October 2026, 19th -23rd, Port-Louis, Brittany, France Third edition of our research coding and coaching retreat ! The retreat is aimed both as a team building and as a research seminar where participants share and develop the methods and codes of their individual project to consolidate know-how and skills within the quantitative geography team for
November Map Challenge 2024 from Luxembourg
Below a compilation of the maps contributed by our “mappers” from Luxembourg University and LISER as part of this year’s map challenge! TIPTOP !
Many thanks to our contributors: Kerry Schiel, Léandre Fabri and Cyrille Médard de Chardon
2nd Port-Louis Quadtrees coding retreat!
26th of February to the 1st of March 2024, Port-Louis, Brittany, France After a first super succesful session in May 2023, from which we developed a package for radial analysis with the team of Rouen (UMR Idees), Port-Louis (Morbihan, France) will welcome our 2nd coding retreat from February 26th to March 1st. The retreat is
Quadtrees Hub#8
The internal scaling of pollution and congestion of European cities 2 presentations by Yufei Wei and by Estelle Mennicken When? 18th June 2021, 14:00-16:00 Where? Webex The Quadtrees Hubs are to share opinions and discuss research in progress. The meetings of Quadtrees Hubs are open to anyone interested and somehow familiar with some quantitative techniques and
Quadtrees Hub#7
Using point process models for comparing archaeological settlement patterns Kaarel Sikk (University of Luxembourg, C2DH and DGEO) When? 21st May 2021, 2 to 3 pm Where? via Webex (request meeting link by registering to isabelle.piroth@uni.lu or geoffrey.caruso@uni.lu) Point process modelling provides a framework for exploring systems that can be observed as a set of points.
Quadtrees Hub#6
Towards a spatially explicit urban CO2 budget. Urban carbon emissions, dispersion and sequestration in Europe On May 21st, our sixth Quadtrees Hub will take place. The aim is to share and discuss research in progress. Quadtrees’hubs are open to anyone interested and somehow familiar with some quantitative techniques and willing to progress with these. Please
Land cover, landscape metrics and typology of European cities for Urban Forest Ecosystem Services (UFES) evaluation
Datasets by Marlène Boura and Geoffrey Caruso Zenodo: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4301952 Description The datasets provide a typology for 689 European urban areas, the land cover metrics and landscape metrics used to create the typology and the Urban Forest Ecosystem Services (UFES) indexes created from them. The typology of Urban Forest Ecosystem Services (UFES) presents 10 clusters of
Scaling of Urban Heat Island and NO2 with Urban Population: A Meta-Analysis
The International Environmental Modelling and Software Society Conference 2020 (iEMSs 2020) was hosted by the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society and Hydrology Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel from September 14 to 18, 2020. This event was held online. The details of iEMSs 2020 are here. The followings are the abstract and the video
Urban Interventions to Reduce Pollution Exposure and Improve Spatial Equity
New publication by Mirjam Schindler and Geoffrey Caruso Abstract Air pollution is of increasing concern to urban residents and urban planners are struggling to find interventions which tackle the trade‐off between environmental, health, and economic impacts arising from this. We analyze within a spatially explicit theoretical residential choice model how different urban interventions can reduce
Les dimensions spatiales et socioprofessionnelles du travail frontalier aux frontières franco-suisse et franco-luxembourgeoise
I. Pigeron-Piroth et R. Belkacem, Geo-Regards n° 13/2020 Cet article analyse les principales dimensions spatiales et socioprofessionnelles des travailleurs frontaliers aux différentes frontières de la France, notamment au sein des pôles d’emploi transfrontaliers de Genève, Bâle et de Luxembourg. Il s’appuie sur une exploitation des données du recensement français de la population, complétées par les