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Michael Goodchild
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- Michael Frank Goodchild is a well-known British-American geographer and educator and an influential theorist and pioneer in geographic information science (GIScience). As a professor of geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) since 1989, and codirector (1991–1997) and executive committee chair (1997-) of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), Goodchild has led the development of GIScience from its origins within the technical specialty of geographic information systems (GIS) to the status of a full-fledged academic field. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Goodchild, Michael (1944-)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Michael_Goodchild
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