[Portugal] Fwd: Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science

[Artur Gil]

---------- Forwarded message ----------

Dear colleagues,

It is my great pleasure to share the latest edition of the Geo4All
newsletter. Many thanks to *Dr. Nikos Lambrinos* and all our editors for
thier efforts for another excellent issue of Geo4All newsletter . This has
been a great resource to share our ideas on Open Principles and the amazing
education, research and service that our colleagues globally are doing
in *building
and expanding Open Geospatial Science* [1],[2],[3].

I want to congratulate our colleagues at *GeoDa Center for Geospatial
Analysis and Computation* at the *Arizona State University, USA* who are
our *“Geo4All” lab of the month*. The GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis
and Computation develops state-of-the-art methods for geospatial analysis,
geovisualization, geosimulation, and spatial process modeling, implements
them through open source software tools, applies them to policy-relevant
research in the social and environmental sciences, and disseminates them
through training and support to a growing worldwide community. The GeoDa
Center deals with research questions at different spatial scales, from the
local to the global. Application areas include a range of substantive
fields, such as regional science, economic geography, environmental
economics, criminology, public health, and other social and natural
sciences. Research in the GeoDa Center has focused on spatial statistical
model specification, clustering, exploratory analysis, geovisual analytics,
spatial optimization and GIS development to address a range of important
problems. Examples of problem areas range from crime, water management in
desert cities, HIV/AIDS in Mozambique, cancer, economic development,
property valuation and home foreclosures to human elephant conflicts.
Spatial software development efforts are integrated with several major
research projects. These research projects from flexible geospatial visual
analytics to spatial decision support system for minimizing nitrogen
impacts demonstrates the breadth and depth of various interesting research
being done at GeoDa Centre and more details of the various research
projects can be found at http://geodacenter.asu.edu/research

I would like to take this opportunity to also congratulate *Prof. Sergio
Rey* for winning the *UCGIS 2016 Research Award* . We are grateful for
Sergio and all his colleagues at GeoDa Centre at Arizona State University
for their contributions to Open Geospatial Science. On behalf of Geo4All
community, I would like to thank *Prof. Luc Anselin, Dr. Julia Koschinsky,
Dr.  Elizabeth A. Wentz , Prof. Sergio J. Rey *and all colleagues at the
Arizona State University for their help and for their contributions to the
Geo4All initiative and look forward to working and building more
collaborations with all interested on this education mission.

I would also like to thank our colleagues at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
(esp.  * Prof. Maria Brovelli, Dr. Marco Minghini* ) for thier excellent
work in leading all our humanitarian mapathons (Nepal, Japan, Equador) [4],
[5] . This also help teach the students  *the real essence of education and
humanity and “sharing knowledge and expertise” to help each other in times
of need.* There is an excellent article on Humanitarian Mapathons by Marco
Minghini for this month's newsletter at
http://www.geoforall.org/newsletters/

Best wishes,

Suchith



Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/

*Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science *


[1] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/open-geospatial-science-2/

[2] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications
[3] http://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board
[4]
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/04/humanitarian-mapathons-for-japan-and-ecuador/
[5]
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/04/mapping-response-contributions-for-nepal/
-------------- próxima parte ----------
Um anexo em HTML foi limpo...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/portugal/attachments/20160512/ffd8af11/attachment.html>