[Geo4All] Research collaborations in Tangible Landscape ideas

[Suchith Anand]

May i also take this opportunity to congratulate Helena and colleagues at  North Carolina State University (NCSU) who have also published groundbreaking new book on the Tangible Landscape , an innovative tangible geospatial modelling system powered by GRASS GIS.

This first-of-its-kind book provides an overview of tangible interfaces, describes the design and implementation of Tangible Landscape, discusses methods of digital fabrication, and demonstrates applications including landscape management, trail planning, wildfire management, and coastal adaptation


It covers all key areas


  *   Building Physical 3D Models
  *   Basic Landscape Analysis
  *   Surface Water Flow and Soil Erosion Modeling
  *   Viewshed Analysis
  *   Trail Planning
  *   Solar Radiation Dynamics
  *   Wildfire Spread Simulation
  *   Coastal Modeling



Details at https://cnr.ncsu.edu/geospatial/first-of-its-kind-book-on-tangible-modeling-with-open-source-gis-published-by-center-researchers/

This will be provide an excellent framework for future research idea/collaborations in Tangible Landscapes for both teaching and research in the various domains. It will be good to get all interested to join ideas.

Helena - may i request that you give a Geo4All webinar on this topic please as it is of wider interest. Thanks.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: GeoForAll [geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Suchith Anand [Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 8:20 AM
To: hermann.klug at sbg.ac.at; steffen.reichel at sbg.ac.at; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] Research collaborations in Tangible Landscape ideas

Dear all,

Last week i (and my son - as it was school holidays here then, so my son is with me in all my meetings and presentations!) had a meeting with Dr Hermann Klug [1] and Steffen Reichel from the University of Salzburg, Austria. They were here for another EU project meeting and it was a great opportunity to meet Hermann and discuss ideas for the future. Hermann leads the OSGeo lab at Salzburg and showed me the excellent research that he and colleagues at Salzburg are doing in Hydrology etc [2][3] that i wish to share with you so those interested in hydrology and landscape related research can build more research research collaborations with his group.

For example, i understand that Helena and colleagues at NCSU are doing research on Tangible Landscape with free and open source software (GRASS).

More details including video at https://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/tangible-landscape.html

We at University of Nottingham are also exploring ideas on Tangible Landscape lab. So might be good to connect all interested in this in different domains (urban development etc). Is anyone else in our network interested in Tangible Landscape ideas or already using them for your teaching? If so, it will be good to connect ideas.

Hermann is keen to also connect with all interested in his research to build more synergies, so please email him if you think there are research synergies. Hermann team are also involved in the very successful AGIS conference and i have requested him to promote NASA Europa challennge at the event and also have a team from Salzburg for this year's competition. I understand that they are having AGIT 2016 ( 6. - 8. July) and FOSSGIS-Conference ( 4. - 6. July), so it might be good opportunity to promote NASA Europa Challenge at any of these events. Is anyone planning to attend these events. If so, please promote Geo4All and Europa Challenge. All ideas welcome.

Best wishes,

Suchith



[1] http://www.hermannklug.com/
[2] http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/0xc1aa500e_0x00324b0e.pdf
[3] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tgis.12171/abstract;jsessionid=B40FA9346F14A7CB1C2B13738C12BFA4.f03t02<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tgis.12171>








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