The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Its been a while since we published a working paper, especially a CASA one, but this has now changed with the release of a new one entitled “Agent-Based Models for Geographical Systems: A Review.” In the paper Alison Heppenstall, Nick Malleson, Ed Manl…
Continue reading »In the past we have developed agent-based models to explore a wide variety of applications and even to explored at humanitarian assistance after a natural disaster, however we have not explored how people might decide to rebuild or not after a natural …
Continue reading »In the past we have developed agent-based models to explore a wide variety of applications and even to explored at humanitarian assistance after a natural disaster, however we have not explored how people might decide to rebuild or not after a natural …
Continue reading »Earlier this month I was invited to give a talk as part the Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center (CINA) Distinguished Speaker Series. As readers of the blog might expect, I chose to talk about how open data (e.g. OpenStreetMap, Twitter) …
Continue reading »Earlier this month I was invited to give a talk as part the Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center (CINA) Distinguished Speaker Series. As readers of the blog might expect, I chose to talk about how open data (e.g. OpenStreetMap, Twitter) …
Continue reading »The Geographical magazine, which is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, run an article about “the future of mapping“. The piece was written by Katie Burton, and it covers a range of recent developments in mapping technologies. I was interviewed for the piece, and provided information about our work with Sapelli, and also comments … Continue reading Geographical magazine: The Future of Mapping
Continue reading »At the recent SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference we had a paper entitled “The Impact of Message Quality on Entity Location and Identification Performance in Distributed Situational Awareness.” In the paper we discuss the importance of detecting a perso…
Continue reading »At the recent SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference we had a paper entitled “The Impact of Message Quality on Entity Location and Identification Performance in Distributed Situational Awareness.” In the paper we discuss the importance of detecting a perso…
Continue reading »At the upcoming 16th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) we have vision paper entitled “Location-Based Social Simulation” accepted. In the paper we discuss issues such as data sparsity and privacy concerns with using real w…
Continue reading »At the upcoming 16th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) we have vision paper entitled “Location-Based Social Simulation” accepted. In the paper we discuss issues such as data sparsity and privacy concerns with using real w…
Continue reading »The Urban Zoo project focused on the issues of transfer of disease from animals to humans, in particular in the context of Nairobi, Kenya. This is mostly a medical study, but through the involvement of UCL Development Planning Unit (DPU), issues of urban planning and urban studies were integrated. The new paper “Participatory mapping and food‐centred … Continue reading New paper: Participatory mapping and food‐centred justice in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Continue reading »Over the last couple of years we have been working on generating synthetic human populations with realistic social networks with respect to the New York mega-city and surrounding region. This is being done for a variety of modeling applications such a…
Continue reading »Over the last couple of years we have been working on generating synthetic human populations with realistic social networks with respect to the New York mega-city and surrounding region. This is being done for a variety of modeling applications such a…
Continue reading »This last Spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students were expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based model t…
Continue reading »This last Spring semester I taught a class entitled “Spatial Agent-based Models of Human-Environment Interactions”. As with many of my courses, students were expected to complete a end of semester project, in this case, develop an agent-based model t…
Continue reading »This blog post was written by Michelle Neil of ACSA with edits by me (yay! collaborative note taking!) (apologies for getting names wrong!) The session was structured in the following way: first, each person presented their issue, and then they answer questions that were presented by other panel members. The questions that we managed to … Continue reading Citizen Science 2019: Designing technology to maximize cultural diversity, uptake, and outcomes of citizen science
Continue reading »Jessica Culpepper (Public Justice), Larry Baldwin (Crystal Coast Waterkeeper), Matt Helper (Appalachian Voices), Michael Krochta (Bark). Jessica – there can be a disconnect between the work on the ground and how it is used in advocacy. On how to use the information to make the world a better place, and hold polluters to account. First, Michael Krochta (Bark) from … Continue reading Citizen Science 2019: Citizen Science in Action: A Tale of Four Advocates Who Would Have Lost Without You
Continue reading »The session was opened by Na’Taki Osborne-Jelks, Agnes Scott College (CSA board) – the environmental justice movement have used methods of community science we need to include in the tent of citizen science. There are 60 participants in the conference that are supported by the NSF to participate in the conference. There was a special effort … Continue reading Citizen Science 2019: Environmental Justice and Community Science: A Social Movement for Inpowerment, Compliance, and Action
Continue reading »The Extreme Citizen Science group, set up about 8 years ago, has developed two main technological infrastructures – Sapelli software to allow data collection by low-literacy participants, and GeoKey, a data management system for community mapping. We have also developed an engagement approach that allows for the co-production of the data collection process, and for … Continue reading Opportunity: come and help us create the ExCiteS Social Enterprise!
Continue reading »Its been a long time in the making but now “Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems: A Practical Primer” has been published by Sage. We (Nicolas Malleson, Ed Manley, Alison Heppenstall and myself) approached this book from two standp…
Continue reading »Its been a long time in the making but now “Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems: A Practical Primer” has been published by Sage. We (Nicolas Malleson, Ed Manley, Alison Heppenstall and myself) approached this book from two standp…
Continue reading »Last week I gave a talk to Department of Computational and Data Sciences colloquium series entitled to “Computational Modeling of Slums: Progress and Challenges” in which I discussed some of our current work on slums. This talk was inspired by several …
Continue reading »Last week I gave a talk to Department of Computational and Data Sciences colloquium series entitled to “Computational Modeling of Slums: Progress and Challenges” in which I discussed some of our current work on slums. This talk was inspired by several …
Continue reading »In the current SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter whose theme is Urban Analytics and Mobility, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak and myself have a paper entitled “Procedural City Generation Beyond Game Development”. In the paper we discuss how synthetic urban area…
Continue reading »In the current SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter whose theme is Urban Analytics and Mobility, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak and myself have a paper entitled “Procedural City Generation Beyond Game Development”. In the paper we discuss how synthetic urban area…
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Geographical location of the South Omo Zone of EthiopiaWhile many of the recent posts on the site have focused on social media, social networks and volunteered geographical information, we have not forgotten or moved away from agent-based modeling (as …
Continue reading »Geographical location of the South Omo Zone of EthiopiaWhile many of the recent posts on the site have focused on social media, social networks and volunteered geographical information, we have not forgotten or moved away from agent-based modeling (as …
Continue reading »About a year ago, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, hosted the PPGIS 2017 workshop (here are my notes from the first day and the second day). Today, four papers from the workshop were published in the journal Quaestiones Geographicae which was established in 1974 as an annual journal of the Faculty of Geographical and Geological … Continue reading Papers from PPGIS 2017 meeting: state of the art and examples from Poland and the Czech Republic
Continue reading »Summary of the session on Digital Representation of Place at the RGS-IBG conference in Cardiff. The session aim was to address the following challenge: “Over the last few decades, our cities have become increasingly digital. Urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape our geographic interactions: impacting how we perceive, move through, … Continue reading Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice
Continue reading »The first outcome of the December 2016 workshop on apps, platforms, and portals for citizen science projects was the open access paper “Defining principles for mobile apps and platforms development in citizen science“, which came out in October 2017. The workshop, which was organised by Soledad Luna and Ulrike Sturm from the Berlin Museum for Natural History, has … Continue reading Developing mobile applications for environmental and biodiversity citizen science: considerations and recommendations
Continue reading »The Open GeoPortal is a Free and Open Source framework for rapidly discovering, previewing and retrieving curated geospatial data from multiple repositories. It implements a modular architecture, including a database, a search engine and several web applications. While it can … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Normally, on this blog, the focus is on agent-based modeling and GIS. However, I am not agnostic to other modeling approaches especially cellular automata (CA) modeling (which I have written about in the past). To this end, Rui Zhang, Qing Tian, …
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Normally, on this blog, the focus is on agent-based modeling and GIS. However, I am not agnostic to other modeling approaches especially cellular automata (CA) modeling (which I have written about in the past). To this end, Rui Zhang, Qing Tian, …
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Normally, on this blog, the focus is on agent-based modeling and GIS. However, I am not agnostic to other modeling approaches especially cellular automata (CA) modeling (which I have written about in the past). To this end, Rui Zhang, Qing Tian, …
Continue reading »In the 2018 State and Future of GEOINT Report published by the The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) we had a paper accepted entitled “The Future of GEOINT: Data Science Will Not Be Enough”. In the paper we discuss how there has …
Continue reading »In the 2018 State and Future of GEOINT Report published by the The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) we had a paper accepted entitled “The Future of GEOINT: Data Science Will Not Be Enough”. In the paper we discuss how there has …
Continue reading »In the 2018 State and Future of GEOINT Report published by the The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) we had a paper accepted entitled “The Future of GEOINT: Data Science Will Not Be Enough”. In the paper we discuss how there has …
Continue reading »Since the end of 2015, I’ve been using the following mapping of citizen science activities in a range of talks: The purpose of this way of presentation is to provide a way to guide my audience through the landscape of citizen science (see examples on SlideShare). The reason that I came up with it, is … Continue reading Citizen Science for Observing and Understanding the Earth
Continue reading »Nick Malleson, Alison Heppenstall and myself recently had a chapter published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, entitled “Place-Based Simulation Modelling: Agent-Based Modelling and Virtual Environments”. In…
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Nick Malleson, Alison Heppenstall and myself recently had a chapter published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, entitled “Place-Based Simulation Modelling: Agent-Based Modelling and Virtual Environments”. In…
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