Yearly Archives: 2025

New article out in Nature Communications! Significant proportion of world’s rural population missing from global estimates

Our latest paper lead by Dr. Josias Láng-Ritter was published at Nature Communications! Our study reveals that Global population datasets, crucial for decision-making by governments and institutions, underestimate rural populations by as much as 53% to 84%. Accurate estimation of population distribution is essential for social and environmental decision-making as well as research.  Scientists, governments, and international bodies often rely […]

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New project funded by CHIST-ERA (2025-2028)

We are happy to announce that GIST Lab was awarded together with an international consortium a 3-year research project focusing on GeoLLMs. The project titled as “Knowledgeable and multimodal Geographic Large Language Models Grounded with Reasoning and Retrieval” (Geo-R2LLM) is run by five Universities: Aalto University, University of Toulouse 3 (France), University of Basque Country (Spain), University of Leeds (UK) […]

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New member joining! Seyed Hosseini

We are happy to announce that we have a new team member joining the GIST Lab, MSc Seyed Hossein Hosseini! Welcome!  Seyed is doing his PhD related to Digital Waters project focusing on modelling water balance in agricultural fields and surrounding areas using Artificial Intelligence approaches.

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