Around 40% of future urban development in the Netherlands is likely to take place within vulnerable areas. The development of new houses, industrial estates and holiday homes until 2050 may affect large areas with natural, landscape or cultural values. The
PhD defense Filipe Batista e Silva
On the 2nd of June 2022, Filipe Batista e Silva successfully defended his PhD dissertation at VU Amsterdam. The thesis, titled Geospatial data fusion for continental assessments of land use, activities and population distribution, proposes an advanced approach for fusing
Webinar digital twins
Digital twin is het nieuwe buzzwoord in de wereld van data en AI. Maar: wat is het? Een digital twin is een virtuele representatie van een fysieke situatie of product. Het dynamisch meten vormt een belangrijk onderdeel van een DT
Theory and Application of Dynamic Spatial Time Series Models
Today Bo Andrée defended his PhD dissertation in an online session that had a live stream on YouTube. The somewhat impersonal, digital setting did not inhibit a lively discussion. Bo’s thesis sets out to develop theory and methods to analyze
Relation between air pollution and confirmed COVID-19 cases researched
SPINlab doctoral candidate Bo Andree recently led a study on the relationship between air pollution and COVID-19 incidences in the Netherlands for The World Bank. With the spread of the virus several hotspots emerged around the globe, a number of which coincided
3D archeologie in Rome
Spinlab onderzoeker Maurice de Kleijn (geospatiaal archeoloog (PhD), en Rens de Hond (promovendus-archeoloog, 3D-specialist) hebben in de afgelopen maanden bijgedragen aan de tentoonstelling Via Appia Revisited. Tijdreizen over de Eeuwige Snelweg. Deze tentoonstelling is een tijdreis langs de beroemde antieke
PhD promotion Ting Zou
Last January Ting Zou successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the VU University. Her thesis Landscape service provisions and preferences on the urban–rural fringe ‘attempts to investigate changes in landscape service supply and people’s preferences towards these services over space
Vasco Diogo defends his PhD
On October 12, Vasco Diogo has successfully defended his PhD dissertation at the VU University. His thesis ‘Agricultural land systems: Explaining and simulating agricultural land-use patterns’ reveals to what extent empirical and theory-based approaches of spatial analysis and land-use modelling
Large Grant to set up Urban Mobility Observatory
NWO has awarded seven proposals for innovative research infrastructure within the programme NWO Investment Grant Large. With this programme, NWO funds large research facilities, within which researchers from throughout the Netherlands work together, often with international partners. Erik Verhoef, together
Stem op GeoFort!
GeoFort is in de race voor de Museumprijs 2018! Al jaren werken we als Spinlab VU samen met GeoFort. Zo hebben we samen heel Nederland in minecraft omgezet en een geweldig educatief platform gecreëerd waarin kinderen, docenten en jongeren