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By: Bernd Resch
Abstract: The intensified migratory movements of the last few years are increasingly posing major challenges to authorities, municipalities, relief organizations and NGOs. Particularly, appropriate reception, transfer, supply and accommodation of refugees are still deficient because real-time data to ensure humanitarian security is greatly lacking. Thus, HUMAN+ aims to develop an integrative, near real-time situational awareness picture based on social media, in-situ imagery and remote sensing data. The initiative aims to detect and predict...
The Frances Loeb Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Design is seeking an energetic and forward thinking individual to serve as the GIS, Data and Research Librarian. This position is one of a team of librarians that coordinates research and teaching support for the faculty and students at the GSD.
This position will provide data and GIS instruction and support services to faculty and students at the GSD and be responsible for research support in the areas of geospatial data...
The Normal B Leventhal Map Education Center at the Boston Public Library is seeking a paid intern beginning late June 2019. The internship duties are divvied between 80% GIS projects, and 20% public service. This internship is funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), awarded to the Leventhal Map & Education Center in 2017 with the goal of opening digital access to a collection of historical urban atlases. These maps are at a scale of 1:600, and depict every property in historical Boston,...
The Remote Sensing Workshop for Humanitarian Response is a five-day training conducted by the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. The goal of the course is to equip participants with the necessary expertise to manage, design, and utilize remote sensing programs during both natural disasters and conflict-related emergencies. The course faculty is experienced in remote sensing for humanitarian response, and has extensive expertise in analyzing data from both satellites...
The University of Massachusetts – Amherst invites applications for a Lecturer in Geographic Information Science and Technology at the Mt. Ida Campus. We seek a geographer with expertise in one or more of the following areas: CyberGIS, geovisualization, spatial database design and implementation, geocomputation for processing spatial big data, and/or spatial modeling and analysis. Successful candidates will be able to teach courses in WebGIS, mobile GIS, GIS Programming, Spatial Database Design and Management, and other courses in their specialty.
The NSF I/UCRC Spatiotemporal Innovation Center (STC)’s Industry Advisory Board (IAB) will hold its next meeting at Harvard CGA on June 19th – 20th 2019. At this meeting researchers will report on-going projects’ status, and present new proposals. Board members will give comments, and vote on which project(s) their membership fund will support for the next year. Perspective members are welcome to attend too, though they will need to sign a NDA, and can’t participate in voting. Click here for more information.
