Summer School 2020
The OpenGeoHub Summer School 2020 will be held at the Wageningen Int. Conference Centre (Hotel and Conference centre). To receive updates please register for the R-sig-geo mailing list, OpenGeoHub Twitter channel, and/or subscribe for the OpenGeoHub newsletter. The Summer School is limited to 70 100 participants.
Working programme
For updates and questions please use the Mattermost channel.
Latest updates: Based on the Dutch Goverment new rules from 6th of May, we have a green light from WICC to do the Summer School. Participant will be obliged, however, to closely follow the new WICC rules, most importantly the 1.5m distance at any time.
In the case the event is cancelled for security reasons such as the Coronavirus outbreak or similar, all participants will be offered to participate in the postponed event or be refunded. The bank transfer costs, however, in all cases must be covered by the participants. Follow the status of the Coronavirus outbreak in the Netherlands here.
Summer school 2020 corona rules by Guest
The OpenGeoHub 2020 Summer School aims at bringing together the leading FOSS4G and R spatial developers (i.e. actual people involved in developing, documenting and maintaining packages). Lecturers will run tutorials and introduction / motivation speeches which will be partially video-recorded. The topics of the summer school are:
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New R packages and functionality, new FOSS4G software and standards,
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Geocomputing using R and Open Source GIS GDAL, GRASS GIS, SAGA GIS, QGIS,
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Processing large raster data sets using R,
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Combining geocomputing using R and Python,
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Using FOSS4G software for predictive soil, vegetation and environmental mapping,
The special theme of the Summer School 2020 is:
"Developing Machine Learning Algorithms for spatial and spatiotemporal data science problems"
Course fees:
The registrations fees for this Summer School full course fee are 550 EUR. Registration fees cover costs of using facilities, lunch and coffee breaks, administration costs, local travel costs, and costs of travel and accommodation for lecturers. Participants from ODA countries (employed by an organization or company in ODA-listed country) and/or full-time students (not under work contract as University assistant or similar) have a right on reduced fee (340 EUR).
Summer School is organized on a cost-recovery basis. OpenGeoHub foundation is a not-for-profit research foundation located in the Netherlands. All lecturers are volunteers. None of the lecturers receives any honorarium payment or is contracted by the local organizers.
Venue and accommodation:
We have pre-booked 70 rooms at the Wageningen Int. Conference Centre (WICC) for the duration of the Summer School with a special reduced rate for all participants. Please do not contact or book accommodation WICC independently as this might result in different room rates. Room sharing is possible (please specify during registrations) and can lead to further decrease in accommodation costs.
Wageningen ("City of Life Sciences") is a student town with a population of about 45,000 from which about 13,000 students. Wageningen University's researchers are active around the globe, and the university hosts students from over 100 countries.
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26th of November 2019 — registrations open,
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1st of February 2020 — registrations close,
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16th28th of February 2020 — selection of candidates and invitation letters sent, -
14th of May 2020 — extended deadline for participants from the waiting list,
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1st of June 2020 — official programme published,
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16 August to 22 August 2020 — Summer School,
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Edzer Pebesma (Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster) | ||
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Hanna Meyer (Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster) | ||
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Meng Lu (Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University) | ||
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Paula Moraga (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)) | ||
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Giuseppe Amatulli (Yale University / Spatial Ecology) | |
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Richard Barnes (University of California Berkeley) | ||
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Tim Appelhans (MeterGroup) | ||
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Madlene Nussbaum (Bern University of Applied Sciences) | ||
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Dainius Masiliunas (Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research) | ||
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Christian Knoth (Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster) | ||
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Marius Appel (Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster) | ||
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Julia Wagemann (ECMWF / University of Marburg) | ||
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John E. Lewis (McGill University) | |
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Longzhu Shen (Spatial Ecology) | |
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Tomislav Hengl (OpenGeoHub foundation) | ||
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Leandro Parente (OpenGeoHub foundation) | ||
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Other events of interest:
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27–30 May 2020, eRUM, Milan, Italy,
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1–5 June 2020, Geocomputation Using Free & Open Source Software, Matera, Italy,
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7–10 July 2020, UseR 2020, St. Louis USA,
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27–31 July 2020, GeoPython 2020,
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20–24 August 2020, FOSS4G 2020 Calgary Canada,
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20–24 August 2020, EurSoil, Geneve CH,
Video recordings:
Selection of lectures will be video recorded in high quality. Video recordings from the previous OpenGeoHub Summer Schools are available for viewing via our Youtube channel: