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1w ago
Quantifying community resilience especially after a disaster is an open research challenge. However, with the growth in mobility datasets such as SafeGraph we are being given new opportunities to study how communities rebound from disaster. & ..read more
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6M ago
Over the years we have developed several agent-based models that have explored various aspects of farming, ranging from farmers selling their land for development to that of water reuse. Keeping with this theme, we have a new paper with Kazi Ullah and ..read more
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7M ago
In the past, this blog has explored several aspects of Detroit, such as how well its covered with Volunteered Street View Imagery or how through the use of agent-based models one can explore issues with urban shrinkage. Keeping up with the theme of shr ..read more
The CASA » GIS
10M ago
While there has been a lot written about COVID-19 Angela Yao, Bin Jiang, Jukka Krisp, Xintao Liu, and Haosheng Huang and myself have just recently wrapped up a special issue in Environment and Planning B and how it can be studied through the lens ..read more
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11M ago
At the end of May, the Citizen Science Association (CSA) celebrated its 10th year anniversary in its conference – C*Sci 2023, held at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona. The conference (22-26 May) provided the opportunity to meet face-to-face colleagues in the area of citizen science, which I haven’t had a chance to talk ..read more
The CASA » GIS
1y ago
Anyone working with geospatial data, had probably encountered at some point the need for geocoding. The task of transforming an address (e.g.: a placename, city, postcode) into a pair of coordinates (e.g.: a point geometry) is called forward geocoding, while ..read more
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1y ago
A couple of months ago we had a post about Mesa-Geo but only a short one. Now we want to go into more detail as we (Boyu Wang, Vincent Hess and myself) just presented a paper about it at the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simul ..read more
The CASA Blog » GIS
1y ago
Close on the heals of the last post on farming, we have a new paper co-authored with Kazi Masel entitled "Modelling Farmers’ Adoption Potential to New Bioenergy Crops: An Agent-based Approach" which was presented at the 2022 Computational Social Scienc ..read more
The CASA » GIS
2y ago
We have just wrapped up project that created a simple agent-based simulation of urban life as part of DARPA's Ground Truth Program. To this end we have just published a new paper entitled "Urban life: a model of people and places" published in C ..read more
The CASA Blog » GIS
2y ago
With more and more people living in urban areas and the current COVID pandemic, human mobility within cities has changed. With this change there is a a growing debate about what it would take to make cities more accessible. For example, what wou ..read more