An interdisciplinary, international forum for sharing knowledge about the application of Geoinformatics with focus on application and on developing countries.

AGSE 2012 will take place July 16 - 20, 2012, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, chaired by Prof Dr Alias Bin Abdul Rahman FKSG and Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Behr, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences.

Workshops planned so far:

• Spatial Analysis with Open Source - gvSIG and SEXTANTE (D. Schröder, HFT Stuttgart, Germany)
• ILWIS - advanced topics (Md. Zahid Hasan Siddique, lnstitute of Water Modelling, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
• Raster based analysis using R statistical software (S. Pareeth, International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka)
• Python in three hours (V. Wendlik, HFT Stuttgart, Germany)
• Implementing OGC conformant webservices using PostGIS and GeoServer (R. Kettemann, HFT Stuttgart, Germany)
• Application of MODIS 1 km LST product for characterisation of UHI (Arathyram R.S,m National Remote Sensing Center, ISRO Hyderabad)
• An Introduction to Ecological Niche Modelling Using DIVA GIS (Sooraj N P, MSc.MPhil, Activ Environmental Services, Cochin)
• Strategic process management for introducing GIS (F.-J. Behr, HFT Stuttgart, Germany)
• Fuzzy logic analysis (Pulsani Reddy, India)