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GIS DAY 2004 - Entering the World of GIS
Thursday, November 18
101 Morgan Hall, UC Berkeley
5:30 – 6:15 Careers in GIS, Speaker Panel
Alan Rich, City of Milpitas
Dennis Wuthridge, Farallon Geographics, Inc.
John Radke, Geographic Information Science
Center, UC Berkeley (this power point
presentation)
Since events of 9/11
the geospatial industry is expected to grow
from $3 billion in revenues to $21 billion in
the next few years.
What is the geospatial industry?
This new information technology field acquires,
manages and analyzes data focusing on the
geographic, temporal, and spatial context.
It also includes development and management of
related information technology tools, such as
aerial and satellite remote sensing imagery (RS),
the Global Positioning System (GPS), and
computerized geographic information systems
(GIS).
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What is it good for??
at the very least to create maps,
for analyzing the spatial distribution of phenomena,
for recognizing patterns in the social or natural landscape,
for interpolating and extrapolating sampled landscapes,
for modeling scenarios,
to understand, predict, plan and possibly explain.
What industry can it help?
Those where the following are important…
Location – … where are things
Association- … what influences them
Movement - … where do things need to go
Routing- … optimizing and overcoming friction of distance
Density- … how many are here
Direction- … where do I need to face
Distance - … how far … how near
…and more
Some of those realized…
Planning
Transportation
Real Estate
Security
Agriculture
Mining
Utilities
Military
Land Management
Engineering
Politics
Retail
Delivery
Marketing
Construction
Fabrication
Services
Government
Resource management
Public Health
from $3 billion to $21 billion = JOBs
GI Technologies have been a growth pole
through the 1990s even without the WEB
as a data and information delivery vehicle…
It will expand as rapidly and as far as the
PC, the automobile, the Lap or Palm
Computer, and the Cell Phone.
As long as we need answers to questions
that involve location, association,
interaction, basically space … GIS will grow.
Prepare for the Revolution!
How do you prepare for the wave of jobs in this
area?
Training? .. Sit Spot Sit
Education? … a better model
Where?
Your local University
The web
Research Groups
Governments and NGOs
Walmart ???
Tech Shows
Where is the technology going…
Insert your own map of the world today
and point to where the jobs are going
tomorrow..
On the many GIS job Listings…
On the many GIS resume Listings…
How do we maintain the edge?
Education – stay smart!
Don’t just drive the bus….invent the next
bus.
http://www.gisc.berkeley.edu
http://www.gjc.org/
http://www.gisjobs.com/
The City Job
The Private Job
The County Job
Other Sources
http://www.geojobsource.com/
http://www.geosearch.com/
http://www.giscareers.com/
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/gis-jobs.html
http://jobsearch.monster.com/