<div dir="ltr">HI, <br>Apologies for cross-posting:<br><br><strong>spatial-ecology</strong> in collaboration with <a href="https://www.eemb.ucsb.edu/" title="https://www.eemb.ucsb.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology </a> at <a href="http://www.ucsb.edu/" title="http://www.ucsb.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> University of California, Santa Barbara</a> is organizing a <span></span><span>Summer</span> <span>school</span> <br><br><b><span><span>Summer</span> <span>school</span>: SPATIO</span>-<span>TEMPORAL</span> <span>ANALYSIS</span> AND <span>BIG</span> <span>DATA</span> <span>PROCESSING</span> <span>USING</span> <span>FREE</span> AND <span>OPEN</span> <span>SOURCE</span> <span>SOFTWARE</span> </b>(basic and advanced levels)<br><br>Over the last few decades there has been an explosion in the 
availability of data for environmental research, and in particular for 
spatio-temporal analysis. We are now able to address a number of 
important questions, both new and old, with unprecedented rigor and 
generality. Leveraging these exciting new data streams requires tools 
and increasingly complex workflows. This 6-day course introduces a set 
of free and open source software (BASH, AWK ,GDAL, GRASS, R, Python, 
PKTOOLS, OFGT) to perform spatio-temporal analysis and modelling of 
environmental data in a Linux environment. We also introduce multi-core,
 cloud and cluster computation procedures using High Performance 
Computing - Amazon Web Services. The course consists of a set of 
lectures and practical hands-on sessions in which participants perform 
spatial and temporal analysis using Geographic Information System and 
Remote Sensing concepts. Although courses focuses on the command line 
instead of the graphical user interface, <strong>no prior experience with programming or command line interfaces is assumed or required</strong>.
  To cater to students with prior programming experience, we will hold 
parallel sessions that introduce more advanced material (e.g. parallel 
processing) . Our main focus is on teaching self learning and problem 
solving more than the use of specific tools (see: our <a href="http://www.spatial-ecology.net/giuseppe/publications/Amatulli_et_al_OGRS.pdf" title="http://www.spatial-ecology.net/giuseppe/publications/Amatulli_et_al_OGRS.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> teaching method</a> ) so participants will be able to progress and adapt to learn the newest available data science techniques.
<br><font><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></font><font><b>Dates/Location:  16-17-20-21-22 of July / <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Santa+Barbara/@34.413963,-119.848947,14z/data=%214m2%213m1%211s0x0:0x4e956b7e5cb6cec2" title="https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+California,+Santa+Barbara/@34.413963,-119.848947,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x4e956b7e5cb6cec2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Santa Barbara </a> - USA California.</b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br><br></span>Registration & info at<span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><a href="http://www.spatial-ecology.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:upcomingSantBab" target="_blank">www.spatial-ecology.net</a> </font><br><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Giuseppe Amatulli, Ph.D.
   <br><br>Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University.<br></div>Jetz Lab, OML Room 405                                       <span>      </span><span>              </span><br><div><div> P.O. Box 208106<br>165 PROSPECT ST<br>New Haven, CT 06520-8106<br><div>
   Teaching: <a href="http://spatial-ecology.net" target="_blank">spatial-ecology.net</a>
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   Work:  <a href="http://sbsc.yale.edu/giuseppe-amatulli" target="_blank">http://sbsc.yale.edu/giuseppe-amatulli</a> <br><a href="http://www.spatial-ecology.net" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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