[Geo4All] Welcome to a new Lab LADEST at University of Siena

Sat Apr 23 07:25:10 PDT 2016

Dear Maria, Peter and Suchith

thanks for your email and thanks for accepting LADEST in Geo4all

We are proud to be pat of the group and we look forward to contribute to 
the success of this challenging and valuable initiative!

Cheers

Cristina

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DISPOC, Università di Siena
Via Mattioli 10
Siena 53100
Tel +39 0577-233675
Fax +39 0577-234739
email cristina.capineri at unisi.it

www.dispoc.unisi.it
www.vespucci.org
www.societastudigeografici.it

Il 2016-04-22 12:04 Suchith Anand ha scritto:
> Thank you Maria and Peter for sharing this info.
> 
> Welcome to Cristina and colleagues at the University of Siena. Great
> to see the excellent research .Please also join our mailing list .
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Suchith
> 
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> 
> FROM: GeoForAll [geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Maria
> Brovelli [maria.brovelli at polimi.it]
> SENT: Friday, April 22, 2016 10:05 AM
> TO: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
> CC: Peter Mooney
> SUBJECT: [Geo4All] Welcome to a new Lab LADEST at University of Siena
> 
> Dear All
> We are very glad to announce a new Lab of GeoForAll network at
> University of Siena (Italy).
> Welcome dear colleagues!
> Best regards.
> Maria and Peter
> 
> LADEST is the Laboratory of economic, social and geographical research
> of the University of Siena, based in the Department of Political and
> Cognitive Sciences. The laboratory was established in 2008 and
> specialises in a range of activities and techniques including:
> 
>  	* Data collection and spatial analysis
> 	* Geographical Information Science
> 	* Territorial data mapping
> 	* Agent-based spatial modelling
> 	* Socio economic analysis
> 
> Tools and datasets developed by the Laboratory are used both for
> scientific purposes and for private sector companies and agencies and
> are applied to several different domains. We employ mainstream GIS
> tools as well as applications developed in house (Flikrsearch,
> Kowalski, TEA-TouristExperienceApplication). The laboratory supports
> the development and usage of open data and open source tools through
> education, research and teaching, as well as organizing workshops and
> events on specific topics and tools.
> The current research focus is on volunteered geographic information,
> citizen science and crowdsourcing, territorial marketing, social media
> for institutions and environmental monitoring, agent based simulation
> of residential mobility, housing markets, and urban dynamics,
> sustainable development and local development, organic agriculture,
> landscape.
> 
> On going research (Master thesis)
> Food transition in the Mediterranean area
> Disneyfication of art cities
> Beach litter mapping in the Tuscan Archipelago
> Noise pollution monitoring & Noisebuster game
> Emomap in collaboration with TU Wien
> 
> Further detailed information about available services, tools,
> publications and related activities and teaching can be found on
> [1]https://ladestlab.it
> The point of contact for the laboratory is Prof. Cristina Capineri,
> cristina.capineri at unisi.it
> 
>  MAIN PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
> 2012 – 2016: COST Action IC1203 – European Network Exploring
> Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing: software and
> methodologies for harnessing geographic information from the crowd
> (ENERGIC).  [2]http://vgibox.eu/
> Since 2014- National Observatory on Italian municipalities on Twitter
> in collaboration with ANCI, TT&A and Twitter Italia.
> 2014: Project Europe 4×4 – Let’s change gear! In collaboration
> with the European Community Joint Research Centre (Ispra)
> 2014: Collaboration with the online news Cittadini di Twitter
> (http://www.cittadiniditwitter.it/ [3]) and OpenComunicazione:
> promotion, development and management of research programs on
> socio-geographical and new communication themes (Social Media).
> 2011: Research project TEA (Tourist Experience Application) supported
> by Provincia di Siena within the program “Ricercatori in Azienda”.
> 2011-2012: Project “OVERSHOOT: IMPARARE & INSEGNARE LA
> SOSTENIBILITA” (OVERSHOOT: LEARN AND TEACH SuSTAINABILITY) in
> collaboration with Provincia di Siena.
> 2010-2012: Project FESR 2007/2013 ASSE I “MICS: Mappa
> dell’innovazione della crisi dei sistemi di impresa Toscana”
> (MICS: Mapping crises innovation of companies)
> 2010: Società Studi Geografici , Historical archive of Società di
> Studi Geografici.
> LADEST collaborates with Vespucci Initiative.  [4]http://vespucci.org/
> 
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> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS
> Professor Politecnico di Milano ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based
> Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA
> WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Sol Katz Award 2015 Via Natta, 12/14
> - 22100 COMO (ITALY) Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 -
> fax. +39-031-3327321 e-mail1: maria.brovelli at polimi.it e-mail2:
> prorettrice at como.polimi.it
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> [1] https://ladestlab.it/
> [2] http://vgibox.eu/
> [3] http://www.cittadiniditwitter.it/
> [4] http://vespucci.org/