• Mobility Lab webpage
• Martin’s profile at University of Salzburg

For today’s episode with with Tõnis Kärdi, self-proclaimed hobby GIS specialist, we dive into Open Source Geospatial Software.

Important links:

• The Open Source Geospatial Foundation - OSGEO

• QGIS - A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System

• What is Open Source? https://www.osgeo.org/about/what-is-open-source/

• OSGEO projects (aka open source geospatial software projects): https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/

• Ian Turton’s presentation: Earning Your Support Instead of Buying it, Tõnis mentions in this episode

Tõnis is an OSGeo Charter Member and has helped co-organize FOSS4G conferences over the last years. He is also in organising team for this year’s FOSS4G Europe conference:

FOSS4G Europe 2024 Tartu, Estonia, 1-7 July

Funding disclaimer:

This podcast episode is made possible with the support of grant PSG841 ‘Framework for Spatial Predictive Modelling of Soil Properties Using Machine Learning’ from the Estonian Research Council, led by truly yours.

Links as discussed in the episode:

• Website for Census results: https://rahvaloendus.ee/en

• some GIS data: https://rahvaloendus.ee/et/loendus-2021/metoodika-ja-kvaliteet/haldusuksuste-tasemed-ja-ruumiandmed

• Statistics Estonia website: https://www.stat.ee/en

• Statistics Estonia data : https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat

• Baltic-American Freedom Foundation (BAFF) internship program: https://www.balticamericanfreedomfoundation.org/programs/professional-internship-program

Funding disclaimer:

This podcast episode is made possible with the support of grant PSG841 ‘Framework for Spatial Predictive Modelling of Soil Properties Using Machine Learning’ from the Estonian Research Council, led by truly yours.

Today we talk with Lisett Luik, co-founder of Arbonics, a climate-tech company helping European landowners store more carbon and protect biodiversity. Lisett has a diverse career background across the globe and came back to Estonia to make the world a better place.

Funding disclaimer:

This podcast episode is made possible with the support of grant PSG841 ‘Framework for Spatial Predictive Modelling of Soil Properties Using Machine Learning’ from the Estonian Research Council, led by truly yours.

• Estonian 3D Digital Twin - https://livekluster.ehr.ee/ui/ehr/v1/3d
• Background information on the 3D Digitial Twin project - https://eehitus.ee/e-ehituse-3d-kaksiku-arendus/
• 3D digital twin API services on the e-construction platform: https://swaggerui.ehr.ee/3_d_kaksiku_api
• E-construction platform developer portal: https://developer.e-ehitus.ee/
• Background information about BIM-based building permit development: https://eehitus.ee/bim-pohine-ehitusloa-menetlus/

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• Sixfold

Research reading list:

Like usually, we also want to share some recent interesting articles on GIS, Geography or related fields with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on:

• Transactions in GIS, Wiley | Loose programming of GIS workflows with geo‐analytical concepts https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tgis.12692?af=R (subscription access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Comparing World City Networks by Language: A Complex-Network Approach https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/4/219 (open access)

• Nature Sustainability, Springer | An evaluation of the sustainability of the Olympic Games https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00696-5 (open access)

• npj Urban Sustainability, Springer | Urban access across the globe: an international comparison of different transport modes https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00020-2 (open access)

• IJGIS - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis | Decentralized geoprivacy: leveraging social trust on the distributed web https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2021.1931236?af=R (open access)

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• EyeVi Technologies

Research reading list:

Like usually, we also want to share some recent interesting articles on GIS, Geography or related fields with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on:

• Earth Science Informatics, Springer | Voxel modeling of geotechnical characteristics in an urban area by natural neighbor interpolation using a large number of borehole logs http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12145-021-00600-x (open access)

• IJDE - International Journal of Digital Earth, Taylor & Francis | Implementation of serverless cloud GIS platform for land valuation https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2021.1889056?af=R (subscription access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | A Unified Methodology for the Generalisation of the Geometry of Features https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/3/107 (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Machine Learning-Based Processing Proof-of-Concept Pipeline for Semi-Automatic Sentinel-2 Imagery Download, Cloudiness Filtering, Classifications and Updates of Open Land Use/Land Cover Datasets https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/2/102 (open access)

• Transactions in GIS, Wiley | Area and volume computation of longitude–latitude grids and three‐dimensional meshes https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tgis.12636?af=R (subscription access)

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• Positium

Research reading list:

Like usually, we also want to share some recent interesting articles on GIS, Geography or related fields with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on:

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Spatially Characterizing Major Airline Alliances: A Network Analysis https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10010037 (open access)

• CaGIS - Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Taylor & Francis | Evaluating the effectiveness of different cartographic design variants for influencing route choice https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15230406.2020.1855251?af=R (subscription access)

• IJGIS - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis | A methodological framework for analysis of participatory mapping data in research, planning, and management https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2020.1869747?af=R (subscription access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | A Tourist Attraction Recommendation Model Fusing Spatial, Temporal, and Visual Embeddings for Flickr-Geotagged Photos https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10010020 (open access)

• Computers & Geosciences, Elsevier | PDAL: An open source library for the processing and analysis of point clouds https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104680 (subscription access)

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Kaupo is the co-founder and CEO of KappaZeta, a science-driven radar remote sensing company based in Tartu with focus on agriculture. Kaupo is a radar remote sensing expert and his goal is to make space data valuable for everyone. Kaupo graduated the Physics curriculum in Tartu and holds a PhD specialising on radar remote sensing.

Tanel is a co-founder, GIS expert and board member of KappaZeta, a science-driven radar remote sensing company based in Tartu with focus on agriculture. Tanel graduated the Geography curriculum in Tartu and holds a PhD specialising on remote sensing and geoinformatics.

Enjoy the interview.

• KappaZeta

Research reading list:

Like usually, we also want to share some recent interesting articles on GIS, Geography or related fields with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on:

• Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier | Evaluating the Effects of Timber Harvest on Hydrologically Sensitive Areas and Hydrologic Response https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002216942031266X?dgcid=rss_sd_all (subscription access)

• Transactions in GIS, Wiley | Pattern‐based calibration of cellular automata by genetic algorithm and Shannon relative entropy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tgis.12646?af=R (subscription access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Geographic Information System Technology Combined with Back Propagation Neural Network in Groundwater Quality Monitoring https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/12/736 (open access)

• JAG - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Elsevier | Temporal mosaicking approaches of Sentinel-2 images for extending topsoil organic carbon content mapping in croplands https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030324342030920X?dgcid=rss_sd_all (open access)

• Computers & Geosciences, Elsevier | PDAL: An open source library for the processing and analysis of point clouds https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098300420306518?dgcid=rss_sd_all (subscription access)

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"When I found out that there is a curriculum where you can learn digital mapping, I knew what I wanted to study." Martin Jüssi

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• International Space University https://www.isunet.edu/

• SpaceNews

• CGI

Research reading list:

Like usually, we also want to share some recent interesting articles on GIS, Geography or related fields with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on:

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Geo-Informatics in Resource Management https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/11/628 (open access)

• Transactions in GIS, Wiley | Highlighting recent trends in open source geospatial science and software https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tgis.12703?af=R (subscription access)

• IJGIS - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis | Understanding the multifaceted geospatial software ecosystem: a survey approach https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2020.1831514?af=R (subscription access)

• JAG - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Elsevier | The content and accuracy of the CORINE Land Cover dataset for Norway https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243420309090?dgcid=rss_sd_all (open access)

• Remote Sensing, MDPI | Vertical Accuracy of Freely Available Global Digital Elevation Models (ASTER, AW3D30, MERIT, TanDEM-X, SRTM, and NASADEM) https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12213482 (open access)

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Research reading list:

Like usually, we also want to share some recent interesting articles on GIS, Geography or related fields with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on:

• Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier | The Budyko hypothesis before Budyko: The hydrological legacy of Evald Oldekop https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169416300270?via%3Dihub (subscription access)

• Water, MDPI | Cultivating Water Literacy in STEM Education: Undergraduates’ Socio-Scientific Reasoning about Socio-Hydrologic Issues https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/10/2857 (open access)

• HESS - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Copernicus | Hydrology and water resources management in ancient India https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/24/4691/2020/ (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Assessing Quality of Life Inequalities. A Geographical Approach https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/10/600 (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Evaluating the Performance of Three Popular Web Mapping Libraries: A Case Study Using Argentina’s Life Quality Index https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/10/563 (open access)

• Environmental Modelling & Software, Elsevier | Decisi-o-rama: An open-source Python library for multi-attribute value/utility decision analysis https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815220309476?dgcid=rss_sd_all (subscription access)

• Transactions in GIS, Wiley | Acceptance of open source geospatial software: Assessing QGIS in South Africa with the UTAUT2 model https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tgis.12697?af=R (open access)

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Today with us we have the opportunity to introduce Margarita Oja who is a freshly graduate of geography from the University of Tartu. We would like to know what margarita is thinking about GIS in terms of education, research and profession.

Research reading list:

Like usually, we also want to share some recent interesting articles on GIS, Geography or related fields with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on:

• Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Taylor & Francis Online | People’s global-scale cognitive map versus their personal characteristics: a worldwide study https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15230406.2020.1809524?af=R (subscription access)

• Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, nature.com | Concepts for historical and geographical thinking in Sweden’s and Spain’s Primary Education curricula https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00601-z/ (open access)

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Notes of the topics we are talking about:

• Crisis mapping (One of the first examples of this is the response to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. There was limited reliable geospatial data, such as roads and facilities, in Haiti that could be used to tell those on the ground where to go. In the days following the earthquake, many individuals contributed to OpenStreetMap, an open project similar to Wikipedia where users can add geospatial data to the map
• COVID-19 Data Repository from Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE)
• Estonian corona map, problematic strategy of data sharing (https://www.terviseamet.ee/et/koroonaviirus/avaandmed)
• Unacast, a human mobility data and insights company, has built a social distancing scorecard that uses mobility data to analyze the changes in mobility patterns down to the county level (https://www.unacast.com/covid19/social-distancing-scoreboard)
• Social vulnerability- Social vulnerability refers to the resilience of communities when confronted by external stresses on human health, stresses such as natural or human-caused disasters, or disease outbreaks
• Via their Data for Good program, Facebook is working with different researchers and networks to provide a wide range of anonymized data such as high-density population maps, social connectivity, co-location maps, mobility data, and more
• The importance of open street map or data
• Covid -19 mobility network
• CARTO is a spatial platform that provides a wide range of tools to store, analyze, and visualize spatial data and they are making their platform available to public and private organizations
• ESRI is a geospatial software and platform provider that has a wide range of tools and products for geospatial analysis to many different private and public organizations around the world. From their COVID-19 resource page
• GTD Geo Tweets Downloader: https://github.com/nagellette/geo-tweet-downloader

Research reading list:

Like usually, we also want to share around 5 or more recent interesting articles on GIS with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on in the field of GIS:

• IJGIS - International Journal of Geographical Information, Science: Taylor & Francis | NEAT approach for testing and validation of geospatial network agent-based model processes: case study of influenza spread https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2020.1741000?af=R (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Citizens’ Spatial Footprint on Twitter - Anomaly, Trend and Bias Investigation in Istanbul https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/4/222 (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | A Citizen-Centric Approach for the Improvement of Territorial Services Management https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/4/223 (open access)

• Nature Communication, nature.com | A simple contagion process describes spreading of traffic jams in urban networks https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15353-2 (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Identifying Urban Residents’ Activity Space at Multiple Geographic Scales using Mobile Phone Data https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/4/241 (open access)

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Let us give you a short info from the website https://www.geograafia.ut.ee/en/about-us/chair-human-geography-and-regional-planning:

The chair of human geography and regional planning provides education in spatial aspects of functioning of human society, in particular population, culture and mobility, structure of different regions of the world, problems of economy and politics, and regional policy and planning in Estonia and the neighbouring regions. Research is carried out in the same fields. Relations with government agencies and municipalities in Estonian and in neighbouring countries are developed.

The chair of human geography and regional planning have four research labs and work groups:

• Mobility Lab
• Centre for Migration and Urban Studies
• Cultural Geography
• Regional Planning and resource use

The chair is led by Prof Tiit Tammaru. We talked with Tiit in the last episode where he gave us a broad overview about himself and Research and Teaching in Human Geography here in Tartu.

The two main research aspects and collaboration activities related to the Chair of human geography are the Mobility Lab and The Centre for Migration and Urban Studies (CMUS).

Mobility Lab

The Mobility Lab of the University of Tartu focuses on various research topics such as activity spaces, travel behaviour, tourism, segregation, ICT use and environmental impacts for pursuing a deeper understanding of spatial mobility.

In order to gain the best probable understanding of spatial mobility the research group applies both quantitative and qualitative data. One of its main interests lies on the novel methodology based on mobile telephone use, and active and passive mobile positioning data. The latter enables researchers to give a more comprehensive insight into individuals’ activity spaces and spatiotemporal regularities than most of the traditional data sources.

The Mobility Lab is internationally known for its mobile positioning based research and development. In order to discuss theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of mobile positioning based research and applications in geography and planning, the Mobility Lab organises a biannual conference known as “Mobile Tartu”.

The Mobility Lab has numerous local and international cooperation partners. Its long-term strategic cooperation partner is a spin-off company Positium.

Mobile positioning based methodology is applied in various theoretical, methodological and empirical research and planning projects. Accordingly, the Mobility Lab has focused its research on wide range of societal and environmental topics:

• urban geography, urban development and human activity spaces;
• mobile workplaces and the use of information and communication technologies (ICT);
• ethnic segregation;
• tourism geography, event management and destination marketing;
• seasonality of human behaviour, climate and the impacts of climate change;
• environmental planning;
• ecological footprint and environmental impact assessment;

Centre for Migration and Urban Studies (CMUS):

The Centre for Migration and Urban Studies deals with contemporary challenges facing urban regions such as migration, residential mobility, housing and neighbourhood change, immigrant population. Urban regions are the main drivers of innovation and economic growth, but are also in the forefront when it comes to tackling social and ethnic inequalities. Cities offer the benefit of easy face-to-face contact, which is the prime reason why different people—long-term residents, migrants, and commuters, all with different resources, requirements, abilities, preferences and lifestyles—concentrate here, making cities more and more diverse both socially and ethnically. Centre for Migration and Urban Studies links migration, residential mobility, housing and neighbourhood change (a) to macro-societal factors such as systemic change from state socialism to democratic market economy, welfare systems, housing policy and planning, and (b) to people’s daily activities in different life domains, such as schools, work-life, family, leisure.

Research reading list:

Like usually, we also want to share around 5 or more recent interesting articles on GIS with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on in the field of GIS:

• Scientific Data, nature.com | Longitudinal spatial dataset on travel times and distances by different travel modes in Helsinki Region https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0413-y (open access)

• European Urban and Regional Studies , Sage Journals | Uneven transformations: Space, economy and society 20 years after the collapse of state socialism https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776409358245 (subscription needed)

• IJDE - International Journal of Digital Earth, Taylor & Francis | Spatiotemporal event detection: a review https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2020.1738569?af=R (subscription needed)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Minecraft as a Tool for Engaging Children in Urban Planning: A Case Study in Tirol Town, Brazil https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/3/170 (open access)

• Environmental Modelling & Software, Elsevier | Mainstreaming gender into water management modelling processes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815219306966?dgcid=rss_sd_all (subscription needed)

• Earth Science Informatics, Springer | Ten rules to increase the societal value of earth observations http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12145-020-00453-w (open access)

• IJGIS - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis | Volunteered geographic information research in the first decade: a narrative review of selected journal articles in GIScience https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2020.1730848?af=R (subscription needed)

• JAG: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Elsevier | Monitoring household upgrading in unplanned settlements with unmanned aerial vehicles https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243419309900?dgcid=rss_sd_all (subscription needed)

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We start with an interview about Human Geography in general with Professor Tiit Tammaru, member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and head of the Chair of Human Geography and Regional Planning.

We also want to share around 5 or more recent interesting articles on GIS with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on in the field of GIS:

• Earth Science Informatics, Springer | Implementation of a Data Management Quality Management Framework at the Marine Institute, Ireland http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12145-019-00432-w (open access)

• Water, MDPI | Water and Climate Change, Two Key Objectives in the Agenda 2030: Assessment of Climate Literacy Levels and Social Representations in Academics from Three Climate Contexts https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/1/92 (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Visualisation of Spatial Data Uncertainty. A Case Study of a Database of Topographic Objects https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/1/16 (open access)

• IJGIS - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis | GIS: an introduction to mapping technologies https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2020.1712404?af=R (subscription needed)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Strengthening Participation Using Interactive Planning Support Systems: A Systematic Review https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/1/49 (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Conciliating Perspectives from Mapping Agencies and Web of Data on Successful European SDIs: Toward a European Geographic Knowledge Graph https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/2/62 (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Spaces in Spatial Science and Urban Applications—State of the Art Review https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/1/58 (open access)

• Environmental Research Letters, IOP | Humans drive future water scarcity changes across all Shared Socioeconomic Pathways https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab639b (open access)

• ESSD - Earth System Science Data, Copernicus | A cultivated planet in 2010: 1. the global synergy cropland map https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-12 (open access)

• ESSD - Earth System Science Data, Copernicus | Earth transformed: detailed mapping of global human modification from 1990 to 2017 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2019-252 (open access)

We also want to share around 5 or more recent interesting articles on GIS with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on in the field of GIS:

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Mapping Creative Industries: A Case Study on Supporting Geographical Information Systems in the Olomouc Region, Czech Republic https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/12/524 (open access)

• Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier | An MCDM-Based Social Network Analysis of Water Governance to Determine Actors’ Power in Water-Food-Energy Nexus https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169419311175?dgcid=rss_sd_all (subscription needed)

• Transactions in GIS, Wiley | Advancements in web‐mapping tools for land use and marine spatial planning https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tgis.12603?af=R (subscription needed)

• IJGIS - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis | Big Spatiotemporal Data Analytics: a research and innovation frontier https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2019.1698743?af=R (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Types of Crime, Poverty, Population Density and Presence of Police in the Metropolitan District of Quito https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/12/558 (open access)

• Water, MDPI | The Potential of Serious Games to Solve Water Problems: Editorial to the Special Issue on Game-Based Approaches to Sustainable Water Governance https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/11/12/2562 (open access)

• Nature Human Behaviour, nature.com | The global ecology of differentiation between us and them https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0783-3 (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Human-Centric Data Science for Urban Studies https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/12/584 (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Relevance of the Cell Neighborhood Size in Landscape Metrics Evaluation and Free or Open Source Software Implementations https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/12/586 (open access)

• JAG: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Elsevier | Data Cube on Demand (DCoD): Generating an earth observation Data Cube anywhere in the world https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243419310372?dgcid=rss_sd_all (open access)

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We also want to share around 5 or more recent interesting articles on GIS with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on in the field of GIS:

• CaGIS - Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Taylor & Francis | Data scale as cartography: a semi-automatic approach for thematic web map creation https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15230406.2019.1677176?af=R (subscription needed)

• Scientific Data, nature.com | Population centroids of the world administrative units from nighttime lights 1992-2013 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0250-z (open access)

• Regional Environmental Change, Springer | Operationalising ecosystem services in Europe http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10113-019-01560-1 (open access)

• Environmental Modelling & Software, Elsevier | From ad-hoc modelling to strategic infrastructure: a manifesto for model management https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815219308461?dgcid=rss_sd_all (open access)

• Transactions in GIS, Wiley | Extending Processing Toolbox for assessing the logical consistency of OpenStreetMap data https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tgis.12587?af=R (subscription needed)

• Environmental Modelling & Software, Elsevier | Percentile-Range Indexed Mapping and Evaluation (PRIME): A new tool for long-term data discovery and application https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815219304517?dgcid=rss_sd_all (subscription needed)

• Science of The Total Environment, Elsevier | Ecosystem services in a changing environment https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719350004?dgcid=rss_sd_all (subscription needed)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Measuring SDG 15 at the County Scale: Localization and Practice of SDGs Indicators Based on Geospatial Information https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/11/515 (open access)

• Water Resources Research, Wiley | Self‐organizing maps for evaluation of biogeochemical processes and temporal variations in water quality of subtropical reservoirs https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019WR025991?af=R (subscription needed)

• GIScience & Remote Sensing, Taylor & Francis | Agricultural cropland extent and areas of South Asia derived using Landsat satellite 30-m time-series big-data using random forest machine learning algorithms on the Google Earth Engine cloud https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15481603.2019.1690780?af=R (open access)

• JAG: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Elsevier | A new supervised classifier exploiting spectral-spatial information in the Bayesian framework https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243418310638?dgcid=rss_sd_all (open access)

Topi’s website: https://tjukanov.org/aboutme

We also want to share around 5 or more recent interesting articles on GIS with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on in the field of GIS:

• Transactions in GIS, Wiley | Enhancing spatial and textual analysis with EUPEG: An extensible and unified platform for evaluating geoparsers https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tgis.12579?af=R (subscription needed)

• IJGIS - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis | Real-time GIS for smart cities https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2019.1673397?af=R (open access)

• Journal of Spatial Science, Taylor & Francis | Multi-GNSS precise point positioning with next-generation smartphone measurements https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14498596.2019.1664944?af=R (subscription needed)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Parallel Cellular Automata Markov Model for Land Use Change Prediction over MapReduce Framework https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/10/454 (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | pyjeo: A Python Package for the Analysis of Geospatial Data https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/10/461 (open access)

• IJGIS - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis | CostMAP: an open-source software package for developing cost surfaces using a multi-scale search kernel https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2019.1675885?af=R (subscription needed)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Machine Learning Methods for Classification of the Green Infrastructure in City Areas https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/10/463 (open access)

• IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Geobia Achievements and Spatial Opportunities in the Era of Big Earth Observation Data https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/11/474 (open access)

• IJDE - International Journal of Digital Earth, Taylor & Francis | The 11th International Symposium on Digital Earth, Florence DECLARATION by the International Society for Digital Earth https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2019.1681645?af=R (open access)

• ESSD - Earth System Science Data, Copernicus | EstSoil-EH v1.0: An eco-hydrological modelling parameters dataset derived from the Soil Map of Estonia https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2019-192 (open access)

Our host Alex has done research (An eco-hydrological modelling parameters dataset derived from the Soil Map of Estonia) using open source data and software. Here you can find the details of the research: https://landscape-geoinformatics.ut.ee/estsoil-eh-dataset

We also want to share research articles on GIS with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on in the field of GIS. The idea stems from a blog post of Alex, which we will take as first reading inspiration: https://allixender.blogspot.com/2019/09/a-review-of-selected-latest-journal.html

Outlook: Listen to our interview with Topi Tjukanov in the next episode.