It was a busy week in early September for the GRI Team who attended the FOSS4G Conference in Hiroshima, Japan. FOSS4G is the world’s largest international conference dedicated to Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G), organized by the OSGeo Foundation. UC and GRI staff and students presented the following talks:
01/09/2026: Development of an open-source analytical Digital Twin framework for environmental modelling and management. Presented by Luke Parkinson and Professor Matt Wilson.
02/09/2026: Open-sourcing the ivory tower, or how to remove barriers between scientific modelling and communities through open-source software. Presented by Maria Vega and Professor Matt Wilson.
02/09/2026: FloodA5: An Open-Source Framework for Flood Modelling on an Equal-Area Pentagonal DGGS. Presented by Matthew Wilson. 
02/09/2026: Shared Landscapes, Shared Futures: Visual Landscape Evolution Modelling for Community Stewardship. Presented by Vinuri Piyathilake. 
03/09/2026: Learning with Spaceborne LiDAR for Enhancement of Bare-Earth Digital Elevation Models from Global Data. Presented by Xander Cai. 
