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GIS DAY 2004 - Entering the World of GIS

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.

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GIS DAY 2004 - Entering the World of GIS

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  1. 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)

  2. 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.

  3. 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).

  4. RS + GPS + GIS = ? + + + + + + = + slope

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. Some of those realized… • Politics • Retail • Delivery • Marketing • Construction • Fabrication • Services • Government • Resource management • Public Health • Planning • Transportation • Real Estate • Security • Agriculture • Mining • Utilities • Military • Land Management • Engineering

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ???

  10. Tech Shows

  11. Where is the technology going… • Insert your own map of the world today and point to where the jobs are going tomorrow..

  12. On the many GIS job Listings…

  13. On the many GIS resume Listings…

  14. How do we maintain the edge? • Education – stay smart! • Don’t just drive the bus….invent the next bus.

  15. http://www.gisc.berkeley.edu

  16. http://www.gjc.org/

  17. http://www.gisjobs.com/

  18. The City Job

  19. The Private Job

  20. The County Job

  21. 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/

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