[R-sig-Geo] Registrations for GEOSTAT 2011 summer school; 24-31 July 2011 Koblenz-Landau University

[Tomislav Hengl]

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 (schaefer-ralf at uni-landau.de), Tomislav Hengl 
(tom.hengl at wur.nl)

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