University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science is an academic non-profit organization dedicated to geographic information science, incorporated in 1995 in Washington, D.C.
It fosters multidisciplinary cooperation among the academic disciplines of cartography, cognitive science, computer science, engineering and land surveying, environmental sciences, geodetic science, geography, landscape architecture, law and public policy, remote sensing and photogrammetry, as well as statistics.