GIS Day 2009 celebrations in Bermuda
UNIGIS UK MSc student Peter Hopkin, the Senior Land Surveyor at the Ministry of Works and Engineering, Bermuda was the key speaker at the Bermuda Government's Users' Conference held on GIS Day on November 18th and gave a talk on "An Introduction to Internet GIS" at which The Minister of Telecoms and E-Commerce for Bermuda was present. Celebrations were assisted by this delicious GIS Day cake. The cake's image illustrates the evolution of mapping in Bermuda since its colonization 400 years ago. The image includes the Bermuda Zoological Society's aerial photo mosaic, capturing the Bermuda islands and the reef platform.
Further cake photos and news of the events held on GIS Day can be found on the ESRI GIS Day website:
http://www.gisday.com/
MSc Workshop 2009
The 2009 MSc Workshop took place on Saturday 17th September in Room E419,
John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University. Students had presentations on the MSc programme and had the opportunity to meet the staff tutors.
Successful grant for James Cheng
James Cheng, UNIGIS UK staff member, and his team that is composed of six institutions across three countries (UK, Germany and China) have been successfully awarded a grant (totally 110,000 euro) by the European organisation CO-REACH. This pilot project will run for 18 months from 1st August 2009, with the title ‘Internal mobility and integration in China and the European Union’. James takes a leader in quantitative analysis and GIS applications, which aim to quantify and analyze the spatial and temporal patterns and processes of migration/immigration across the China and the EU. In this pilot project, GIS will be extensively applied for data collection (participatory GIS), data analysis (spatial statistics at global and local levels), spatial modelling (spatial interaction models and socio-spatial behaviour models) and public participation (PPGIS). By the end of this project, the team will submit a full proposal to apply for a bigger grant.
UNIGIS at ESRI 2009
AT the ESRI Users Conference held in San Diego, CA in July 2009 Prof. Henk Scholten (UNIGIS Amsterdam) was presented with a Lifetime Achievers Award.
At the conference, UNIGIS International representatives Marco Painho (Portugal) and Richard Resl (Latin America) were interviewed by GISCafe.Com. Links to these video interviews can be seen at:
http://www10.giscafe.com/video/display_media.php?link_id_display=28199
http://www10.giscafe.com/video/display_media.php?link_id_display=28198
2009 Graduation Ceremonies
The 2009 Awards Ceremony details for UNIGIS UK students are now available. For those students registered at MMU the date of this year's event will be Tuesday 14th July at 6.30pm, at the Bridgewater Hall. More information can be found at:
http://www.mmu.ac.uk/graduation/
For those students registered at the University of Salford the ceremony will be held at the Lowry at the Salford Quays on Wednesday 15th July at 4.15 pm. For further information please visit: :
http://www.graduation.salford.ac.uk/
If you have any questions please contact either Tracy McKenna at the UNIGIS UK office or the respective university Graduation Office.
Spatial Analysis Workshop dates
The Spatial Analysis workshop for UNIGIS UK Stage 2 students will be held between May 5 - 8 2009. The tutors will be Graham Smith and James Cheng. The workshop will introduce a range of advanced spatial analysis techniques commonly used to investigate the nature and extent of spatial patterns within geographical phenomena. Particular focus is given to the theoretical concepts associated with the analysis of point and aggregated (areal) data, notably measures of spatial autocorrelation and spatial regression, and their application within the GIS toolbox. Both ArcGIS software and free and open source software will be used during the workshop. Participants will be provided with a set of notes in advance to allow some pre-workshop reading and preparation.
Prize winning UNIGIS UK student
Christopher Needham, who graduated with an MSc in GIS from UNGIS UK in 2007, has been awarded third prize in the annual UNIGIS International Academic Excellence Award for his dissertation entitled: "Using GIS to Model the Diurnal Variation of Urban Population Distribution". Well done Chris!
In his dissertation, Chris developed a model that allows daily variation in small area populations within a city to be estimated, using Chester a case study. Although Chris developed his model as an academic exercise, such modelling should be of interest to local emergency planning agencies. Chris will present a paper based on his dissertation at the forthcoming GI_Forum conference in Salzburg.
The judges of the Excellence Award were impressed by the very high standard of the dissertations that were entered for this year's prize. The first prize went to Andre Coleman, from UNIGIS Amsterdam, for his dissertation: "An Adaptive Landscape Classification Procedure Using Geoinformatics and Artificial Neural Networks" [http://www.unigis.nl/downloads/msc/Andre%20Coleman.pdf] and the second prize was given to Tobias Fleischmann, from UNIGIS Salzburg for a dissertation called:"Webprocessing Service For Moving Objects Analysis" [http://www.unigis.ac.at/club/bibliothek/pdf/1249.pdf]
Congratulations to Andre, Tobias and Chris!
New UNIGIS Health Unit to be released
Dr Mark Creswell, in collaboration with UNIGIS Amsterdam colleagues, has now completed a new Unit, ‘Spatial Health in Practice’ to complement our existing ‘Spatial Analysis of Health’ Unit. The new Unit focuses upon the use of GI techniques in the context of health care delivery. An innovative feature of the Unit is its evaluation of RFID tagging to monitor the changing locations of patients and equipment within a hospital. From this very micro-scale application, the Unit then moves on to consider monitoring disease across Africa.
Having, now, two optional ‘Health GIS’ Units available will allow our students to specialize in this area of GI application. The new Unit will be offered to UNIGIS UK and UNIGIS Amsterdam students for the first time in March 2009.
GISRUK 2009 News
The 17th annual GISRUK conference will be held in Durham on 1-3 April. The call for papers can be found at:
http://www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/gisruk2009/
Successful Conference
'Location: Exploiting the Benefits' was the theme for geographic information and surveying conference held in Malta on 5th December 2008. The event was jointly organised by the Malta Association for Geographic Information (MAGI), the Malta Institution of Surveyors (MIoS) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors – Malta (RICS Malta).
This conference, which attracted over 100 delegates, was the premier geo-spatial event of 2008. Organised by the Maltese geo-community for the local geo-community, the conference attracted many stakeholders of the local industry, providing networking, knowledge-sharing and collaboration opportunities to engage and strengthen the surveying and GI industries in Malta. The keynote speech was given by Dr Vanessa Lawrence, Director General and CEO of Ordnance Survey GB. The conference followed with presentations from various Maltese and European speakers.
UNIGIS UK is proud to note that past students played key roles in the event. Carol Agius, MAGI Chair, was a lead member of the conference organisation team and gave the conference opening and closing address. Dr Saviour Formosa presented a paper entitled 'Investigating Crime: giving a Spatio-Temporal hand to social and landuse decision makers'. Nick Spiteri gave a presentation about ESRI Solutions for Location Based Services, while Carol Valentino was on the stand of one of the Gold Sponsors of the event.
UNIGIS UK was a Silver Sponsor of this conference.
UNIGIS presentation at ESRI Conference
In late October 2008 UNIGIS was invited to contribute to the Education Session at the ESRI Europe, Middle East and Africa User Conference, which was held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London. Richard Armitage presented a paper looking at some of the issues relating to how GIS might be taught via distance learning, based on the experience gained by UNIGIS over the last 18 years. A copy of Richard’s presentation is attached. UNIGIS was also asked to contribute to a lively discussion at the end of the Education Session looking at whether there was a need for a Professional Accreditation for GIS.
UNIGIS Presentation
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Induction Workshop for new intake 2008-9
The Induction Workshop for the new intake for the UNIGIS UK programme will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University on 19-21 September 2008. This workshop gives new students to chance to meet the UNIGIS UK staff and their fellow students and to attend seminars on the programme and the first unit of study. There will also be a Workshop for the new MSc students on the 20th September 2008.
AGI Early Bird ends soon
There is just time to take advantage of the AGI Early Bird rates to register for the AGI GeoCommunity 08 Conference held on the 24th to 25th September 2008 in the Holiday Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon. The theme of the conference will be 'Shaping a Changing World'.
PhD success
Saviour Formosa, who completed his UNIGIS MSc in 2000, was awarded his PhD from Huddersfield University on Tuesday 15th July. Saviour, who works for the Maltese Environment and Planning Authority, has studied part-time at Huddersfield to expand his MSc research project on the use of GIS to understand patterns of crime in Malta into his PhD dissertation.
One product of Saviour’s research is his [ crimemalta ] website, which provides information about crime and crime-related incidents in Malta. Saviour will be continuing his crime pattern research in association with [ Applied Criminology Research Centre ] at Huddersfield. Congratulations, Saviour!
GISRUK 2008 Success
The GISRUK 2008 Conference, the UK's major GIS research conference, was successfully hosted by UNIGIS UK at the Manchester Metropolitan University from the 2nd to the 4th April 2008.
Details about the Conference and downloads of the proceedings are at:
[ http://www.unigis.org/gisruk_2008/ ]
Keynote Speakers were Prof. Henk Scholten, Free University of Amsterdam who delivered the Opening Speech on "Geo-ICT and the role of location within science" and Ed Parsons, the Geospatial Technologist of Google, who gave the Closing Speech on "The challenges ahead: the role of GI Science in providing geospatial information to the mass-market".
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Ed Parsons, the Geospatial
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Prof. Henk Scholten,
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The Conference Dinner |
Some of the UNIGIS UK Staff - David Lambrick, Mark Danson, Derek Reeve, Richard Armitage |
GEOTUNIS 2009
16-20 Dec 2009, Tunis International Center for Environmental Technologies, Tunisia
The aim of the conference is the survey of the hydraulic resources and of desertification by using the geographic information systems, remote detection and numeric designing.
3nd Workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group on Land Use and Land Cover
25 - 27 November 2009, Bonn, Germany
This is a workshop organized within the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories, and unique in its kind in Europe since its fully dedicated to both Remote Sensing and the theme of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC).
UNIGIS International Meeting 2009
13-14 November 2009, Girona, Spain
The annual meeting for UNIGIS International will be held in Girona.
4th International 3D Geoinfo Workshop
3 November 3, 2009, Ghent, Belgium.
The 4th International 3D GeoInfo Workshop aims at bringing together international state-of-the-art research and facilitating the dialogue on emerging topics in the field of 3D geo-information.The workshop will be a good opportunity for exchanging ideas on 3D requirements and different techniques in 3D data acquisition, data model, spatial data analysis, geo-visualization and simulation.
This event also includes the 3rd Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation (BMI '09): Studying Moving Objects in a three-dimensional world.
Better Mapping 2009
26 October 2009, Bristol, UK
The Association for Geographic Information (AGI) and The British Cartographic Society (BCS) are pleased to announce an additional four joint events to be held around the UK in October 2009.
These one day seminars, featuring a number of expert presenters, will introduce a range of topics and easy methods that will demonstrate how good cartographic practice can greatly improve the quality, accuracy and effectiveness of your digital and hard copy maps. The four days will be held at:
26th October: Bristol - Armada House Conference & Events
27th October: Glasgow - Centre for Contemporary Arts
28th October: Birmingham - Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre
29th October: London - School of Economic Science
2009 ESRI European User Conference
14-16 October 2009, -Vilnius, Lithuania
The EUC is dedicated to users throughout Europe, giving them the chance to come together to learn about geographic information system (GIS) solutions and how to leverage their current GIS technology investments.
AGI Environmental SIG annual conference
13 October 2009, British Geological Survey, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham UK
Please note that this event has been posptponed and will now be held in 2010.
Intergraph UK User Conference
6 - 7 October 2009, Intergraph Technology Centre, Swindon, UK
With a focus on the role of spatial technologies in improving services and delivering operational efficiencies, this year's agenda has appeal across Intergraph's customer base, from Utilities to the Emergency services. We are also delighted to feature keynotes from Intergraph senior executives, the UK Government Programme Director for INSPIRE and Google's Geospatial Technologist.
Organised by the UK User Community Committee and open to all existing and prospective users of Intergraph's market-leading geospatial software, the annual UK conference provides an invaluable opportunity to learn about customer implementations and experiences, best practice and product updates as well as a chance to network with colleagues from the industry.
DGI CEE
29-30 Sept 2009, Marriott Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic
DGI CEE (Central & Eastern Europe) is set to become the region's largest annual gathering dedicated to discussing the major challenges of integrating the region's defence and government Geographic Information System (GIS) capabilities into the EU and NATO operations around the world. DGI CEE will bring together Heads of Geospatial Intelligence, GIS, Remote Sensing, Operations, and Imagery and Analysis, to provide a unique forum to discuss and debate the challenges and future strategies for GIS capabilities in central & eastern Europe. The conference will address the use of GIS in scenarios such as situational awareness, full in-theatre & strategic interoperability, cooperation between the new member states, border control, refugee trafficking prevention, environmental protection, crime, security.
AGI GeoCommunity 2009
23 - 24 Sept, Holiday Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
AGI GeoCommunity '09 will build on the extremely successful formula of 2007 and 2008. It will be a residential conference designed to bring together practitioners, policy makers and suppliers with thought leaders from the UK and overseas. The theme of the conference will be 'Realising the Value of Place'. A pre-conference icebreaker event will also run in the evening of the 22nd.
UNIGIS UK 2009 dates
The new intake for UK UNIGIS students will begin with the Induction Meeting at Manchester Metropolitan University between 18-20 September 2009. The annual MSc workshop will be held on Saturday 19th September at MMU.
EnviroInfo 2009
9-11 Sept, Berlin, Germany
The 23rd International Conference on Infomatics for Environmental Protection will be held at the HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences. The conference will have a special focus on the topic “ICT for industrial environmental protection” and thus will reflect on practical problems and the need for an adequate IT-assistance for this application field. A dedicated emphasis is also laid on the requirements of small and medium-sized enterprises and their need for a proper and easy to use IT-assistance.
Risk Management Workshop
10 Sept, Berlin, Germany
This international workshop on Risk Management related to ICT for the environment will enable sharing of best practice as well as giving space for discussing methodological problems in risk modeling from the information system point of view. It is part of the EnviroInfo 2009 Conference.
2nd GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions Conference
2-5 Sept 2009, Baška, Krk Island, Croatia
Organised by the Royal Institute of Navigation, London, UK, and the Institute of Engineering Surveying
and Space Geodesy, University of Nottingham, UK, the four day event will focus on problems and vulnerabilities, and in particular developments aiming to improve the accuracy and reliability of GNSS. It is aimed at bringing together academia, industry and the user community in order to disseminate information on GNSS technology and applications, with the aim of raising awareness of recent developments. Two special sessions will be organised to address particular causes of GNSS vulnerabilities:
- Space Weather and Ionospheric Effects on GNSS, and
- Safety Critical Applications (concerning primarily ITS).
Extended abstracts should be submitted to Dr Renato Filjar, FRIN by e-mail no later than 1 June, 2009 (extended deadline). For further information on this please refer to the Call for Papers link on the website.
EUGEO 2009
13-16 August 2009, Bratislava, Slovakia
The second Congress on the Geography of Europe, EUGEO meeting forum stimulates discussion about research, education, accomplishments, and developments in geography.
ISPRS Summer School
13-19 July 2009, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, Poland
The topic for the Summer Schoolc is: “NATURAL ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT, MONITORING AND CONSERVATION”. Additionally on the 18th of July 2009 the 1st ISPRS Student Consortium Conference will take place. Topic: “PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING”. For this event an extra registration and fees are needed, except for the participants of the Summer School.
ESRI International User Conference
13-17 July, San Diego, California
GI Forum2009
Salzburg 7-10 July, 2009, Salzburg, Austria
Call for Papers:
GI_Forum’09 especially wishes to attract submissions pertaining to the following themes :
Global Monitoring * Digital Cities * Sustainable Environments * Learning with Geoinformation. The deadline for submission of full papers for oral presenation and publication is on Feb. 2, 2009.
GISLERS - Summer School 2009
3 - 14 July 2009, Salzburg, Austria
The international Summer School "Bridging GIS, Landscape Ecology and Remote Sensing" (GISLERS) focuses on the analysis and assessment of landscapes for sustainable development. Participants apply sophisticated earth observation and GIS techniques for land use / land cover analysis and study models for a quantitative and qualitative scenario output for future landscape planning.
ENERegion - Summer School 2009
29 June - 10 July 2009, Salzburg, Austria
The International Summer School ENERegion is dedicated to the theme of "Regional Potentials for Renewable Energy Generation" and focuses on using Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis techniques to model spatial patterns of demand as well as regional potentials of solar, thermal and photovoltaic, wind, biomass, geothermal and hydropower resources.
ICGIS 2009
24-26 June 2009, Paris, France
The conference seeks proposals for workshops on foundational and emerging topics in areas relevant to Geographic Information Systems. The deadline for the Call for Papers is 24 Feb, 2009.
UDMS 2009 - Call for Papers
24-26 June 2009, Ljubljana, Slovenia
UDMS -the Urban Data Management Society - has issued a Call for Papers for the 2009 conference.The International Programme Committee would like to address the following overall themes:
- Integrated risk and disaster management for urban areas
- GIS in Urban and Regional Data Management for Sustainable Development
- Ubiquitous information cities.
Full paper submission deadline: September 29, 2008
Open Source GIS UK Conference
22 June 2009, University of Nottingham, UK
The University of Nottingham and Open Source Geospatial Foundation announce the First Open Source GIS UK Conference on 22nd June (Monday), 2009 at the University of Nottingham. Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director of Open Source Geospatial Foundation will deliver the keynote presentation.
The key aims of this conference are:
(i) to hear presentations from government, academic, industry and policy makers on open source geospatial technologies
(ii) to provide platform to network and develop ideas for future collaborative work in open source GIS
(iii) to understand current developments in open source GIS
AGILE 2009
2-5 June 2009, University of Hanover, Germany
This is the 12th AGILE International Conference on GIScience. The program will offer parallel paper presentation sessions, keynote sessions, plenary round table debates, poster sessions and pre-conference workshops to share your ideas, explore on-going research, future developments, including state-of-the-art applications, and to network with the professionals from academia, industry, and government who are interested in promoting GI teaching and research activities among GI laboratories at the European level. This year, for the first time, the conference will be held in parallel with an ISPRS workshop. The two events will take place at the same location, there will be selected sessions in common. In this way, we hope to encourage the exchange between researchers of the two societies AGILE and ISPRS for mutual benefit.
PROGIS
12-13 May 2009, Prague, Czech Republic
AGI Education Lecture: Spatial Surveillence: We Know Where You (and things) Are
6.30pm, 21 May 2009, Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
This lecture is given by Professor A Stewart Fotheringham the Director of the National Centre for Geocomputation National University of Ireland Maynooth and hosted by CASA.
Human beings have long appreciated both the knowledge and power that come with knowing one's location. Whereas in the past, such knowledge was in the hands of a privileged few, modern geotechnologies allow near-ubiquitous access to this information. This seminar explores some of the ways we can now measure and observe the location of people and objects and then examines the uses, both good and bad, to which this information can be put.
CPD
Please note that as a delegate at this event you can allocate 1.5 points towards the AGI continuing professional development scheme. More information on the scheme can be found here. Attendance certificates will be handed out at the end of day.
UNIGIS UK Spatial Analysis Workshop
5-8 May 2009, Manchester Metropolitan University UK
The Spatial Analysis workshop, lead by Graham Smith and James Cheng, will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University for UK Stage 2 students. Further information may be obtained from the UNIGIS UK office.
International Conference on Cartographic Challenges: Movement, Participation, Risk
23-24 April 2009, Bergamo, Italy
The conference is an opportunity of encounter among researchers interested in sharing two levels of considerations about cartography: the epistemic one, concerning the communicative role it is playing actually; the empiric one, regarding the production of maps, able to face globalization challenges.
The deadline for Abstracts is 15 February 2009.
GA Annual Conference
16-18 April 2009, University of Manchester, UK
The theme of the 2009 Annual Conference of the Geographical Association is 'Investigating Geography'.
GE0-9
1-2 April 2009, Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK
GEO-9 is the UK's only dedicated geospatial trade exhibition. GEO-9 will be showcasing . every aspect of the geographic information industry, from measurement and data collection through to advanced geospatial analysis. It is completely free to attend. UNIGIS students will also receive a free copy of GISPro at the exhibition.
GISRUK 2009
1-3 April 2009, Durham University, Durham, UK
International PROGIS Conference 2009
11-12 March 2009, Grand Media Congress Hotel, Villach, Austria
The topic of this conference is the request for concerted actions to ensure that agriculture will be able to feed worldwide the ongoing growing population. Globally there is a strong demand for technologies and practical instruments for improving the planning, development and management of agriculture.
DGI 2009 Conference
19 - 22 January 2009, QEII Conference Centre, London, UK
The 5th annual DGI conference is dedicated to geospatial intelligence and key technologies. It is .Europe’s largest annual gathering dedicated to high-level discussion, addressing the major challenges of the defence and government geospatial intelligence community.
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