CGIS Knafel, room K262 (Bowie-Vernon room) or Virtual via Zoom
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)
CGIS South, room S050 (Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room) and virtual via Zoom
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...
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.
CGIS South, room S030 (Lee Gathering Room) or Online via Zoom
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-...
CGIS South, room S050 (Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room) and virtual via Zoom
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...
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...
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
"Extending Japanese Old Maps Online: GIS based Japanese Gazetteer"
Abstract
In this presentation Dr. Yano will detail the utility, functionality, and process of developing the web application Japanese Old Maps Online (Figure 1). Currently, we are working on extending this online system in order to build a GIS based Japanese gazetteer, which is an interactive place name dictionary that can search geospatial information from all regions of Japan, from past historical designations to current...
CGIS South Building, room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
This full-day workshop taught via Zoom video confernce focuses on the visual representation of geographic information. The first part will explore general reference cartography, and the fundamentals of conventional reference mapping. The second part will focus on statistical thematic cartography, and the use of GIS to generate visual representations of spatial information using both desktop (ArcGIS Pro) and web (ArcGIS Online) software. Experience with GIS software is not required of participants, however they must be familiar with basic computing tasks.
Yilan Xu (University of Illinois), "Modeling the Social Media Information Network Across Space"
Abstract
This paper takes a data-driven approach to model how social media information diffuses over geographic space to form an information network. Using an innovative variance decomposition of the vector autoregression model (Diebold & Yilmaz, 2009, 2012, 2014) and Hurricane Ida as a case study, we construct a weighted and directed climate disaster information network on Twitter described by an information network adjacency matrix....
