Tag: GeoAI

  • Research Visit to Rio de Janeiro

    Research Visit to Rio de Janeiro

    Building on ongoing efforts to enhance urban health management and mosquito-borne disease monitoring in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, PhD candidate Steffen Knoblauch returned to the city for a second visit deepen collaborations and explore further applications of his research findings. He delivered lectures at several research institutions such as Universidade Federal do Rio…

  • GeoAI4Water III Thailand

    GeoAI4Water III Thailand

    In times of natural disasters and other emergencies, access to reliable data on critical infrastructure can mean the difference between a swift recovery and prolonged crisis. Building on the success of previous initiatives, the GeoAI4Water III project is taking a step forward by developing a comprehensive dataset of Wastewater Treatment Plants (WTPs) across Thailand. This…

  • GIScience Colloquium by Pedram Ghamisi on responsible AI on 23 October 2024

    GIScience Colloquium by Pedram Ghamisi on responsible AI on 23 October 2024

    We are very pleased to soon host guest speaker Prof. Dr. Pedram Ghamisi, head of the machine learning group (FWGE-L) at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany (HZDR) & visiting full professor at Lancaster University, UK. Prof. Dr. Pedram Ghamisi will give a lecture on ´Balancing Innovation and Responsible AI Practices in Earth Observation: A Few Examples´. The…

  • New Paper: GeoAI for Science and the Science of GeoAI

    New Paper: GeoAI for Science and the Science of GeoAI

    GeoAI integrates AI, geospatial big data, and high-performance computing for solving data- and computation-intensive geospatial problems. This field has gained continuous momentum, driven by strong demands in geography and the rapid advancement of AI. Wenwen Li´s paper “GeoAI for Science and the Science of GeoAI”, published in the latest edition of the Journal of Spatial…

  • Advancing Vector Control Through GeoAI: Insights from Steffen Knoblauch’s talk at The Program of Scientific Computing (PROCC) at FIOCRUZ

    Advancing Vector Control Through GeoAI: Insights from Steffen Knoblauch’s talk at The Program of Scientific Computing (PROCC) at FIOCRUZ

    On May 15th, the Program of Scientific Computing (PROCC) at Fiocruz hosted Steffen Knoblauch, a GIScience Ph.D. candidate, for his presentation titled “GeoAI 4 Dengue: Harnessing Geospatial Big Data to Guide Vector Control.” This event, organized in partnership with The Global Health Network Latin America and the Caribbean (TGHN LAC), provided a platform for academic…

  • Research Visit at Universidade Federal Fluminese (UFF) in Rio de Janeiro

    In context of his research on mosquito monitoring and inner-urban dengue occurence, PhD student and GIScience team member Steffen Knoblauch visited the “Universidade Federal Fluminese” (UFF) in Niterói, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was invited to meet collaborators and professors of UFF and to present his work in “Dengue Risk Modelling at an Urban…

  • 13th International Symposium on Digital Earth

    From 11th until 14th July 2023 the 13th International Symposium on Digital Earth took place at Athens Greece Harokopio University. As a member of the International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE) Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf was invited to deliver a speech at one of the ISDE sessions. ISDE is an international organization principally promoting academic…