Aitor Àvila Callau

Aitor Àvila Callau

Geographer and postdoctoral researcher

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Education

Keywords

Geographic Information Systems

Voluntereed Geographic Information

Cultural Ecosystem Services

Spatial Planning

Landscape

Research projects

  1. “Servicios ecosistémicos culturales, salud y bienestar en zonas urbanas y periurbanas con clústeres petroquímicos” - RESTAURA
    • Reference: PID2020-114363GB-I00
    • Financing entity: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
    • Main researcher: Yolanda Pérez Albert (Depto. de Geografía. URV)
    • Duration: 2021 - 2023
    • Type of participation: predoctoral researcher
  2. “El paisaje como valor colectivo. Análisis de su significado, usos y percepción social” - CHORA
    • Reference: CSO2017-82411-P
    • Financing entity: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
    • Main researcher: Yolanda Pérez Albert (Depto. de Geografía. URV)
    • Duration: 2018 - 2021
    • Type of participation: predoctoral researcher
  3. “Los paisajes protegidos y construidos” - SPATIUM
    • Reference: CSO2014-52721-P
    • Financing entity: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
    • Main researcher: Yolanda Pérez Albert (Depto. de Geografía. URV)
    • Duration: 2015 - 2017
    • Type of participation: technician

Publications

  1. Àvila Callau, A.; Pérez-Albert, Y.; Serrano Giné, D. (2020). Quality of GNSS Traces from VGI: A Data Cleaning Method Based on Activity Type and User Experience. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf., 9, 727. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9120727
  2. Blay, J.; Àvila, A. (2020). Els efectes del temporal Glòria: una mostra de la necessitat d’actuació urgent al delta de l’Ebre. Treballs De La Societat Catalana De Geografia, 0(89). DOI: 10.2436/20.3002.01.195. http://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/TSCG/article/view/148347/146037
  3. Serrano Giné, D.; Pérez Albert, M.Y.; Àvila Callau, A.; Jurado Rota, J. (2020). Dataset on georeferenced and tagged photographs for ecosystem services assessment, Ebro Delta, N-E Spain. Data in Brief, 29, 105-178, p. 1-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105178
  4. Àvila Callau, A.; Pérez Albert, M.Y.; Jurado Rota, J.; Serrano Giné, D. (2019). Landscape characterization using photographs from crowdsourced platforms: content analysis of social media photographs. Open Geosciences, 11, 1, p. 558-571. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geo-2019-0046

Talks

Conference talks:

  1. “XXVII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Geografía”.
    • Contribution: Academic poster
    • Title: “Propuesta metodológica de un SIGPP para analizar el uso público y la percepción del paisaje en Tarragona”
    • Autors: Aitor Àvila Callau, Yolanda Pérez Albert, Joan Alberich González
    • Place and date: Ciudad de La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain), 14-17 December (2021)
    • Proceedings (DOI): in process
  2. “XXVII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Geografía”.
    • Contribution: Academic poster
    • Title: “La calidad de la IGV para el análisis territorial. El caso de Wikiloc”
    • Autors: Aitor Àvila Callau, Yolanda Pérez Albert, David Serrano
    • Place and date: Ciudad de La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain), 14-17 December (2021)
    • Proceedings (DOI): in process

Other talks and presentations:

  1. Assessment of outdoor sports recreation and Cultural Ecosystem Services in peri-urban areas through geolocated data from social media
    • Type: talk/presentation in the activity called “After-lunch talks of CENSE”
    • Organizing entity: NOVA University of Lisboa, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research (CENSE)
    • Place and date: NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA), November 4 (2021)
  2. Georeferenced images of social networks as a data source for the analysis of Cultural Ecosystem Services. The case of the peri-urban of Tarragona
    • Type: talk/presentation in the final seminar of the project “El paisaje como valor colectivo. Análisis de su significado, usos y percepción social. CHORA”.
    • Organizing entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    • Place and date: Faculty of Tourism and Geography, June 16 (2021)
  3. Landscape characterization using photographs from crowdsourced platforms: content analysis of social media photographs. Ebro Delta Natural Park
    • Type: talk/teaching collaboration in the Cartographic and Geoanalytic Methods in Tourism subject of the Master in Tourism Destination Management
    • Organizing entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    • Place and date: Faculty of Tourism and Geography, January 30 (2020)
  4. The peri-urban landscape of Tarragona: analysis of public use and users ’perception based on Voluntereed Geographic Information
    • Type: talk in the activity called “Mi tesis en 15 minutos: presentación de tesis doctorales en Geografía de las universidades de Cataluña”
    • Organizing entity: Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), Societat Catalana de Geografia (SCG)
    • Place and date: online, December 16 (2020)
    • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNKnjeqN_aQ&t=449s
  5. The smartphone, a tsunami of geobigdata in social networks: how to exploit the geolocated data provided by smartphones
    • Type: talks in the activity called “Scientific conferences aimed at high school institutes”
    • Organizing entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    • Place and date: Various institutes in the province of Tarragona (Spain), 2019-2020
  6. Analysis of landscape perception from voluntary photography available on social platforms
    • Type: talk/presentation in “SUMCULA – Susteinable Management of Cultural Landscapes – Erasmus Strategic Partnership”.
    • Organizing entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    • Place and date: Campus Catalunya, January 23 (2019)
  7. Analysis of landscape perception from voluntary photography available on social platforms. Ebro Delta case study
    • Type: talk/presentation in “SUMCULA (SusteinableSustainable Management of Cultural Landscapes) IP (Intensive Program) Project Management Meeting”.
    • Organizing entity: Pécs University and Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    • Place and date: Pécs University (Hungary), October 06-13 (2019)
  8. The analysis of the perception of the landscape through Voluntereed Geographic Information (VGI) available on social platforms. The case of the Ebro Delta (Tarragona, Spain)
    • Type: talk/presentation in the final seminar of the project “Los paisajes protegidos y construidos. SPATIUM”.
    • Organizing entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    • Place and date: Faculty of Tourism and Geography, June 19 (2018)

Teaching

  1. Inequality and Cooperation
  2. Territory and Culture