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2. Lab of the Month GeoDa Centre, Arizona State University, USA By Suchith Anand Table of Contents Suchith Anand, Editorial Nottingham Geospatial Institute, University of 1. Activities …………………..……… 1 Nottingham, UK 2. Lab of the month..…............. 1 Editorial Board ………………....…. 2 1. Activities of Dear Geo4All Colleagues, 3. Events …………………..…....……. 4 It is my great pleasure, to introduce 4. Conferences ……….…….…….… 4 the Network our colleagues at GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation 5. Webinars ………………………….. 6 at the Arizona State University as our 6. Courses ………….…….…………... 7 Ottawa, Ontario, OSGeo Meetup “Geo4All” lab of the month. Group meets on the third 7. Training programs ……………. 7 The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Thursday of each month. If you 8. Key research publications… 8 Analysis and Computation develops are located in the area, go to the 9. Funding opportunities state-of-the-art methods for link to sign up to the group and geospatial analysis, geovisualization, 10. Free and open software, geosimulation, and spatial process open data ………….….…..………… 9 get updates about future events. modeling, implements them through 11. Free Books open source software tools, applies OpenStreetMap webinar and 12. Articles …………………......... 11 them to policy-relevant research in Humanitarian Mapathons took the social and environmental sciences, 13. Scholarships for students th place in May 5 in GEOlab, and disseminates them through and staff …………….……………… 15 Politecnico di Milano. For those training and support to a growing 14. Exchange programs for students and staff interested in the slides and videos worldwide community. The GeoDa please go to Center deals with research questions 15. Awards ………….….………….. 12 http://www.geoforall.org/webina at different spatial scales, from the 16. Web sites local to the global. Application areas rs/ the official site of the webinars 17. Ideas ……………….........……. 12 include a range of substantive fields, of Geo4All. 18. Social contribution ……….. 13 such as regional science, economic geography, environmental economics, criminology, public health, and other social and natural sciences. Research in the GeoDa Center has focused on spatial statistical model specification, clustering, exploratory analysis, geovisual analytics, spatial optimization and GIS development to address a range of important problems. continued on page 4 Editorial Board Please refer to the appropriate person according to the following table: Chief Editor Nikos Lambrinos, Associate Professor, Dept. of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Oceania President of the Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence [email protected] Co-editor Rizwan Bulbul, Assistant Professor of GIScience India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Head of Geospatial Research and Education Lab Burma, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Department of Space Science, Institute of Space Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, United Arab Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan Emirates, Kuwait and Islands of S. Pacific. [email protected] Co-editors Pavel Kikin, Senior Lecturer “Department of applied informatics and IT”, Siberian State University of Russia, Mongolia, China, Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam, Geosystems and Technologies Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Alexey Kolesnikov, Senior Lecturer “Department of Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines, cartography and GIS”, Siberian State University of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Geosystems and Technologies Kyrgyzstan. [email protected] Co -editor Rania Elsayed , Computers & Information Researcher, Division of Scientific Training & Continuous Studies, National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences, Africa Cairo, Egypt. [email protected] Co -editor Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Germany, Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Ela), Head of Education Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Unit UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic, [email protected] Slovakia. Co-editor Antoni Perez Navaro, Associate Professor at Universitat Portugal, Spain, France, U.K., Ireland, Iceland, Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Computer Sciences and Luxemburg, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Multimedia Department The Balkans. [email protected] Co -editor Emma Strong, GIS Coordinator with Southern Mississippi Planning and Development District North and Central America [email protected] Co-editor Sergio Acosta Y Lara, Departamento de Geomática Dirección, Nacional de Topografía, Ministerio de South America Transporte y Obras Públicas, URUGUAY [email protected] Production Designer Nikos Voudrislis, Principal of the 1st Primary School of Asvestochori, Thessaloniki, Greece, MSc, PhD candidate in Design and final formation of the newsletter geography education. [email protected] 2 GeoForAll Regional Chairs and Contact Information GeoForAll Themes North America Region . OpenCity Smart Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia), Patrick Hogan Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA) Subscribe at mail list (USA) http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi - Mail list: http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/ bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall -northamerica mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience Website: Email: [email protected] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart South America Region . Teacher Training & School Education Chairs: Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana (Poland), Nikos Lambrinos (Greece) Camboim (Brazil) Subscribe at mail list Mail list: geoforall-teachertraining@lists. http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- osgeo.org bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-southamerica Website: Email: [email protected] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTrai ning_SchoolEducation Africa Region . GeoForAll (GeoParaTodos) Themes in Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Spanish Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay), Antoni Africa) Subscribe at mail list Pérez Navarro (Spain) http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi - Mail list: Spanish : geoforall-spanish@ bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-africa lists.osgeo.org Email: [email protected] Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Spanish Asia Region (including Australia) . CitizenScience Chairs: Peter Mooney (Ireland) and Maria Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Brovelli (Italy) Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India) Subscribe at Mail list: https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-geocrowd bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-asiaaustralia Website: Email: [email protected] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geocrowdsourcing_Citi zenScience_FOSS4G Europe Region . AgriGIS Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney Chairs: Didier Leibovici (U.K.) and Nobusuke (Ireland) Subscribe at mail list Iwasaki (Japan) http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- Mail list: https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall -europe bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-agrigis Email: [email protected] Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Agrigis 3 continued from page 1 The aim of this workshop is to bring together key Examples of problem areas range from crime, water research leaders working in this area to discuss and management in desert cities, HIV/AIDS in plan the research agenda and future research collaborations. It will also link OpenCitySmart Mozambique, cancer, economic development, research collaborations. Limited to 30 people. property valuation and home foreclosures to human- elephant conflicts. Spatial software development Date: June, 8, 2016. For more details write to Suchith Anand [[email protected]] efforts are integrated with several major research projects. These research projects from flexible 3. The Ottawa users’ meetup group met on April 21. geospatial visual analytics to spatial decision support Fabien Ancelin presented on Voronoi Diagrams in GIS, system for minimizing nitrogen impacts demonstrates and the presentation slides can be viewed here. the breadth and depth of various interesting research being done at GeoDa Centre and more details of the 4. At the Colorado GIS in Higher Education Summit at various research projects can be found at UC Denver, Rafael Moreno-Sanchez presented on the http://geodacenter.asu.edu/research benefits of using FOSS4G software. Slides are available here. I would like to take this opportunity to also congratulate Prof. Sergio Rey 5. OSGeo had representation at the CubaConf, a [https://geoplan.asu.edu/sergio-rey] for winning the conference dedicated to free and open source UCGIS 2016 Research Award software, held at the end of April. See the link [http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/ucgis- provided for more information related to this event. 2016-research-prize-goes-to-serge-rey/465498]. We are grateful for Sergio and all his colleagues at GeoDa Centre at Arizona State University for their 4. Conferences contributions to Open Geospatial Science [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software],[ Asia https://geodacenter.asu.edu/research]. July 2016 On behalf of Geo4All community, I would like to 1. 25-27 July, 2016. International Conference on thank Luc Anselin, Julia Koschinsky, Elizabeth A. Surveing, Mapping and GeoInformation (ICSMG Wentz , Sergio J. Rey and all colleagues at the Arizona 2016). Suzhou, China. More details at State University for their help and for their http://www.engii.org/ws2016/Home.aspx?id=754 contributions to the Geo4All initiative