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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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

Image: UN Center in Vienna. HUNAGI, 2012

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

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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

Sunday, April 22, 2012

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!

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

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