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Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

Newsletter. December 2003

Contents
Web mapping: making geoinformation more widely available
Distinguished academics to visit GIS Centre
NEPAD: An important focus area for geoinformation
WHO Minimum Data Set (MDS) on ageing and older persons in Africa
Labour centre GIS: a foundation for the country's human resources development strategy
Where are all the pension pay points?
SADC GIS – a geoinformation foundation for the region
Impact of government programmes
New and proposed GIS data sets
Africa GIS Conference, Dakar, Senegal (3-7 November 2003)
Researching innovative methods in dissemination geoinformation: the pilot democracy and governance atlas

 

Two distinguished academics to visit GIS Centre

Professor David Martin, University of Southampton, visited the HSRC in November 2003 and Professor Tony Gatrell, Lancaster University, will conduct courses and deliver seminars on GIS and spatial modelling in February 2004.

Professor Martin's expertise is in census analysis methods, the spatial modelling of population and population applications in GIS. He literally “wrote” the book on socio-economic applications of GIS. Professor Tony Gatrell's research interests are primarily in the geography of health, particularly geographical epidemiology, the geography of health service provision, and geographical aspects of health inequalities. In this work he has made extensive use of spatial data analysis and Geographical Information Systems, co-authoring Interactive Spatial Data Analysis with Trevor Bailey in 1995. More recently, he has published Geographies of Health.
 
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