[R-sig-Geo] MEMO: deadline to apply for the GEOSTAT Quebec City / ISRIC's Spring School 2013

[Tomislav Hengl]

GEOSTAT 2013 Quebec City
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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.
Lecturers: J. (John) E. Lewis; E.(Edzer) Pebesma; A. (Alex) Brenning; T. 
(Tom) Hengl

The deadline to apply for this Summer School is: 1st of February 2013
For more info see: http://geostat-course.org/Quebec_2013


ISRIC's SPRING SCHOOL ON DIGITAL SOIL MAPPING (HANDS-ON GSIF)
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Hands-on Global Soil Information Facilities (methods and tools for 3D 
soil analysis and mapping) is a one week block course on using R and 
other open source tools for digital soil mapping and analysis. Who is it 
for: Digital soil mappers, soil data producers and soil mappers at PhD 
and post-doctoral level.
Lecturers: G.B.M (Gerard) Heuvelink, T. (Tom) Hengl, H. (Hannes) Reuter, 
B. (Bas) Kempen

Registration deadline: 15th of February 2013
For more info see: 
http://www.isric.org/training/hands-global-soil-information-facilities