Season's Greetings from HUNAGI

Report of the ICA Commission Cartography and Children chaired by TL Bandrova and JJ Reyes Nunez

From our dail mail:

"Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Annexed to this  short message you can find the 11th Newsletter of our Commission, with information about our activities and meeting in ICC 2009 in Santiago de Chile.

We wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

Temenoujka and Jesus" 
(To see the Annex, please click on the header - RFG)

Temenoujka Lubenova BANDROVA Associate Professor Department of Photogrammetry and Cartography University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy 1, Chr. Smirnenski Blvd. 1046 Sofia Tel: +359 887 83 27 02 Fax: +359 2 866 22 01 bandrova_fgs@uacg.bg BULGARIA

José Jesús REYES NUÑEZ Associate Professor Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics Eötvös Loránd University Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Budapest, H-1117 Tel: +36 1 372 2975 Fax: +36 1 372 2951 jesus@ludens.elte.hu HUNGARY

EUROGI President Mauro Salvemini has been elected as founding member of the OGC Global Advisory Board

From our daily mail. Prof. Mauro Salvemini informed recently the members of EUROGI:
"it is my pleasure to share with you the message just received from Mark E. Reichardt President & CEO of OGC informing me that I have been selected as a founding member of OGC Global Advisory Council.
The Global Advisory Council was chartered earlier this year to help better inform the Board of Directors and the OGC membership of strategic issues and opportunities for attention by the OGC process. Critical to the success of the Council process will be to establish representation from all regions of the globe. This will improve to Consortium's understanding and ability to
act on regional strategic needs and opportunities. "
OGC, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services.

Two important Event in Bulgaria in June 2010.

From our aily mail. Assoc.Prof Dr. Temenoujka Bandrova wrote to the members of the ExCom of ISDE the Call for Action for further dissemination:

International Cartographic Association and

University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, Bulgaria Invite you to participate in

3rd International Conference on Cartography & GIS

Incorporating the International Cartographic Association Regional Symposium for Central and Eastern Europe and

SEMINAR WITH EU COOPERATION ON EARLY WARNING AND DISASTER / CRISES MANAGEMENT

15-20 June 2010, Nessebar, Bulgaria

The International Society for Digital Earth

Invite you to participate in

DIGITAL EARTH SUMMIT 2010

12-14, June, 2010, Nessebar, Bulgaria

Important Dates

January 10, 2010 - Deadline of Abstract submission

January 30, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance

February 28, 2010 - Payment of early registration fee

May 1, 2010 - Paper submission and regular registrations

Contacts:

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Temenoujka Bandrova

University of Architecture, Civil Engineering

and Geodesy

1, Chr. Smirnenski Blvd. 1046 Sofia,

BULGARIA

Fax: +359 2 866 22 01

Tel: +359 887 83 27 02

e-mail: cartography@abv.bg

For up-to-date information please,

visit the conference website at:

http://www.cartography-gis.com/

http://www.Cartography-GIS.com/digitalearth
Notice: these events do not have temporal conflict with the date of the 4th INSPIRE Conference scheduled for Krakow in the second half of June next year (RFG)

Link to the official Press Release on the SDI Best Practice Award Conference

From our daily mail. Ms. Swetlana Fast (TU Darmstadt) wrote in her letter:
"Thank you very much for your contributions to the SDI Best Practice Award Conference held in Turin last week.
Please find enclosed the press release about the conference and the list of the winners for your information. Please feel free to distribute it among your contacts, mailing lists and in the press. In the case if you publish articles, papers etc. about results related to the Award or eSDI-Net+ activities, we would highly appreciate if you send us a copy of your publication or link to the according website.
The press release has been published at the project website in the news section under http://www.esdinetplus.eu/news/archive.html#1 . You can find more details about the Award in the Get involved section under http://www.esdinetplus.eu/get_involved/award_2009.html .
Thank you very much for your efforts."

The 24th European Conference on Object-oriented programming

ECOOP 2010
Maribor, Slovenia
21-25 June, 2010
For more information please click on the header to visit the relevant webpage document at
http://ecoop2010.uni-mb.si/images/CALL_FOR_PAPERS.pdf

Central Asia GIS Conference - GISCA 2010

Central Asia GIS Conference - GISCA 2010
Water: Life, Risk, Energy and Landuse
May 27-28, 2010 - Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
The Austria-Central Asia Centre for GIScience at the Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transportation and Architecture, and the Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), University of Salzburg, Austria are proud to announce the:
4th GIS-in-Central-Asia Conference - GISCA 2010. The main objectives of this conference are to bring together GIS academics, researchers and practitioners in the Central Asian countries and encourage international cooperation and knowledge exchange in GIS education. Geographic Information Science and Technologies have evolved into a key instrument for managing our societies, environments and infrastructures, as well as individuals’ daily lives. Continued success of this development depends on cooperation across disciplines, open information policies and a highly educated workforce. The GISCA series of conferences aims at building a Central Asian network of GIS professionals supporting the sustained development of this region into an environmentally friendly, secure and prosperous society.
In 2010, GISCA is focused on the main theme of WATER:
* Life: WATER for drinking and agriculture
* Risk: WATER posing a threat to settlements
* Energy: WATER for renewable hydropower
* Landuse: WATER controlling regional landuse
Particularly due to climate change, increasing pressure on resources, regional conflicts and social dynamics, quality and quantity of water supply are critical factors in developing our societies. GIScience offers an indispensable set of instruments for managing the water cycle.
Information and Registration:
http://gisca10.aca-giscience.org
Press Contact:
Dagmar Baumgartner
Public Relations
University of Salzburg | Z_GIS Centre for Geoinformatics
Hellbrunnerstr. 34 | 5020 Salzburg | Austria
phone: + 43 (0) 662 8044 5224
fax: +43 (0) 662 8044 182
> www.zgis.at

Presentations of the recent Stockholm Meeting on PSI & Re-use

The presentation of the Stimulation PSI Reuse: European Progress Meeting held in Stockholm on 24th November 2009 can be downloaded from the Epsiplatform website by clicking the header.

EUROGI General Board Meeting in Torino

Subjects discussed:
Impact of personal changes in the Organisation (Secretary-general leaves for a position R+D director at IGP by 1st December 2009.
Report on activities and financing (approved)
Report on the UN acknowledgement of EUROGI relevance
New membership applications (Slovenia approved)
Action plan and priorities
Next meetings (ExCom in Innsbruch early February, General Board Meeting in Brussels, late March next year)
Acknowledgement of the results achieved by eSDI-NET+ project and the European SDI Best Practice Conference hosted by Regione Piemonte.

The 12 selected of the 135 European SDI Best Practice Award Contest participations

First day of the European SDI Best Practices Award Conference completed

Agenda of 26th November 2009 completed so far:
9.30 Registration of participants
10.00 Opening and welcome Sergio Conti (Regione Piemonte)
10.10 eSDI-Net+, Network for cross border dialogue Joachim Rix (eSDI-Net+ Coordinator)
10.30 Results of the European Sub-national SDIs Analysis Francois Salgé (EUROGI/AFIGEO)
Historical flashback
Mauro Salvemini (EUROGI)
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 First session: Institutional and organizational aspects Franco Vico (AMFM GIS Italia)
Presentations of pre-selected SDIs
- Centre Régional de l'Information Geographique (CRIGE) (France)
- GDI Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany)
- Infrastruttura per l’Informazione Territoriale (IIT) della Lombardia (Italy)
Discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Key note speaker: Prof. Bas Kok past President, GSDI Association
15.30 Second session: Users
Robin Waters (RSW Geomatics Ltd.), Gabor Remetey (HUNAGI)
Presentations of pre-selected SDIs
- IDEC Infraestructura de Dades Espacials de Catalunya (Spain)
- X BORDER GDI (The Netherland)
Discussion
16.40 Coffee break
16.55 Third Session: Technological aspects
Artur Krawczyk (AGH University) and Franco Vico on behalf Danny Vandenbroucke (SADL / K.U.Leuven R&D)
- Presentations of pre-selected SDIs
- Forth Valley GIS (UK)
- SNIG - Sistema Nacional de Informação Geográfica (Portugal)
- IDERIOJA: Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales del Gobierno de La Rioja (Spain)
Discussion
18.30 Conclusion of the works Joachim Rix (eSDI-Net+ Coordinator)

eSDI-NET+ Consortium Meeting hosted by the Regione Piemonte

Dr. Eva Klien, chair of the WP5 on Sustainability deliver her report for discussion. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2009

EUROGI EMM Conference on European SDI Best Practice Award starts tomorrow

Icon of Torino, the Mole Antonelliana, site of the EUROGI EMM Social evening. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2009

VGI Research positions at JRC

Lago di Como, NE of Ispra Ispra. Image taken yesterday HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2009

From our daily mail:

"VGI Research positions at JRC

Spatial and temporal analysis of integrated quantitative and qualitative information

http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/uploads/fileadmin/Documentation/Open_Calls/H06%20300932.pdf

Spatial and temporal analysis of integrated quantitative and qualitative information

http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/uploads/fileadmin/Documentation/Open_Calls/H06%20300933.pdf

More general information about terms and conditions are available: http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/call-for-grantholders

Dr. Max Craglia European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit T.P. 262, I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy Tel: +39 0332 78 6269 Fax: +39 0332 78 6325 e-mail: massimo.craglia@jrc.ec.europa.eu

URL: http://sdi.jrc.ec.europa.eu

International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research

http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ "
In the presentation of Robin Waters and the SG of HUNAGI tomorrow, the change of the role of the users of GI will be also emphasized by the unprecedently emerging VGI trend populating geotagged informations worldwide in the billions magnitude.
In this context the Workshop jointly organised by the UCSB, Los Alamos National Lab and the Vespucci Initiative devoted to this topic should be mentioned and for references revisited at:
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/products.html  
The European speaker who delivered a presentation on "SDI vs VGI" in 2007 was the same Prof. Max Cralia of DG JRC, Editor-in-chief of IJSDR, who will be the keynote speaker here in Torino tomorrow at the EUROGI Conference "European SDI Best Practices Award".

HUNAGI flyer prepared for the EUROGI EMM in Turin

The 2-page, up-to-date flyer of HUNAGI can be downloaded here
Front side:  Mission goal, objectives, international relations, activities in the past 12 months
http://www.fomi.hu/hunagi/pdf/2004/Flyer9nov26a.pdf  
Rear side: members of HUNAGI according to sectors Visibility on the web, access data http://www.fomi.hu/hunagi/pdf/2004/Flyer9nov26b.pdf 
The latest e-Newsletter of HUNAGI can bedownloaded by clicking the header.

Subjects: ISDE Joined the Group of Earth Observations

Prof. Guo Huadong, Secretary General of ISDE. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resourcey, 2007

From our daily mail. Prof. Wang Changlin, Director of the Secretariat of ISDE wrote in his recet letter:

"At the 6^th plenary session of the Group of Earth Observations (GEO) held in Washington DC on November 17, 2009, the International Society for Earth Observations was accepted to be a participating organization of the GEO, together with International Union of Geological Sciences. The above announcement was made by Dr. José Achache, GEO Secretariat Director at the plenary session. Total 7 organizations including for AIT, CUAHSI, EMWIS TU, ILTER, ISDE, IUGS, and SMEBD applied for being members of the GEO’s Participating Organizations, and the final decision was made at the GEO Executive Committee meeting one day before the Plenary session. In addition, 3 country members joined the GEO this year, which made GEO’s constitution of 83 country members and the European Commission, as well as 58 participating organizations.              

At the opening ceremony of the 6^th International Symposium on Digital Earth held in Beijing, Dr. José Achache gave a presentation, and mentioning that ISDE had not participated in GEO’s activities, and wish ISDE could make contributions to GEO. Thereby, Prof. Guo Huadong wrote a letter to GEO Secretariat, and on behalf of ISDE submitted a proposal of being a member of the GEO’s participating organizations. The acceptance of ISDE to GEO will strengthen ISDE’s international recognition, and enable ISDE to participate into GEO’s events. For ISDE, it should  implement the GEOSS 10 years strategic plan and accept GEO's Cape Town Declaration in 2007. 

The next GEO’s ministerial summit and plenary session will be held in Beijing next year. For more information of GEO VI in Washington please refers to the report: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/group-on-earth-observations-meets-in-washington-to-strengthen-access-to-data-and-information-on-biodiversity-forest-carbon-and-other-global-issues-70289572.html .

...

Best regards

Wang Changlin, Prof. Dr.

Secretariat Director, International Society for Digital Earth
Assistant Editor, International Journal of Digital Earth
Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences"