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Successful hosting of the PLATIAL'23 symposium
Our lab has hosted the fourth edition of the International Symposium on Platial Information Science (PLATIAL'23).

Presentation at the RGS-IBG International Conference 2023 in London
Víctor Cobs-Muñoz presented a paper on approaching sacrifice zones from a multidisciplinary approach at the RGS-IBG Conference in London, England.

New chapter on geographical knowledge orders in a digitalisation context
We have published a new chapter discussing how geographical knowledge orders are affected by the ongoing digitalisation.

Successful street survey in Rotterdam as part of a study project
During the Excursion week of the Summer Semester 22/23, which took place on May 15–19, the students from the A-Project (i.e., study project of…

Commentary on teaching geographic information science in multidisciplinary contexts
GIScientists often teach their subjects in diverse disciplinary contexts. We have published a commentary addressing corresponding challenges.

Presentation at AGILE 2023 in Delft
René Westerholt presented a paper on inferences about spatial autocorrelation statistics at the AGILE 2023 conference in Delft, the Netherlands.

Master's graduate Pauline Scheunert wins the KoMet Young Researchers Award
Pauline Scheunert, one of our supervised Master's students, has won the KoMet Young Researchers Award of the University Alliance Ruhr.

Presentation at GISRUK 2023 conference
René Westerholt presented a paper at the GISRUK conference in Glasgow on the influence of the variance of spatial weights on the Getis-Ord statistic.
