HUNAGI's contribution to the Jacob Fleming Event "Geospatial Intelligence Summit"

For details please click on the header.
HUNAGI SG delivered a presentation and will co-chair (with ESA representative) the roundtable discussion devoted to the involvement of the citizen (voluntary geospatial data collection)

HUNSPACE-HUNAGI Space Workshop in Visegrád

The completed program on 25th September 2010:
Awareness & Strategy Workshop for the participants  

Hildemann & Partners (Germany)
Additional photo coverage:

http://picasaweb.google.com/HUNAGIalbums/SpaceWorkshopTraining?feat=directlink

The completed program on 24th September 2010:
Infoday on selected relevant topics for SMEs 

Moderator: Pál Bárczy

Gunilla Stjernevi (Procurement Office, ESA)

The European Space Agency – it's procurement process and contracting principles

Nora Bougharouat (SME Office, ESA)

      ESA SME Policy and main business paths to ESA Programmes (by G.Stjernevi)

Hans Bracquené (VRI, SME4SPACE, Belgium)

      SME participation in traditional ESA Member States: the case of Flanders

Edit Herczog (European Parliament member)

EU Space policy

Előd Both (Hungarian Space Office)

Opportunities in FP7 Space programme

Ferenc Dombai (OMSZ, Hungary)

Tasks in EUMETSAT

                 Tamás Bárczy (ADMATIS Ltd., Hungary)

                 Prime/subcontractor/supplier hierarchies under ESA rule

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The completed program on 23rd September 2010:
Opening session

Moderator: Judit Lafferthon

Kálmán Kovács                     Hungarian Space Council, chairman

Mónika Németh                     Ministry of National Development, director general

Pál Bárczy                              HUNSPACE, chairman

Mauro Salvemini                  EUROGI, president (his welcome address was read by request)

Gabor Remetey-Fülöpp     HUNAGI, Secretary-general  
HUNAGI - an interdisciplinary national GI association 

GI-related business and cooperation opportunities on the European scene

Moderator: Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp

György Büttner (FÖMI, Head of Environmental Department, Hungary)

GMES Initial Operations

Ildikó Dobi (OMSZ, Hungarian Meteorology Service)

The cooperation between EUMETSAT and OMSZ

Walter Mayer (PROGIS Ltd, Austria)

Holistic AGRO-ICT – solutions considering also the integration of horizontal and vertical stakeholders

Bernard Pacher (ADCON Telemetry Ltd, Austria) 

Scalable wireless sensor networks for country-wide, multi-purpose environmental data collection (presented by Walter Mayer)

Péter Hargitai (GeoAdat Ltd, Hungary)

KEO System – Integrating European Observation Solutions

János Tegzes (INFOTERRA Hungary Ltd, Hungary)

Infoterra: 10 years in GIS

Zoltán Verrasztó (Middle-Danube-Valley Inspectorate for Environmental Protection, Hungary), Dusan Kocicky  (Esprit s.r.o., Slovakia), Róbert Németh  (Cholnoky Nonprofit Ltd., Hungary)

Development of environmental monitoring  system using GIS tools in the river Ipoly catchment area

Tamás Horváth (FÖMI, GNSS Services, Hungary)

The Hungarian GNSS reference station infrastructure – Services and applications

Gábor Bakó, Zsófia Feldhoffer (Interspect Ltd.)

Extreme large resolution imaging – its advantages and new opportunities

Hungarian CASCADOSS Initiative announced at the International SDI 2010 Conference in Skopje

Participants of the Workshop devoted to OSS and Geonetwork Opensource. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2010

Full coverage orthophoto processing and related aerial survey of Hungary decided

Details on the Hungarian Newsblog hunagi8.blogspot.com

HUNAGI is ready to host the CEOS WGISS-32 Meeting in Hungary

Details at the Hungarian HUNAGI Newsblog at hunagi8.blogspot.com. The proposal will be discussed on the following week in Montreal at the WGISS-30 Plenary Meeting hosted by the Canadian Space Agency.

Abstracts of the GI/EO/GNSS session of the Space Workshop, Visegrad

HUNSPACE-HUNAGI

Space Workshop

September 23-26, 2010

Hotel Thermal, Visegrád

September 23  
Opening Session 10 am - 12 am
Welcome addresses and presentations of public institutions

GI Session 2 pm - 6:30 pm

GI-related business and cooperation opportunities

on the European scene

                  GI means in this context Earth Observation and GNSS supported solutions, applications and services. 

                                      For the abstracts please click on the header

UN-SPIDER August 2010 Updates

From our daily mail:
Mr. Oscar Rafael Schlenker of UN-SPIDER, the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response wrote in his message arrived today:
"Please find attached the UN-SPIDER August 2010 Updates. Please forward this E-Mail to colleagues who might benefit from receiving the information.
This publication is also accessible at: http://www.un-spider.org/content/3598/june-2010
If you wish to unsubscribe please send an email to un-spider@unoosa.org and include UNSUBSCRIBE in the Subject line.News
1. SpaceAid support to flood relief in Pakistan
2. UN-SPIDER strengthens Technical Advisory Support in the Philippines 
3. UNOOSA and JBGIS Publish Booklet on “Geoinformation for Disaster and Risk Management - Best Practices and Examples”
4. Disasters covered by Sentinel Asia in August
5. International Charter Space and Major Disasters activated five times in August
6. SAFER activated for floods in Pakistan
7. Flood mapping for Pakistan by the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
8. Planet Action to support more projects 
9. China launches "Mapping Satellite-I"
10. New maps of Central America for Risk Management 
11. FAO launches real time fire monitoring website 
Conferences and Workshops
4^th United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop on Disaster Management and Space Technology: “The 4C – Challenge: Communication – Coordination – Cooperation – Capacity Development”, Bonn, 12-14 October 2010
Benefitting from Earth Observation - Bridging the Data Gap for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region; Kathmandu, Nepal, 4-6 October 2010
The 4th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction: Incorporating space-based information and technologies into DRR and CCA; Incheon, Korea, 25-28 October 2010
8th International Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing and the Environment; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 25-29 October 2010 
Pacific GIS and RS User Conference; Suva, Fiji, 23-26 November 2010 
Gi4DM 2011 – GeoInformation for Disaster Management; Antalya, Turkey, 3-8 May 2011"

Registration to the Space Workshop Sept 23-26, Visegrád

Space Workshop organised by HUNSPACE and HUNAGI
The Program and the Registration Form is downloadable by clicking on the header. To be registered, please send the completed Form  to Ms. Melinda Minkó melinda.minko@hunspace.hu  Deadline: September 6, 2010
Location: 
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Preliminary Program of the HUNSPACE-HUNAGI Space Workshop

The Danube Bend north of Budapest, where the Workshop site is located. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2004   

Preliminary Programme of the Space Workshop  organised by HUNSPACE and HUNAGI 

Please note, the primary aim of this workshop is to provide assistance for the Hungarian SMEs to find their way toward ESA/EC projects.

HUNAGI's newest leaflet in English with the latest eNewsletter

HUNAGI in nutshell: updated leaflet on two pages:

Side A: http://www.fomi.hu/hunagi/pdf/2004/Flyer10Aug20aoldal.pdf

Side Bl: http://www.fomi.hu/hunagi/pdf/2004/Flyer10Aug20boldal.pdf

The latest issue of HUNAGI eNewsletter (Nr 14/2010): http://www.fomi.hu/hunagi/pdf/2004/eN14-2010.doc

Space Workshop in Visegrád, Hungary

Now, please find below the pre-preliminary concept of the event (please note, the official preliminary program will be released by HUNSPACE next Wednesday)

Space Workshop  organised by HUNSPACE and HUNAGI 

Please note, the primary aim of this workshop is to provide assistance for the Hungarian SMEs to find their way toward ESA/EC projects based on sharing experiences and lessons learned.

Date: 23-26 September 

Venue: Thermal Hotel, Visegrad. Group room prices are available. For more information please contact Ms. Melinda Minkó, coordinator of HUNSPACE melinda.minko (at) hunspace.hu

Structure and Sessions

Sept 23 

10 am-12 am Opening session with welcome speeches given by high level governmental decision makers, the director of Space Office and  by a Hungarian EP member (tbc).

2 pm -7:30 pm  GI-related business and cooperation opportunities on the European scene. GI means in this context Earth Observation and GNSS supported solutions, applications and services. 

Presentations in the context delivered by any HUNAGI member or  partner organisation highlighting lessons learned and/or   experiences of best practices  could be adequate contribution to the Workshop participants.

Sept 24 Infoday on selected relevant topics for SMEs including ESA's procurement issues, CNES - STAVE  programme, opportunities in FP7 Space as well as in EUMETSAT, GMES (tbc) with international speakers. The session will be closed by highlighting a Hungarian contribution by ADMATIS Ltd.

Sept 25 Awareness & Strategy Workshop for the participants (incl. the Hungarian Aerospace Industry Association and  HUNAGI) orchestrated by the German Company Hildemann & Partners
8:30 am - 7:30 pm

Sept 26 How to write an ESA tender? Workshop orchestrated by the Hungarian SME ADMATIS Ltd.

8 am - 2 pm

The 71.3 Gigapixel panoramic photograph taken in Hungary

An unprecedented large-scale panoramic digital image was produced by the innovative Hungarian company 360Worldcan recently. The image has been compiled by postprocessing of about 6000 24 Megapixel single photographs which were taken on the highest point of Budapest. Lower picture: you might be impressed by the stunning blow-up capability even in  notebook invironment. Closer look of the water tower on the Margaret Island. Source: http://www.70-billion-pixels-budapest.com/ Screenshots: HUNAGI, 2010

You can access the image at http://www.70-billion-pixels-budapest.com/

For more information please click on the header.
How the product was created: http://vimeo.com/13702685 

Infoterra Hungary Ltd. applied for HUNAGI membership

Infoterra Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Astrium, Europe's leading space systems and services specialist. Infoterra Ltd, which incorporates Imass Ltd, is part of Spot Infoterra, the Earth Observation Division of Astrium Services.
Infoterra Hungary Ltd. will be introduced here soon. For details and contact please click on the header.

SDI 2010 Conference

International Spatial Data Infrastructure 2010 Conference

Skopje, September 15-17, 2010

Up-to-date Conference Website:

http://sdi2010.evkartenn.com  

For further information please contact:

sdiconf2010@gmail.com 
According to the recent feedback of the Organizing Committee, the HUNAGI contribution paper on the role and activities of an National GI Association - the Hungarian case was accepted for oral presentation.

HUMBOLDT Project Advisor's and Reviewer's Meeting in Valencia

Participants of the meeting today. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2010

ISPRS Centenary Assembly in Vienna

Doležal Plaquet Unveiled in TU Vienna Courtyard

ISPRS 100 - Congratulation from ISPRS Member MFTTT, Hungary

"Mr. President,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

First af all I would like to express the appreciation of the Hungarian Society of  Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing to the Organising Committee for the kind invitation to this distinguised event, the centennial anniversary of the establishment of ISPRS.

It is my great honour  to represent the 4-member Delegation of the Hungarian Society of  Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing composed of Miklós Gross leader, academician Prof. Ákos Detrekői and former Scientific Deputy Director General of FÖMI Péter Winkler.

We came here to Vienna to congratulate. We came here to Vienna to celebrate. We arrived here in Vienna to express the admiration of the Hungarian photogrammetric and remote sensing community for the visionary  foundation of the International Society of Photogrammetry, now the ISPRS.

Considering the outstanding performance and steady growth of the ISPRS in the last century and still today, this evolution fully validates the wisdom of the founder Edouard Doležal and his supporting team in the inspiring atmosphere of the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, at that time still in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

There is always a need  for visionaries and leaders, for innovation and the adoption of best practice, as well as for local champions.

Slowed by European history, international relations only started to emerge in the 1920’s. Neighbouring Hungary observed the development closely at the 2nd Congress of ISP in Berlin in 1926 and adopted the initiative in 1929, when the Hungarian Society for Photogrammetry was established. Hungary became a proud member of ISP at the 3rd Congress in 1930, also taking responsibility for the ISP Commission devoted to Economic issues led by Mr. Aurél Medvey-Kurschnitt.

The Hungarian Society for Photogrammetry elected two outstanding ISP pioneers as honorary members: Edouard Doležal in 1932 and Otto von Gruber in 1941. Between the 4th and 5th Congresses the ISP Commission on Education and Terminology was lead by Károly Oltay, Professor of my almer mater, the Budapest Technical University.

World War 2 had a negative impact on scientific cooperation.

Political pressure caused Hungary to withdraw from membership of ISP in 1948 and, at the same time the Hungarian Society for Photogrammetry was dissolved.

But in 1956 the Hungarian Geodetic Society was established and scientist Prof. Antal Tárczy-Hornoch started to prepare for the return  of Hungary to the ISP in London in 1960.

During the cold war, the only way to keep and strengthen contacts with scientists of the free world remained the regular meetings of ISP(RS) symposia and congresses.

A  Remote Sensing Center was established at FÖMI, the Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing. Its mission and goals were presented at the ISPRS Commission VII Symposium in 1982.

After the political and economic changes in Central and Eastern Europe, the young Hungarian scientists were mature enough to enter the international arena of ISPRS based on their in-depth involvement in quantitative analysis and  application oriented R+D lead by Gábor Csornai and György Büttner.

From 1992 Hungarian participation at the ISPRS Congresses became significant. My presidentship of the Commission VII Resource and Environmental Monitoring between the Vienna and Amsterdam Congresses provided excellent opportunities to bring together ISPRS Council members, Commission Presidents and other scientists with Hungarian professionals  at a Seminar in 1997 and at the Commission VII Sysmposium hosted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1998.

The Hungarian Society for Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing  has elected two additional outstanding ISPRS scientists as honorary members: Prof Karl Kraus in 1986 and Prof. Gottfried Konecny in 2003.

The new, challenging era under ISPRS leadership is very promising from the Hungarian perspective and our Society will do its best to assist the new generation to follow the path of the legendary personalities of the field „information from imagery“.

It is anticipated that the ISPRS family - backed by the Joint Board of Geospatial Societies – will provide an excellent forum for further advances enabling more effective services with socio-economic benefits that will be sustainable in the longer term.

Thank you ISPRS, and long live ISPRS!

Presented at the  Open Business Meeting

by Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp

ISPRS Centenary Celebrations

Technical University of Vienna

July 3, 2010" 

Acknowledgement: the  text was kindly reviewed by Robin Waters some minutes ago.

ISPRS Business Meeting in Vienna Started Today

For more details please click on the header.

The Centenary logo of ISPRS.

Happy Canada Day!

A reception was given by Mr. Pierre Guimond, Ambassador of Canada in Hungary. The Commercial Unit of the Embassy keeps good contact with HUNAGI since more than a decade, and HUNAGI provided promotional support in the field ICT to strengthen bilateral partnerships between SMEs and offering recent opportunities to take part roadshow in Canada.