Organizers of this course

This course is organized by CSC - IT Center for Science and funded by Geoportti Research Infrastructure and the Location Innvation Hub.

CSC - IT Center for Science

• Non-profit company producing IT services for research and higher education

• Owned by ministry of education and culture (70%) and higher education institutions (30%)

• Headquarters in Keilaniemi, Espoo

• Side offices and supercomputers in Kajaani

• ~700 people

Geoportti Research Infrastructure

Geoportti Research Infrastructure (RI) is a shared service for researchers, teachers and students using geospatial data and geocomputing tools. Geoportti RI helps researchers in Finland use, refine, preserve and share their geospatial resources.

• GeoPortti web portal

• GeoPortti (oGIIR) projects has been very important for developing geocomputing usage of CSC supercomputers and cloud services.

• GeoPortti services:

  • At CSC:

    • Geocomputing services, inc. supercomputer geospatial installations, local spatial data, support and user-guides

    • Paituli data download service with STAC

    • GIS training and GIS seminars

  • GeoPortti GeoCubes - a harmonised, multi-resolution raster geodata repository containing several national datasets

  • GeoPortti GeoPrivacy - a service where cyclists and pedestrians can donate GPS tracking data for science.

  • UEF Drone Lab

  • Geospatial Challenge Camp - a 10-week long challenge-based course (5 ECTS) that aims to provide participants a chance to tackle relevant real-world challenges in cross-disciplinary teams

Location Innovation Hub

The Location Innovation Hub (LIH) is a centre of excellence in location information coordinated by the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute. Our services are produced in conjunction with a partner network. We help companies grow their business with location information. We also serve the public sector.

• Location Innovation Hub

• Consulting to companies and other organizations how to use GIS, trainings, test environments

• At CSC: introducing LUMI to geospatial companies

Citing

If you used CSC computing resources and GIS tools or data for your research, please acknowledge CSC and Geoportti in your publications. It is important for project continuation and funding reports. As an example, you can write:

“The authors wish to thank CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland (urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072531) and the Open Geospatial Information Infrastructure for Research (Geoportti, urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072513) for computational resources and support”.