Written by Tom Hengl

PERIOD: 3-10 May 2009

Background:

GEOSTAT (The full name of GEOSTAT is “Spatio-temporal data analysis with R+SAGA+Google Earth”) is a 5-day training course and a workshop, initiated by the author of this report, which is run 1-2 times a year at different locations in Europe, and in collaboration with a group of colleagues (Gerard B.M. Heuvelink, Edzer Pebesma, Victor Olaya Ferrero, Roger Bivand, Olaf Conrad, Alexander Brenning). GEOSTAT aims at PhD students and young professionals interested in using open source packages for combined statistical computing and geographical analysis. Read more →

Written by Tom Hengl

GeoEnv is a series of conferences that brings together scientists using geostatistics as a data analysis tool in various environmental fields from ecology, to geological mapping, climatology and geomorphology. Since 1996, GeoEnv conferences have been held biennially at venues across Europe. From the first conference in Lisbon, the event has been staged in Valencia (1998), Avignon (2000), Barcelona (2002), Neuchâtel (2004), and Rhodes (2006). The 2008 geoenv conference was held at the University of Southampton in the period from 6-10 September. Read more →

Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA) is a research society that meets regularly every year ever since 2001. The last seven meetings were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2007), Glasgow, UK (2006), Singapore (2005), Assisi, Italy (2004), Montreal, Canada (2003), and (as ICCS) Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2002) and San Francisco, USA (2001). The 2008 conference was held at the (Campus) University of Perugia at various locations (Department of Mathematics and Chemistry mainly). Read more →

Written by Tom Hengl

After 150 km of cycling (Jan Janssen classic) Gerard Heuvelink and I rushed to Schiphol to catch an airplane to Shanghai, and join the Spatial Accuracy 2008 conference. Spatial Accuracy is the biannual meeting of the ISARA (International Spatial Accuracy Research Association), researchers intersecting fields such as forest, land cover and climatic mapping and (geo)statistics. The group was initiated in 1994, and ever since seven meetings were organized: three in the USA, two in Europe, one in Canada and one in Australia. To improve the geographical representation and to make Accuracy truly a global research community, the 2008 conference was put in China (Shanghai). Read more →