I’ve got my MA at the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Moscow State University, Russia.
My PhD research focuses on the analysis of the land use dynamics within and beyond the urban fringe.
I work a lot with the open GIS tools, especially with the QGIS/Postgres bundle and develop Python applications for spatial analysis and transportation studies. My wider research interests include modeling land use degradation dynamics, analysis of transportation data and travel activities.

 

Awards: Smaller-Winnikow Scholarship 2013-2014

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Participation in funded research projects:

From Proprietary to Open Source Tools for Management and Analysis of Governmental Spatial Big Data, Survey of Israel, 2017 - 2019 

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publications:

1. Grinblat, Y., Gilichinski, M., Benenson, I., (corresponding author), 2016, What are the Probabilities of Land-Use Transitions? The Answer Depends on the Classification Method, AAAG, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1213154​

2. Y. Grinblat, G. J. Kidron, A. Karnieli, I. Benenson (corresponding author), 2015, Simulating land-use degradation in West Africa with the ALADYN model, Journal of Arid Environment, 112, 52-63

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