• Luca Pappalardo
  • luca [dot] pappalardo [at] isti [dot] cnr [dot] it
  • KDD Laboratory, ISTI-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
  • http://www-kdd.isti.cnr.it

• Mirco Nanni
  • mirco [dot] nanni [at] isti [dot] cnr [dot] it
  • KDD Laboratory, ISTI-CNR, Pisa
  • http://www-kdd.isti.cnr.it

• Giovanni Mauro
  • giovanni [dot] mauro [at] sns [dot] it
  • KDD Laboratory, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
  • http://www-kdd.isti.cnr.it

• Beginning of lectures: 18 September 2026
• End of lectures: 18 December 2026

The lectures will be only in person and will NOT be live-streamed

The analysis of geographic information, such as those describing human movements, is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society, such as disease spreading (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic), urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more. This course will teach the fundamental concepts and techniques underlying the analysis of geographic and mobility data, presenting data sources (e.g., mobile phone records, GPS traces, geotagged social media posts), data preprocessing techniques, statistical patterns, predicting and generative algorithms, and real-world applications (e.g., diffusion of epidemics, socio-demographics, link prediction in social networks). The course will also provide a practical perspective through the use of advanced geoanalytics Python libraries.

The assessment of the course consists of an oral exam, aimed to test the knowledge acquired by the student during the course.

Topics:

• Spatial Reference Systems
• Data formats
• Trajectory and Flows
• Spatial Tessellations
• Open-source tools for geospatial analysis
• Digital spatial and mobility data
• Preprocessing mobility data
• Individual and collective mobility laws
• Next-location and flow prediction
• Trajectory and flow generation
• Applications

• Fundamentals of Geographical Information Systems
  • Geographic coordinates systems
  • Vector data model
  • Trajectories
  • Spatial Tessellations
  • Flows
  • Practice
• Digital spatial and mobility data
  • Mobile Phone Data
  • GPS data
  • Social media data
  • Other data (POIs, Road Networks, etc.)
  • Practice
• Preprocessing mobility data
  • filtering compression
  • stop detection
  • trajectory segmentation
  • trajectory similarity and clustering
  • Practice

• individual mobility laws
• collective mobility laws
• mobility pattern mining
• Practice

• Prediction
  • Next-location prediction
  • Crowd flow prediction
  • Spatial interpolation
• Generation
  • Trajectory generation
  • Flow generation
• Practice

• 783AA Geospatial Analytics A.A. 2025/26
• 783AA Geospatial Analytics A.A. 2024/25
• 783AA Geospatial Analytics A.A. 2023/24
• 783AA Geospatial Analytics A.A. 2022/23