Call for Papers: Session Series on “The Convergence of Generative AI and GIScience” at the 2026 AAG GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium Panel sessions: The Convergence of Generative AI and GIScience: Challenges and Opportunities The Convergence of Generative AI and...
Since the first release of our open-source GIS Copilot for QGIS last November, we have received significant interest, feedback, and suggestions from the geospatial community. Thank you to everyone who engaged with the earlier post and tested the tool...
Author: M. Naser Lessani Regression analysis is one of the most widely used and well-established methods for examining the effect of one variable on another. Broadly, regression models can be categorized into two types: global and local models. The key difference...
Zhenlong Li, Huan Ning | May 01, 2025 What is the Large Spatial Model? LLMs are large models designed to process and generate human language, providing intelligent responses through generated text. Sequential communication media, such as meaningful text and, in the...
Huan Ning, Zhenlong Li | April 13, 2025 In a recent vision paper, GIScience in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Research Agenda Towards Autonomous GIS, we proposed three scales of autonomous GIS agents: local, centralized, and infrastructure. Some GIS agents have...
Huan Ning | 04/09/2025 Google Research released a framework named Geospatial Reasoning, which provides a user-friendly inference for spatial analysis and visualization. By receiving users’ requests in natural language about geospatial tasks, Geospatial Reasoning can...
We are excited to announce our latest vision paper (preprint), “GIScience in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Research Agenda Towards Autonomous GIS”, a collaborative effort involving 16 leading GIScience and computer science scholars across academia, national...
04/02/2025 The Geoinformation and Big Data Research Lab (GIBD) at Penn State had a great presence at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), held in Detroit, Michigan, from March 24–28, 2025. Our lab organized and co-organized a total...
Huan Ning | March 30, 2025 I attended the AAG Annual Meeting for the first time and gained so much from the experience. I had the chance to meet many professors, peers, and even renowned scholars whose names I had only seen in books before. One scholar I’ve long...
If you are attending AAG this year, we cordially invite you to join our 13 in-person sessions focused on geospatial big data, spatial computing, autonomous GIS, human mobility, disaster management, and public health! GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Generative AI in...
