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:
COVID-19 is disrupting UK education in significant ways. The sudden shift to home learning creates unique challenges for geography teachers and students, since an integral part of the discipline involves fieldwork and fi...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: THE GEOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION
The project focuses on providing support and leadership for geography education, including fieldwork and first-hand investigation, which is relevant to understanding changing public attitudes and growing the future pipeline of geospatial skills.
The world faces major challenges associated with climate change, city management, the environment, natural resources and population growth. The pace of change means existing monitoring and reacting are no longer appropri...
Funded by: ISCF
Lead research organisation: GEOSPATIAL INSIGHT LIMITED