping, geocomputation, spatial and spatial-temporal analysis, and the myriad societal implications of participating technologies and attendant praxes.

Find Faculty Supervisors in this Area:

Michael Buzzelli

Associate Professor Western Teaching Fellow mbuzzell@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85329 Room 2429, SSC
Research Areas Higher education policy, research on teaching and learning, society-space relationships with a focus on housing, health and GIS Teaching Housing, The Geoweb & Geomedia, Research Design and Methodology

Jason Gilliland

Professor Director, Urban Development Program Cross Appointed with School of Health Studies and the Department of Paediatrics jgillila@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 81239 Room 2432, SSC
Research Areas Urban studies, health geography, children's environments, GIS Teaching Land Use and Development Issues; Graduate Seminar in Urban Geography; Advanced Urban Social Geography

Jinhyung Lee

Jin Lee

Assistant Professor jinhyung.lee@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85025 Room 2413, SSC
Research Areas GIScience, GeoAI, spatial data science, transport geography, mobility/accessibility analytics, urban studies Teaching GIScience, transport geography

Agnieszka Leszczynski

Assistant Professor aleszczy@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 80161 Room 2425, SSC
Research Areas Digital geographies, platforms and cities, digital location/geolocation, GIScience & Society Teaching Geographic Information Science; Digital Geographies

Jed Long

Assistant Professor jlong83@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 87319 Room 2405, SSC
Research Areas GIS/GIScience, GPS tracking, movement, space-time models, spatial ecology, open source software Teaching GIS, quantitative geography, computational geography

Isaac Luginaah

Professor Sabbatical January 1 - June 30, 2021 iluginaa@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 86944 Room 1409, SSC
Research Areas Environment and health, air pollution, GIS and health, HIV/AIDS Teaching Geography of Health and Health Care; Environment and Health; Advanced Studies in Environment, Development & Health

Jacek Malczewski

Professor jmalczew@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85030 Room 2422, SSC
Research Areas Quantitative methods, multicriteria decision analysis, location theory and analysis, geographic information science, spatial decision support systems Teaching Introduction to Spatial Analysis; Spatial Statistics; Decision-making with GIS; Thesis; Introduction to GIS (Graduate); Advanced Spatial Analysis (Graduate)

James Voogt

Professor Department Chair javoogt@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85018 Room 2401, SSC
Research Areas Urban climatology Teaching Physical Geography; Weather and Climate; Micrometeorology

Jinfei Wang

Professor jfwang@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85017 Room 2402, SSC
Research Areas Remote sensing and GIS Teaching Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Remote Sensing; Advanced Topics in Remote Sensing; Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Graduate); Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis (Graduate)