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