About us

At the Spatial Sciences Institute, we turn geospatial data into solutions for a healthy, prosperous and safe world. By harnessing the power of geospatial sciences and technologies, we foster collaboration, build consensus and support actions that tackle intractable global challenges.

Through our innovative research and academic programs, we educate and launch today’s and tomorrow’s spatial problem solvers to deploy spatiotemporal perspectives and insights across every possible discipline and industry.

We collaborate with faculty colleagues throughout the University of Southern California and with other prestigious institutions around the world on funded research that provides decision makers and citizens with strategies towards a more sustainable life on Planet Earth.

WELCOME

It’s in our DNA to make a difference with spatial thinking and digital geography.

As front-line researchers and educators, we are dedicated to:

• • deploying the power of people, place and time;
  • presenting information as maps;
  • promoting environmental sustainability and human well-being; and
  • fostering actionable research and informed decision-making.

Our partners are a cross-cutting array of researchers, businesses, non-profits, NGOs and other entities from a wide range of disciplines and industries that analyze, model and visualize location-based data.Our undergraduate, masters and doctoral students and alumni are change agents, empowered with capabilities to help address global challenges.

Our internationally-recognized faculty are contributors to the rapidly-evolving body of geospatial knowledge.

Join with us as we plumb the depths of data to bring out the compelling stories in search of solutions, answers and decisions for a more sustainable and healthy planet.

With kind regards,
John P. Wilson
Founding Director, Spatial Sciences Institute; Co-Director, Measurement and Modeling Core, Southern California Health Sciences Research Center; Professor, Department of Sociology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; School of Architecture; Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; and Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC; Editor, Transactions in GIS