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UNIGIS Graduate presents his research at GISRUK 2010
Nicholas Gould
Nicholas Gould, who was awarded a UNIGIS MSc with Distinction last year, is to present a paper based on his research at the GISRUK 2010 Conference at the University College of London on April 15th. His paper, entitled "Where's the Analysis? Evaluating the OGC's Web Processing Service", will be given in Session 5B on the Geoweb on Thursday 15th April.Congratulations to Nick!
   
GEO-10 Conference news
GEO - 10 GEO-10 will be held between 24-25 March 2010 at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK. The event is the UK's only national dedicated geospatial trade exhibition with technology demonstrations, product launches, professional development and networking opportunities. UNIGIS UK staff will be attending this event and students are invited to come and visit us at Stand No. 4.
New staff member for UNIGIS UK
Omair Chaudhry

Omair Chaudhry has been appointed as a lecturer in GIS at Manchester Metropolitan University and a tutor for UNIGIS UK. Omair previously worked as a research associate at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency of Great Britain. He obtained his PhD and MSc in GIS from the University of Edinburgh and his B.E. in computer software from National University of Science and Technology (Pakistan).

He has been involved in a number of GIS projects involving spatial database enrichment and automated cartography. His research interests lie in spatial data modelling, geo visualisation, map generalisation, design and implementation of spatial algorithms for pattern recognition and database enrichment.

   
New UK Intake Induction Meeting
UNIGIS UK Intake 19 started in mid September 2009, with the Induction Meeting being held between September 18-19 at Manchester Metropolitan University. During the meeting, there were presentations from UNiGIS UK staff and student registration.
   
AGI Continuing Professional Development and UNIGIS UK
AGI CPD

UNIGIS UK are pleased to announce that the Association for Geographic Information - AGI - has now accepted UNIGIS into the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points scheme.

The Association for Geographic Information has joined with the Royal Geographical Society with IBG to introduce the professional status of Chartered Geographer (GIS) for suitably qualified individuals.  This award will be particularly suited to those working in the GI Science field, indicating their competence and experience in interpreting geographical information and in geographical analysis, based on a wide understanding of using geographical processes. Chartered Geographer (GIS) status is being offered to AGI members as a professional enhancement to our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme.

 
AGI Offer for UNIGIS students
The AGI is a Friend of UNIGIS and has been a strong supporter of our activities in recent years. A major element of their support is their offer of a special annual membership arrangement for our students. This year the AGI has offered individual AGI membership to UNIGIS students for £25.85. An indication of the range of the AGI's activities can be gained by visiting their web site at:- www.agi.org.uk

 
Forthcoming Events

2010

GIS-PRO 2010
September 28-October 1, 2010 in Orlando, Florida
URISA's 48th Annual Conference for GIS Professionals

AGI 2010
28-30 September 2010, Holiday Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
The theme for this year's AGI annual conference is 'AGI GeoCommunity '10: Opportunities in a Changing World'. This year's event will focus on the use of location to deliver operational efficiency savings, identifying and delivering excellence through the use of geographic information and measuring the positive affect spatial technology, data and insight can bring.

RCS - IBG 2010
1-2 September 2010, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK
The theme for this year's conference is "Confronting the Challenges of the Post-Crisis Global Economy and Environment".

RMA 2010
26-27 August 2010, Hotel Steglitz International, Best Western Premier, Berlin, Germany
This international interdisciplinary CODATA workshop on Risk Models and Applications  will enable sharing of best practices as well as giving space for discussing methodological problems in risk modeling from the information systems point of view.

Accuracy 2010
20-23 July 2010, Leicester, UK
The Ninth International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences will be hosted by the University of Leicester, UK July 20 - 23 2010 on behalf of the International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (ISARA). The International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences is held every two years and is concerned with all aspects of spatial accuracy in natural resources and environmental sciences.

2010 ESRI International User Conference
July 12–16, San Diego Convention Cente, California, USA

The 14th World Multi-Conference on  Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2010, jointly with The 16th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis: ISAS 2010
29 June - 2 July 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA
Through WMSCI conferences, we are trying to relate the analytic thinking, required in focused conference´s sessions, with the synthetic thinking, required for analogies generation, which calls a for multi-focus domain and divergent thinking. We are trying to promote synergic relationships between analytically and synthetically oriented minds, as it is found between left and right brain hemispheres, by means of the corpus callosum. Then, WMSCI 2010 might be perceived as a research corpus callosum, trying to bridge analytical with synthetically oriented efforts, convergent with divergent thinking, and focused specialists with non-focused or multi-focused generalistsWMSCI 2010 is an international forum for scientists and engineers, researchers and consultants, theoreticians and practitioners in the fields of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. The forum focuses into specific disciplinary research, and also in multi, inter, and trans-disciplinary studies and projects. One of its aims is to relate disciplines, fostering analogical thinking and, hence, producing input to the logical thinking.

SGEM 2010
20-25 June 2010, Congress Centre Flamingo Grand, Albena Complex, near to Varna city, Bulgaria
The overall objective of the SGEM GeoConference and Expo is: to contribute to the integration of environmental consideration into the decision-making process with the aim to ensure that present consumption will not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Second Open Source GIS UK Conference - OSGIS 2010
21-22nd June 2010, CGS, University of Nottingham, UK
The OSGIS conference series has a strong international focus and takes a holistic approach in bringing together speakers and delegates from government, academe, industry and open source communities. High profile speakers from all over the world are invited for giving presentations and running hands-on workshops for the conference series.

Mapping 2010 - Talking with Maps
9-11 June 2010, Village Nottingham, Brailsford Way, Nottingham, UK
The British Cartographic Society’s Annual Symposium is an established three-day training event that provides delegates with the opportunity to gain mapping knowledge from a wide range of world class presentations and interactive workshops.

58th German Cartographers' Day 2010
8 - 10 June 2010, Berlin and Potsdam, Germany
Within our three day event that includes a variety of papers and exhibitions we offer you an ideal platform to exchange experiences between experts and decision-making units coming from companies, universities, research institutions and administration all located within the broader domain of Cartography and Geoinformatics. The conference’s schedule comprises all currently relevant selections of topics of future orientated cartography – from production process to modern techniques of visualisation and GIS or web based applications. More information at:

Call for Papers in English

GeoAlberta 2010
10-11 May, Coast Plaza and Conference Centre, Calgary, Alberta, USA

ESRI (UK) Annual Conference 2010
10-11 May, The Hilton London Metropole, London, UK
The ESRI (UK) Annual Conference, Shaping your vision, is an insightful two day event which will explore geographic information systems (GIS) technology as the key enabler for better informed decision-making.

GISRUK 2010
14- 16 April, University College London (UCL), London, UK
The overarching theme of the conference will be "Global Challenges". As is usual with GISRUK they welcome papers across the range of contemporary GIS research but will particularly welcome papers in the following themes:

    * Crime and Place
    * Environmental Change
    * Migration and Identity
    * Intelligent Transport
    * Public Health and Epidemiology
    * Simulation and Modelling
    * London as a global city
    * The geoweb and neo-geography
    * Open GIS and Volunteered Geographic Information

More details of the call for papers, abstract format, and the submission URL can all be found on the conference website: http://gisruk2010.spatial-literacy.org/ The closing date for abstracts is Friday 27th November 2009.

GEO-10 World of Geomatics 2010
24-25 March, Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK
GEO-10 is the complete geo-event and is the UK's only dedicated national geospatial trade exhibition .GEO-10 sees the return to a full two days of conference built around two streams, Geomatics: Getting the Data and Geographic Apps & Users.

ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science 2010
13-16 April 2010, Edinburgh University, Scotland
This flagship event aims to energise the computing community and bring it together around some positive and inspiring visions of our discipline and follows the highly successful “Visions of Computer Science” conference in 2008.

DGI Europe 2010
25-28 January 2010, QE II Conference Centre, Westminster, London, UK
The theme of the conference this year is "Geospatially Enabling Defence & National Security  Across The World". DGI is Europe's largest annual gathering dedicated to high-level discussion addressing the major challenges of the defence and government geospatial intelligence community. Bringing together Heads of Geospatial Intelligence, GIS, Remote Sensing, Operations, and Imagery and Analysis, the conference provides a unique forum to discuss and debate the development of geospatial intelligence capabilities across the globe.
For AGI members, there is £100 discount on the cost of the conference.

Sixth International Conference On Technology, Knowledge and Society
15-17 January 2010, Freie University Berlin, Germany
This Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society.This Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society.

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