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Geospatial Workforce Trends in the United States

Geospatial Workforce Trends in the United States

Lawrence E. Estaville
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 8
ISBN13: 9781466602588|ISBN10: 1466602589|EISBN13: 9781466602595
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0258-8.ch007
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Estaville, Lawrence E. "Geospatial Workforce Trends in the United States." Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends, edited by Donald P. Albert, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 82-89. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0258-8.ch007

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Estaville, L. E. (2012). Geospatial Workforce Trends in the United States. In D. Albert (Ed.), Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends (pp. 82-89). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0258-8.ch007

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Estaville, Lawrence E. "Geospatial Workforce Trends in the United States." In Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends, edited by Donald P. Albert, 82-89. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0258-8.ch007

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Abstract

Because of definitional problems regarding what is meant by the term “geospatial workforce,” specific reliable data are difficult to obtain about this increasingly important employment sector. This study reviews pertinent literature and U.S. Department of Labor datasets to corroborate the general sense that the geospatial workforce in the U.S. will continue robust expansion well into the next decade. However, because of this strong growth, an imbalance will remain in which demand outstrips supply, particularly in the more sophisticated modeling, design, and research positions, in the geospatial workforce.

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