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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>De:</b> GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Enviado:</b> sábado, 07 de abril de 2018 14:53<br>
<b>Para:</b> discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geoforall@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> [Geo4All] Launch of Open Source Geospatial Lab at the Pete Fisher Laboratory for Geocomputation, University of Leicester, United Kingdom</font>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">We are pleased to announce the launch of the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Open Source Geospatial Lab [1] at the
</span><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Pete Fisher Laboratory for Geocomputation</span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom during the
</span><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">26th annual GIScience Research UK conference
</span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">which will be held at the University of Leicester on
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">17-20 April 2018).</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The laboratory is dedicated to the memory of </span>
<a href="http://www2.le.ac.uk/staff/community/people/tributes/tribute-to-professor-peter-francis-fisher" id="LPlnk983696"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Professor Peter Fisher</span></b></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">,
who held a personal chair in the Department of Geography, University of Leicester. Pete’s career was truly exceptional for many reasons not least because he was one of the people at the helm of what became known as Geographical Information Science (GIScience)
as it emerged out of a diverse range of disciplines such as computational and automated cartography in the early 1990s. Pete’s research is best known for his extensive work on uncertainty, especially fuzzy sets. Pete was also editor of the disciplinary journal,
the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, from 1994 to 2007.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Fisher Laboratory is a centre of excellence for multi-disciplinary research focused on the development, teaching, use, and critique of GIScience and geographic Data Science methods. Members are drawn from both the Critical
and Creative Geographies and the Environmental Science research groups to provide a vibrant, open, and reflective environment for collaboration and discussion. Core research topics include: Uncertainty in GIS, Spatio-temporal modelling, Spatial statistics,
GeoComputation, Geographic Information Visualization. Volunteered Geographic Information and Pedagogies of GIScience.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The </span><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Pete Fisher Laboratory for Geocomputation</span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> will become part of the global network of over 100 GeoForAll research laboratories world-wide (more
details at the initiative’s website </span><a href="http://www.geoforall.org/" id="LPlnk569938"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://www.geoforall.org/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> ). This is in recognition of the lab’s on-going use and development
of Free and Open Source GIS technology, open data in teaching, research and consultancy. The lead academic for the Lab will be
</span><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dr Stefano De Sabbata. </span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please email Stefano at
</span><a href="mailto:s.desabbata@le.ac.uk" id="LPlnk192508"><span style="color:rgb(228,175,10)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">s.desabbata@le.ac.uk</span></b></span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> for collaborations</span><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">.</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">More details will be published at</span></p>
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<span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geography/research/fisher-geographical-information-and-data-laboratory" id="LPlnk724366"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geography/research/fisher-geographical-information-and-data-laboratory</span></a></span><br>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Open Source Geospatial Foundation</span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">(OSGeo)</span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2006 whose
mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial technologies and data.</span></p>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Open Source Geospatial Lab at the</span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Pete Fisher Laboratory for Geocomputation will be a guiding light for Open Principles in Geo education and research globally…</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Suchith</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">PS: I am planning to be at GISRUK on 18th April and looking forward to meet and discuss more new ideas with the GIS UK research community.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p>
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<span style="color:#454545">[1] <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/launch-of-open-source-geospatial-lab-at-the-pete-fisher-laboratory-for-geocomputation-university-of-leicester-united-kingdom/" id="LPlnk956905">
<span style="color:#e4af0a">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/launch-of-open-source-geospatial-lab-at-the-pete-fisher-laboratory-for-geocomputation-university-of-leicester-united-kingdom/</span></a> </span><br>
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