Can gamification and crowdsourcing help collect topographic data? In Finland, a nationwide smartphone game, Pyykkijahti (Marker Quest), was used to test this.
Climate change and human activities have placed unforeseen pressure on forest ecosystems. This has resulted in a loss of biodiversity. In simple terms, biodiversity describes the variety and variability of…
How much unnecessary work do humans currently perform that could be delegated to AI?
The Geoinformatics Research Days event is the annual gathering for geoinformatics experts in Finland, which has been arranged by the member universities of the Finnish University Network for Geoinformatics (Fiuginet) for over 10 years.…
A supercomputer can be seen as a collection of many computers that are interconnected, providing a huge amount of processing power and memory. Supercomputers are built with specialized hardware and…
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Methods of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) have developed rapidly. Concurrently, there is a rising demand for greater accuracy in both data and products. Artificial intelligence methods can help us to…
Course overview and motivation Are you working with geospatial data and running close to the limits of your own computing environment? Are you curious on how you can take your…
Finland’s geographical centre has been an area of interest before. While some have suspended an analogue cardboard model, some have tried to find the centre using mathematics. Because the calculation…
As one of the most environmentally friendly modes of travel, cycling plays an important role in designing sustainable urban mobility. In an ideal, cycling-friendly city, the infrastructure should allow cyclists…