[R-sig-Geo] GEOSTAT 2016 Summer School for PhD students, 17-24 September 2016, Albacete Spain

[Tomislav Hengl]

The GEOSTAT 2016 Summer School for PhD students and R-sig-geo 
enthusiasts will be held this year at the University of Castilla-La 
Mancha, Albacete, Spain in the period 17-24 September (arrive Sunday to 
depart Sunday). The topics include: spatial and spatio-temporal data and 
analysis in R, spatial and spatio-temporal geostatistics, processing 
large rasters using the raster package, CartoDB and gvSIG software 
tutorials, visualization of spatial and spatio-temporal data in Google 
Earth. To register for this summer school please visit:

http://geostat-course.org/2016

Please note the registration deadline: March 1st 2016.

This summer school is limited to 55 participants. Selection of 
candidates is based on a ranking system, which is based on: time of 
registration, solidarity (participants further away from the venue 
receive higher ranking), academic record, and contributions to open 
source projects. The registration costs for the summer school are 
typically between EUR 400 and 500; these cover the actual costs, no 
profits are made. Accommodation will cost ca (EUR 40) per person per 
night (not included in the course fees). The organizers provide no 
funding/scholarships to participants. Participants from ODA-listed 
countries (http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/daclist), however, can apply 
for a subsidized price for registration costs.

Lecturers:
- Roger Bivand: Representing and handling spatial and spatio-temporal 
data in R: sp, rgdal, maptools packages
- Edzer Pebesma: Handling and analyzing spatio-temporal data with R
- Robert Hijmans: Spatial modeling with environmental data (raster and 
dismo packages)
- Marta Blangiardo: Bayesian spatiotemporal models in R
- Michela Cameletti: Spatio-temporal models for environmental data in R
- Matthias Templ: Robust analysis of compositional data / Small Area 
Estimation
- Jorge Sanz: CartoDB tutorial
- César Martínez Izquierdo: gvSIG tutorial
- Virgilio Gomez Rubio: Spatial and Spatiotemporal point process 
analysis in R
- Tomislav Hengl: Automated geostatistics and visualization in 3D+T: 
GSIF and plotKML packages

To register for this Summer school visit:

http://geostat-course.org/register

For more information about GEOSTAT 2016 please write to:
- T. (Tom) Hengl: registrations, website materials
- V. (Virgilio) Gomez Rubio: the official program, local organizer

Local organizing committee: Esteban Alfaro-Cortés, José Luis 
Alfaro-Navarro, María Teresa Alonso-Martínez, Matías Gámez-Martínez, 
Noelia García-Rubio, Virgilio Gómez-Rubio (Chair), Emilio L. Cano, 
Francisco Palmí Perales and Francisco Parreño-Torres.