Dear R-sig-geo,
It is my pleasure to inform you that the next GEOSTAT summer school will
be held in the period 24-31 July 2011 at the Koblenz-Landau University.
Interested candidates are invited to register for this summer school via:
[http://geostat-course.org/Register_for_Landau]
The registration deadline is 1st of March 2011.
To find more about the GEOSTAT 2011, please visit:
[http://geostat-course.org/Landau_2011].
Local organizers:
Ralf B. Schäfer ([email protected]), Tomislav Hengl
([email protected])
Invited lecturers:
Roger Bivand (nhh.no), Edzer Pebesma (uni-muenster.de), Gerard Heuvelink
(wur.nl), Markus Neteler (iasma.it), Olaf Conrad
(geowiss.uni-hamburg.de), Markus Metz (uni-ulm.de), Dylan Beaudette
(ucdavis.edu),
Topics:
- Spatial and temporal data representations
- Open Source Tools for Soil (and Environmental) Scientists
- Introduction to GRASS GIS
- SAGA GIS Tutorial
- Spatio-temporal variogram models - how to fit them, how to use them
- Optimisation of Spatial Sampling Designs
- Visualization and analysis of live data (MySQL, PostGIS, Google Earth)
Selection of candidates:
Candidates will be selected based on the following four criteria:
- Publication record derived as square root of number of publications
multiplied by total citations.
- Contributions to the open source software community derived as the
average ranking of the R-sig-geo traffic and OS software contributions.
- Distance to the venue expressed in arc-degrees.
- Time of application.
Course fees:
Course fees include registration fees (handouts, website and
multimedia), coffee breaks, 5 lunch tickets, 1 ticket for gala dinner
and complete costs of excursion on Saturday. The course fee are
typically kept low (ca 200-300 EUR). A number of participants from ODA
countries (i.e. with a permanent residence in some of the ODA listed
countries) will be offered affordable or free accommodation in the
vicinity of the institute. This summer school will be hosted by the
Institute of Environmental Science, University of Koblenz-Landau. We are
actively working on acquiring funding and financial support from the
connected academic institutions and companies. All lecturers are
volunteers. See also the refunding policy.
Travel and accommodation:
Landau is is easy accessible via train from major German airports
(Frankfurt Airport, Stuttgart Airport etc.) within 1-2 hours. The
university is located close to the town centre with many affordable
opportunities for accommodation.
Registered participants will be offered a single room in a budget hotel
(price about 25 € per night including breakfast) unless they decide to
arrange own accommodation. Free accommodation within the campus will be
offered to a number of students from ODA countries (depending on the
ranking).
cheers,
T. Hengl
http://www.wewur.wur.nl/popups/vcard.aspx?id=HENGL001
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