MundoGEO, leader on events and publishing magazines and web portals to the geospatial industry in Latin America, in partnership with several companies in the geospatial industry, organized an entire week of online seminars with 3,082 participants in total. The main topics were on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for decision making.
UAVs
MundoGEO, in partnership with some of the leading companies in the Brazilian industry, organized on August 13 an online seminar that focused on the use of UAV for the mapping sector. In the webinar, there were introduced features, applications and trends in the areas of UAV environment, forestry, agriculture, infrastructure, among others.
Geospatial data in the cloud
In partnership with the company Space Imaging do Brasil, on August 14 the webinar addressed what is most modern and sophisticated in online systems for visualization of geospatial data. The webinar discussed in detail an online system that allows high-tech web access to databases of high resolution satellite images. These systems are being widely used by large companies in several sectors such as mining, energy, agriculture, security, among others.
gvSIG
MundoGEO and gvSIG Association organized, on August 16, a webinar about the free software gvSIG, an open source project that allows its free use, distribution, study and improvement. During the webinar, a brief introduction of the project characteristics and its organization were conducted, followed by a series of demonstrations in which the gvSIG software proved to have great ability to work as vector and raster GIS, for network analysis or as GIS 3D. The presenters spoke directly from Valencia, Spain, and most participants were from Latin America, with great interaction through questions asked in the chat.
SuperGIS
Conducted in partnership with the Brazilian company Engesat, the webinar on August 17 addressed the GIS technologies of the Chinese company SuperGeo. The solutions offered by GIS software of SuperGeo, in Desktop, Server or Mobile, are state of the art tools for users of geoinformation technologies. Professionals and educators who already use or seek to use GIS technologies in various applications, such as environmental, urban planning, data registration, agriculture etc, participated in the webinar.
“The MundoGEO Week Webinars was a period of integration of the Ibero-American community through geoinformation”, said Eduardo Freitas, mediator of the online seminars”. They were professionals, educators, experts and decision makers literally from all Latin American countries and other nations such as Portugal, Spain and also some African countries like Angola and Mozambique,” he concludes.
According to Emerson Granemann, director of MundoGEO, the company has been coordinating online seminars for over three years. “More than 80 webinars were organized since 2009, gathering an average of one thousand participants in each online event,” he concludes.
MundoGEO Online Seminars (Webinars)
The series of MundoGEO online seminars (webinars) were created for educational and informational purposes on technologies, cases and trends in the geospatial solutions industry. The webinars offer a simple and fast way for refresher courses, placing the companies, institutions and users in direct contact, without the need to travel. Since 2009, MundoGEO has organized more than 60 webinars in Spanish and Portuguese. In 2012 June, MundoGEO webinars had a record-breaking in participation in the events, with over 2,800 subscribers and 1,500 people connected in the same event. These online seminars are supported by companies from the geospatial industry, as well as institutions that promote the development of geospatial solutions in the world.
About MundoGEO
MundoGEO, founded in 1998, is a leading company, in Latin America, specialized in integrated solutions for media and communication for the geospatial solutions industry. The platform for connecting the geospatial community has over 100,000 registered professionals, in its various online channels and social networks. The content published in the magazine and MundoGEO web portal is in Portuguese, Spanish and English, and includes articles, opinions from users and experts, along with news and global releases in the areas of satellite imagery, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), land surveying, aerial photos, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), mapping and Location Based Services (LBS). The company also promotes and organizes online seminars, and the major trade show in the industry in Latin America, annually in Sao Paulo (SP), Brazil, with several simultaneous activities. In 2012, MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica event gathered 3,350 participants from 27 countries, in addition to 70 international brands in the trade show.
