GSDI Liaison Report presented by HUNAGI representative at CEOS WGISS-33 hosted by Jaxa

The meeting venue was provided by RESTEC in Roppongi. 
The GSDI Liaison Report can be downloaded here:
http://www.hunagi.hu/G/pub/Globalis/GSDIwgiss33.pdf
The presentations will be accessible via the WGISS webpage:
http://wgiss.ceos.org 

Most of the presentations of UNGIWG-12 are on the web

Access: http://ungiwg.ctbto.org/meetings/12th-ungiwg-plenary-meeting-0
Credit: UNOOSA, UNGIWG Secretariat

Future trends in geospatial information management

From our daily mail. Kate Lance PhD wrote on the GSDI list:
" Forum on the future trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision

24 April 2012, 14:00-17:00

RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A working group was established to assess the future trends in geospatial information management at the 1st meeting of the UN Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management (GGIM, http://ggim.un.org/ ) in Seoul, Korea. Chaired by Dr. Vanessa Lawrence, Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, the working group has received written inputs from 29 persons or institutions. A summary of the future trends shall be presented during this forum in Amsterdam, followed by discussion among all the participants. Meanwhile, the process of soliciting views on future trends continue and the working group welcome any additional inputs. A consolidated paper on the future trends shall be discussed in the 2nd Session of the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management. Output from that session will then be used to develop further iterations of the document to be presented to the Committee for review at its second formal meeting in New York in August (13-15th August 2012). Final editing will take place based on the content of the discussions at this meeting and a final paper will be presented at the Second High-Level Forum on GGIM in Qatar (4-6 February, 2013).

 

Background paper: Future trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision. UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management

http://ggim.un.org/docs/meetings/Netherlands/Future%20trends%20in%20geospatial%20information%20management%20summary_12April.pdf

 

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WGISS-33 hosted by Jaxa

Jaxa advertised in Shibuya, Tokyo. Image: HUNAGI, 2012

The 5-day working week starts tomorrow at Restec, the Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan.

ESA ITT Open Day in Budapest

Prof. Dr. Előd Both, Director of HSO

Invitation to Tender (ITT) AO/1-7135/12/NL/KML
Including Earth Observations!

HUNAGI invited to the Panel Discussion on PPP at UNGIWG

Moderated byProf. Arnold Bregt of the Wageningen University of Agriculture, the panel was composed by invited participants of Esri, UN HQ, NCO Netherlands, NCO Czech Republic and HUNAGI as UNSDI HUCO. The presentations will be available soon. The HUNAGI talk in ppt form can be downloaded here:
http://www.hunagi.hu/G/pub/Globalis/HUNAGIonPPP_12thUNGIWG.pdf

Launch of Center of Excellence for UNSDI

Detailed report has been posted in Hungarian at hunagi8.blogspot.com

ICT PSP 6th Call on Smart Cities, Digital Content - Open Day in Budapest

Detailed report has been posted in Hungarian at hunagi8.blogspot.com

BlackBerry R+D opportunities in LBS

Detailed report has been posted in Hungarian at hunagi8.blogspot.com

PSI access and re-use. Internal LAPSI Seminar and Conference in Budapest

Detailed report has been posted in Hungarian at hunagi8.blogspot.com

Snapshots taken during the Mobile GIS Conference

ePSIplatform Conference in Rotterdam with LAPSI participation

Detailed report has been posted in Hungarian at hunagi8.blogspot.com

Representative of DG Information Society and Media registered as Mobil GIS participant

Luis Manuel Ferrão, of EC DG INFSO/E4  registered today to attend the Mobile GIS Conference organised by HUNAGI. Mr. Ferrao is expert of the European Digital Agenda, the PSI Directive and the Copyright laws. Actually he arrives to attend the Internal Thematic Seminar of the EU FP7 LAPSI project devoted to licencing.

Dear Mobile GIS Participants. Here you find how to transfer participation fee (if applicable)

Mobile GIS Conference on-line registration (bilingual)

Please note, prior on-line registration is mandatory to get badge upon arrival. Only registered participants receives information on the participation fee payment.
Deadline for bank transfer of the participation fee is March 12, 2012. Completion of bank transfer will be checked and invoices will be given at the Conference reception desk upon arrival.

Participation fee for individuals:

Non-HUNAGI, non-ITS Hungary, non-MLBKT or non-HUNSPACE members:  15 000 HUF/person, otherwise 10 000 HUF/person.

Speakers of the Opening and Closing Plenary Sessions are guest of HUNAGI, in their case no registration fee will be applied. For registered graduate and pos-graduate students no registration fee will be applied if they are ready not to take catering services including dinner.

On-site registration is not possible.

Final Program of the Mobile GIS Conference

Downloadable: The bilingual final program with detailed information on fees.

Up till now we have 125 registered participants (a tendency still growing).

Many exhibitors registered and all sponsor categories are filled with acknowledged domestic and international market players.

Practical information how to pay the registration fee will be disseminated to the registered participants later this week.

Please note, some abstracts are still missing. The speakers are kindly requested to submit their abstract to hunagi@hunagi.hu asap

Legfrissebb, kétnyelvű program / Up-to-date Program (bilingual):

http://www.hunagi.hu/G/pub/Orszagos/Program.pdf

On-line jelentkezés itt lehetséges / On-line registration:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFFSTk9JNjc3VDJFdTJFaS12Y2RQYnc6MA
Kik regisztráltak eddig? / Registered participants so far (Feb 26):
http://www.hunagi.hu/G/pub/Orszagos/ParticABC.pdf 

Szállásfoglalás / Room reservation:

Magyar nyelven:

https://book.danubiushotels.com/OWSC/hu/book/hotel.DHHU03/block.HUN220312_002/start.20120320/

In English:

https://book.danubiushotels.com/OWSC/en/book/hotel.DHHU03/block.HUN220312_002/start.20120320/

LAPSI Internal Seminar and Public Conference related information:

http://www.hunagi.hu/G/pub/Orszagos/LAPSI-Seminar-Conference.pdf

Mobile GIS - an update on participation

Bilingual program, abstracts, structure and information on the venue (updated)

On-line registration

List of registered participants (125 as of 26th Feb)

Masat-1 the first Hungarian satellite launched at 11:00 am today

Gyula Horváth, leader of the Masat-1 project gave interview for the national public television channel M1 broadcasted one hour after the launch. In the background: students and other team members with dr. András Gschwindt. 

Mobile GIS Conference Abstracts

The latest bilangual version of the document on Abstracts

Launch of the first Hungarian satellite Masat-1 scheduled for tomorrow between 11:00-13:00 hours.

The satellite has been developed at the Space Research Group of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Official website
(with image gallery, information on the launch, broadcast of the launch, follow on the Facebook, downloadable tracking software, tracking on Google Map)

recent situation: Masat-1 at the Space Center of the European Union in the French Guyana. Image courtesy: http://cubesat.bme.hu/

Creative Hungary - Engineering Knowledge - Exhibition opens on February 14 in Budapet

"Creative Hungary - Engineering Knowledge" Exhibition February 14-20, 2012 Budapest University of Technology and Economics

With Thematic Open Days

February 14:  Space and informatics

February 15:  Transportation

February 16:  Architectue, construction

February 17:  Machine engineering

Detailed information
The exhibition was first arranged in Brussels in 2011. 
More information at http://creativehungary.com/ with the following content:

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• PAST
• ARCHITECTURE
• RED MUD DISASTER
• ROAD&BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION
• MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
• ENERGETICS&WATER MANAGEMENT
• FUTURE

HUNAGI Presidential Board Meeting set up Preliminary Program for Mobile GIS Conference today

Picture: Director Eng.Col. László Buga, BCE Dean Prof. Attila Csemez, HUNAGI President Zsolt Barkóczi, HUNAGI Secretary Zoltán Mitnyan and FÖMI Director-general Bence Toronyi at the Presidential Board Meeting hosted by VÁTI Documentation Center in Budapest earlier today (Photo: Gabor Remetey for HUNAGI visuals resource). The output of the meeting was the restructured preliminary program, opening a third track session devoted to Mobil GIS Technologies on the second day of the conference on 22nd March 2012.      Downloadable preliminary program here

UNOOSA-Károly Róbert University College Agreement signed in Vienna yesterday

Photo Courtesy to Dr. Előd Both, Director of the Hungarian Space Office, 2012

Dr. Tibor Bíró, Dean of the Károly Róbert University College at Gyöngyös and Astronaut Takeo Doi, representative of UN Office of Outer Space Affairs in Vienna after the signature  ceremony held at the Vienna Headquarters yesterday.

Károly Róbert Főiskola

Images: HUNAGI visuals resource, 2011

ONOOSA-KRFphotodocs

Image credit: KRF, 2012 Courtesy of Drs T.Tomor and Cs. Lénárt

Mobile GIS Conference with international participation

Up-to-date (Feb 10) information in Hungarian with Preliminary Program:
http://www.hunagi.hu/G/pub/Orszagos/2ndcallhu5.pdf
Latest information in English: 
http://www.hunagi.hu/G/pub/Orszagos/2ndcallEN5.pdf (will be developed continuously)
On-line jelentkezés/registration: 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFFSTk9JNjc3VDJFdTJFaS12Y2RQYnc6MA
Hotel registration link

https://book.danubiushotels.com/OWSC/en/book/hotel.DHHU03/block.HUN220312_002/start.20120320/

Hotel contact: Ms.Kmetykó, Zita Sales Manager E-mail: zita.kmetyko@danubiushotels.com
Danubius Hotel Gellért 1111 Budapest, Szent Gellért tér 1. Tel.: +36 1 889 5523, Mobil: +36 30 227 6202,
Fax: +36 1 889 5528 

www.danubiushotels.com/gellert

Group code is: HUN220312
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Registered participants so far (Feb 10): 79 (Limit is about 200)

UNOOSA-KRF SPIDER Regional Office opens in Gyöngyös, Hungary

Liaison of HUNAGI's member institution Károly Róbert College (KRF) Dr. Tamás Tomor informed US yesterday about the following announcement signed by Dean Dr. Tibor Bíró about the establishment of UN's 12th Regional SPIDER Office. 
Official announcement
The Office will be hosted by KRF. The leaders will deliver a short overview at HUNAGI's coming Mobile GIS Conference on this excellent development introducing the major areas of operation started in February.

3rd HUNAGI Conference and Exhibition, Budapest, March 21-22, 2012

Background information
In Hungarian Updated on 3rd February 2012




In English (Updated on 16th January)

HUNAGI contributed paper accepted for oral presentation at the GSDI13

For preliminary program structure
click here: GSDI 
Abstract of the paper entitled " Organised Spatial Data Interest Community and the Development and Use of Enabling Digital Earth Technologies in Hungary     " can be downloaded here.