Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
The 17th Annual INTERGEO was held this past week in the historic city of Nuremberg, Germany. This event brought together 16,000 people from 80 countries, and delivered 140 presentations on a variety of topics to a conference audience in addition to presenting one of the largest trade show in the world, including the latest products and
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
The 5th Geoinformatics Forum (July 5-8 2011), co-located with the highly regarded annual German language conference on Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT), was once again organized by the Centre of Geoinformatics (Z_GIS) at the University of Salzburg, the Institute for GIScience at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German University of Technology in Muscat, Oman.
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
The 2nd International GIS for Rail Summit was recently held in Paris, France. This Esri organised event was sponsored by the International Union of Railways (UIC), a confederation of 197 worldwide members from 5 different continents. The event provided an opportunity for the participants to share interests, discuss issues and to learn about member initiatives
Monday, May 30th, 2011
WhereCamp EU 2001 was held in Berlin, Germany May 27-28 and was attended by an internaitonal audience that including a wide range of individuals involved in business, education and government geo-application development. Following previous WhereCamp approaches, the diverse and wide ranging topics for presentation were arranged and decided upon by attendees during each morning. The
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2011 Annual Conference was held May 1-5 at the Frontier Airlines Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with many and varied conference activities and an attendance of over 1,100. There were 11 workshops held on the two days preceding the conference covering a wide array of topics including,
Friday, April 29th, 2011
CAPIGI 2011 took place in Amsterdam from 4th to 6th of April. The Community on Agricultural Policy Implementation and Geo-Information gathered for the 4th time, connecting people from governments, industry and research organisations, discussing the impact of geo-information in implementing agricultural policy. Sticking to its’ format that was invented in 2005, CAPIGI again was able to present
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Several interesting presentations and discussions emerged from the conference and a summary list of observations and conclusions are presented. The event had 94 contributions from 34 organizations attending from 13 different European countries. A CD was produced containing 13 abstracts and presentation as well as 2 sessions with presentations, 2 technical/marketing presentations (Astrium and GIZ),
Sunday, March 27th, 2011
Airports around the world are faced with several significant challenges. As their sizes grow, the need for improved strategies and tools to manage spaces directly impacts the ability to generate revenue. The infrastructure required to support many buildings, runways and accessibility is also under pressure to increase efficiency. Meanwhile, energy, emergency and critical response functions
Monday, March 14th, 2011
2013 will witness the appearance of a new 400 kg mini-satellite on orbit with small-size high resolution radar onboard, which will open new possibilities for operational detailed imagery of emergency situations. Radar small satellite has been developed at the British company SSTL since 2009, as Luis Gomes, SSTL RS Department Head, reported at the last
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Flying the flag of Geokomm academy – a training institution of the German geo-information industry association Geokomm, 24 highly motivated participants attended the training course “Basic Knowledge on Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)” held from the 28th of February to the 4th of March in Potsdam.
