[R-sig-Geo] Upcoming training courses: ISRIC's Spring School 2013 and GEOSTAT Quebec City 2013

[Tomislav Hengl]

Dear R-sig-geo,

Registrations for the two upcoming 5-day training courses are now open:

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"Hands-on Global Soil Information Facilities", 22-26 April 2013, 
Wageningen University

The purpose of the Spring School is to introduce participants to 
software for soil data analysis and visualisation, digital soil mapping 
and soil-web services. The focus is on using the Free and Open Source 
Software for statistical and geographical computing for soil analysis 
and mapping: R (the main programming environment), SAGA GIS, Python and 
Google Earth. Upon completing the course, participants will be able to 
use the software and data sets for generating soil GIS layers following 
the international standards (e.g. GlobalSoilMap specifications) and for 
land use planning.

Registration deadline: 20th of January 2013.
URL: http://www.isric.org/content/isrics-spring-school-2013

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"GEOSTAT Quebec City 2013", 26 May - 1 of June, 2013, Quebec City

The GEOSTAT Quebec city 2013 summer school is 8th in a series of summer 
schools organized by R and OS GIS developers and enthusiasts. GEOSTAT 
aims at PhD students and R-sig-geo enthusiasts in a range of 
environmental and GIS sciences, with a special focus on analyzing 
spatio-temporal gridded data in R and connected OS GIS software. The 
participants will learn how to import and organize space-time data i.e. 
time series of rasters and how to program statistical and geographical 
analysis using a combination of R and OS GIS functionality. The school 
will be hosted at the Faculty of Forestry, Geomatics and Geography, on 
the campus of Laval University, a few kilometers from the heart of 
Quebec City, Canada.

Registration deadline: 1st of February 2013.
URL: http://geostat-course.org/Quebec_2013


PS: If you are aware of any such (future or past!) training course or 
event that is related to the R-sig-geo topics, please consider adding it 
to the GEOSTAT timeline at http://geostat-course.org/timeline/nodes


T. Hengl
http://www.wewur.wur.nl/popups/vcard.aspx?id=HENGL001