The Rise of Digital Twins
Last March, Nature Computational Science published an issue dedicated to digital twins. From the simulators used by NASA in the Apollo missions to today’s applications in urban planning, the concept of digital twins is...
Category: Simulation
Cities in the face of green technologies, skills and preferences transitions – ECTQG 2023
At the European Colloquium of Theoretical and Quantitative Geography 2023 (ECTQG, 2023), Jorge Salgado – researcher at Citadyne – presented the progress of his research entitled: “Cities in the face of green technologies, skills and...
A model-based spatio-temporal classification of global urban expansion – ECTQG 2023
Dr Jingyan Yu, – postdoctoral researcher and member of Citadyne – presented the first results of her research “A model-based spatio-temporal classification of global urban” at the European Colloquium of Theoretical and Quantitative Geography...
Smart Metaverse City – Digital twins cities
Smart Metaverse City – Digital twins cities According to Charitonidou (2022), digital twins are virtual replicas of cities that are used to simulate environments and develop scenarios to address policy issues related to urban planning...
How to use ChatGPT in your daily GIS work
ChatGTP was launched by OpenAI last November. Since then, it has been widely recognized as a game-changing tool for research and everyday life. In this article by Dymaptic, 6 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Everyday GIS Work, you can...
Google mobility reports: big data to help fight Covid pandemic
Last week Google has published the “COVID-19 Community Mobility report”. In the context of strict confinement measures, and while some governments (China above all but also Italy, France and Spain) have resorted to mobile...
The cosmic web and a slime mold: network patterns across scales
Is there a relation between a yellow slime organism called Physarum polycephalum, that can be easily found on decaying trees and leaves in the forest’s shade, and the complex organization of galaxies? Researchers Joe...
An agent-based simulation of coronavirus diffusion
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the world, governments are taking measures to slow down the spread of the contagion among the population. In fact, while there is no way the virus...
Can cities’ network position explain the probability of violent conflict?
When we consider the global network of cities, is instability an inherent property of certain network positions? Dr. Weisi Guo from Cardiff University believes this is the case. He recently co-authored a study in...
International Land Use Symposium (ILUS) 2017 – Use of spatial modelling and data visualisation to enlighten future sustainable policy making
Date: November 1-3 2017 Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe, Dresden, Germany Call for Abstracts (Deadline: 31 July 2017) Suggested topics for English-language presentations can be submitted via the symposium website (http://www.ilus2017.ioer.info). Main Topics: – Big...
Theories and models of urbanization
ERC GeoDiverCity International Workshop Thursday 12th and Friday 13th October 2017 | Paris, France http://geodivercity.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/blog/international-workshop/
CCS’15 & CS-DC’15 – Watching again the E-Session on Territorial Intelligence for Multi-level Equity and Sustainability
For those who missed the session Territorial Intelligence for Multi-level Equity and Sustainability, you can visualize online individually each presentation : Denise Pumain, University Paris 1. ERC GeodiverCity (Keynote Speaker – Conference CS-DC) World Urban...
ORBIS: the Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
The system calculates the distance from a city to another one, according to faster path, or lower cost. http://orbis.stanford.edu/ Go to “Mapping ORBIS”, It draws the path and create many different maps and graphs...
Tomorrow’s world
A guide to the next 150 years by BBC news graphics http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-tomorrows-world
When Networks Network
The magazine Science underline the huge advance made in network analysis. Networks interact, create cascading effects…… read more in Science
New Blog for the ERC project GeoDiverCity
http://geodivercity.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/blog/
Interactive maps of the world population on the INED website
a terrific tool to give to students, children, citizens of the world…. http://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/interactive_maps/ See the instructions: publi_pdf2_pesa485