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 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 delighted to announce the successful initiation of the MAPICO workshops, which began in September 2024. These workshops aim to foster collaboration and innovation among professionals and researchers in urban planning and transport, supporting the broader goals of the MAPICO project. The first workshop, held on Friday, 20th September 2024, was designed as a […]
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MAPICO Team at Mobile Tartu Conference: Advancing Sustainable Mobility Research Over the past few days, the MAPICO team had the incredible opportunity to participate in the Mobile Tartu Conference, a premier event focused on mobile big data analytics for building just and sustainable societies. The conference brought together a vibrant community of mobility researchers—ranging from […]
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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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