An open research and collaboration platform connecting people, knowledge, methods, tools, and opportunities across disciplines — from spatial science and quantitative research to health, society, environment, and sustainable development.
Freely accessible research and knowledge that can be shared, used, and built upon.
Built together with researchers, students, communities, and organizations.
Clear, practical knowledge designed for researchers, learners, and practitioners.
Linked to real-world questions, challenges, and opportunities.
IdeaLab Research is an open research and collaboration platform connecting people, knowledge, tools, and opportunities.
We support the development, sharing, and application of research through open-access publishing, learning media, curated resources, thematic communities, events, and innovation.
Our goal is to make geospatial knowledge more open, collaborative, accessible, and connected to real-world needs.
IdeaLab brings together complementary pathways for discovering knowledge, sharing research, connecting people, and developing practical solutions.
An international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal advancing research in spatial knowledge, GeoAI, Earth observation, and applied geospatial science.
Explore JSKAR →Research talks, interviews, presentations, educational content, and discussions that make research more accessible.
Explore Media →Spatial data, research tools, AI resources, research guides, and practical knowledge for researchers and learners.
Explore Resources →Country-based and thematic communities connecting researchers, students, practitioners, and organizations.
Explore Community →Applying geospatial technologies, remote sensing, GeoAI, WebGIS, and spatial analytics to real-world challenges.
Explore Innovation →Conferences, workshops, webinars, training, GIS events, and community activities shared through the IdeaLab network.
Explore Events →IdeaLab Communities bring researchers, students, practitioners, and organizations together around shared interests, places, disciplines, and challenges.
Connecting researchers and emerging scholars across Canada, South Asia, Africa, Pacific Island regions, and beyond.
Connect researchers, students, practitioners, and organizations across the IdeaLab Research network.
Discover shared interests across GIS, health, environment, data science, GeoAI, and related fields.
Build connections across Canada, South Asia, Africa, Pacific regions, and other emerging research communities.
Bring together people working across spatial science, remote sensing, health, environment, data, and technology.
Discover conferences, workshops, training opportunities, webinars, and other activities shared through the IdeaLab Research community.
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Events submitted by members are reviewed by IdeaLab administrators before publication.
Courses, events, research guides, practical skills, and learning media for researchers, students, and practitioners.
Develop practical research, GIS, remote sensing, statistics, data, and emerging technology skills.
Explore Training →Discover conferences, workshops, webinars, seminars, and other learning activities.
Explore Events →Practical guides and curated knowledge to help researchers plan, conduct, analyze, and communicate research.
Explore Guides →Build capabilities in research methods, spatial analysis, data science, WebGIS, programming, and emerging technologies.
Develop Skills →Research talks, interviews, presentations, lectures, educational videos, and other learning media.
Explore Media →IdeaLab Research connects science, technology, society, sustainability and practical problem-solving through collaborative research and applied knowledge.
Our core spatial capability supporting research across disciplines through mapping, analysis, remote sensing, GeoAI, data science and visualization.
Research addressing practical social, economic, development and policy challenges.
Research supporting sustainable development, climate action, environmental protection, resilience and communities.
Research focused on health, humanitarian action, equity, population, communities and social wellbeing.
Future opportunities for students and emerging researchers to develop, conduct and showcase research.
GeoHub will bring together interactive maps, spatial datasets, dashboards, geospatial applications, and practical tools developed through the IdeaLab Research network.
A shared spatial environment connecting research, data, technology, and real-world places.
Explore GeoHub →Examples of research directions where geospatial technologies can support practical knowledge and decision-making.
Geospatial approaches for mapping solar potential and supporting renewable energy intelligence.
Building intelligence databases that support planning, analysis, and evidence-based decision-making.
Transforming population and household survey data into actionable spatial knowledge.
Geospatial approaches to health, education, climate, water security, and social equity.
JSKAR is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal advancing interdisciplinary research across spatial science, data, health, environment, society, and sustainable development.
JSKAR brings together research across spatial knowledge, analytics, GeoAI, Earth observation, health, environment, society, and related interdisciplinary fields.
Learn about JSKAR →From data and analysis to knowledge and publication.
Explore the journal, published articles, current issues, editorial information, and the latest research published by JSKAR.
Visit Journal Site →Share your research with an international, interdisciplinary scholarly community through JSKAR's open-access publishing platform.
Submit Your Manuscript →Connecting researchers and emerging scholars across Canada, South Asia, Africa, Pacific Island regions, and beyond.