Manfred Ehlers on the Main Challenge of GIScience
January 19, 2009
Further fodder for the “Is GIS a science?” debate: a brief YouTube video of Manfred Ehlers, Professor for GIS and Remote Sensing and Director, Research Center for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (FZG), University of Osnabrueck, Germany. Ehlers sees the main challenge as being “to establish our discipline as an innovative scientific field that we have to show is the equivalent of other new sciences that have evolved over the last 10 to 15 years.” He draws a comparison to computer science, which he says “used to be a part of mathematics. Now computer science is a scientific field in its own right.” The video was recorded at the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) meeting in Potsdam, Germany in November 2008.
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