Schedule
Schedule will be adjusted as needed during the semester.| Week | Lecture/Assignment Topic and Project Tasks | Assignment due date |
|---|---|---|
| January 8 |
Course logistics and
Course Moodle site
1.A Introduction to geocomputation: Foundations
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January 22 |
| January 15 |
1.B Dynamic spatial phenomena
optional topic: 2.A Data simulation |
Januray 22 |
| January 22 |
3.A Surface water: geometry driven simulations of flow and flooding
Work on dissertation related project proposal |
February 5 |
| January 29 |
3.B Surface water: process based simulations
Work on project proposal presentation |
February 5 |
| February 5 |
Project proposal 5 minute presentations and discussions
Open source software and version control system |
n/a |
| February 12 | 4. Tangible Landscape as a geosimulation environment: Introduction and development of activity related to your project, github pull requests | February 19 |
| February 19 |
4. Tangible Landscape as a geosimulation environment: Development, testing, and demonstration of your activity in a notebook and with a physical model |
February 26 |
| February 26 |
Work on the project: perform modeling, analysis, expand TL application,
and outline your project progress lightning talk
Optional: 3.C Geostatistical simulations and error propagation |
March 5 |
| March 5 | Project progress talks: I 10 min., include Title, Introduction with objectives, Study site, Data, Methods, Preliminary and Expected results, Challenges; Tangible Landscape application demonstrations | n/a |
| March 10 - 14 | Spring Break | |
| March 19 |
5.A Spread simulations
Work on project: develop workflows, process data |
April 9 |
| March 26 |
5.B Urban growth simulations
Continue working on the project: analyze, evaluate and visualize results |
April 9 |
| April 2 |
5.C Urban growth simulations on HPC
Continue working on the project: prepare your presentation |
April 9 |
| April 9 |
2023 Project presentations I
Write draft of the paper |
Paper due April 23 |
| April 16 |
IALE 2025
2023 Project presentations II
Write draft of the paper |
Paper due April 23 |
| April 23 |
Finish project paper following the instructions and upload it to Moodle as LastnameFirstname_Paper.pdf |
Paper due April 23 |
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Open topics
Agent based modeling Modeling with kernel densities in social sciences Mass transport and landscape evolution |
na |