Project Team and Funding

Michael Goodchild, Richard Appelbaum, UC Santa Barbara
Luc Anselin (Software Tools Program)

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Time Frame: October 1999 to June 2004

Project Overview

The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) is a five-year project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF BCS 9978058) under its program of support for infrastructure in the social and behavioral sciences. CSISS promotes an integrated approach to social science research that recognizes the importance of location, space, spatiality and place.

One of the CSISS programs is devoted to "Spatial Analytic Tools" for the social sciences. It is directed by Luc Anselin and housed in the Spatial Analysis Laboratory of the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The Tools Project aims to develop and disseminate a powerful and easy to use suite of software for spatial data analysis, to advance methods of statistical analysis to account for spatial effects, and to integrate these developments with GIS capabilities.

More information about specific CSISS Tools.

 Last updated January 5, 2006