The videos for the Platial’21 International Symposium on Platial Information Science, which was held on 15-17 December are now online. Click here for a link to the video playlist. And click here to see the video of Johanna and Kristin’s presentation My Favourite Place – Exploring Reasons for Place Preference, which analyses the results ofContinue reading “Platial’21 Videos Now Available”
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Massey to host New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference
The New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference 2022 will be hosted at Massey University’s Wellington Campus on 29-30 August. The conference theme is finding our way to an open world. The past two years have seen increased restrictions on physical movement around the world, but also increased need for cross-border, cross-discipline and cross-domain data access, use,Continue reading “Massey to host New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference”
BioGeoRef2021 Mini-Hackathon won by University of Melbourne Team
Congratulations to Ehsan Hamzei, Kamal Akbari and Kimia Amoozadeh from the University of Melbourne for winning the BioGeoRef2021 mini-hackathon! The BioGeoRef2021 mini-hackathon was held on December 13th at the recent Spatial Data Science Symposium 2021. Participants were challenged to develop the most accurate method to georeference text locality strings that described the location at which biologicalContinue reading “BioGeoRef2021 Mini-Hackathon won by University of Melbourne Team”
PLATIAL’21 Next Week – links to papers
The PLATIAL’21 conference starts next Wed (or Thursday NZ time). We will be presenting a paper on place preference in New Zealand, exploring the question of what makes a place a favourite place: My Favourite Place – Exploring Reasons For Place PreferenceJohanna Richardson (Massey University, NZ), Kristin Stock (Massey University, NZ)https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767178 Conference Summary People “live”Continue reading “PLATIAL’21 Next Week – links to papers”
Georeferencing Hackathon at Spatial Data Science Symposium – win $250!
As part of the BioWhere project, we are leading a mini-hackathon at the upcoming Spatial Data Science Symposium. It will be held on line, so anyone can join. Come along and share your ideas about how to address this challenge! Title: BioGeoRef2021: Georeferencing Biological Locality Descriptions Tentative Date and Time: Tuesday 14th December 2:00 –Continue reading “Georeferencing Hackathon at Spatial Data Science Symposium – win $250!”
AI and the Future of Environmental Science: 1 hour workshop
This interesting event is being run by the TAIAO Project, University of Waikato. Join this online event to find out more about the work underway to enable the next level of data science to provide robust and fit-for-purpose tools and methods that are accessible and useful to researchers and practitioners across all areas of theContinue reading “AI and the Future of Environmental Science: 1 hour workshop”
ISCRAM Asia Pacific – New Dates
The second Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) Asia Pacific regional conference (postponed from this year) will take place on 7-9 November 2022 at RMIT University in Melbourne, and online. There will be a geospatial track, so if you are doing any work with geospatial data and disasters, either research or practitioner, pleaseContinue reading “ISCRAM Asia Pacific – New Dates”
CrisisLab Webinar: Thoughts on Earthquake Early Warning in Southwest Iceland
NZGIS4EM Special Interest Group meeting for 2021
The NZ GIS for Emergency Management will meet on 10th November from 10:00 – 11.45am. Presentations include: NEMA Geospatial Snapshot – Anna Mason, National Emergency Management Agency Manaaki: Tirohanga Mōrearea – Chris Kumeroa, Global Risk Consulting Group Facilitating Farmers to get back Farming after the Canterbury Floods – Louise Gibson, Federated Farmers How Geospatial SolutionsContinue reading “NZGIS4EM Special Interest Group meeting for 2021”
COSIT Call for Papers
The Call for Papers for the 15TH CONFERENCE ON SPATIAL INFORMATION THEORY has been released. See details below. Kobe, Japan, September 5-9, 2022 THE CONFERENCE We are very pleased to announce that the 15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2022, will be held in Kobe, Japan, September 5-9, 2022. Established in 1993, theContinue reading “COSIT Call for Papers”
Massey Geoinformatics Collaboratory 