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...
Huan Ning, Zhenlong Li | March 19, 2025, last updated on July 25, 2025 Introduction Geospatial modeling is the process of combining observations and spatial data to investigate the dynamic of phenomena over the Earth, covering physical and societal processes. Such...
Task What’s the association between median household income and obesity? Please generate a HTML report to include the regression analysis, r-square, p-value, and be sure to include a one paragraph report to interpret the findings. Dataset PA County shapefile...
Spatial task Generate the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) of Akure from these satellite imageries. Datasets Landsat 8 imageries Akure_boundary Result
Spatial task Merge the four DEMs into a single raster and perform terrain characteristic analysis for Richland County, including slope, aspect, hillshade, terrain ruggedness index (TRI), and topographic Position Index (TPI). Datasets Four DEM datasets for Richland...
