Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment 2010 (AGSE 2010)

News

• July 28, 2010: Preliminary program
• July 26, 2010: The proceedings (state July 26 2010) are online!
• July 23, 2010: Contact conference@applied-geoinformatics.org if you need an invitation letter!
• July 18, 2010: Noticias en la página web del UCSM: Conferencia Internacional de Geoinformática aplicada para la Sociedad.
• July 11, 2010: AGSE-JINIS-2010-Concurso de POSTERS en Google Groups.
• July 07, 2010: Author guidelines / Template File can be downloaded here.
• July 02, 2010: Un panfleto de AGSE 2010 está disponible aquí. A Flyer in Spanish is available here.
• July 01, 2010: Information about flights, hotels, and restaurants are available.
• June 28, 2010: AGSE and JINIS 2010 joined!
• June 06, 2010: A list of funding opportunities for NGOs, CBOs and researchers, compiled by Giacomo Rambaldi, can be found at http://www.iapad.org/funding_sources.htm. We expect this might be helpful for some of the participants!
• May 28, 2010: Call for Papers updated!

Proceedings:

Workshops

• Prof. Dr. D. Schröder: Open Source Desktop GIS - Sistemas de Información Geográfica (GIS) Open Source
  

  Professor for Geoinformation Systems, Database Systems, Programming and Urban Land Use Planning at the Faculty of Geomatics, Computer Sciences and Mathematics at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences

  He was the winner of the Intergraph's First international Best Practices Award (2002), sponsored by the Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions for Education Program for his formulation GIS problems that illustrate groundbreaking GIS programs in the classroom. The worldwide competitions recognize projects and programs based on Intergraph's GeoMedia and MGE technology.

  Some of his projects include

  • Solar Urban Planning with GIS
  • Computer Networks Online - Development of an E-Learning Module, sponsored by LARS-Project
  • Extensions for Intergraph’s GeoMedia®
  • Consulting in the frame of the EU TEMPUS Program in Bishkek/Kirgistan
  He is active in the area of Free and Open Source GIS.
  
  
• Prof. Dr. F.-J. Behr: Your Geodata in the Web - an Introduction to Internet Mapping
  

  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz-Josef Behr, Professor of Geoinformatics at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (http://www.gis-management.de/). His specializations include

  • Internet, Internet GIS
  • XML, GML, SVG
  • Data exchange and Interoperability
  • Visualization
  • Open Source Solutions
  • Consulting

  Member of the DIN working group NA 005-03-03 AA "Arbeitsausschuss Kartographie und Geoinformation" (Sp CEN/TC 287+ISO/TC 211). He teaches popular courses in the university like "Scientific Skills and Media Competence - Web Presentation", "Customization, Internet, Visualization: Internet GIS" etc.

  He is the author of two authoritative books on GIS in German, one is Strategisches GIS-Management - Grundlagen und Schritte zur Systemeinführung published by Wichmann Verlag, Heidelberg, 2004. The second is Einführung in Geographische Informationssysteme published by Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt in 1997. Some of the websites he maintains are gis-management.de/ and gis-news.de and his blog.

  
  
• Prof. Dr. H. Lehmkühler: Geostatistics - an Introduction
  

  The tutorial "Geostatistics -- An Introduction" is meant to motivate further dealing with the issue. After explaining the specialty of spatial statistics a first completely regular data set is considered. Here ESRI's ArcGIS GeospatialAnalyst is used and demonstrated as one of several tools of analysis. While descriptive statistics foundations are simple and clear an important and somehow strange issue will be the spatial self-similarity of measured quantities or expressively correlation. A second data set consisting of several irregularly and differently distributed quantities points out some important questions of estimation. Such questions deal with representative mean values or distributions. The estimation of point values (interpolation) or larger block values follows. The kriging method for interpolation is addressed. A final view is laid upon the theory of cokriging where unmeasured quantities are derived from measured ones. The tutorial is also preparatory for the workshop "R for geospatial analysis".



• Prof. Dr. D. Schröder: "R" for Spatial Analysis
  

  R is an open-source environment for statistical computing and visualisation. It is based on the S language developed at Bell Laboratories in the 1980's, and is the product of an active movement among statisticians for a powerful, programmable, portable, and open computing environment, applicable to the most complex and sophisticated problems, as well as "routine" analysis, without any restrictions on access or use. There are a number of packages for R to analyze spatial data. In the workshop a short general introduction into R is given. It is shown how geo data - vector as well raster - is loaded into R. In a first example kriging is used to interpolate point data using the gstat package. In a second example the spatstat package is used for point pattern analysis.

  
  
• Prof. Dr. P. Rawiel: Process Management - Correctness by Construction
  
• Prof. Dr. F.-J. Behr: Setting up your WMS Server in 45 minutes
  
• Patrick Adda, MSc, University of New Brunswick: OGC Standards and their application for disseminating geodata (planned)
  

Algunos temas para presentacion:

• Casos de estudio: Comparte las experiencias suyas o de su organización usando tecnología geo-espacial y de sensores remotos. ¿Qué viene trabajando bien? ¿o pobremente? ¿Cuál es el estado de la Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales en su país? ¿Qué problemas solucionó, cómo, y a qué costo? ¿Cuáles son sus recomendaciones para otros?
• Objetivos de desarrollo del Milenio: ¿Cómo apoya su investigación geoespacial al desarrollo sustentable, prevención de desastres, gestión de crisis, gobierno electrónico, reducción de pobreza, programas de salud, etc.?
• Visualizacion: Informenos de la forma más conveniente de representar y analizar su geo-información. ¿Cómo presenta su información de manera inmediata? ¿3D? ¿algunas recomendaciones sobre cartografía?
• Hacks y Mashups: ¿Ha colocado juntas algunas técnicas nuevas para gestionar su geo-información, unir su información con otras, o los recursos existentes? ¿Cómo las colocó juntas? ¿cómo vienen trabajando?
• Benchmarks: Relate sus experiencias usando software Geo-espacial. ¿Ha realizado análisis comparative entre diversas soluciones de software? ¿performance? ¿soluciones Open Source? ¿facilidad de uso? ¿Qué es lo que Ud. recomienda a otros?
• Si Ud. es un desarrollador o productor de software: ¿Cuáles son los nuevos desarrollos en sus productos de software Geo-espacial? ¿Cómo trabaja, cómo lo usan las personas, cuáles son las características técnicas?
• Colaboración e inter-operabilidad: ¿Cuáles son los estándares y técnicas que viene usando para mejorar la colaboración entre organizaciones y/o entre personas? ¿Ofreciendo geo-información pública, aplicando colección de información colaborativa (“crowssourcing”), compartir información, estándares abiertos (open standard), estándares definidos?
• Experiencia de egresados: comparte tus experiencias personales y profesionales luego de terminar la universidad.

Scientific Committee

• Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Behr, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Prof. Dr. César Beltrán Castañón, Universidad Catolica de Santa Maria, Arequipa, Peru
• Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Dr. David Kuria, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenia
• Prof. Dr. Matthias Moeller, University of Bamberg, Germany
• Dr. A. P. Pradeepkumar, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India
• Prof. Dr. Paul Rawiel, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Dietrich Schröder, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Dr. V. P. A. Weerasinghe, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka