Half-Annual report on activities in Earth Observation i GSDI Association with cases from EUROGI and HUNAGI

1. Liaison’s Report
on GSDI Association
An update on selected activities
since WGISS-37
again with some examples from EUROGI and HUNAGI
Dr. Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp
Secretary-general, HUNAGI
Source: ESA ESRIN
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2. Outline
¡ GSDI Updates
¡ GSDI Regional level member activities
Example: EUROGI
¡ GSDI National-level member activities Example: HUNAGI
¡ Conclusions
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3. GSDI Updates
¡ GSDI received Special Consultative status at UN
¡ Special Consultative status as an NGO at the UN (ECOSOC)
was activated on 1 May http://www.gsdi.org/node/1014
¡ UN Global Geospatial Information Management meeting
attended by President David Coleman and President-elect
Dave Lovell, plus Carmelle Ternborgh, Chair of the Societal
Benefits Committee in New York, on 4-5 August 2014
¡ Former President Abbas Rajabifard and David Coleman will be
attending the next full UN-GGIM meeting in Beijing in October,
2014
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4. GSDI Updates (2)
¡ High-level cooperation with learned societies of
the geospatial world
¡ MoU-based cooperation with ICA, ISPRS.
Ongoing preparation with OGC. Planned: ISDE
¡ GSDI presence at the 5th Digital Earth Summit hosted by Keio
University in Nagoya, 8-11 November 2014 (In conjuction
with the UNESCO Conference on Education for the
Sustainable Development)
¡ GSDI - cooperating organization registered by GEO.
Attending the XI GEO Plenary in Libreville, Gabon Nov, 2014
(t.b.d.) The last GSDI World Conference was in Addis Ababa
and the President of IGS is from EIS – Africa.
¡ Liaison link with CEOS WGISS attending the WGISS-38.
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5. GSDI Updates (3)
¡ ad Disaster Recovery
¡ one of our newest members is the Taiwan Association of
Disaster Prevention Industry (TADPI)
¡ GSDI is negotiating a MoU with Univ. of Melbourne's new
Centre for Disaster Management that is being set up by
past GSDI President Prof. Abbas Rajabifard (member of the
GSDI Executive Committee).
He is conducting this week an international symposium on
disaster management that with over 100 delegates from
different countries and organisations (including Greg Scott from
UNGGIM).
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6. GSDI Updates (4)
¡ GSDI-GIKNET (Geographic Information Knowledge Network of
GSDI) http://www.giknet.org
¡ GSDI-IGS (International Geospatial Society)
http://www.igeoss.org/
¡ SDI Regional Newsletters, GSDI & IGS Global News (edited by
Roger Longhorn) GSDI home page
http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters
¡ Publications http://www.gsdi.org/publications
¡ GSDI expert Doug Nebert of USGS, former team member of
the “GEOSS Recommendations for Community Portals” in the
GEOSS Common Infrastructure framework, Editor of the SDI
Cookbook passed away in a plane crash
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7. GSDI Regional level member activities
Example: EUROGI (1) www.eurogi.org
¡ Reminder: EUROGI contribution to ESA/ROSA conference on
'GMES opportunities in Eastern Europe' held in May 2013 in
Bucharest, Romania
¡ Supporting NASA World Wind Europa Challenge WWEC 2014
¡ Set up of EUROGI Position papers drafting teams regarding GI
and Geo Technologies (GT) role in relation to
Open Data
Internet of Things
Linked Data
Urban & Regional Development
The promotion of SMEs in the GI/GT sector and
the use of GI/GT in the wider SME sector
¡ 2nd EUROGI imaGIne Conference hosted by DDGI
8-9 October, 2014 in Berlin. Supported by ESA and DLR
http://www.imagine2014.eu/about-imagine-2014/
In conjuction with Intergeo 2014
¡ COPERNICUS and the Big Geospatial Data Challenge 2:
Final Workshop of Market-Pull-Pack 2, ESA & EUROGI
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8. GSDI Regional level member activities
Example: EUROGI (2)
Featuring:
Welcome & opening addresses:
President of EUROGI,
Vice-Chancellor of Germany,
G-D of DG Connect of the
European Commission
Director of Esri
International Operations:
Europe in a global
Perspective
President of Hexagon:
Europe, key Strengths &
weaknesses
ESA astronaut Dr. G.Thiele
Shuttle Radar Topography M
and its impact on the
global DEM
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9. GSDI Regional level member activities
Example: EUROGI (1)
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Thematic sessions:
• Open source open data
• Smart Cities
• GEOSTAT- integration of
statistics and GI
• Environment protection,
resource management &
regional planning
• Job creation and
Economic growth
• Copernicus MPP2
Today’s challenges:
Linked Data
Big Data, Cloud and GI
IoT

10. GSDI Regional level member activities
Example: EUROGI (4)
Supporting the NASA World Wind Europa Challenge 2014
¡ FOSS4G European Conference http://foss4g-e.org/
¡ Jacobs University Bremen 15-18 July, 2014
¡ 160 registered participants from 50 countries.
¡ Topics: Independent Innovation for INSPIRE, Big Data and
Citizen Participation.
¡ Keynote speakers Jeff McKenna, President of OSGeo Foundation, Patrick
Hogan, manager of the World Wind project NASA Ames, Suchit Anand of the ICA
Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies, Venkatesh
Raghavan of the Osaka City University.
¡ A series of academic sessions enabled insights of the
developers's scientific research. This track were chaired by
P.Baumann (Jacobs Uni), M. Brovelli (PoliMi), Sven Schade (JRC) and
Massimiliano Cannata of SUPSI (CH).
¡ The host: Prof. Peter Baumann of Jacobs University in Bremen
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11. GSDI Regional level member activities
Example: EUROGI (5)
Supporting the NASA World Wind Europa Challenge 2014
Keynote provided by Patrick Hogan of NASA,
Developments and applications using World Wind
GeoQoS (Mentor: Peng Yue, Wuhan University),
http://www.lmars.whu.edu.cn/en/
iGlobe (Mentor: Varun Chandola University of Buffalo),
iGlobe: Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Geospatial Data Sets on a 3D
Globe
PoliCrowd 2.0 (Mentor: Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milno Como Campus),
ReSC (Mentor: Jon Blower University of Reading),
Multiglobe, Solar Irradiance Calculator, (Mentor: Francesco Pirotti, University of
Padova),
WCPS Cross-Coverage Analysis (Mentor: Piero Campalani Jacobs University)
NASA WWEC 2014 Award Ceremony for students at the FOSS4G Europe
Conference.
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12. GSDI Regional level member activities
Example: EUROGI (6)
Supporting the NASA World Wind Europa Challenge 2014
¡ The agreed criteria-based evaluation, the 18-member
scientific board the following three became winner :
¡ 1st : PoliCrowd 2.0 Andrés Fernando, Quiñones Valencia,
Luca Poddigue A Social World Wind Platform
http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/
¡ 2nd (sponsored by EUROGI): University of Buffalo
iGlobe: Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Geospatial
Data Sets on a 3D Globe Thomas Effland, Bob DeBortoli, Pavey Telesphore,
Nganpi Tchaeleuch
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~chandola/iglobe/iglobe.html
¡ 2nd : WCPS Cross-Coverage Analysis Alex Mircea Dumitru, Alan Beccati,
Vlad Merticariu Data Fusion Web Coverage Processing Service
http://kahlua.eecs.jacobs-university.de/~lsis/Projects/index.php
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13. GSDI National-level member activities
Example: HUNAGI (1)
¡ Promoting EO apps competitions: Copernicus Masters,
GEO Appathon, and NASA WWEC 2014
¡ Space Industry - Hungary Booklet by HUNSPACE
¡ MaSat-1 Revisit and introduction of MaSat-2
¡ Hungary and GEO – news on developments
¡ Open source activities (Courtesy by Zoltán Siki, BME)
¡ GIS Conference Debrecen May, 2014
http://geogis.detek.unideb.hu/TKonferencia/2014/index.php?lang=hu
Openbiomaps Workshop Debrecen, Sept 2014
http://openbiomaps.org/blog/?lang=hu
¡ 3rd Open source in GIS Conf. BUT, Budapest
2013: http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop
2012: http://www.agt.bme.hu/gis/workshop/
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14. GSDI National-level member activities
Example: HUNAGI (2a)
Just reminder:
¡ MASAT-1
Idea: 2007
Size: 1U CubSat
Launch: Feb 13, 2012
ESA Low orbit Vega
Mission
Link: 625/1250 bps
200 radio amateur
stations registered
Imaging device on board
Collection of images
Anagliph image
Image mosaicing
It is operational since
it has been launched
Skilled and experienced
hard core and proven
Subcontractors (mainly)
From Hungary
Courtesy by Gyula Horváth, BME
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15. GSDI National-level member activities
Example: HUNAGI (2b)
MASAT-2
Mission objectives: 1-3U CubeSat aimed for
technology experiments
Special features include: 3-axis stabilizator
High resolution camera optimized for CubeSat
Improved telecommunication
Action plan: completion of planning, implementation,
test, start and operation (altogether in 2-3 years)
Pre-testing of the MaSat 3, the prototype for HEOS
Hungarian EO System (HEOS) constellation
Vision: implementation in 5-8 years in case of
budget support for the benefit of gov. agencies
Further aims include technology innovation involving
Start-up and Spin-off companies.
CubeSat market share will be increased by a
Magnitude according to SpaceWorks Inc.
Direct feedback to the education
Enabling generation of competitive technologies
and services
Primarily
¡ Aims as benefits
Providing service for governmental
agencies with special emphasis on
agriculture (e.g. precision farming),
Developing niche technologies
competitive on international level,
Achieving competences in EO, one
of the prime space application
domain
Efficient participation in
international frameworks such as
Horizon 2020, EUMETSAT
Increasing the gained technology
advancements in CubeSats
Strengthen the space industry
capacity and capabilities
After joining, participation in the
ESA space activities with
measurable weight
Courtesy by Gyula Horváth, BME
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16. GSDI National-level member activities
Example: HUNAGI (2c)
FÖMI www.fomi.hu
Operationl works underway include:
Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS)
Control of Area-based Agricultural Subsidies
with Remote Sensing
Hungarian National Vineyard GIS (VINGIS)
GIO Land Hungary (EEA)
Corine Land Cover update
Plus high-resolution layers for
Artificil surfaces
Forest areas
Grasslands
Wetlands
European Topic Centre on Spatial Information and
Analysis (ETC-SIA)
Harmonised European Land Monitoring
(EU FP7 HELM)
Development of Agricultural Risk
Management System (MKR)
Including drought monitoring in 2013
INSAR integration
Common referencing and combined 3D
hazard mapping with Sentinel-1
IQMULUS – Intelligent Information
Management within ITC
enabling and optimized use of large,
heterogenous geospatial datasets for
better decision making
Building Monitoring (ÉMO)
On-line service of Digital Aerial Photo
Archive (DLA)
Integrated National Real Property
Cadastre (INIK)
Courtesy by Zoltán Zboray, FÖMI
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17. GSDI National-level member activities
Example: HUNAGI (3)
¡ FÖMI (upon a GEO Secretariat call, Gyula Iván has been nominated to the
GEO Data Management Task Force)
¡ Development of EO-supported Agricultural Risk Management System
completed
¡ Ongoing: KGO ESA-PECS project (See on the 69th page of the booklet Space Industry in
Hungary
¡ Digital provision of the national archive of aerial photographs DLA Project
(So far 65,000 imageries have been digitized and are browsable
http://fentrol.hu)
Courtesy by Zoltán Zboray, FÖMI
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18. GSDI National-level member activities
Example: HUNAGI (4)
¡ ICA Working Group Workshop on Digital Approaches to
Cartographic Heritage incl.
preservation of historical map heritages using digital Technology
¡ Hosted by Hungarian National Library (OSZK) supported by ELTE Dept of
Cartography and Geoinformatics, September 3-4, Budapest
¡ Exchange of experiences and know-how with WGISS taking into account
the foundational life-cycle data management aspects with special
emphasis on presevation issues. Secretary-general of ICA Prof. László
Zentai is interested and the issue might be addressed in Korfu next spring.
¡ Next in Korfu, Hosted by Prof.E. Livieratos http://cartography.web.auth.gr/Livieratos
¡ Fény-Tér-Kép (Light-Space-Image) Conference
¡ Organized by GeoIQ (www.geoiq.hu ) and KRF
¡ Hosted by UN SPIDER Regional Office KRF, September 23-24, Gyöngyös
¡ Most popular annual showcase of imaging applications and discussion
forum of the aerospace remote sensing and GI communities.
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19. GSDI National-level member activities
Example: HUNAGI (5)
¡ Innotrends 2014
¡ RD&Innovation Conference and Exhibition October 17-18, Budapest
¡ 15 Sessions dealing with nanotechnology, brain research,
climate change, bionics, EU Horizon 2020, including a
¡ Session devoted to Space Industry and competiveness in line
with the planned ESA accession with BHE Bonn Hungary Ltd,
HUNSPACE, INFOTERA and HUNAGI.
¡ "The EO industry is combining various types of data producing
variety of services and solutions. Therefore, the so-called EO
industry is transforming into a geoinformation
industry.”
(Marcello Maranesi of i-Geo in Geospatial World, August 2014) http://
youtu.be/SBOGeh220Vs
¡ Over 100 presentations. Detailed program: www.nih.gov.hu/innotrends
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20. GSDI National-level member activities
Example: HUNAGI (6)
¡ “Spatially enabled society”-related Keynotes and Sessions at the
5th Infotér (Gov ICT) Conference November 6-7, 2014 Balatonfüred
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HUNAGI Mobile apps
Challenge 2014
P. Woodgate(CRCSI): Strategy Spatial enabling Australia

21. GSDI National-level member activities
Example: HUNAGI (7)
¡ Contribution to the Internet of Spaces
Days November 10-11, Florence
¡ i-locate Project is organizing a two days event
where participants will be challenged to create
a useful application using virtual globes (e.g.
Google Earth or NASA World […]
¡ All the code developed during the event will
be released as open source to the community!
¡ A scientific committee will evaluate the
projects and the person or the team which
develops the ‘prize’ solution will be awarded
during the i-locate Conference (November 20
in Florence) with a trophy and a diploma.
¡ More information on the Internet of Spaces
Days::
http://www.i-locate.eu/internet-of-places-days/
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind, US
Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di
Milano, Polo Territoriale di Como, Italy
Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di
Milano, Polo Territoriale di Como, Italy
Giuseppe Conti, Trilogis, Project
Manager and CTO, Italy
Sven Schade, JRC – Joint Research
Centre IES DERD
Venkatesh Raghavan, Osaka
University, Japan
Peter Baumann, Jacobs University,
Bremen, Germany
Gabor Remetey-Fülöpp, Hungarian
Association for Geo-information
(HUNAGI)
Rodi Jolak, Politecnico di Milano
Enrique González Guerrero, Pontificia
Universidad
Javeriana, Bogotà, Colombia
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22. GSDI National-level member activities
Example: HUNAGI (8)
¡ EURISY Workshop
This end-user focused event will offer an opportunity to discuss how
innovative geoinformation services based on
satellite imagery and/or satellite navigation can help regional
administrators improve public services and make better
informed decisions about stimulating economic development and
environmental sustainability.
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23. Conclusions
¡ Interoperable spatial data infrastructures and related services
are enabling tools for EO applications
¡ EO industry is transforming into a geoinformation industry
¡ GSDI and IGS are open for the EO players to join the geospatial
information community.
¡ GSDI Regional and Country level members are playing active
role not only supporting EO applications by their members for
the societal benefit areas but also providing awareness raising
by arranging international networking, regional projects,
conference sessions, thematic workshops and promoting
competition challenges from local to regional in EO in close
cooperation with space agencies such as NASA or ESA.
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24. Acknowledgements
GSDI related updates/contact:
Roger Longhorn
Operations & Communications Manager, GSDI,
(acting) Secretary-General, GSDI
vice-Chair, Communications, GSDI O&M
Committee, Editor, GSDI & IGS Global Newsletter
rlonghorn@gsdi.org, http://gsdi.org
http://www.igeoss.org/
NASA WWEC 2014-related updates/contacts:
Patrick Hogan, NASA Ames RC, Moffet Field
patrick.hogan@nasa.gov
Prof.Maria.A. Brovelli, Politecnico Milano at Como
maria.brovelli@polimi.it
Prof.Peter Baumann, Jacobs University, Bremen
p.baumann@jacobs-university.de
EUROGI related updates/contact:
Simon Vrečar, Secretary General EUROGI
simon.vrecar@eurogi.org www.eurogi.org
MaSat-1 & MaSat-2 related updates/contact:
Gyula Horváth, Electrical Engineer
Email: horvath@cubesat.bme.hu
Budapest University of Technology
Web: cubesat.bme.hu
FÖMI related updates/contact:
Zboray Zoltán, Director of the
Directorate of Remote Sensing & Cosmic Geodesy
Email: zboray.zoltan@fomi.hu
Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote
Sensing 1149 Budapest, Bosnyák tér 5. Hungary
Web: www.fomi.hu
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25. Thank you!
Source: ESA ESRIN
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