Visit to GIScience in Salzburg

Last week, I visited the Geographic Information Science group of the Austrian Academy of Sciences on the invitation of Filippo Dal Fiore. Directed by Josef Strobl and based in Salzburg, their research program emphasis on “Bridging Real and Virtual Worlds”. Concretely, they first conceptualize the integration of realtime sensor input and open interfacing across system architectures. Then, they investigate the aspects of space and time to provide improved and new spatio-temporal concepts to support spatial analysis and spatial data infrastructures (e.g. Representing Time and Space in GIS). Finally, a part of their program aims at finding new ways to communication of spatial knowledge and learning to think spatially.

A sketch of the GIScience research program

Relation to my thesis: Getting to know the GIS practitioners and researchers work and concerns when it come to the analysis of mobility patterns.