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Dynamic and interactive mapping informed by rigorous geospatial analysis and modeling is urgently needed for understanding how COVID-19 spreads across a number of spatial and temporal scales in different population contexts and for supporting decision making to mitigate the spread and save lives. However, such geospatial analysis and modeling are often computation- and data-intensive, and thus requires integration with and enablement by cyberGIS – geographic information science and systems (GIS) based on advanced cyberinfrastructure. Therefore, the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has established the WhereCOVID-19 platform (https://wherecovid19.cigi.illinois.edu/) to pursue important knowledge of multi-scale spread and impacts of COVID-19 while producing a unique and critically urgent capability for spatial decision support.
This presentation discusses the design and implementation of the WhereCOVID-19 platform through the lens of a case study on rapidly measuring spatial accessibility of COVID-19 healthcare resources with a particular focus on Illinois, USA.
