Open Geostatistics (www.opengeostatistics.org)

Welcome to the open geostatistics initiative web site. The current focus of this website is the upcoming workshop for spatio-temporal data in R. Read on for more details or to find out what Open Geostatistics is.

R development center at ifgi

The R Development Center at the institute for geoinformatics has been launched.

R spatial and spatio-temporal, workshop, Curitiba, Br, 29-30 Mar 2011

See the Workshop page for details.

Handling and analyzing spatio-temporal data in R, Workshop, 21-22 Mar 2011

This workshop was held at ifgi with R users and developers (1) to discuss handling of spatio-temporal data in R (the need of classes and methods for storing, manipulating, analyzing and visualising spatio-temporal data), (2) to set up bi-lateral and common research/development agendas, (3) to write and test code.

See the workshop page for details.

Requirements identified during the workshop.

EDC workshop Time & Space, ifgi, Muenster, 17-18 Mar 2011

Time & Space in R, SWE, and ArcGIS? . See here.

What is Open Geostatistics? Updated Mar 2011

By open geostatistics we mean the combination of access to

• open data, in real-time
• open source geospatial software
• open, reproducable procedures
• open, web-based, methods for data and processing models (interoperability)
• open and explicitly quantified significance and accuracy levels of research findings
• managed, open user and developer communities

This initiative is not a solitary effort. We are actively involved in

• UncertWeb, an FP7 project that will realize the uncertainty-enabled model web
• DETECT, and FP7 Euratom project aiming at monitoring network optimization for nuclear outbreak detection
• AI-Geostats, a web site and community about geostatistics
• r-sig-geo, a mailing list with 2000 subscribers (Mar 2011) for discussing the development and use of R functions and packages for handling and analyzing geographical data in R, and a book that accompanies this;
• GeoViQua, an FP7 project (at 52N) that will realize QUAlity aware VIsualisation for the Global Earth Observation system of systems
• the geostatistics community of 52°North
• The R packages sp and spacetime that provide classes and methods for spatial and spatio-temporal data
• The gstat project, open source software (and R package) for geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation

Open Geostatistics for Global Change, Jun 25, 2010

In the first attachment below you will find the invitation for my public inaugural lecture, which carries the title Open geostatistics for global change, held on Jun 25, 2010, 16:15, Auditorium, Robert Kochstrasse 28, Muenster. In one of the attachments below you can find a written version of the text.

-- EdzerPebesma - 09 Jun 2010