Anselin Receives Cooperative Agreement from U.S. Army Research Lab

On December 13, 2007, Foundation Professor and Director, Luc Anselin was invited to submit a full proposal and subsequently received a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, IL. In his project, entitled ‘A Socio-Cultural Geospatial Analysis and Modeling Framework in Support of Stability Operations and Infrastructure Applications,' Luc proposes a methodological and conceptual framework for geospatial analysis that relates the spatial event data to the characteristics of the physical and socio-economic context in order to explain the dynamics of events in function of changes in the surrounding context. This will provide the basis for a future methodological approach that moves from data exploration and pattern recognition to explanatory modeling and prediction. This project is envisaged consisting of a number of phases. Beyond the first phase of conceptual model development, three further one year phases are outlined for future work, in which the conceptual model is implemented through exploratory spatial data analysis, spatial regression modeling and modeling of space-time dynamics, accompanied by software development to support these analyses in an operational context.

Performance Period: 2/1/08 - 9/30/08
Award Amount: $175,000