April 2018

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HIGHLIGHTS

CGA NEWS

CGA 2018 conference, Illuminating Space and Time in Data Science will be held April 26-27, 2018. Keynote speakers are Francesca Dominici and Michael Goodchild. This year’s conference is co-sponsored by I/UCRC Spatiotemporal Innovation Center and MapD Technologies, Inc.

For Details and Registration.

GIS Institute Summer 2018 a few spaces remain open, applications still being accepted.

Institute Details and Application.

China GIS Seminar, Apr 9th, 2018: Geoscene: A new perspective on urban satellite images Presenter: Xiuyuan Zhang (in English) abstract

Geography Colloquium, Apr 19th, 2018: Geospatial Visualization in History Research The Istanbul Urban Database Presenter: Nil Tuczu (MIT) project info

Winner of the 2018 ESRI EDC Student of the Year Award is Brian Ho, for his poster on “Making a New City Image, or, an AI for Eye.”

Read more and see the poster images.

HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

Boston Research Map a collaboration of Boston Area Research Initiative and CGA WorldMap is feature in the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center Map Monday’s Feature, and also appears on the GovTech Magazine website.
Map Monday series is presented by Ash Center’s Data-Smart City Solutions to highlight a data visualization that enhances understanding of or helps resolve a critical civic issue.

CGA ASSOCIATE PUBLICATIONS

“Evaluation of the EpiCore outbreak verification system”
Authors: Taryn Silver Lorthe, Marjorie P Pollack, Britta Lassmann, John Brownstein (Harvard Medical School), Emily Cohn, Nomita Divi, Dionisio Jose Herrera-Guibert, Jennifer Olsen, Mark S Smolinskic & Lawrence C Madoff
Published by: Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Type: Policy & practice Article ID: BLT.17.207225 (DRAFT 2018-03-18)
Pre-print draft Online

“Cluster-based trajectory segmentation with local noise”
Authors: Maria Luisa Damiani, Fatima Hachem, Hamza Issa, Nathan Ranc, Paul Moorcroft (Harvard EPS), Francesca Cagnacci
Published by: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2018-03-23). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-018-0561-2
Full Text Online

“Quantifying the influence of agricultural fires in northwest India on urban air pollution in Delhi, India”
Authors: Daniel H Cusworth, Loretta J Mickley (Harvard SEAS), Melissa P Sulprizio, Tianjia Liu, Miriam E Marlier, Ruth S DeFries, Sarath K Guttikunda and Pawan Gupta
Published by: Environmental Research Letters, Volume 13, Number 4 (2018-03-30). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aab303
Full Text Online

CONFERENCES, CALLS & JOBS

Conference: Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018) , including Spatial analysis in the humanities. University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Jun 4-5, 2018. Deadline for submissions: 16 Apr 2018 Read more

Call for Papers: Special Issue “Innovative Approaches, Tools and Visualization Techniques for Analysing Land Use Structures and Dynamics of Cities and Regions” in the Springer Journal of Geo-visualization and Spatial Analysis (JGSA) Deadline for submissions: 30 Apr 2018 Read more

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cartographica: Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2018 Read more

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES
 

Soundscape of Istanbul with a time-filtered map. [Pınar Çevikayak Yelmi]
See also research project website.

Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh [ISCG, ESRI]

World Migration Patterns 1990-2017 [Pew Research Center]

Fastest Growing Cities, 2000-2016 [Visual Capitalist]

Essential geospatial Python libraries [Christoph Rieke]

D-PLACE – the Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment [D-Place Project]

Undersea Cable Map for 2018 [Telegeography]

 

The CGA Newsletter is published monthly. Editor of this issue: Lex Berman.

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