Support to Facilitate Collaboration of U.S. Scientists with European Scientists Participating in the European Science Foundation's GISDATA Programme

9321119好孩子近几十年来，为收集、存储、分析和呈现空间数据而开发和使用地理信息系统对地理学和相关学科产生了强大而富有成效的影响。这项新技术的重要性和采用地理信息系统的分析方法的进步在私营和公共部门都得到了相当大的关注。1988年，国家科学基金会(NSF)提供支持，导致建立了国家地理信息和分析中心(NCGIA)，这是一个致力于促进地理信息科学发展的研究、教育和推广的联合体。虽然美国最初是关于地理信息系统的活动中心，但来自其他国家的科学家和从业人员越来越多地参与旨在提高地理信息系统的能力和用途的活动。1993年，欧洲科学基金会(ESF)启动了一项地理信息系统数据集成和数据库设计(GISDATA)的科学计划。该项目旨在促进国际合作研究。为了将美国科学家的努力与不断发展的欧洲科学家网络相结合，该奖项将支持NCGIA协调美国和欧洲的研究活动的努力。特别是，将支持美国科学家参加重要的GISDATA会议，也将支持十多名职业生涯早期的研究人员参加1996年在欧洲举行的夏季研究所。这些活动将得到ESF的配合，ESF将派遣领先的欧洲科学家参加重要的美国会议，并资助年轻的欧洲科学家参加由NCGIA在美国赞助的1995年夏季研究所。其他联邦机构和私营部门公司预计将补充NSF对该项目的支持。通过这一奖项，NCGIA将让更多的美国科学家参与到理解和消除整合来自不同学科以及来自多个国家和地区来源的地理信息的活动中。这些活动还将改进数据库设计方法，特别是那些目前因数据整合问题而受到阻碍的方法。该奖项还将促进美国和欧洲科学家之间的合作，建立一种超过其组成部分总和的合作伙伴关系，并将测试NSF和欧洲主要同行之间的新形式的相互支持。

9321119 GOODCHILD The development and use of geographic information systems (GISs) for the collection, storage, analysis, and presentation of spatial data has had powerful and productive impacts on geography and related disciplines in recent decades. The importance of this new technology and the advancement of analytic methods that employ GISs has been given considerable attention within the private and public sectors. In 1988, the National Science Foundation (NSF) provided support that led to the establishment of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), a consortium dedicated to research, education, and outreach with respect to the advancement of geographic information science. Although the United States initially was the locus of activity regarding GISs, scientists and practitioners from other nations increasingly have engaged in activities aimed at advancing the capabilities and uses of GISs. In 1993, the European Science Foundation (ESF) started a scientific program in Geographic Information Systems Data Integration and Data Base Design (GISDATA). This program is designed to foster international collaborative research. In order to integrate the efforts of scientists from the U.S. with the developing network of European scientists, this award will support the efforts of the NCGIA to coordinate research activities in the U.S. with those taking place in Europe. In particular, the participation of U.S. scientists in crucial GISDATA meetings will be supported, as will the involvement of more than a dozen early-career researchers in a summer institute to be held in Europe in 1996. These activities will be matched by the ESF, which will send leading European scientists to important U.S. meetings and funds participation of younger European scientists at a 1995 summer institute sponsored by the NCGIA in the U.S. Other federal agencies and private-sector firms are expected to complement NSF's support of this project. Throu gh this award, the NCGIA will involve more U.S. scientists in activities that will understand and remove impediments to integration of geographic information from different disciplines and from multiple national and regional sources. These activities also will develop improved methods for database design, especially those currently inhibited by problems in data integration. The award also will facilitate collaborations among U.S. and European scientists in a partnership that is more than the sum of its parts, and it will test new forms of mutual support between NSF and a major European counterpart.