Committee Participants

• Alan Leidner, NYC GISMO, Chair
• Greg Andersen, NYS Geospatial Services
• Chris Bradicich, Live XYZ
• Adrian Cattell, Town of Malta
• Jeff Herter, NYS Department of State​
• Wayne Howard, Monroe Community College
• Dawn F. McCall, Control Point Associates
• Bill Ostrander, Chemung Valley Audubon Society
• Chris Rado, NYC Dept of Info Tech and Telecomm
• Finn Robertson, Livingston County

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Mission

The NYS GIS Association recognizes that these new capabilities have the potential to vastly improve human life. They are expected to be particularly useful for applications that require the management of multiple activities across large areas such as entire counties and cities, states, and nations; involve thousands or millions of individual actors; demand complex analysis and workflow support; and need real time data refreshment and recalculation to keep intelligence current. Areas where GeoAI is seen as a game changer include: disaster preparedness and response; supply chain management; use of automated vehicles; property assessment and taxation; epidemiology and pandemic response; public safety; and national defense. Consequently, the NYS GIS Association intends to play a key role in identifying and implementing GeoAI capabilities so that they provide the highest possible level of benefits to our State.

Committee Goals

Therefore, the NYS GIS Association hereby establishes a Geospatial Artificial/Advanced Intelligence (GeoAI) Committee whose purposes will be:

• Technology Awareness: Identify innovative GeoAI tools, agents, and capabilities and bring them to the attention of Association members.
• Research and Innovation: Guide GeoAI research and development efforts to address New York State private and public needs.
• Education and Outreach: Inform New York State and its local governments about educational practices that will enhance the public’s ability to use GeoAI for their own benefit: on the job, at home, and in the community.
• Economic Development: Foster the development of GeoAI oriented private sector companies in New York State.
• Ethics and Governance: Explore ways of minimizing abuses and inaccuracies of GeoAI, while maximizing effectiveness and public trust.
• Data Standards and Infrastructure: Support Enterprise GIS, robust metadata, and geospatial data standards, to ensure high quality, interoperable datasets for use with GeoAI tools and applications.
• Promote Collaboration: Work with other governments and organizations to develop GeoAI based solutions of benefit to New York State.