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New Master of City Analytics

New Master of City Analytics

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I am pleased to announce the enrolment for the first intake into UNSW’s Master of City Analytics  (MCA) is now open. Core courses include Programmable Cities, GIS and Urban Informatics, Digital Cities, Geodesign, Geocomputation and Urban Data Visualisation. Please circulate this to your students and colleagues you think might be interested. https://www.be.unsw.edu.au/degrees/postgraduate-coursework/master-of-city-analytics Regards Chris Chris Pettit Professor of Urban Science Director, City Analytics Program Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre PLuS Alliance Fellow

Introducing New Secretary for ISPRS Working Group II/6

Introducing New Secretary for ISPRS Working Group II/6

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I  would like to warmly welcome Victoria Rautenback from the University of Pretoria, South Africa who has joined our working group executive in the position of secretary. Victoria has been an active member of the working group  attending meetings, workshops and publishing peer reviewed papers for which she has presented findings at ISPRS conferences. Her research focuses on the use of 3D geovisulaization and visual analytics for spatial planning in South Africa. With her current PhD studies she aims to…

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Joint ISPRS – IGU International Conference on Geospatial Theory, Processing, Modelling and Applications

Joint ISPRS – IGU International Conference on Geospatial Theory, Processing, Modelling and Applications

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This joint conference to be held in Toronto Canada 6-8th October is the 2014 ISPRS Technical Commission Mid-term Symposium held in conjunction with the 16th IGU Spatial Data Handling Conference. Our Working Group will be organizing sessions on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality and we encourage you to submit papers. There are refereed and non-refereed paper streams with the best papers be selected for the following special issue journals: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ISPRS International Journal of…

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NASA World Wind Europa Challenge

NASA World Wind Europa Challenge

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The NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Europa Challenge has commenced along the theme “Inspiring Solutions For A More Sustainable World”. The task is to build an application that serves the INSPIRE Directive and uses NASA’s open source virtual globe technology, World Wind. Team entries can be made under the university and professional project streams. Winners will be hosted at the 2014 FOSS4G-Europe in Bremen, Germany, 15-17 July and at the INSPIRE Conference in Denmark, 16-20 June. For more info visit…

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Visualising the rebuild of Christchurch

Visualising the rebuild of Christchurch

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Currently at the CRC-SI conference and Julian Carver, Land Information New Zealand has just presented a really good use of visualisation for communicating the vision for the rebuilding the City of Christchurch. Christchurch was devastated by earthquakes in Sept 2010 and Feb 2011, the later killing 185 people with an overall estimation of $40 billion dollars of damage.

Geovisualization post-doc position – University of Melbourne

Geovisualization post-doc position – University of Melbourne

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This position is for an outstanding early career academic (post-doc) with a strong grounding in geographic information science and a specialization in geovisualization or geovisual analytics. You will work in a new research project, RISER: Resilient Information Systems for Emergency Response. RISER is developing new technologies and information systems capable of capturing, collating, and communicating timely and relevant information, even in the extreme and unexpected circumstances surrounding an emergency. In this position, your responsibilities will be conducting independent and collaborative…

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Eye tracking in Smart Phones

Eye tracking in Smart Phones

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The new Samsung Galaxy S IV looks to be the first smart phone to be release which will  have in-built eye tracking. This will provide additional functionality to the user in being able to “Eye Scroll” as a form of navigation. However, it is also raising privacy concerns as reported by Future Tense.  With eye tracking becoming more main stream this could possibly open up new research opportunities in running eye tracking experiments and analysing Big Data.

Pedestrian monitoring system data visualisation

Pedestrian monitoring system data visualisation

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Melbourne City Council have implemented a 24-hour pedestrian monitoring system (24PM)  which measures pedestrian activity in the central city and Docklands precincts each day.  The system, comprises 18 sensors and counts pedestrian movements to give the City of Melbourne a better understanding of how people use these precincts to support place based management and  the  plan for future needs. The online visualisation tool (http://www.pedestrian.melbourne.vic.gov.au/) created by OOM Creative, is an interactive map of these sensor locations, which enables users to see pedestrian counts on…

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Visualisation and the Future of Integrated Modeling Science and Technology

Visualisation and the Future of Integrated Modeling Science and Technology

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The International Journal on Environmental Modelling and Software has recently published a Thematic Issue on the Future of Integrated Modelling Science and Technology. In this issue there are a couple of papers from members of our ISPRS working group. Specifically, Gustavo Arcinegas et al.  has published his results on the effectiveness of collaborative map-based decision support tools where an interactive mapping device is used as the interface between spatial information and participants. Marcos Nino-Ruiz et al. introduces a spatial model…

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Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality for Urban Planning

Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality for Urban Planning

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The 13th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning Urban Management (CUPUM) will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands July 2-5, 2013. Our working group will be running a session on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality in the context of urban planning and management . We would encourage you  to submit a conference paper or poster and join us in Utrecht.  Conference papers are due 15th of Feb and poster abstracts 15th of March. Note, all papers and poster abstracts…

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