We are proud to share that Josias Láng-Ritter has received the Publication Award at this year’s School of Engineering Annual Awards (ENG Awards 2026). The event was hosted by Dean Kari Tammi on 5 March at the Stage in the Viima building in Otaniemi, and brought together staff and students to celebrate outstanding contributions across […]
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We are excited to share that our latest paper, led by doctoral researcher Cesar Marin-Flores, has been published in Geographical Analysis. The study examines commuting patterns and public transport accessibility in Santiago, Chile, and shows that living close to opportunities does not guarantee the ability to reach them. Public transport accessibility is widely used to assess […]
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We are happy to share that Oleksandr recently co-authored a paper published in the journal Cities. In this paper, the authors investigated the socio-cultural values of ecosystem services in managed, semi-managed, and low-managed urban blue spaces in Warsaw, Poland, using participatory mapping (PPGIS) data. The work was led by the Anna Wilczyńska from the Rīga […]
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Oleksandr lead-authored a paper published in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. In this paper, Oleksandr and the international team of authors (Evelyn Uuemaa and Tiit Tammaru from the University of Tartu, Olle Järv from the University of Helsinki, Monika Kuffer from the University of Twente) investigated the spatial distribution of household […]
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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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I just returned from a valuable visit to the ISI Foundation in Torino, where I had the opportunity to connect with experts in urban mobility. A highlight was catching up with my PhD co-supervisor, Prof. Leo Ferres, as we exchanged insights on mobility dynamics, particularly in Latin America and Chile. During my visit, I shared […]
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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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