Category Archives: Announcement
New lectureship in GeoInformatics
The CGI and the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development within the School of Geography and Geosciences at St Andrews is seeking a Lecturer in GeoInformatics: This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the newly formed Centre for GeoInformatics … Continue reading
PhD studentship in GeoInformatics and Housing reserach
CGI is looking for a PhD student to work on development of new analysis and/or visualisation methods for long-term Scottish housing data. “How can GeoInformatics help with Reducing Risks and Enhancing Effectiveness in Non-Profit Housing Provision” The University of St … Continue reading
Carson Farmer publishes in Environmental Monitoring & Assessment
Carson’s recent paper in Environmental Montioring & Assessment is now available online: Andrew, M. E., T. A. Nelson, M. A. Wulder, G. W. Hobart, N. C. Coops, and C. J. Q. Farmer (in press). Ecosystem classifications based on summer and … Continue reading
CGI members’ new AAAG paper now published online
Our forthcoming paper in AAAG is now published online: Demsar U, Harris P, Brunsdon C, Fotheringham AS and McLoone S, 2012, Principal Component Analysis on Spatial Data: An Overview, AAAG. In the paper we review the use of Pricnipal Component … Continue reading
CGI visitor: Prof Trisalyn Nelson
Prof Trisalyn Nelson from the Univeristy of Victoria, Canada, is visiting CGI in July. Prof Nelson is a Research Chair in Spatial Sciences and an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria. She is also … Continue reading
Prof Stewart Fotheringham and Siła Nowicka at the Geocrowd Summer School
Prof Stewart Fotheringham and Siła Nowicka are participating in the Geocrowd Summer School 2012 at the island of Crete in Greece. Geocrowd is a Marie Curie International Training Network focusing on processing and analysing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) on the … Continue reading
Open session on interaction and visualisation technologies
The CGI will be involved in an open session on “Interaction and Visualisation Technologies in the Library” next week in support of colaborative research through advanced visualisations which is being hosted by the St Andrews library and SACHI. Dr. Carson … Continue reading
Prof Stewart Fotheringham member of the GIS Ostrava 2013 Scientific Committee
Prof Stewart Fotheringham has accepted the invitation to be a scientific committee member of the GI-oriented event in Ostrava at the end of January 2013 at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava. The main theme of the next conference will focus on … Continue reading
Urska Demsar to attend the Space-Time Cube workshop in the Netherlands
As part of her involvement in COST Action “MOVE – Knowledge discovery from moving objects”, CGI lecturer Urska Demsar is attending a workshop on evaluation of the space-time cube, “What can the Space-Time Cube do for you?“, at ITC, Enschede, … Continue reading
Stewart to give a Royal Statistical Society lecture at the University of Glasgow
As part of Royal Statistical Society event on Developments in Spatial Social Statistics, Prof Stewart Fotheringham, Director of CGI, is giving a lecture at the University of Glasgow. The lecture is entitled “Recent Developments in Geographically Weighted Regression” and the … Continue reading
