Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Space-related opportunities for SM Enterprises - Conference in Budapest, HUNAGI also invited


SME4SPACE – 2009

Conference

10th of November 2009

9:00 - 16.30

Budapest

National Office for Research and Technology

Conference Hall

Program:

8.45 – 9.00 Registration

9.00 – 9.40 Welcome

Kálmán Kovács Hungarian Space Research Council, Chairman

Dr. Gyula Csopaki National Office for Research and Technology, Chairman

Presentations:

9.40 – 10.00 Inaugural

Dr. Pál Bárczy Hungarian Space Cluster, Chairman

10.00 – 10. 30 SME4SPACE aimes, tasks, past, present, future

Giovanni Sylos Labini SME4SPACE Chairman

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 11.30 About the ESA SME Policy

11.30 – 12.00 Questions of co-operations between EC-ESA and connection

possibilities for SMEs

Etelka Barsiné Pataky Hungarian Chambers of Engineers, President

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break

13.00 – 13.30 Results of the first ESA AO tender restricted to the

Czech Republic.

Petr Baresh Czech Space Alliance, Chairman

13.30 – 14.00 Introducing the Polish Space Technology Platform activities

Bartosz Buszke Polish Space Technology Platform, Chairman

14.00 – 14.30 Presentation about the Slovenian space activities

Dr. Ales Mihelic Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology,

General Director

14.30 – 15.00 Romanian space activities

Ms. Anca-Liana Racheru Project manager for ESA related Technology and SME activities

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break

15.30 – 16.00 The Hungarain Space Office and the SMEs of the national

space industry

Dr. Előd Both Hungarian Space Office, Director

16.00 – 16.30 The contribution of the Hungarian Space Cluster to the

future of industrial co-operation with ESA

Dr. Pál Bárczy Hungarian Space Cluster, Chairman

Monday, November 09, 2009

GIS Day Event in Budapest hosted by ELTE TGT


Program is downloadable by clicking on the header
Annotated snapsots are awailable at http://picasaweb.google.com/gabor.remetey

Saturday, November 07, 2009

EUROGI EMM 2009 SDI Best Practice Award Showcase in Turin

From our daily mail. The Secretary-General of EUROGI wrote yesterday:
"Dear Member of EUROGI,
As previously announced and following the information already distributed, EUROGI is pleased to invite you for the 2009 SDI Best Practice Award Conference (EMM 2009) and the General Board Meeting (GBM II 2009) to be held on November 26-27 in Turin, Italy, as follows:
A.
The 2009 SDI Best Practice Award Conference that for this year replaces the usual Extra Members Meeting (EMM 2009) due to the relevance of the ESDI-netplus project, its results and the crucial role played by EUROGI in identifying and analysing the set of selected Best Practices to be presented.
Attached you will find the Invitation letter and Programme for the Conference wich will take place on Thursday, November 26 (full day) and Friday, November 27 Imorning).
Attached you will find the Invitation issue by the Organisers and the Programme for the 2009 SDI Best Practice Award Conference.
Please fee free to distribute it within your network and any stakeholders that might have an interest on the Conference.
B.
The General Board Meeting - GBM II 2009, to be held on Friday, November 27 from 15:00 to 18:00 at the same venue of the 2009 SDI Best Practice Award Conference:
Centro Incontri della Regione Piemonte
Corso Stati Uniti 23
10128 Turin
Italy
Should any further information or assistance be required please let us know.
I am looking forward to meet you in Turin.
We wish you a pleasant weekend."

João Geirinhas
EUROGI Secretary General
Rua Artilharia Um, 107
1099-052 LISBOA
Portugal
Telephone: +351 213-819-624
Fax: +351 213-819-668
E-mail: joao.geirinhas@eurogi.org
Web: www.eurogi.org
Program a címsorra kattintással hívható le.

Geographical distribution of the recent blog visitors

Society and GI/GIS Scientific Conference today


Short report from the scene will follow asap.

Friday, November 06, 2009

GI_Forum 2010 6-9 July, 2010, Salzburg, Austria

From our daily mail. Recent direct communication from the University of Salzburg:

GI_Forum 2010

6-9 July, 2010,

Salzburg, Austria

The Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg 2010 focuses on an international GIScience audience, communicating in English and sharing an interest in translating new methods and techniques into a broad range of application domains in geoinformatics. Researchers find a vibrant GI community from academia, industry, and government to analyze progress and to explore new research directions. The symposium runs concurrently with the highly regarded German language conference on Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT www.agit.at), sharing the innovative EXPO exhibit. Submission deadline February 1, 2010. More information:www.gi-forum.org, Contact:office@gi-forum.org.


3rd Digital Earth Summit

3rd Digital Earth Summit
Nessebar, Bulgaria
12-14 June, 2010



Local Organiser: Prof. Temenoujka Bandrova supported by Prof. Milan Konecny, Vice-President, ISDE
International Organising Committee: identical with the Executive Committee of ISDE

Digital Earth
In the service of Society: sharing information, building knowledge


Topics:

1. The societal context of Digital Earth: benefits, costs, policies, and regulations

2. Digital Earth at local, regional, and global levels: from strategy to realization

3. Digital Earth in sustainable development at local and regional levels

4. Digital Cities: technology and applications

5. Access to Digital Earth: privacy, security, and trust

6. The citizen as contributor to Digital Earth

Source: recent communication of Vice President of ISDE and Prof. Temenoujka Bandrov, the President of the Summit
Further information will be soon visible on web page: http://cartography-gis.com/digitalearth/ (in the momet there is only contact information but registration and accomodation for both conferences is valid)

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

GIS in Education Symposium: over expectation

Background: After the abolishment of the HUNGIS Foundation by the death of its director Dr. Rezső Berencei in 2008, the traditional series of the annual Symposium of the GIS in Education faced also to be in danger of the discontinuation after 18 successful years of operation. After the consultations between NGOs SZVT and HUNAGI as well as the Faculty of Landscape architecture of the Budapest Corvinus University which hosted the event during the past it was decided to keep this positive tradition in live for in the interest of the students, profession and the geospatial community of the country for the benefit of the society. The Symposium organised jointly by SZVT, the Budapest Corvinus University Faculty of Landscape architecture as well as HUNAGI was hosted by the BCU Buda Campus on 4th November 2009. Chaired by Mr. Richard Szabó of SZVT ( ) the event was opened by Prof. Dr. Attila Csemez, Dean of the Faculty. Representatives of the supporting organisers SZVT presidential member Richárd Szabó and secretary-general of HUNAGI delivered welcome speech expressing the goals and potentials of these NGOs how to build a bridge between the education and the real needs of the daily practice in a market environment.

Excellent presentations dealt with applications such as Noise mapping of the capital Budapest (András Muntag of EnviroPlus Ltd), GIS in societal assessments (Ákos Jakobi), Regional service provider for geospatial data in and for NE Hungary (Dr.Gábor Bartha, Dániel Soós), Opensource GI softwares (Dr. Attila Molnár), Raising spatial thinking - the impact of INSPIRE (Pál Lévai), R+TD in the EU to support INSPIRE and GMES: the Humboldt project (Dr. Dániel Kristóf), Visualisation in GIS (Zsuzsanna Hurton), GIS in the daily practice at a local government (Béla Szabó), Digital repository of the State Highway System (Ágnes Palotai). The highlights of the event were the two panel discussion on two topics:
a) Needs in GIS education, Awareness raising to strengthen spatial thinking, space-time assessment potentials, requirements from the enterprises point of view. The discussion generated and moderated by the Editor-in-chief terinformatika-online Dr. Szilárd Szabó was attended by invited people such as President of HUNAGI Zsolt Barkóczi, Director of MoD Mapping Nonprofit Company László Buga, Dean of the Budapest Corvinus University Prof. Dtr. Attila Csemez as well as representatives of Geodézia Shareholding Company (Bence Toronyi), Tekiré Ltd (Intergraph reseller) Zsolt Janovszky all HUNAGI members as well as the Zrinyi Miklós Home Defense University Ms. Erika Szabó-Szalánczi).
b) Graduated former students, shared their views on the barriers, difficulties and advantages based on their own experiences entering in the engineering practice.
The panelists graduated at the following universities: BME (László Gergely), BCE (József Molnár and Zita Szabó), ELTE (János Nyerges), Miskolc University (Dániel Soós) and Zoltán Zboray at Szeged University.
The event was used also for awarding the best diploma works of the year. Three certificates were issued for students
graduated at ELTE, Budapest, the Szeged University and Zita Szabó of the Budapest Corvinus University. (Names and themes will be added asap.)
The event has excellent atmosphere, active participants, and Catering, displayed takeaway brochures and additional surprises were offered by MoD Mapping Nonprofit Ltd, ESRI Hungary and Geolevel Ltd. All the presentations will be available at the website of SZVT, HUNAGI and summary will be surely available at www.terinformatika-online.hu edited by Dr. Szilárd Szabó.
Images: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2009

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

HUNAGI was invited to SME4SPACE - Small and Medium Enterprises for Space - International Conference
















HUNAGI was invited by the local organisers, namely the Hungarian Space Cluster and the Hungarian Space Office.

Monday, November 02, 2009

Society and GI - A scientific conference in Budapest

Date: November 7

Venue: ELTE Lágymányos Campus
For information on the program, date/time and venue, please visit the HUNAGI Hungarian newsblog at http://hunagi8.blogspot.com by clicking on the header.

GIS in Education Conference in Budapest

November 4, 2009 in Budapest
For the program, date/time and venue please visit the HUNAGI Napló, the newsblog in Hungarian by clicking the header.

GIS Day 2009 arranged by ELTE dedicated also to SASFA Primary School


For program, date/time and venue: please see the blog in Hungarian at http://hunagi8.blogspot.com. Host institution: Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, L.Eotvos University of Science. Organiser: Dr. Jesus Reyes, Assoc. Professor

Friday, October 30, 2009

IGARSS 2010 co-organised by Paul Smits of DG JRC

The 30th anniversary International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium will be hosted by the USA next year. The event will be co-organised by Paul Smits of the SDI Unit at DG JRC IES. The news appeared on the LinkedIn action list and was read this afternoon. For details please click on the header.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Innovation in orientation: the MunichConvention

From our daily mail: Mr.Henrique (Henry) Koehler of the Munich Orientation Convention wrote about the

Munich Orientation Convention

======================

As a german-brazilian inventor, I've developed a natural orientation system which can simplify and harmonize indoor and street signage, cartography, postal codes, navigation devices and verbal expressions all over the world.

The gigantic market gap was:

- a simple answer to the simple question “where?”

e. g. where is Bonn? where is Hermann-Ehlers-Str.? Where is 53113? Where is room 1916?

Please confirm yourself: according to

www.manausonline.com/turismo_ptturistico.asp

, touristic points in Manaus/Brazil are addressed with this Munich Orientation Convention. Just using the imagination power and knowing instructions like www.volksnav.com/EncontroDasAguas it is possible to deduce HERE where these points THERE are. This is not a “nice to have” but a quantum jump, a better life quality which also makes smarter and helps to reduce the signage, road accidents and panic in buildings.

Searching for "turismo" in www.volksnav.com/search within a specified area, the same attractions described on ManausOnline will be listed.

Concerning cartography, this innovation can be realized by a simple change of the location grid: from a square to a quasipolar one, see www.volksnav.com/map

According to www.watchrose.com this system allows to build natural world co-ordinates and international City Codes, in harmony with the cartography, electronics and to a numbering of road exits, bridges etc.see www.volksnav.com/Qingdao

All position codes can be converted from geographical co-ordinates, see www.volksnav.com/mobile . You’re invited to test the features of the converter with a pocketPC or smartphone with/without GPS through a download from www.volksnav.com.

China www.MinZhongDaoHang.de

ISO http://www.isotc211.org/Address/standards.htm

Presentation Google Zürich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNI2TChPpFo

Please google:

VolksNav

WatchRose

QuoVides

„mns m6:2 r8“

orientierungskonvention

orientierungsesperanto"

Maybe the UN Volunteers Campus, the Langen Eugen will be the world's first building with natural orientation

www.volksnav.com/LangerEugen www.tinyURL.com/LangerEugen


The four topics UN and multilateral efforts should focus


From our daily mail.

In his speech to the World Affairs Council on Oct. 26 in Seattle, the Secretary General of UN spoke about four major areas where the UN and multilateral efforts could make a difference:
climate change,
nuclear nonproliferation,
poverty, human rights and
peace and security.
At the 10th UNGIWG Meeting held in Bonn last week, also representatives of the UN agencies addressing these topics using GI/GIS were assembled. A prerecorded video message of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was also presented from the webpage of the UN SG using Internet connection. For details, please click on the header.

Members of HUNAGI from the Academia and Education sector

Indicating the year of enrollment
1994
College of Geoinformatics, University of West-Hungary
1996
ATC Agroinformatics and Applied Mathematics Department, University of Debrecen
1997
Dept of Physical Geography, József Attila University of Sciences
1999
Institute for Environmental and Landscape Management, Szent István University, Gödöllő
2000
Chair of Landscape Planning and Regional Development, Budapest
University of Economics and Public Administration
Research Institute of Soil Sciences and Agrochemistry of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (MTA TAKI)
2001
Chair of Surveying and Remote Sensing, Institute of Geomatics and Engineering Faculty of
Forestry, University of West-Hungary
Chair of Water- and Environment Management, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Debrecen
University
Department of Cartographic Science and Geoinformatics, L.Eötvös University
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Kaposvár
2002
Institute for Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2003
Department of Surveying and Geodesy Budapest Univ of Technology and Economics
Pollack Mihály College of Engineering, Department of Public Utilities, Geodesy and
Environmental Protection,
University of Pécs Regional Research Centre Alföld of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (MTA RKK)
2004
Zsigmondy Vilmos and Széchenyi István School for Vocational Training, Nagykanizsa
Chair of Automation, Veszprém University
Research Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (MTA GGKI)
2005
Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Public Administration Department for Public
Management and Urban Studies
2008
BCE Department of Mathematics & Informatics


Some Chairs left HUNAGI mainly due to financial reasons since 2008 including:
Chair of Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, Budapest Technical and Economics
University of Veszprém at Keszthely and University of Miskolc. They are served now in the Partners category.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

SDI Best Practice Awards 2009 - EUROGI Extended Member Meeting in Turin, Italy














European SDI Best Practice Awards 2009

Learning from Best Practices

Turin, Italy

26th and 27th November 2009

AGENDA – 26th November 2009








27th November 2009

Conference venue

Centro Incontri della Regione Piemonte, corso Stati Uniti 23 – 10128 Torino

Gala dinner 26th Nov 20:00

Mole Antonelliana - Museo Nazionale del Cinema, via Montebello, 20 – 10124 Torino

Contact

Regione Piemonte, Ms.Patrizia Nazio

Direzione Programmazione Strategica, Politiche Territoriali ed Edilizia

econtentplus@regione.piemonte.it, phone: +39.011.43.24282

Arianna Ros, Direzione Ambiente, arianna.ros@regione.piemonte.it, phone: +39.011.43.23913

Project: eSDI-Net+

Project web site: www.esdinetplus.eu