FAIR data

in Geographic Information Science

Hi! My name is Dr. Britta Ricker and

I like to use

Teaching

Co-Founded and Developed the

Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies 

UU - Environmental Impact Assessment 

Pathways to Sustainability 

Environmental Science Courses

Research

Cartography 

Open Data

Augmenting missing data

Cartography

Maps = Power

Waldseemüller map 1507

Maps --> Media

Applied

Quantitative

Theory

Qualitative

Knowledge Politics

Political Power

"...knowledge politics to be shaped by deeply institutionalized tendencies in planning and policy making to grant greater weight to knowledge expressed as quantitative data or represented in cartographic forms." 

Data Driven Decision Making

(Elwood & Leszczynski, 2012: 545)

GIS and

spatial media

(Ricker, 2017)

You can tell a lot about values based on the open data available

When Open Data Meet Activism

Vector

Raster

Local city data portals

Environmental Sensors

Global Satellite imagery

Drones

Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS)

Projects

How can we

harness the hype

of accessible technology

to make maps!

Share your data

Sentinel 2:

S2A (launched 23 June 2015)  and S2B (launched 7 March 2017)

Land use monitoring

Spectral signature

Bands and spectral signatures

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NDVI=NIR-IR/NIR+IR