Our key focus areas, detailed in our critical policy issues and questions below, are as follows:
• How emerging and developing technologies are likely to impact the future UK geospatial ecosystem, and how best to track its adoption and use in the economy.
• Further developing our understanding and methodology for valuing location data, applications and services to the economy and society.
• Building confidence in the geospatial ecosystem – including understanding changing public attitudes and growing the future pipeline of geospatial skills.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
The VALUES project seeks to combine environmental data sets to build a prototype Geographical Information System (GIS) based tool which will support identification of optimum routes for large scale corridor style infrast...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: SCOTTISH HYDRO ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION PLC
Partially relevant as it focuses on land use decision making but not specifically on improving connections between analysts and decision makers.
PLUS Change brings together 23 institutions from across Europe including 5 Universities, 5 research institutes, 3 stakeholder network organisations, 1 performing arts collective, and 9 practice partners representing regi...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL
Partially relevant as it addresses land use strategies and decision-making processes but not specifically on improving connections between analysts and decision makers.
The Strategic Priority Fund (SPF) programme 'Landscape Decisions: towards a new framework for using land assets' is delivering a new framework for land management decisions. It draws on social science, economics, natural...
Funded by: SPF
Lead research organisation: University of Leicester
Partially relevant as it focuses on delivering a new framework for land management decisions but not specifically on improving connections between analysts and decision makers.