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The '''University Consortium for Geographic Information Science''' ('''UCGIS''') is an academic non-profit organization dedicated to [[geographic information science]], incorporated in 1995 in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite web | title=History | website=Home | date=1995-08-03 | url=https://www.ucgis.org/history | access-date=2020-09-29}}</ref>
It fosters multidisciplinary cooperation among the academic disciplines of [[cartography]], [[cognitive science]], [[computer science]], [[engineering]] and [[land surveying]], [[environmental sciences]], [[geodetic science]], [[geography]], [[landscape architecture]], [[law studies|law]] and [[public policy]], [[remote sensing]] and [[photogrammetry]], as well as [[statistics]].<ref>{{cite web | title=About and Mission | website=Home | date=2012-10-22 | url=https://www.ucgis.org/about-and-mission | access-date=2020-09-29}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge]]
*[[National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis]]
==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite journal | last=Elmes | first=Gregory A. | title=The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science: Shaping the Future at Ten Years | journal=Transactions in GIS | publisher=Wiley | volume=9 | issue=3 | year=2005 | issn=1361-1682 | doi=10.1111/j.1467-9671.2005.00218.x | pages=273–276| s2cid=19893852 }}
* {{cite book | last=Goodchild | first=Michael F. | year=2008 | chapter=National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) | title=Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science | editor = K. Kemp | publisher=SAGE Publications, Inc. | isbn=978-1-4129-1313-3 | doi=10.4135/9781412953962.n139}}
* {{cite book | last1=McMaster | first1=R.B. | last2=Usery | first2=E.L. | title=A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science | publisher=CRC Press | year=2004 | isbn=978-1-000-61159-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jqabDwAAQBAJ | access-date=2020-09-29}}
==External links==
*{{Official website|https://www.ucgis.org/}}
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