Geomorphometry Newsletter July 2013

Published: Jul 15, 2013 by ISG Board

A working programme for the conference has now been published on-line. We have over 30 oral talks and >15 poster presentations. The registrations have been also now opened. To classify for the discounted price of $280 (regular) i.e. $140 (student) please register a.s.a.p. (and not later than 4th of August 2013!). For all other info please refer to: www.geomorphometry.org/2013

Geomorphometry.org/2013 conference 2-3 parallel or combined DEM software / data analysis workshops will be held in Nanjing. The received workshop proposals are:Peter Guth: Free and Open Source Geomorphometry SoftwareJarek Jasiewicz: Watershed modeling with r.stream (GRASS GIS toolbox)Scott Peckham: RiverTools 4.0 Registrations for the workshops will be opened in mid August. For more info refer to the conference programme.

Our proposal for a special issue of Earth Surface Dynamics journal (this is an interactive Open Access journal) based on the Geomorphometry.org/2013 conference has been accepted by the managing board. The working title of the special issue is: “Advances in Geomorphometry: new technologies, data and software for DEM analysis”. The submissions will open in early November 2013.

Geomorphometry community is now also on G+. Join this community and post opinions, announcements and short stories and follow up the work of your colleagues.

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PHD position in Italy

Dear colleagues,

I’m grateful if you can circulate information on this PhD opportunity in Italy. The potential candidates can contact me (strevisani@iuav.it) for further information. Here the main elements of the position:

Research topics: Predicting and supporting benthic and pelagic biodiversity through geomorphometry and machine learning

Link to the call (Italian and English): https://www.unipa.it/didattica/dottorati/dottorato-xli/bando-di-accesso-ciclo-41/

Position code [BIODIV.OGS]

Research headquarters OGS Trieste and University of Palermo

Funded by OGS - Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale

Key dates: Deadline: 7th August 2025 - 14:59 (Italian time)

ANADEM: A Digital Terrain Model for South America

There is a new paper (open access) describing a Machine Learning-based DTM for South America:

Laipelt L., Andrade B.C., Collischonn W., Teixeira A.A., Paiva R.C.D., Ruhoff A., 2024. ANADEM: A Digital Terrain Model for South America. Remote Sensing 16(13):2321. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16132321

GRASS GIS 8.4.0RC1 release

The GRASS GIS 8.4.0RC1 release provides more than 515 improvements and fixes with respect to the release 8.3.2.

Check the full announcement at https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/8.4.0RC1.

Please support in testing this release candidate.