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Speaker

Daniel Krol, Sandstorm Community Project

Abstract

In the modern era of data collection by governments and corporations, concerns have grown over user privacy and autonomy in personal and cloud computing. One outgrowth of this concern is the "self-hosting" movement which promotes open source web applications that are made for users to install and manage themselves, ideally on their own hardware. Self-hosting is an alternative to using... Read more about Desert Atlas: Building A Self-Hosted, Collaborative, Online Map that is Easy and Private (GIS Colloquium)

Speakers

The Spatial Data Lab Team (see full list below)

Abstract

This seminar will introduce the KNIME Analytics Platform and its Geospatial Analytics extension developed by the Spatial Data Lab (SDL) team at Harvard's Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA). The SDL team members will share the presentations, presenting the project's vision and demonstrating the new way of performing geospatial...

Lead Instructor

Jeff Blossom

Description

This full-day workshop offers hands on instruction on learning and applying several GIS and mapping techniques commonly used by those practicing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The workshop will include discussion and interactive exercises aimed to contextualize the usage of geography and maps for each participant's individual research or teaching interests.

Specifically,...

Speaker

Dr. Jan Kinne

Abstract

ISTARI webAI is an AI-based analysis tool that can be used to retrieve and analyze company websites. WebAI is primarily used to provide a searchable, real-time view of the activities and technologies of approximately 20 million companies in Europe and North America. For this research project, the websites of tens of thousands of Ukrainian companies have been scanned monthly using webAI starting in September 2022 and analyzed in terms of their communications related to the Russian-...

Presenter

Dr. Compton J. Tucker

Abstract

Dr. Compton Tucker will describe the marriage of commercial satellite data, machine learning with high performance computing, and field measurements, which together enabled the carbon content of ten billion semi-arid trees to be estimated with an uncertainty of ±20% over an area of 10 million km2. Dr Tucker found that his team's results differ from all previous studies using observations, and from numerical simulation models. The voluminous output data required the...

Lead Instructor: Robert Spang
Co-Instructors: Devika Kakkar and Xiaokang Fu

Mode

Full-day, on-site workshop with limited capacity (maximum of 20 participants)

Topics Covered

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Speaker

Robert Spang, M.Sc.

Abstract

This presentation will provide an academic overview of a comprehensive study conducted on mobility among older adults in rural Germany, together with the Charité University Hospital Berlin. The emphasis will be on the technological frameworks and analytical methodologies utilized for assessing participant mobility. Central to this research is a novel algorithm, designed by Robert, for the precise analysis of GPS data. This methodology has further applications, exemplified by its...

Lead Instructor: Jeff Blossom

Download workshop materials here.

This workshop is offered every semester as a basic introduction to GIS. The topics covered are:

1. What is GIS, mapping, and spatial data.
2. GIS data types  and file formats.
3. GIS analysis, problem solving, and case studies... Read more about Basic Intro to GIS

Download workshop materials here.

This workshop is offered every semester as a basic introduction to GIS. The topics covered are:

1. What is GIS, mapping, and spatial data.
2. GIS data types  and file formats.
3. GIS analysis, problem solving, and case studies.

Learning objectives:

• To gain an...

Lunch will be provided for those attending in person.

To attend remotely, please register at this Zoom link.

Presentation by Dr. Qunshan Zhao

Abstract

Trees provide cooling benefits through shading and evapotranspiration; they are regarded as an important measure in heat-resilient urban planning and policies. Knowing where to plant trees for maximum cooling benefits, given practical and...

Register in advance to attend the meeting virtually via Zoom.

Presentation by Dr. Ziqi Li, University of Glasgow

Abstract

AI has demonstrated remarkable performance and has become pervasive in people's daily lives, with recent examples such as ChatGPT. AI has also achieved success in predictive tasks across a wide range of geospatial applications. However, a significant criticism of AI lies in its lack of explainability...