The Integration of Social and Spatial Data in the Study of Social Change, Population and the Environment

9310366 Entwisle这是一项关于泰国南荣定居点模式、道路系统、种植模式和森林砍伐的变化的研究，将地面收集的社会数据与主要由轨道卫星收集的空间数据相结合。该项目将通过评估空间和社会共存情况，利用地理信息系统技术的分析能力。它将把卫星数据与1984年和1988年收集的现有社会数据合并，并开始进行有关社会和环境变化的描述性分析。此外，它还将确保在1993-1994年进行的实地工作中获得有价值的社会地理数据。国家科学基金会的这一奖项大大提高了一个已经由其他政府机构部分资助的项目在社会科学方面的回报。这将是社会学家第一次认真利用轨道卫星收集的数据，因此它将提供关于这种新方法潜力的重要信息。***

9310366 Entwisle This is a study of change in settlement patterns, road systems, cropping patterns, and deforestation in Nang Rong, Thailand, integrating social data collected on the ground with spatial data largely collected by orbiting satellites. The project will capitalize on the analytic power of Geographic Information System technology through an assessment of spatial and social co- occurrences. It will merge satellite data with existing social data collected in 1984 and 1988, and begin descriptive analyses relating social and environmental change. In addition, it will insure that valuable socio-geographic data are obtained in fieldwork to be conducted in 1993-1994. This award from the National Science Foundation greatly enhances the social-scientific payoff from a project already partially funded by other government agencies. This will be the first time sociologists have made serious use of data collected by orbiting satellite, and thus it will provide important information about the potential of this novel approach. ***