HARLAN ONSRUD
Harlan ONSRUD, University of Maine, USA is Professor of Spatial Information Science and Engineering at the University of Maine. His research focuses on the analysis of legal, ethical, and institutional issues affecting the creation and use of digital spatial databases and the assessment of the social impacts of spatial technologies. He teaches courses in information systems law, cadastral and land information systems, environmental law and information ethics.
Professor Onsrud is Chair of the U.S. National Committee for CODATA, and currently serves on the Mapping Science Committee within the Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources of the U.S. NRC. A licensed engineer and attorney, he is co-chair of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Legal and Economics Working Group and is immediate past-president of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. He recently stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA Journal) and has published in numerous engineering, GIS, and legal journals.
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