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通过以一种易于显示、可在空间上分析并易于共享的方式查看数据来帮助解决问题。它是一门包括地理信息系统(GIS)、遥感和图像分析、测绘和制图学、空间分析以及全球导航卫星系统(GNSS)和无人机系统(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，无论是电子游戏中的底图，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正在被用于资源管理、环境研究、城市规划、犯罪学、国土安全、军事分析、考古、精准农业、卫生科学、政治学、公共安全和应急响应、物理科学、地球科学、营销、物流、经济、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。由于商品及服务税的无处不在的性质和对空间分析跨许多学科的需求，从中学到大学的教师正在将商品及服务税嵌入他们的课程(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特定于商品及服务税的课程或计划，为学生成功进入劳动力市场做好准备。Geotech国家ATE中心正在提议从国家中心过渡到国家资源中心。地球技术资源中心将专注于研究不断发展的劳动力地理空间能力和职业道路，根据劳动力地理空间能力的变化/修订修改课程，特别为历史上服务不足的人群设计的课程，以及中学和高等教育人员的职业发展机会。地球技术地理空间资源中心的目标是：1)研究、创造和聚合支持职业和课程的能力。2)在一个易于搜索的资源库中创建和传播课程资源，以及3)以面对面和虚拟的同步和异步方式提供专业发展机会，使教育工作者为教授基于标准的课程做好准备。这些目标将为地理空间用户社区(教育工作者和行业专业人员)提供尖端商品及服务税方面的课程，这对于培养一支准备充分的地理空间技术人员和技术人员队伍至关重要。将实施评估过程，不断审查劳动力能力，改进制作的教育材料，并丰富创新的职业发展课程。将开发学习模块，并将与历史上服务不足的人群背景相关，以激发他们对商品及服务税职业和应用的兴趣。课程将为有色人种、妇女、部落机构、LGBTQ社区以及红线地图等历史课程解决广泛的社会正义问题。气候变化和野火等环境时事也将得到解决。课程将模块化，并可移植到不同的学习环境中，因此设计成能够接触到大量用户。该项目由高级技术教育计划资助，该计划专注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NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.