GeoTech Geospatial Resource Center

地理空间科学与技术（GST）集成了创新的工具和技术，使用户能够可视化、分析、查询和预测时间、空间和关键关系。GST以一种易于显示、可空间分析和易于共享的方式查看数据，从而帮助解决问题。它是一门包括地理信息系统（GIS）、遥感和图像分析、测绘和制图、空间分析以及全球导航卫星系统（GNSS）和无人驾驶飞机系统（UAS）等数据收集工具的科学。无论是智能手机上的地图还是汽车上的导航系统，视频游戏中的基础地图，还是电视上看到的地图，“地理空间”无处不在。商品及服务税的科学被用于资源管理、环境研究、城市规划、犯罪学、国土安全、军事分析、考古学、精准农业、健康科学、政治学、公共安全和应急响应、物理科学、地球科学、市场营销、物流、经济学、商业、历史，以及几乎任何其他具有空间和/或时间成分的领域。由于商品及服务税无处不在的性质和对许多学科的空间分析的需求，从中学到大学的教师都将商品及服务税纳入他们的课程（包括基于网络的地图工具），以促进空间思维，或者在各自的机构提供商品及服务税特定的课程或项目，以帮助学生成功进入劳动力市场。GeoTech国家ATE中心正在提议从一个国家中心转变为一个国家资源中心。GeoTech资源中心将重点研究不断发展的劳动力地理空间能力和职业路径，基于劳动力地理空间能力变化/修订的课程修改，专门为历史上服务不足的人群设计的课程，以及中等和高等教育工作者的专业发展机会。GeoTech地理空间资源中心的目标是：1)研究、创造和整合支持职业和项目的能力。2)在一个易于检索的资源库中创建和传播课程资源；3)提供面对面和虚拟同步和异步模式的专业发展机会，为教育工作者教授基于标准的课程做好准备。这些目标将为地理空间社区的用户（教育工作者和行业专业人士一样）提供尖端的GST课程，这对于创建一个准备充分的地理空间技术人员和技术人员队伍至关重要。将实施一个评估过程，以不断审查劳动力能力，改进所生产的教育材料，并丰富创新的专业发展产品。学习模块将被开发，并将与历史上服务不足的人群相关，以激发他们对GST的职业和应用。课程将涉及广泛的社会正义问题，涉及有色人种、妇女、部落机构、LGBTQ社区，以及红线地图等历史教训。还将讨论气候变化和野火等环境时事。课程将是模块化的，可移植到不同的学习环境中，因此设计的目的是为了接触大量的用户。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Geospatial Science and Technology (GST) integrates innovative tools and techniques to enable users to visualize, analyze, query, and predict temporal, spatial and critical relationships. GST helps to solve problems by looking at data in a way that is readily displayed, can be spatially analyzed, and easily shared. It is a science that includes Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing and image analysis, mapping and cartography, spatial analysis, and data collection tools such as global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Whether it is the map on a smart phone or the navigation system in a car, the base-map in a video game, or the maps that one sees on TV, “geospatial” is all around. The science of GST is being used in resource management, environmental studies, urban planning, criminology, homeland security, military analysis, archaeology, precision agriculture, health sciences, political science, public safety and emergency response, physical sciences, earth sciences, marketing, logistics, economics, business, history, and virtually any other field that has a spatial and/or temporal component. Due to the ubiquitous nature of GST and the need for spatial analysis across many disciplines, instructors from middle school through college are embedding GST into their curriculum (including web-based mapping tools) to promote spatial thinking, or are offering GST specific courses or programs at their respective institutions to prepare students to successfully enter the workforce. The GeoTech National ATE Center is proposing to transition from a national center to a national Resource Center. The GeoTech Resource Center will focus on researching evolving workforce geospatial competencies and career pathways, curriculum modification based on changes/revisions to workforce geospatial competencies, curriculum especially designed for historically underserved populations, and professional development opportunities for secondary and post-secondary educators.The goals for the GeoTech Geospatial Resource Center are: 1) Research, create, and aggregate competencies that will support careers and programs. 2) Create and disseminate curriculum resources in an easily searchable resource repository, and 3) Provide professional development opportunities in face- to-face and virtual synchronous and asynchronous modalities to prepare educators to teach standards- based curriculum. These goals will provide the geospatial community of users (educators and industry professionals alike) curricular offerings in cutting edge GST, which is crucial in creating a well-prepared geospatial technician and technologist workforce. An evaluative process will be implemented to continually review workforce competencies, improve the educational materials produced, and enrich innovative professional development offerings. Learning modules will developed and will be contextual and relevant to historically underserved populations to excite them about GST careers and applications. Lessons will address a wide spectrum of social justice issues for people of color, women, tribal institutions, the LGBTQ community, and historical lessons such as redline maps. Environmental current events such as climate change and wildfires will also be addressed. The curriculum will be modularized and portable to different learning environments and therefore designed to reach a large cohort of users. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the Nation's economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.