Spatial Data Lab (SDL) 2025 Monthly Webinars on Spatiotemporal Innovation
We are excited to announce the SDL Program 2025 Monthly Workshop Schedule, which will consist of online meetings held every four weeks, starting on Wednesday, 15 January 2025. In each meeting, two SDL Fellows will present their studies for potential collaboration and knowledge-sharing.
Join us via the Zoom link below to engage in discussions and share innovative ideas:
Zoom Meeting:
https://utas.zoom.us/j/89611160258?pwd=cJEcEsbMdGNOSOMY6rJa9y8ySNQWzF.1
Meeting ID: 896 1116 0258
Password: BgB#Sa@7.@
We look forward to your active participation!
Brief summary
🎯 12 Webinars in 2025
🎯 24 presenters from 12 countries and regions, including
- Asia (5): Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, and Singapore.
- Europe (5): Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
- North America (1): United States.
- Oceania (1): Australia.
Recordings of webinars (1-12):
Summary of presentations by fields and directions:
| Field | Research directions | Talks and presenters |
|---|---|---|
| GeoAI & spatial data science | GeoAI foundations; spatial representation learning; explainable geovisual analytics | Xiao Huang (8); Gengchen Mai (9); Chuan Chen (6) |
| Spatial statistics and modeling; spatial heterogeneity; Monte Carlo downscaling | Lingbo Liu (1); Zehua Zhang (1); Yongze Song (1) | |
| Human–environment GeoAI; wearable sensing and spatial behavior | Siqin Wang (5); Martin Moser (6) | |
| Urban analytics, built environment and infrastructure | Cartographic pattern recognition; volunteered big maps; geospatial pattern mining | Xiran Zhou (3) |
| Urban sensing and street-level intelligence; billion-scale street-view analytics | Dong Xu (4); Zhuangyuan Fan (10) | |
| Urban morphology, spatial inequality, polycentricity; hedonic modelling | Xiang Ao (7); Gladys Elizabeth Kenyon (10); Xincheng Zheng (12) | |
| Road infrastructure and climate resilience; future maintenance costs | Pengcheng Zhang (8) | |
| Climate, environment, hazards and sustainability | Climate impacts, extreme weather, and adaptation strategies | Haiyan Liu (9); Zhen Wu (11) |
| Environmental change, land cover and vegetation dynamics; groundwater monitoring | Nazma Chamely (3); Kai Li (5) | |
| Energy systems, digital twins, aviation emissions and global shocks | Nan Jia (7); Yogender Yadav (12) | |
| Health, accessibility and social equity | Healthcare accessibility, service distribution, dental care access | Mengxi Zhang (2) |
| Public safety analytics, CCTV performance under lighting conditions | Yanqing Xu (4) | |
| Urban perception, design and humanities | AI-driven urban imagery regeneration; cognitive image of the city | Prafulla Parlewar (2) |
Presentations
(1) Jan 15, 2025
Multi-constraint Monte Carlo Simulation for Cancer Data Downscaling
Lingbo Liu, Harvard University, United States
Heterogeneous spatial autocorrelation
Zehua Zhang, Yongze Song, Curtin University, Australia
(2) Feb 12, 2025
Application of OpenAI for Regenerating “Image of City”
Prafulla Parlewar, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India
Geospatial Access to Dental Care: Insights from Driving and Public Transit Analysis
Mengxi Zhang, Virginia Tech, United States
(3) March 12, 2025
Cartographical Pattern Recognition: Extracting Geospatial Information and Discovering Knowledge from Volunteered Big Maps
Xiran Zhou, China University of Mining and Technology, China
Changes in Vegetation Cover and Land Area in Coastal Areas, Bangladesh
Nazma Chamely, Local Govt Engineering Department., DhaKa, Bangladesh
(4) April 9, 2025
The world’s first billion-level street view database
Dong Xu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Evaluating CCTV Effectiveness under Different Streetlight Conditions in Day and Night
Yanqing Xu, Wuhan University, China
(5) May 7, 2025
GeoAI in Human-Environment Interaction in the era of Open Science
Siqin Wang, University of Southern California, United States
Analysis of Changes and Attribution of Groundwater Storages in the Mongolian Plateau
Kai Li, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, China
(6) June 4, 2025
GeoVisX: A Framework for Explainable Geospatial Visual Analytics
Chuan Chen, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Towards a dynamic view of urban environments and its relation to perceived stress measured through wearable sensors
Martin Moser, University of Salzburg, Austria
(7) July 2, 2025
Quantifying the Impacts of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine War on Global Aviation Emissions within a Polycrisis Framework
Nan Jia, Michigan State University, United States
Analysing polycentricity: challenges and a roadmap
Xiang Ao, University of Oxford, UK
(8) July 30, 2025
GeoAI and Human Geography—The dawn of a new spatial intelligence era
Xiao Huang, Emory University, United States
Incorporating Climate Adaptation into Future Road Infrastructure Maintenance Costs
Pengcheng Zhang, Hong Kong Polytec University, Hong Kong SAR
(9) August 27, 2025
Spatial Representation Learning: What, How, and Why
Gengchen Mai, SEAI Lab, Department of Geography and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
Impacts of Extreme Weather Events and Mitigation Strategies
Haiyan Liu, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, China
(10) September 24, 2025
The Price of Cool: Using Hedonic Modelling to Assess Spatial Inequalities of Air Conditioning in Madrid
Gladys Elizabeth Kenyon, University of Liverpool, UK
Urban Visual Intelligence – uncovering hidden patterns of road safety, group behavior, and urban profiles
Zhuangyuan Fan, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
(11) October 22
Climate-Induced Hazards and Climate Gentrification
Zhen Wu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
(12) November 19, 2025
Landscape Goes Digital: Development of Energy Digital Twins (EDT) for innovative energy planning in urban environments with Geospatial datasets
Yogender Yadav, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Urban morphology and congestion: Identifying spatial drivers for sustainable road transport improvement
Xincheng Zheng, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherland
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