Susan L. Cutter is a Carolina Distinguished professor of geography at the University of South Carolina where she directs the Hazards and Vulnerability Research ...

An interactive map made using GIS showing the rise in fuel prices by percentage displayed where they occur by major highway networks. Maps like this enable us to visualize socioeconomic challenges in ...

Over the past 50 years, geographers have embraced each new technological shift in geographic information systems (GIS)—the technology that turns location data into maps and insights about how places ...

Geographic information systems are crucial to the way governments plan and operate cities. From identifying flood zones to mapping prime farmland, GIS lets officials respond to the changing land ...

In the innovation age, Geographic Information Systems are central to many of society's most essential functions. Imagine what it can do for a generation of tech-literate learners. On a crisp day in ...

As the COVID-19 virus continues to rage, the announcement of potentially safe and effective vaccines from companies like Moderna and Pfizer brings some hope. A key challenge will be how to distribute ...

Carmelle Terborgh gets a little tired of explaining to people why geography excites her. “Sometimes you tell people, ‘I’m a geographer,’ ” Terborgh said, “and people say, ‘So, you know where all the ...

In 2022, most of us use a GPS mapping system to get where we are going, but Tulsa firefighters don't leave their station without an old-fashioned, paper map book. "It's the first go-to tool when you ...

Josh Boudi recalls how sore his eyes would get from staring at linier parcel maps from the Rock Island County supervisor of assessment's office as he traced them digitally. That was 1996, when the ...