#giscience — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #giscience, aggregated by home.social.
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glad to see equal representation at the #ageo award for #giscience theses at #agit2026 with 3/5 awards going to young female researchers. stark contrast to the last data science student award ceremony I attended where all awards went to male students
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glad to see equal representation at the #ageo award for #giscience theses at #agit2026 with 3/5 awards going to young female researchers. stark contrast to the last data science student award ceremony I attended where all awards went to male students
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📘 Geomorphometry: Concepts, Software, Applications (2nd ed.) by Reuter, Grohmann & Lecours is coming this fall!
A new edition covering approaches and applications in quantitative terrain analysis and Earth surface processes.
https://shop.elsevier.com/books/geomorphometry/reuter/978-0-443-33376-7
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📘 Geomorphometry: Concepts, Software, Applications (2nd ed.) by Reuter, Grohmann & Lecours is coming this fall!
A new edition covering approaches and applications in quantitative terrain analysis and Earth surface processes.
https://shop.elsevier.com/books/geomorphometry/reuter/978-0-443-33376-7
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🌍 New paper on key challenges in spatial machine learning!
We discuss six major topics shaping the field: model validation, performance metrics, uncertainty quantification, algorithmic diversity, software implementation, and modeling protocols. The paper highlights persistent challenges around robust evaluation and reproducibility in geospatial ML workflows.
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🌍 New paper on key challenges in spatial machine learning!
We discuss six major topics shaping the field: model validation, performance metrics, uncertainty quantification, algorithmic diversity, software implementation, and modeling protocols. The paper highlights persistent challenges around robust evaluation and reproducibility in geospatial ML workflows.
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Do I have any followers here who used scikit-mobility's human mobility metrics?
Since #skmob isn't maintained anymore, we're considering porting the essential functionality to @movingpandas and would love to have more feedback, especially if it's first-hand experience with the functionality:
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Do I have any followers here who used scikit-mobility's human mobility metrics?
Since #skmob isn't maintained anymore, we're considering porting the essential functionality to @movingpandas and would love to have more feedback, especially if it's first-hand experience with the functionality:
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Make geospatial matter: “What must the #GIScience community do to matter?” An article by the Geographic Data Service reports from a roundtable discussion that has found the geospatial field “strategically undervalued” and institutionally isolated. @alexsingleton, director of the GeoDS, argues that spatial thinking should be treated as foundational, not as a specialism.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/03/15-make-geospatial-matter/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS -
Make geospatial matter: “What must the #GIScience community do to matter?” An article by the Geographic Data Service reports from a roundtable discussion that has found the geospatial field “strategically undervalued” and institutionally isolated. @alexsingleton, director of the GeoDS, argues that spatial thinking should be treated as foundational, not as a specialism.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/03/15-make-geospatial-matter/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@xlth/116144192667591833
Not the ideal conditions for geospatial applications of VLMs 😅
#GIScience #VLM #spatiotemporal #MobilityDataScience #SpatialDataScience
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@xlth/116144192667591833
Not the ideal conditions for geospatial applications of VLMs 😅
#GIScience #VLM #spatiotemporal #MobilityDataScience #SpatialDataScience
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Just released Scientific Toolkit v2.0 — an open‑source, cross‑disciplinary environment for geochemistry, archaeology, GIS, and lab/field analysis.
Designed to make advanced scientific workflows accessible, modular, and fully reproducible.🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/Sefy76-Curiosity/Basalt-Provenance-Triage-Toolkit (github.com in Bing)
📄 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18727756 (doi.org in Bing)#OpenScience #ResearchSoftware #Geochemistry #Archaeology #GIScience #Python #OpenSource #AcademicTools #DataAnalysis
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Just released Scientific Toolkit v2.0 — an open‑source, cross‑disciplinary environment for geochemistry, archaeology, GIS, and lab/field analysis.
Designed to make advanced scientific workflows accessible, modular, and fully reproducible.🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/Sefy76-Curiosity/Basalt-Provenance-Triage-Toolkit (github.com in Bing)
📄 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18727756 (doi.org in Bing)#OpenScience #ResearchSoftware #Geochemistry #Archaeology #GIScience #Python #OpenSource #AcademicTools #DataAnalysis
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It is nice to see a collaboration long in the works finally published.
We collaborated with #TalTech researchers Kofoworola Modupe Osunkoya and Jenni Partanen on a study of #UrbanVitality in #Tallinn #Estonia. We used a previously established framework to assess urban vitality and expanded it with information on dynamic linguistic diversity.
Essentially, dynamic perspectives are crucial in assessing urban vitality.
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It is nice to see a collaboration long in the works finally published.
We collaborated with #TalTech researchers Kofoworola Modupe Osunkoya and Jenni Partanen on a study of #UrbanVitality in #Tallinn #Estonia. We used a previously established framework to assess urban vitality and expanded it with information on dynamic linguistic diversity.
Essentially, dynamic perspectives are crucial in assessing urban vitality.
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📢 Call for Nominations — IJGI Young Investigator Award 2026
The International Journal of Geo‑Information (IJGI) has extended the nomination deadline!
📅 New deadline: 28 February 2026
🏆 Prize: CHF 2,000, certificate & a full APC waiver👩🎓 Eligibility:
– PhD awarded ≤10 years before 31 Dec 2025
– Ground‑breaking contribution to geographic information
– Nominated by senior scientists🔗 Details & nominations:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/awards/3154#IJGI #YoungInvestigatorAward #GIScience #GeoInformation #GIS
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🗺️ fastfocal: fast moving-window and point extraction for rasters in R, optimized for large windows and common focal stats via FFT. Built on terra.
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🗺️ fastfocal: fast moving-window and point extraction for rasters in R, optimized for large windows and common focal stats via FFT. Built on terra.
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How can we embed innovation into our daily work? 🤔
At HeiGIT, we create space to experiment with new ideas and technologies, without immediate pressure to deliver results. This led to #Innovation Weeks, later evolving into Innovation Summer ☀️, giving teams more flexibility to explore their ideas.
Taking time to try something new, even if it might not succeed, has already led to successful tools like #MapSwipe and #SketchMapTool
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How can we embed innovation into our daily work? 🤔
At HeiGIT, we create space to experiment with new ideas and technologies, without immediate pressure to deliver results. This led to #Innovation Weeks, later evolving into Innovation Summer ☀️, giving teams more flexibility to explore their ideas.
Taking time to try something new, even if it might not succeed, has already led to successful tools like #MapSwipe and #SketchMapTool
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Pretty cool!
My abstract got accepted to the World Planning Schools Congress! It has a different audience from my own field, so I am hoping for good discussion from fresh perspectives.
The conference is organized only every five years and this is its first time in Europe and as it is in town next summer, so it fits perfectly into my schedule. It will likely be the last time I'll yap about student #mobility for a while as new #GIScience projects are on my horizon!
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Pretty cool!
My abstract got accepted to the World Planning Schools Congress! It has a different audience from my own field, so I am hoping for good discussion from fresh perspectives.
The conference is organized only every five years and this is its first time in Europe and as it is in town next summer, so it fits perfectly into my schedule. It will likely be the last time I'll yap about student #mobility for a while as new #GIScience projects are on my horizon!
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📢 The next paper exploring the reproducibility of #GIScience publications is out!
I'm extremely grateful for the continued collaboration with @f_ostermann & Carlos Granell & others, and excited about the results. We collected evidence that the combination of reproducibility guidelines and reproducibility reviews can indeed improve the potential reproducibility of data/software-based research publications.
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📢 The next paper exploring the reproducibility of #GIScience publications is out!
I'm extremely grateful for the continued collaboration with @f_ostermann & Carlos Granell & others, and excited about the results. We collected evidence that the combination of reproducibility guidelines and reproducibility reviews can indeed improve the potential reproducibility of data/software-based research publications.
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After several weeks of thinking and DEM preprocessing, I finally generated a complete geomorphons map for the part of Inhulets River basin (Ukraine).
It was far from easy — the original Copernicus GLO-30 DEM required careful cleaning, correction, and multi-step preparation before meaningful terrain forms could emerge.What makes geomorphons truly valuable for me is how well they correspond to geochemical landscape types — eluvial, transeluvial, superaquatic, and subaquatic zones.
This overlap allows interpreting geomorphons as functional terrains with distinct element migration patterns, bridging geomorphology and environmental geochemistry.All computations were done using R + SAGA GIS + QGIS, with the excellent Rsagacmd package for seamless tool integration.
#Geomorphons #SAGAGIS #Rsagacmd #QGIS #Geochemistry #RStats #Geospatial #Hydrology #RemoteSensing #Copernicus #OpenData #GIScience #InhuletsRiver #EnvironmentalGeochemistry #FOSS
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📚 A short note for those who just joined my profile
Over the past few days, I’ve been sharing many posts — not for promotion, but to open parts of my long-term research archive.
During more than a decade of independent work, I’ve accumulated a huge amount of data, methods, and materials: from geochemical modeling and groundwater studies to urban greenness mapping and environmental visualization.
Many of these works were completed years ago but remained unpublished outside of narrow expert circles — so I’m gradually bringing them here, one by one, to make them visible and interconnected.
The pace will slow down soon 🙂 — what you’re seeing now is a process of unfolding a whole scientific story.
#OpenScience #Geochemistry #Hydrology #GIScience #EnvironmentalData #UrbanEcology #IndependentResearch #ScienceCommunication #DataVisualization #Rstats #QGIS #SAGAGIS #FOSS #Linux #DataScience
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📚 A short note for those who just joined my profile
Over the past few days, I’ve been sharing many posts — not for promotion, but to open parts of my long-term research archive.
During more than a decade of independent work, I’ve accumulated a huge amount of data, methods, and materials: from geochemical modeling and groundwater studies to urban greenness mapping and environmental visualization.
Many of these works were completed years ago but remained unpublished outside of narrow expert circles — so I’m gradually bringing them here, one by one, to make them visible and interconnected.
The pace will slow down soon 🙂 — what you’re seeing now is a process of unfolding a whole scientific story.
#OpenScience #Geochemistry #Hydrology #GIScience #EnvironmentalData #UrbanEcology #IndependentResearch #ScienceCommunication #DataVisualization #Rstats #QGIS #SAGAGIS #FOSS #Linux #DataScience
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🏙️ The Hellish Trade Zones
(Ukrainian: “Торговельні пекельні зони”)An older piece from 2017 — but still relevant today.
Using Landsat-8 thermal imagery, I explored how urban heat islands form in large commercial and industrial areas completely devoid of vegetation.These “hellish trade zones” show surface temperatures exceeding 45–50 °C, while nearby shelterbelts and green spaces remain much cooler.
The visual storytelling approach — combining satellite data, maps, and simple explanations — helped raise public awareness about urban greening and environmental health in my city.📍 Location: Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
🛰️ Data: Landsat-8 (July 15, 2016), thermal band 10 + NDVI
🔗 More: https://www.datastory.org.ua/%d1%82%d0%be%d1%80%d0%b3%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b5%d0%bb%d1%8c%d0%bd%d1%96-%d0%bf%d0%b5%d0%ba%d0%b5%d0%bb%d1%8c%d0%bd%d1%96-%d0%b7%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%b8/#UrbanHeatIsland #RemoteSensing #Landsat #UrbanEcology #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalData #UrbanGreening #Geospatial #GIScience #OpenScience #DataVisualization #Ukraine #Sustainability #KryvyiRih #UrbanHealth
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🗺️ Making atlases better, one version at a time
Not everything works perfectly on the first try — sometimes the most obvious design ideas come late and suddenly! 🤣
Here’s one example: showing community boundaries so that people unfamiliar with cartography can at least find their own street.
In the second version (right), I added a subtle shading effect that keeps the map’s analytical context but visually highlights the selected community.
Each atlas is generated automatically in QGIS Report Designer — one atlas per city sector, with multiple communities.
That means this improvement wasn’t just “drawing a border manually,” but rather a data-driven programming and sorting task integrated into the atlas workflow.🟩 Left: earlier version
🟩 Right: current improved version#QGIS #Cartography #DataVisualization #UrbanMapping #GIScience #OpenData #GeospatialAnalysis #Calgary #Automation #AtlasDesign #Rstats #RemoteSensing #Copernicus #Sentinel2 #GreennessOfCalgary #UrbanEcology #OpenStreetMap #Alberta #Canada
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🌊 Hydrological patterns in the Inhulets River Basin
I’m working on a large-scale study of the technogenic impact on the Inhulets River system (Ukraine).
The workflow combines R + SAGA GIS + QGIS for geomorphometric and hydrological analysis.Over the past week, I’ve been refining digital elevation models and tracing surface runoff connectivity — not an easy task in a region reshaped by century of mining.
The map below shows one of the calmest and most “well-behaved” areas, far from the mining zone.
As for the drainage network over the mining areas… let’s just say it’s geological chaos down there 😄🛰️ Data: Copernicus DEM (GLO-30)
🧭 Tools: SAGA GIS (Terrain Analysis), R, QGIS#Hydrology #Geomorphometry #SAGAGIS #QGIS #RStats #DEM #GIScience #EnvironmentalModeling #MiningImpact #Geodata #InhuletsRiver #Ukraine #KryvyiRih #Copernicus #CopernicusDem
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A Five-Year Milestone - Reflections On Advances And Limitations In GeoAI Research
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https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~yhu42/papers/2024_AnnalsofGIS_GeoAI.pdf <-- shared 2024 paper
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104368 <-- shared 2025 paper
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[GeoAI has changed markedly since this 1st paper was written, but there is still much value in what it states]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #AI #spatialanalysis #GeoAI #theory #perspectives #Giscience #geography #advances #limitations #model #modeling #spatiallyexplicit #realworld #usecase #application #problemsolving #AAG #research #appliedscience #generalizability
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A Five-Year Milestone - Reflections On Advances And Limitations In GeoAI Research
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https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~yhu42/papers/2024_AnnalsofGIS_GeoAI.pdf <-- shared 2024 paper
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104368 <-- shared 2025 paper
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[GeoAI has changed markedly since this 1st paper was written, but there is still much value in what it states]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #AI #spatialanalysis #GeoAI #theory #perspectives #Giscience #geography #advances #limitations #model #modeling #spatiallyexplicit #realworld #usecase #application #problemsolving #AAG #research #appliedscience #generalizability
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The #AGIT2026 call for papers is out:
Short paper submission deadline: March 1, 2026
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The #AGIT2026 call for papers is out:
Short paper submission deadline: March 1, 2026
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1st International Conference on Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (#GeoAI2026) will take place in Ghent, Belgium on 3-5 June 2026.
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1st International Conference on Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (#GeoAI2026) will take place in Ghent, Belgium on 3-5 June 2026.
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PhD Position: Spatio-temporal causal modeling of shared EV demand
100%, #ETH Zurich, fixed-term -
PhD Position: Spatio-temporal causal modeling of shared EV demand
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Postdoc in the Spatial Data Science and GeoCommunication group at @univienna
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-Assistant-postdoctoral/1251977001/ -
Postdoc in the Spatial Data Science and GeoCommunication group at @univienna
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After returning from #ERSA2025 I can say that future #ERSA conferences are definitely worth going to. Great people, fascinating research and good food! #RegionalScience #Geography #GIScience
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After returning from #ERSA2025 I can say that future #ERSA conferences are definitely worth going to. Great people, fascinating research and good food! #RegionalScience #Geography #GIScience
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📅 GeoAI Talks at UGent
The GeoAI Research Center (#UGent) warmly invites you to attend two consecutive #GeoAI Talks on Wednesday, 3 September 2025 (13:00–14:00).13:00 – Alex Levering (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Sensing landscape characteristics in a post-social media world13:30 – Ross Purves (University of Zurich)
Place, landscape and language
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📅 GeoAI Talks at UGent
The GeoAI Research Center (#UGent) warmly invites you to attend two consecutive #GeoAI Talks on Wednesday, 3 September 2025 (13:00–14:00).13:00 – Alex Levering (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Sensing landscape characteristics in a post-social media world13:30 – Ross Purves (University of Zurich)
Place, landscape and language
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Anybody here going to #ERSA in #Athens next week? Or #ECTQG in #Tallinn in a couple of weeks?
Looking for some good sessions and want to hear suggestions!
#Geography #GIScience #GIS #RegionalScience #RegionalStudies
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Anybody here going to #ERSA in #Athens next week? Or #ECTQG in #Tallinn in a couple of weeks?
Looking for some good sessions and want to hear suggestions!
#Geography #GIScience #GIS #RegionalScience #RegionalStudies
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Interesting #MobilityDataAnalytics read by Molina-Toledo et al.: Negotiating space: The daily #mobility of women waste pickers in #Cuenca, #Ecuador
📄 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692325002698
Featuring #MobilityDB, #scikitmobility, @movingpandas, #trackintel and #dbt
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Interesting #MobilityDataAnalytics read by Molina-Toledo et al.: Negotiating space: The daily #mobility of women waste pickers in #Cuenca, #Ecuador
📄 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692325002698
Featuring #MobilityDB, #scikitmobility, @movingpandas, #trackintel and #dbt
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So happy to finally see Ana Basiri live, today at the #AGIT2025 Keynote
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Thanks to all participants at our morning workshop on #PublicTransport and #AI!
Now everyone is gathering for the official #AGIT2025 opening session with many exciting new changes
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🤩 #MobilityDataAnalytics & #GIScience all around:
Attending the @emeraldseu GA today. Presented progress on #Trajectools and our #explainableAI & #activeLearning for #MobilityDataScience. While simultaneously traveling to #AGIT2025 🚄
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TODAY! Water quality monitoring using R, Posit and Esri - modernizing data collection methods
From Virginia Dept of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
Webinar - June 27, 1pm ET
#EnvironmentalMonitoring #RStats #WaterData #GIScience #Esri
@posit_pbc