National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
- National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
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The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) was founded in 1988 and hosted at three member campuses: The University of California, Santa Barbara; the State University of New York at Buffalo; and the University of Maine.
The center was founded after receiving a $5 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation. Notable faculty involved with the NCGIA include Michael Goodchild among others.
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- Geographic information systems
- Earth sciences data formats
- Cartography
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