Computer Models for Social Change - conference

Critical GIS Workshop @ McGill

admin — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 05:32:34 +0000

Jim Thatcher (University of Washington, Tacoma), Ryan Burns (University of Calgary), Luke Bergmann (University of Washington), Britta Ricker (University of Washington, Tacoma) and I organized a workshop on Critical GIS to coincide with NACIS. Presentations included

Meghan Kelly, “Feminist Cartographies”

Clancy Wilmott, Jim Thatcher, Craig Dalton, “Representation, Its Limits, and New Regimes of Spatial Data”

Emory Shaw, “Path Behind the Panorama”

Carl Sack, “Resistance Mapping”

Nick Lally, “Geographical Imagination Systems”

Genevieve Reid, Renee Sieber, “Indigenous Critical GIS”

Amir Sheikh, “The Waterlines Project: An Interpretive Approach to the Urban Landscape”

Renée Sieber, “Step away from the Map: Refocusing Critical GIS on algorithms and AI”

We're at AAG in Boston

admin — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 05:42:25 +0000

It was a busy year at AAG for yours truly and members of the lab

April 5, Chair

Session on Open Data

Jin presents at AGU

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 21:46:13 +0000

Jin Xing presents at the American Geophysical Union:

Multi-Scale Change Detection Research of Remotely Sensed Big Data in CyberGIS

Jin Xing and Renee Sieber

Big remotely sensed data, the heterogeneity of satellite platforms and file formats along with increasing volumes and velocities, offers new types of analyses. This makes big remotely sensed data a good candidate for CyberGIS, the aim of which is to enable knowledge discovery of big data in the cloud. We apply CyberGIS to feature-based multi-scale land use/cover change (LUCC) detection. There have been attempts to do multi-scale LUCC. However, studies were done with small data and could not consider the mismatch between multi-scale analysis and computational scale. They have yet to consider the possibilities for scalar research across numerous temporal and spatial scales afforded by big data, especially if we want to advance beyond pixel-based analysis and also reduce preprocessing requirements.

Geothink representing at #GISed2105

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:35:27 +0000

Our students, Jin and Matt presented at #GISEd15, 2015 GIS in Education and Research Conference, Toronto, ON. November 30.

Jin Xing, Jin presented on "A Land Use/Land Cover Change Geospatial CyberInfrastructure to Integrate Big Data and Temporal Topology." Matt Tenney presented "Tweeting Hate in Montreal: An analysis of the spatial distribution of e-bile."

Geothink @ AAG 2015

admin — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 03:27:00 +0000

A Geothink student's perspective.

Geothink Preconference Workshop @ AAG

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 03:34:11 +0000

Geothink was pleased to run a workshop before the Association of American Geographers' (AAG) Annual Conference in Chicago, called Citizen-Government Relations for a Digitally-Enabled and Location-Aware World.

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Our presentations at Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada 2015

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 03:31:45 +0000

The lab was well-represented at Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada.

Tenney, Matthew, Renee Sieber and G. Brent Hall. 2015. “Geocollective”: A Tool for Harvesting Geographic Information From Social Media. Proceedings of Spatial Knowledge and Information - Canada (SKI-Canada) 2015, February 27-March 1 in Banff AB, Canada.

Sangiambut, Suthee and Renee Sieber. 2015. A Typology of Canadian Open Data Apps. Proceedings of Spatial Knowledge and Information - Canada (SKI-Canada) 2015, February 27-March 1 in Banff AB, Canada.

Reid, Geneviève and Renee Sieber. 2015. What is Time? Indigenous Conceptualizations of Time and the Geoweb. Proceedings of Spatial Knowledge and Information - Canada (SKI-Canada) 2015, February 27-March 1 in Banff AB, Canada.

More information at SKI

See us at IGARSS 2014

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:24:11 +0000

Jin will present on our big data and distributed computing research at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS’14) in Quebec City, July 13-18. Come hear him speak on "sampling based image splitting in large scale distributed computing of earth observation data.

Indigeneity and the Geospatial Web

admin — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:29:37 +0000

Genevieve presented her research during an intense 12 day colloquium at ACFAS, called Cartographier les récits : enjeux méthodologiques et technologiques

Reid, G and R. Sieber. 2014. Géoweb et les aspirations du futur du territoire. Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) 12-15 Mai, Montreal, Canada.

Le résumé below the fold

SOTMUS

admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:41:17 +0000

This was my first time presenting at the State of the Map US, April 12-13. This is the conferecnce of OpenStreetMap users. I loved the whole conference because it's a mix of users, developers, practitioners, nonprofits, and researchers. That amount of diversity meant there was little academese, which was a wonderful break from previous conferences. I presented on Open data and the City. Here's the video from the talk.

Open Data and the City - Renee Sieber from OpenStreetMap US on Vimeo.