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Dr. Pierre Goovaerts To Present At 12th International Geostatistics Congress
BioMedware Chief Scientist Dr. Pierre Goovaerts will present his talk, titled "Finding water service lines with hazardous material using a compositional approach and geostatistics-informed machine learning," at Geostats 2024 (12th International Geostatistics Congress)...
Geostatistics and Nuclear Energy: A Powerful Synergy
Nuclear energy stands out as a powerful yet complex source in the rapidly evolving world of energy production. It offers a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels, making it a critical player in the fight against climate change. However, the challenges associated with...
Dr. Pierre Goovaerts Invited to Plenary Panel: Digital Twin and Spatiotemporal Data Science
BioMedware Chief Scientist Dr. Pierre Goovaerts will join the “Plenary Panel: Digital Twin and Spatiotemporal Data Science” for the International Symposium on Spatiotemporal Data Science to be held at Virginia Tech Research Center. The Symposium will be held at the...
Dr. Pierre Goovaerts Honored By U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell
In her letter dated May 29, 2024, U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell congratulates BioMedware Chief Scientist Dr. Pierre Goovaerts for receiving a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The grant titled “Software for Geostatistical...
BioMedware Announces New Grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Dr. Pierre Goovaerts, Principal Investigator, and BioMedware have been awarded a new SBIR Phase I grant titled “Software for Geostatistical Smoothing and Joinpoint Regression Modeling of Time Series of Compositional Variables in Epidemiology.” This grant will...
Challenges and Limitations in Geostatistical Modeling
When working with spatial data, we often encounter situations where observations on a variable are absent for some of the locations on the map. Geostatistians talk of “sampled” locations—places where observations on a variable of interest are measured—and “not...
Geostatistics in Public Health: Disease Mapping
In public health, visualizing, analyzing, and interpreting the spatial distribution of diseases is critical for effective disease prevention, control, and resource allocation. Data mapping provides valuable insights into the spatial patterns of diseases, such as...
A Personal Foray into Rewilding – The Prairie
In “Sand County Almanac” Aldo Leopold recounts a story of restoration of an aged Wisconsin farm, played out and abandoned, the land worn, furrowed, and unproductive. Over the years, Aldo was able to restore the soil, the landscape and the habitat, turning back the...
What is Geostatistics?
Have you ever wondered how scientists map things like soil quality, air pollution, or even the spread of disease? These maps often rely on data collected at specific locations, but what about the areas in between? This is where geostatistics comes in. Geostatistics is...
An Introduction to Space-Time Analysis
The world is ever-changing, dynamic, and beautiful. For a long time, GIS did not capture this space-time dynamism, and instead was based on a static world-view. But times have changed, and our ability to capture space-time dynamics and to analyze and model dynamic...