Description
Material provided: Personalized training for end-users
Unit definition: Individual one week training at provider premises
Location: Zoersel, Belgium
Short description: Personalized training for VECMAP end-users
Description of the facility
Avia-GIS NV is a Belgian SME founded in 2001 that specializes in spatial risk mapping and modelling as a basis for the development of tailored spatial decision support systems applied to public-, animal- and crop health and integrated pest management. Our company has a unique market position. Only few companies operate in our domain and developed such close contacts with the industrial, institutional and academic world. We have offices in Belgium, South Africa and Guadeloupe, and are active in more than 50 countries. We focus on the development of state-of-the-art techniques that broaden the scope of conventional analyses, convert data into new insights and bridge the gap between research and decision-making including: mathematical and spatial-temporal modelling, environmental monitoring using satellites and drones, wireless “Internet of Things” (IoT) sensor networks, and satellite navigation. Our experts are specialised in environmental engineering, biology, entomology, spatial epidemiology, meteorology, spatial modelling and ICT. We focus on the development of approaches that reduce the cost of spatial sampling and increase the knowledge that can be extracted from data. Our core is understanding the spatial distribution of emerging vector-borne diseases and are now expanding this to new domains in urban- and agricultural pest management.
Training Overview
VECMAP is an area-wide risk mapping software for research and decision making developed by Avia-GIS that is a one-stop-shop for data collection and risk mapping. In this five-day practical hands-on training, we offer to cover the following:
- Designing multi-layer sampling strategies for cross-sectional or longitudinal surveys
- Setting up multi-team field campaigns
- Analysing collected data
- Defining pseudo-absences
- Selecting the correct covariates
- Building a species distribution model
- Computing ensemble models
The focus of the training can be one, multiple or all of the above-mentioned aspects depending on the needs of the trainee. If required demonstration data sets will be provided by Avia-GIS.
As an alternative the training may focus on using existing area-wide data sets from the course participant:
- Importing area-wide data set in VECMAP
- Analysing imported data
- Defining pseudo-absences
- Selecting the correct covariates
- Building a species distribution model
- Computing ensemble models
The 1-year license price of VECMAP is included in the course cost.
For more information about the application process please contact us.
Website: https://www.avia-gis.com
Technical Inquiries: info@avia-gis.com