[R-sig-Geo] GEOSTAT Summer School for PhD students August 19 - 26 2018 | IBOT Prague, Czech Republic --- registrations are now open

[Tomislav Hengl]

The IBOT, Prague 2018 Summer School is the 13th in a series of summer 
schools organized by R and Open Source (OS) GIS developers and 
enthusiasts. GEOSTAT aims at PhD students and researchers in a range of 
environmental and GIS sciences, especially those focusing on analyzing 
spatial and spatio-temporal gridded data in R and OS GIS. The main idea 
of GEOSTAT is to promote various aspects of statistical analysis of 
spatial and spatio-temporal data using Open Source / free GIS languages 
and tools: R, Python, GRASS GIS, QGIS, SAGA GIS and similar. For more 
info see:

https://geostat-course.org/

The registrations are now open. In the case there are >60 registrations, 
we will rank regs based on the standard 4 criteria (read more at 
https://geostat-course.org/). After the registration close, selected 
applicants will be invited individually with detailed instructions 
(travel, accommodation, registration fees and similar).

The registrations fees are expected to be about 420 EUR (invoice will be 
sent after registrations). Registration fees cover costs of using 
facilities, lunch and coffee breaks and costs of travel and 
accommodation for lecturers. Participants from ODA countries (employed 
by an organization or company in ODA-listed country) and full-time 
students typically receive a subsidized price of 290 EUR for the 
registration costs.

Lecturers / topics (unsorted):

- Edzer Pebesma (IfGI University of Muenster, Muenster Germany):
“Simple features for R”,
“Tidy spatial data analysis with R”,
“Scalable raster data analysis in the cloud with R”,

- Roger Bivand (Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, 
Bergen, Norway)
“A practical history of R (where things came from)”,
“Spatial processes and support (multi-level models)”,
“Applied spatial econometrics”,

- Markus Neteler (Mundialis, Bonn, Germany):
“Analysing environmental data with GRASS GIS”

- Barry Rowlingson (Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster, UK):
“Spatial analysis in epidemiology”
“Combining R and Python for spatial analysis”

- Tim Appelhans (GfK Geomarketing, Germany):
“Using mapview and mapedit to visualise and edit geo-spatial data 
interactively in R”,

- Robin Lovelace (University of Leeds, UK):
“Geocomputation with R”,
“Integrating spatial data in dplyr workflows: pitfalls and potential”,
“Modelling transport data with R”

- Jannes Münchow (Geographic Information Science, Friedrich Schiller 
University Jena, Jena, Germany)
“R-GIS bridges: the examples of RQGIS and RSAGA”,
“Spatial modeling using frequentist models, e.g., modeling species 
richness, single species and/or landslides (RQGIS, RSAGA and rgrass7 
tutorials)”
“The importance of spatial cross-validation in predictive modeling”

- Jakub Nowosad (Space Informatics Lab, University of Cincinnati, Ohio USA):
“GeoPAT 2.0 - analysis of spatial and temporal patterns”

- Tomislav Hengl (Wageningen, the Netherlands):
“Mapping biomes and tree species using Machine Learning”
“Computing with large rasters in R: tiling, parallelization, optimization”

The GEOSTAT 2018 Summer School will be hosted by the Institute of Botany 
(IBOT) which is part of the Czech largest national research institution 
- The Czech academy of Sciences. IBOT seat in village near Prague, in 
Pruhonice in ancient castle with huge park. Pruhonice castle and park 
are listed by UNESCO.