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.

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Authority in Hungary since January 1, 2012

" Significant development in the Hungarian public administration for the protection of citizens has been achieved by setting up a Data Protection and Freedom of Information Authority (in Hungarian: Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság). This authority keeps the functions of the previous data protection ombudsman. Having a broader authority in case of abuse of personal data, fines of up to 10 million HUF might be imposed even repeatedly. Attila Péterfalvi, an earlier ombudsman has been appointed by the State President as head of Hungary’s National Data Protection and Freedom of Information Authority for nine years. The independence of the new authority is ensured by legal guarantees and the length of his term spans government cycles. The website of the authority will open under www.NAIH.hu in January. Another important development is the new Act No. CXII of 2011 on Information Rights and the Freedom of Information,  which replaced the former Act No. LXIII of 1992 on the Protection of Personal Data and the Publication of Data of Public Interest by 1 January 2012. LAPSI Consortium member HUNAGI has the intention to invite NAIH Head Dr. Péterfalvi to the LAPSI internal Thematic Seminar and the Data Session of HUNAGI 3rd Conference devoted to Mobile GIS scheduled for 22-23 March, 2012 in Budapest." The above text was compiled from sources of internet and the Hungarian public service broadcast MR1. It was submitted to LAPSI project manager Dr.Cristiana Sappa earlier today in order to be published on the LAPSI and EVPSI websites. LAPSI is for The European Thematic Network on Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information.  EVPSI is for Extracting Value from Public Sector Information: Legal Framework and Regional Policies.

[JAI] Journal of Agricultural Informatics, Vol.2, No 1 (2011) - online

From our daily mail. Chair of the Editorial Board Dr. Kálmán Rajkai and President of the HAAI Dr. Miklós Herdon wrote earlier today:

"We inform you that the latest issue of the Journal of Agricultural

Informatics' ( http://journal.magisz.org/ ) has been published. The journal

is backed by an international editorial board and the Hungarian Association

of Agricultural Informatics (HAAI). It publishes 2-4 issues per year. We

hope the articles find your interest and are looking forward to receiving

your suggestions, and publication interests.

Journal articles of Vol 2, No 1 (2011)

http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/issue/view/4/showToc

The issue of Vol. 2. No 1. in PDF.

http://journal.magisz.org/files/journals/JAI-Vol_2_No_1-2011-11-28.pdf"

HUNAGI encourages authors to contribute with original scientific papers in the subject of research and application-oriented development of GIS and related technologies from sensor webs to SDIs. In case of interest simply write to hunagi@hunagi.hu

Agricultural Informatics 2011 Conference in Debrecen

Up-to-date details (registration, program) in English: here
Topics include RS/GIS.
Organisers:
HAAI - Hungarian Association of Agricultural Informatics
UD - University of Debrecen, Faculty of Applied Economics and Rural Development
HAS Regional Committee in Debrecen, Agrarian-economy Committee
EFITA - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment

HUNAGI contribution to the National Report for the Eurogeographics Annual General Assembly

Participants of the EUROGI Member's Day and Annual General Assembly hosted by the Irish Institute for Europe in Leuven (March, 2011) Illustration: HUNAGI visual resources, 2011.

By the kind invitation of Ms. Viktória Gál (FÖMI), editor of the National Report, the following short HUNAGI report has been submitted for inclusion:

"The Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI) is a non-for-profit umbrella organisation serving the spatial data interest community in Hungary since 1994. Its major objectives are to encourage and facilitate the availability, accessibility and usability of geographic information. To achieve these goals, using its European and global relations emphasis is given to awareness raising, dissemination of knowledge and best practices in association with EU directives INSPIRE and PSI.

Having 88 member institutions and organisations, HUNAGI’s multidisciplinary community includes governmental agencies, NGOs, academic and private sectors. The Hungarian Mapping and Cadastral Agencies are full members of HUNAGI since the beginning. HUNAGI keeps extensive horizontal links and interdisciplinary partnerships with MFTTT (Hungarian Society of Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing), ITS Hungary (navigation), MLBKT (Hungarian Society of Logistics, Purchase and Inventory), MATISZ (Hungarian Society of e-Content Industry), CASCADOSS Hungary Association (opensource and open data), Hungarian Space Research Cluster (HUNSPACE), MAGISZ (Hungarian Federation on  Agroinformatics), MUT (Hungarian Urbanistic Knowledge Center) as well as the SZVT (Hungarian Society of Management and Organisation).

In the context international activities of HUNAGI four entities should be mentioned: EUROGI (European Umbrella Organisation of Geographic Information), GSDI (Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association, ISDE (International Society of Digital Earth) and UNGIWG (United Nations Geographic Information Working Group). It has also links with GEO and CEOS WGISS via GSDI as well as UNGGIM via EUROGI. HUNAGI is SDIC (spatial data interest community) partner of the DG JRC Spatial Data Infrastructure Unit. HUNAGI is member of the Genova-based GISIG since 1996.

Partnership with Governmental Agencies includes Ministry of National Development, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State Audit Office)

Some of the major actions since August 2010 are as follow:

• Participation of the SDI Conference in Skopje, Macedonia (with presentation, September 2010)
• Participating the 12^th GSDI World Conference in Singapore (with presentation, October 2010)
• Taking part on the GEO Plenary and Ministerial Summit held in Beijing as member of the GSDI delegation (with intervention, November 2010),

• EUROGI Plan4all supported second HUNAGI Conference on Digital Spatial Planning Using Geospatial Data (March, 2011). This officially approved professional event of the Hungarian EU Presidency, attracted more than 200 participants,
• Playing active role in the elaboration of Digital Earth Vision 2020 in a ISDE ad-hoc working group hosted by CEODE in Beijing (March 2011),
• Participated the Member’s Day and Annual General Assembly of EUROGI in Leuven (March 2011)

• Participating the EU project Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information and Re-use (LAPSI) First Open Conference held in Milan (May, 2011),

• Participation in EU workshops on Future Emerging Technologies, Conference on the European Common Strategy Framework on Research and Innovation, Conference on Internet of Things (all in May 2011)

• Participating the 2^nd Annual Geospatial Summit of Fleming Europe in Budapest (June, 2011),
• Participating the Sub-regional Conference of CASCADOS Association devoted to FOSS and SDIs in the South-East European Countries in Szeged (June, 2011)
• Participation of PCC Conference hosted by the Department of Land Management, Ministry of Rural Development (June, 2011)
• Participation on Rural Development Strategy Parliament, Workshop on Open Government Data in Europe/Hungary, Information Society Parliament (June, 2011)
• Representing GSDI/HUNAGI at the CEOS WG on Information Systems and Services hosted by USGS EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls (June, 2011)
• Participating the INSPIRE 2011 Conference held in Edinburgh (June/July, 2011),
• Participating the 7^th ISDE Symposium hosted by WALIS (Western Australia Land Information Service) in Perth (August 2011),
• Hosting the 32^nd CEOS WGISS Meeting in Budapest and organising the Session devoted to Hungarian achievements in Earth Observation and GIS (September 2011),

• Assigned member of the GSDI Delegation attending the GEO-VIII Plenary in Istanbul besides directors of FGDC and Eurogeographics (September 2011).

HUNAGI maintains a set of blogs devoted to topics related to SDI strategy themes. The most frequently visited sites include:

HUNAGI newsblog in Hungarian (with translation facility): http://hunagi8.blogspot.com (over 2000 posts published in the past 5 years.)

HUNAGI  newsblog in English: http://unsdihu.blogspot.com

HUNAGI Calendar of events: http://hunagi19.blogspot.com

HUNAGI made contribution to the National Rural Development Strategy, the National Space Strategy as well as the Information Society Parliament.

HUNAGI participated the meetings of the National Space Council and delivered a presentation of the role and activities of HUNAGI as SDIC on the meeting of the Scientific Committee on Geodesy and Geophysics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences."

Some selected visual highlights of the past 12 months mentioned in the HUNAGI contribution:

GSDI Delegation at the GEO VIII Plenary

According the assignment announced by GSDI Executive Director Prof. Harlan Onsrud, the 
GSDI Delegation at the GEO VIII Plenary held in Istanbul will consist:
Ivan DeLoatch, Executive Director, FGDC
Dave Lovell, Executive Director, Eurogeographics
Gabor Remetey, Secretary-general, HUNAGI (Head of the Delegation)

Geospatial Data Infrastructure - A Regional Esri Hungary GDi GISDATA User Conference Téradat infrastruktúra - Esri regionális felhasználói konferencia

Signature ceremony of the 3D Ethics at the World Telecom in Geneva. HUNAGI joined to the Charta via EUROGI in last November.

Mai postánkból: 

CEREMONIE DE SIGNATURE DE LA CHARTE D'ETHIQUE DE LA 3D A GENEVE

Dans le cadre prestigieux du salon World Telecom 2011 à Geneva Palexpo, Mercredi 26 octobre 2011, les nouveaux adhérents auront l'occasion de procéder à la signature de la Charte d'éthique de la 3D, lors d'une cérémonie officielle organisée au Pavillon Suisse.

Pour en savoir plus et pour s'annoncer, contacter l'Info Service: +41 (0) 22 546 76 00; 
par mail:  info-service-dt@etat.ge.ch

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United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Risk Management

From our daily mail. David Stevens, Head of UN SPIDER at UN OOSA wrote yesterday:

"...United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Risk Management

 to be held in Beijing, China from 22-25 November 2011 I am pleased to inform you that we are now 

accepting applications from interested professionals, experts and decision-makers. 

Please visit the Conference webpage and click on the "Apply for this event" button to register for this 

event. http://www.un-spider.org/conference-beijing-2011..."

UN Economic and Social Council sets up committee on global geospatial information

Mai postánkból. Rogern Longhorn írja levelében:
"27 July 2011 – The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) today voted to establish a committee of experts on global geospatial information management to coordinate international dialogue on spatial data infrastructures and enhance cooperation in that field.

According to the latest report of the Secretary-General on global geospatial information management, the rapid technological advances in geospatial information and related technologies have made this kind of information readily available.

Geospatial information has application in many fields including humanitarian, peace and security, environmental and development challenges facing the world, such as climate change, natural disasters, pandemics, famines, population displacement and food and economic crises, according to the report.

Building the infrastructure for the gathering, validation, compilation and dissemination of geospatial information is therefore as important for countries as the building of roads and telecommunications networks.

However, there is currently no global multilateral or intergovernmental mechanism that can play the important leadership role of setting the agenda for the development of global geospatial information and promote its use to address key global challenges. 

The Secretary-General proposed that the UN take the lead role and serve as the coordinating entity of the global geospatial information community, hence the decision to create the committee.

The committee is mandated, among other tasks, with providing a platform for the development of effective strategies on how to build and strengthen national capacity on geospatial information, especially in developing countries.

It will also compile and disseminate best practices and experiences of national, regional and international bodies on geospatial information related to legal instruments, management models and technical standards, thus contributing to the establishment of spatial data infrastructures.

The committee will comprise experts from all Member States, as well as from and international organizations, who will serve as observers."
Further reading (thanks to Prof. Mauro Salvemini of EUROGI, who will represent the European NGO community at the GGIM Forum held in Seoul in October:

UN News 

UN ECOSOC Resolution