Samantha T. Arundel

Samantha T. Arundel

Dr. Samantha T. Arundel is the director of the Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS) at the U.S. Geological Survey. She also fills the role currently of Senior Science Advisor to the director of the USGS’ National Geospatial Program. Her research focuses on GeoAI, particularly automating terrain and other map feature detection and recognition and using GeoAI to integrate spatial analyses. She headed the development team in the automation of the 3D Elevation Program as it superseded the National Elevation Dataset. Sam has a special interest in operationalizing GeoAI research. Before joining the USGS in 2009, Dr. Arundel was an assistant and then associate professor of geography at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Sam has a Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University. 

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    Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS)
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    Director
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