Oldfield

Over the past decade, location data and spatial analytics have played a transformative role in addressing a number of global issues. My interest has focused on improving public health and sustainable communities through improved sharing of geospatial information.

From 2003-2008 I coordinated applied R&D for implementation of geospatial interoperability standards (WMS, WFS, WPS) to exchange, integrate, and visualize distributed health and environmental information. The applications studied involved chronic illness, public health resources, critical infrastructure, pollution, meteorological information, and pandemic surveillance and control through an improved Common Operating Picture.