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The overall scope of this series of conferences is to offer an interdisciplinary, international forum for sharing knowledge about the application of Geoinformatics with focus on application and on developing countries. This will be achieved by a series of summer schools and conferences through the next years, supported through an online journal.

Thanks for AGSE 2008!

We would like to thank all participants of the State of the AGSE 2008 Conference in Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) for joining us for three wonderful days, filled with presentations, workshops, and fruitful discussions.

We are convinced that it has been a huge inspiration for all interested in the application of Geoinformation Science.

We hope to see you back soon at the next AGSE conference or summer school in Germany, Africa, Asia or South America.

Overview

The first AGSE Summer School and Conference was held in the city of Trivandrum, capital of the southernmost state of India, Kerala from October 28 to 30, 2008 on the theme of 'WebGIS and Ecoinformatics'. The success of that program, funded by DAAD and other German agencies, and supported and jointly hosted by the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala and the Department of Geology, Government College, Kottayam, Kerala, lead naturally to the organization of this first summer school of the series.

The event was initiated by Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences.

We offered key notes, and several workshops covering different fields of Geoinformatics:
  • Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Behr: Geo-Mashups in the Web 2.0 environment
  • Prof. Dr. Dietrich Schröder: Open Source GIS and Tools

Impressions of AGSE 2008

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Sponsors

AGSE 2009 Conference and Summer School at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Topics

  • Current trends in Geospatial Technology
    • Spatial Information Infrastructures (SDI)
    • Geospatial Data Capture, Fusion and Harmonisation
    • Location Based Services and Mobile Applications
    • Geosensor Networks
    • Interoperability and standards
    • Geovisualisation
    • GI Education and Training
    • GI Policy and Society, e-Government
  • GIS implementation and deployment
  • Sustainable development and Millennium Development Goals
  • Demographic and Socioeconomic Modelling
  • Environmental/Ecological and Urban/Regional Modelling
  • Health and Medical Informatics
  • Natural Resources Management and Monitoring
  • Disaster and Risk Management, Flood Modelling
  • Spatial Data Usability and Data Quality
  • Spatiotemporal Modelling and Analysis
  • Case studies
  • Participatory GIS, voluntary geographic information
  • Earth Observation Systems: Issues and Applications (according ISPRS's Beijing Declaration)
    • Acquisition, processing, interpretation and analysis of aerial and satellite imagery
    • application for socio-economic sustainable development,
    • natural disaster prediction, mitigation and response,
    • maintenance of biodiversity,
    • cultural heritage conservation,
    • global and environmental climate change monitoring,
    • land use and land cover inventory,
    • food security,
    • sustainable use of water resources, and human habitat, environment and health
    • Lidar Processing
    • Image Interpretation for Topographic Mapping
    • Image Analysis for Change Detection
  • Digital Terrain Modeling, 3D
  • Validation, calibration and certification of digital cameras and other types of sensors, automated information extraction from all forms of imagery, distributed data processing for information services