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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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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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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We are happy to announce that the Geoportti RI, an open geospatial data research infrastructure, was selected in the top 21 of Finnish research infrastructures in the Research Council of Finland’s roadmap for Finnish research infrastructures 2025–2028. Geoportti services promote Finland’s RDI goals by, for example, providing open easy-to-use geospatial datasets and high-performance computing services […]
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We are happy to share that our paper was published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. In the paper, we investigate spatial accessibility and transport equity at national level in Finland with open source tools! The work was lead by the brilliant Matti Pönkänen and in great collaboration with Miloš N Mladenović and Henrikki! 👏 […]
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We are sad (but excited at the same time!) to say that our beloved team member Bryan Vallejo will return to his home country Ecuador in September and starts a cool job at Charles Darwin Foundation in Galapagos islands. Bryan has been a dear colleague of ours for many years (both at GIST Lab and […]
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We were happy to host Prof. Martin Tomko from the University of Melbourne, Australia who gave an exciting talk at the GeoSPA Seminar Series. A fun fact: Martin was the PhD co-supervisor of our GIST Lab team member Subhrasankha Day. 🙂
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We are happy to announce that we have a new team member joining the GIST Lab, Dr. Oleksandr Karasov. Welcome! Oleksandr is leading a new project called Ukrainability that explores the impact of war on human-environment interactions in Ukraine. Before joining GIST Lab, Oleksandr worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Geography Lab, University […]
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We were happy to host Prof. Adam Dennett from the Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London who is collaborating with GIST Lab related to the Mapico -project. Adam also gave a super interesting talk at the GeoSPA Seminar Series. Below are some pictures from this visit.
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Henrikki, Jussi and Josias had a busy August hiring new people for the new MAPICO research project that starts officially in September 2023. Altogether there were 180 applicants for these positions. We are delighted to share that we decided to hire one postdoctoral researcher and two doctoral researchers for the project, who will start their […]
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