Advancing Geographical and Geospatial Science

该奖项为地理和地理空间科学委员会(GGSC)提供支持。GGSC是美国国家科学院、工程院和医学会的一个常设委员会，是一个非政府机构，提供独立、客观的建议，为政策提供证据，推动进步和创新，并为社会利益面对具有挑战性的问题。GGSC为学术界、政府、非政府组织和私营部门之间的讨论和知识分享提供了重要的召集职能。委员会的会议、研讨会和讲座将地理学家、空间数据科学家和相关领域的从业人员聚集在一起，交流思想和知识。GGSC增加了地理、测绘科学和地理信息科学在国家科学院以及联邦机构和其他组织中的影响。GGSC支持并为基于科学的政策努力和对地理和地理空间科学界重要问题的决策提供信息，这有助于确保这些领域仍然是国家的重要增长领域。该奖项使全球地球科学委员会能够在其会议和活动中探讨以下主题：预测和应对气候变化或干旱等环境破坏、协助人道主义应对危机的遥感、推进对混合定量和定性数据的分析、地理和地理空间数据集的不确定性和偏差、数据收集和使用的主权和伦理以及规划未来。在这些领域，地理和地理空间科学界的短期投入和参与是至关重要的，可以帮助国家制定未来的政策决策。这一奖项反映了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。

This award provides support for the Geographical and Geospatial Sciences Committee (GGSC). The GGSC is a standing committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, a non-governmental institution that provides independent, objective advice to inform policy with evidence, spark progress and innovation, and confront challenging issues for the benefit of society. The GGSC provides an important convening function for discussion and sharing of knowledge among academia, government, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. The committee’s meetings, workshops, and lectures bring together geographers, spatial data scientists, and practitioners in relevant fields to exchange ideas and knowledge. The GGSC increases the impact of geography, mapping science, and geographic information science within the National Academies and among federal agencies and other organizations.The GGSC supports and informs science-based policy efforts and decision-making on issues important to the geographical and geospatial sciences community, which helps to ensure that these fields remain an important area of growth for the nation. This award allows the GGSC to explore the following themes in its meetings and activities: anticipating and responding to environmental disruptions such as climate change or drought, remote sensing to assist humanitarian response to crises, advancing analysis of mixed quantitative and qualitative data, geographic and geospatial dataset uncertainty and bias, sovereignty and ethics of data collection and use, and mapping the future. These are areas where near-term input and engagement from the geographical and geospatial sciences community are critical and can help the nation with future policy decisions.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.