PROGRAMME

Programme Overview
Last update: 05/03/2026

Training Course

Advance Workshop on Strategic Spatial Analytics and Application on R-Based Geospatial Intelligence
Tuesday, June 9 from 10:00 to 13:00
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Instructors: Alex Bajaña & Gary Santiana from ERGOSTATS

This training course focuses on spatial analysis techniques using R, with a focused application to spatial accessibility to healthcare services. The workshop combines conceptual foundations with practical programming sessions to equip participants with the skills needed to measure and interpret spatial accessibility to services. Emphasis is placed on advanced accessibility methodologies, particularly the Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA) method and its enhanced version (E2SFCA/ES2FCA), alongside other approaches such as gravity models and provider-to-area ratios.
Participants work with real data, including census zones, hospital locations, population data and health service capacity records. Using GIS tools and R packages, they construct travel-time isochrones, build spatial influence matrices, apply distance-decay functions, and compute spatial accessibility indicators such as the Spatial Access Index (IAE) and Spatial Access Coefficient (CAE).
The course bridges theory and application by enabling attendees to identify territorial inequalities in healthcare access and interpret spatial patterns to inform public health planning and resource allocation decisions.

Registration:
​The advanced workshop is free for all 2026 RSAI congress participants, but prior registration is required.
The number of participants is limited to 35; spaces are allocated in order of receipt. 
The participant just need to send an email to rsai@apdr.pt, requesting the registration on the Workshop.​​

​Walking Tours in Quito

• ​​Option 1 - Tuesday, June 9 from 12:00-13:00 (The number of participants is limited to 60)
• Option 2 - Wednesday, June 10 from 18:30-19:30 (The number of participants is limited to 45)

Registration: 
The Walking Tours in Quito are free for all participants of the 2026 RSAI Congress, but prior registration is required.
​Spaces will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
To register for the Walking Tours in Quito, please send an email to rsai@apdr.pt, specifying whether you would like to sign up for Option 1 or Option 2.