InfoGuides: Big Data & Geovisualization: Research Centers

Digital Scholarship Center

Location:

2701 Fenwick Library
Fairfax Campus

Center for Intelligence Spatial Computing (CISC): Capability to do spatial cloud computing, fast distributed geospatial information processing, real-time traffic routing, global water cycle and hydrology, grid enabling dust-storm and public health simulations, homeland security and disaster management, and many more.
Center fo Earth Observing and Space Research (CEOSR): Focus on interdisciplinary research related to satellite platforms and remote sensing (data acquisition and processing).
Center for GeoSpatial Intelligence (CGEOINT): Focus on research related to geospatial and spatial temporal information extraction, analysis and visualization.
Center for Spatial Information Science and System (CSISS): Research in spatial information science and system.
Center for Location Science: Focus on the locational analysis research and its related training.
Department of Computational and Data Science: See the data lab for activities related to big data analytics.
Environmental Science and Technology Center (ESTC): Focus on research projects including land, water, atmosphere environmental remote sensing.
Office of Research Computing: Mason's computer need request site for research.
I/UCRC for Spatialtemporal Thinking, Computing, and Applications
Transportation and Economic Development Research Centers (via School of Public Policy).
Research Centers via Volgenau School of Engineering: Center for Air Transporation System Research.

ICSU World Data System: Data services for international science community system
National Center for Atmospheric Research: Provides real-time atmospheric and weather data from satellites, radar and other research data archives.
National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis (NCGIA): Leading research projects related to GIS and analysis (at University of California-Santa Barbara).
NASA's Global Hydrology Research Center (GHRC): Archived data and associated tools related to hazardous weather (lighting, hurricanes, and storm-induced).
NSDA's National Resources Conservation Service: Focus on any projects related to conservation.
Earth Online: Earth Observation products and activities provided by the European Space Agency (see also ESRSC (European Association of Remote Sensing Companies).
SocioEconomic Data and Application Research Center (SEDAC): Include Earth Observation data in addition to census, household survey, and environmental data hosted by Columbia University.