Prof. Dr. Sergio Acosta Y Lara
sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy
Activities:
- Teaching and research on FOSS4G
- Development of applications for environmental monitoring and natural resource management
- Training courses and workshops on QGIS, PostGIS and other FOSS4G tools
- Participation in international events like FOSS4G and State of the Map conferences
- Collaboration with other GeoForAll labs and initiatives like Missing Maps
Interest in collaboration with UN:
- Capacity building activities using FOSS4G
- Development of geospatial tools and applications for sustainable development goals
- Participation in international projects involving open geos
WGISS-38 Meeting Presentation of Gabor Remetey-Fulopp, Secretary-General, HUNAGIGSDI Association
Presentation at the CEOS WGISS-38 Meeting, Moscow, Russia, 29 Sept to 3 October 2014. Prof Remety-Fulopp represents the GSDI Association at CEOS meetings, as part of the Association's special consultative status with the UN.
Report of the 39th meeting of the CEOS (Committee for Earth Observation Satellites) Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS), 11-15 May 2015, at JAXA in Japan
Report of the 42nd meeting of the CEOS (Committee for Earth Observation Satellites) Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS), hosted by the European Space Agency, ESRIN, in Frascati, Italy, 19-22 September 2016
WGISS-38 Meeting Presentation of Gabor Remetey-Fulopp, Secretary-General, HUNAGIGSDI Association
Presentation at the CEOS WGISS-38 Meeting, Moscow, Russia, 29 Sept to 3 October 2014. Prof Remety-Fulopp represents the GSDI Association at CEOS meetings, as part of the Association's special consultative status with the UN.
Report of the 39th meeting of the CEOS (Committee for Earth Observation Satellites) Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS), 11-15 May 2015, at JAXA in Japan
Report of the 42nd meeting of the CEOS (Committee for Earth Observation Satellites) Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS), hosted by the European Space Agency, ESRIN, in Frascati, Italy, 19-22 September 2016
A short introduction to GEO governance, the GEO Work Programme and the GEO community for the FOSS4G audience. Contributions on GEOGLOWS, eShape and GEOHack19 from Julia Wagemann, Valentina Balcan and Diana Mastracci.
New practices in the use of spatial data, with an insight for health studiesmapali
We are now facing major changes in the use of spatial data with an abundant access to data and a multiplication of software applications. This fact should become an opportunity for us to implement more advanced spatial analysis in our health research. This workshop aims at reviewing the new advances in the use of spatial data, regarding both data access and software solutions.
This workshop is organized in the frame of the Franco-Thai Project GeoHealth Thai Platform (GeoHTP). GeoHTP is a two-year project (2014-2015) funded by the Franco-Thai Cooperation Program in Higher Education and Research. Since 2014, several teachings have been organized to cover the various aspects of geomatics applied to health at different levels.
Maps from the Crowd in Crisis context / OpenStreetMap Response to humanitaria...Pierre Béland
Maps from the Crowd in Crisis context
OpenStreetMap Response to humanitarian crisis
Haiyan Typhoon / 2013 and Ebola Epidemic / 2014 Cases
Pierre Béland Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
IHTC 2014, Montréal, 2014-06-01
NASA World Wind - Virtual Globe Technology and the WW Europa ChallengeRaffaele de Amicis
Relevance of NASA World Wind, open source, in analysis and visualisation for the EO data and service providers
Earth visualisation: some of the best apps from the WW Europa Challenge 2013
NASA WW Europa Challenge 2014
GSDI Liaison report on Earth Observation-related activities for the CEOS WGISSRemetey-Fülöpp Gábor
Introduction of EO-related activities in GSDI Association highlighting some relevant actions of its regional member EUROGI and national level member HUNAGI
"ElasticSearch in action" by Thijs Feryn.
ElasticSearch is a really powerful search engine, NoSQL database & analytics engine. It is fast, it scales and it's a child of the Cloud/BigData generation. This talk will show you how to get things done using ElasticSearch. The focus is on doing actual work, creating actual queries and achieving actual results. Topics that will be covered: - Filters and queries - Cluster, shard and index management - Data mapping - Analyzers and tokenizers - Aggregations - ElasticSearch as part of the ELK stack - Integration in your code.
A short introduction to GEO governance, the GEO Work Programme and the GEO community for the FOSS4G audience. Contributions on GEOGLOWS, eShape and GEOHack19 from Julia Wagemann, Valentina Balcan and Diana Mastracci.
New practices in the use of spatial data, with an insight for health studiesmapali
We are now facing major changes in the use of spatial data with an abundant access to data and a multiplication of software applications. This fact should become an opportunity for us to implement more advanced spatial analysis in our health research. This workshop aims at reviewing the new advances in the use of spatial data, regarding both data access and software solutions.
This workshop is organized in the frame of the Franco-Thai Project GeoHealth Thai Platform (GeoHTP). GeoHTP is a two-year project (2014-2015) funded by the Franco-Thai Cooperation Program in Higher Education and Research. Since 2014, several teachings have been organized to cover the various aspects of geomatics applied to health at different levels.
Maps from the Crowd in Crisis context / OpenStreetMap Response to humanitaria...Pierre Béland
Maps from the Crowd in Crisis context
OpenStreetMap Response to humanitarian crisis
Haiyan Typhoon / 2013 and Ebola Epidemic / 2014 Cases
Pierre Béland Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
IHTC 2014, Montréal, 2014-06-01
NASA World Wind - Virtual Globe Technology and the WW Europa ChallengeRaffaele de Amicis
Relevance of NASA World Wind, open source, in analysis and visualisation for the EO data and service providers
Earth visualisation: some of the best apps from the WW Europa Challenge 2013
NASA WW Europa Challenge 2014
GSDI Liaison report on Earth Observation-related activities for the CEOS WGISSRemetey-Fülöpp Gábor
Introduction of EO-related activities in GSDI Association highlighting some relevant actions of its regional member EUROGI and national level member HUNAGI
"ElasticSearch in action" by Thijs Feryn.
ElasticSearch is a really powerful search engine, NoSQL database & analytics engine. It is fast, it scales and it's a child of the Cloud/BigData generation. This talk will show you how to get things done using ElasticSearch. The focus is on doing actual work, creating actual queries and achieving actual results. Topics that will be covered: - Filters and queries - Cluster, shard and index management - Data mapping - Analyzers and tokenizers - Aggregations - ElasticSearch as part of the ELK stack - Integration in your code.
Ease-of-use and Effectiveness of Participatory GIS in Empowering Rural Commun...MapWindow GIS
In rural South India, over the years, there has been a steady increase in ground water crises. To resolve these crises, participatory water management by increasing community involvement is essential. Participatory GIS can empower rural communities for such a role by facilitating better visualization and easier understanding. Towards this goal, as part of a Government of India funded a project, open source Quantum GIS software was simplified for use by village people. It was demonstrated in an upland village of South India and was evaluated for its ease-of-use in terms of how easily people could use it for producing and using maps and for its effectiveness in creating easier understanding and better decisions.
An analysis of the Indian Cashless Health Insurance Industry identifying the key structural deficiencies leading to a situation of distrust between parties involved. The study as a part of IIM, Indore’s Consulting competition, Chanakya, organized in association with Cognizant also proposes solutions for resolving the present imbroglio between the service providers and insurance companies.
Tim Jenks (eeGeo) gave a quick overview of how they built their indoor 3D mapping application with QGIS. Presented at the 6th Scottish QGIS UK user group meeting.
One of goal of this project is seamless integration of indoor and outdoor space on top of web browser. This project aims at developing a sort of plugin for WebGL glove(Web World Wind, Cesium) to expand its functionalities and usabilities to indoor space and architectural (BIM) areas. MAGO3D can import IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) data from architecture files. And then MAGO3D can visualise massive indoor data, at least 100k objects, in a single scene seamlessly with traditional outdoor 3D GIS objects. Users can now manage and handle almost every geospatial object from desktop level to space level with MAGO3D. This project will evolve to manage and service more dynamic data such as IoT (Internet of Things), climate and weather data, and transportation.
QGIS server: the good, the not-so-good and the uglyRoss McDonald
Fiona Hemsley-Flint's presentation on QGIS Server given at the 6th Scottish QGIS UK user group meeting. Compares QGIS server with Mapserver and Geognosis.
Interactive learning analytics dashboards with ELK (Elasticsearch Logstash Ki...Andrii Vozniuk
My workshop at the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI) 2016: http://lasi16.snola.es/#!/schedule/113
Educational data continues to grow in volume, velocity and variety. Making sense of the educational data in such conditions requires deployment and usage of appropriate scalable, real-time processing tools supporting a flexible data schema. Elasticsearch is one of the popular open-source tools meeting the enlisted requirements. Initially envisioned as a search engine capable of operating at scale and in real time, Elasticsearch is used by organisations such as Wikimedia and Github, which deal with big data on daily basis. In addition, Elasticsearch is used increasingly often as analytics platform thanks to its scalable architecture and expressive query language. Until recently, the exploitation of Elasticsearch for (learning) analytical purposes by practitioners was hindered by a high entrance barrier due to the complexity of the query language and the query specificities. This is currently changing with the ongoing development of Kibana, an open-source tool that allows to conduct analysis and build visualisations of Elasticsearch data through a graphical user interface. Kibana does not require the user to dive into technical details of the queries (although it is still possible) and hence makes big educational data visualisations accessible to regular users. The additional value of Kibana comes in play whenever several visualisations are combined on a single dashboard, enabling to use multiple coordinated views for an interactive explorative analysis. Both Elasticsearch and Kibana, together with Logstash are part of an analytics stack often referred to as ELK. Logstash supports data acquisition from multiple sources (including twitter, RSS, event logs) thanks to its rich set of available connectors. Custom connectors can be developed for case-specific sources. In addition to the mentioned values, ELK enables building analytics infrastructures decoupled from the learning platform, i.e., it allows to host separately the learning environment (with the analytics functionalities) and the data storage without affecting the end-user experience.
Geo for All - Empowering communities for a better world Suchith Anand
This presentation gives an overview of the Geo for All initiative. This was presented at the FOSS4G UK 2016 conference at Ordnance Survey, Southampton UK
Open Principles in Education – Building Bridges, Empowering communitiesSuchith Anand
Iwant to share why it is important that we protect Open principles in Education and the vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science . This presentation will share experiences from “Geo for All” initiative on the importance of having open principles in education for empowering communities worldwide . Central to “Geo for All” mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone. Though the members of our community hail from many different backgrounds, we all seek to eliminate the digital divide and empower all as full citizens and contribute to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society . By combining the potential of free and open software, open data, open standards, open access to research publications, open education resources in Geospatial education and research will enable the creation of sustainable innovation ecosystem . This is key for widening education opportunities, accelerating new discoveries and helping solving global cross disciplinary societal challenges from Climate change mitigation to sustainable cities. Service for the benefit and betterment of humanity is a key fundamental principle of “Geo for All” and we want to contribute and focus our efforts for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We aim to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. The bigger aim is to advance STEM education across the world and bring together schools, teachers and students across the world in joint projects and help building international understanding and global peace. More details at http://www.geoforall.org/
Open Principles in Education – Building Bridges, Empowering communitiesSuchith Anand
I want to share why it is important that we protect Open principles in Education and the vision 2030 for Open Geospatial Science . This presentation will share experiences from “Geo for All” initiative on the importance of having open principles in education for empowering communities worldwide . Central to “Geo for All” mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone. Though the members of our community hail from many different backgrounds, we all seek to eliminate the digital divide and empower all as full citizens and contribute to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society . By combining the potential of free and open software, open data, open standards, open access to research publications, open education resources in Geospatial education and research will enable the creation of sustainable innovation ecosystem . This is key for widening education opportunities, accelerating new discoveries and helping solving global cross disciplinary societal challenges from Climate change mitigation to sustainable cities. Service for the benefit and betterment of humanity is a key fundamental principle of “Geo for All” and we want to contribute and focus our efforts for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We aim to create openness in Geo Education for developing creative and open minds in students which is critical for building open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the benefit of the whole society and for our future generations. The bigger aim is to advance STEM education across the world and bring together schools, teachers and students across the world in joint projects and help building international understanding and global peace. More details at http://www.geoforall.org/
It is nearly a decade since the initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science was started . Open Geospatial Science builds upon the idea of Open science that scientific knowledge of all kinds are able to be develop more rapidly and in a more productive manner if openly shared (as early as is practical in the discovery process). The key ingredients to make Open Geospatial Science possible is Open Principles (open source geospatial software, open data, open standards , open educational resources and open access to research publications) .
Building Open Geospatial Science Network, Suchith Anand, University of Notti...Platforma Otwartej Nauki
Conference Opening Science to Meet Future Challenges, Warsaw, March 11, 2014, organized by Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw.
Experiences as a producer, consumer and observer of open dataProgCity
Peter Mooney, is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth. He has been working with the EPA on making environmental data publicly accessibly for the last ten years.
Presentation was part of The 1st Seminar of the ERC Funded Programmable City Project based at NIRSA, NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland.
Keynote address 'Opening Science' at NORFest 2023 on November 2, 2023 at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin Ireland. Keynote speaker: Chelle Gentemann, science lead for NASA’s Transform to Open Science Mission and co-chair of the U.S. White House Office for Science and Technology and Policy (OSTP) Sub-working group on the Year of Open Science
Open Science in the Global South: A Case of IndiaAnup Kumar Das
"Open Science in the Global South: A Case of India" was presented in the Seminar on Open Science Policy and Technology Access: A Challenge for Developing Countries, on 23 March 2017, at Mangosuthu University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
High-level Meeting & Workshop on Environmental and Scientific Open Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries. Madagascar, 4-6 December 2017
The facets of open education. Resources, data and culture. Tuesday 17 September, 11:45 – 13:15 @ Room 13, Floor 2
Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone. Many institutes offer Open Educational Resources (OER) online. Education can benefit highly from open and linked data approaches.
Moderator: Doug Belshaw, Badges & Skills Lead, Mozilla Foundation
Panel members:
Jackie Carter, Senior Manager, MIMAS, Centre of Excellence, University of Manchester
Mathieu d’Aquin, Research Fellow, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK
Davide Storti, Programme Specialist, Communication and Information Sector (CI), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
OKCon, Geneva, 16-18 September 2013
High-level Meeting & Workshop on Environmental and Scientific Open Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries. Madagascar, 4-6 December 2017
Overview of the ICA-OSGeo "Geo4All" education activityJeremy Morley
A presentation I made at the European Geosciences Union's General Assembly in Vienna, Austria in April 2014 on the OSGeo/ICA "Geo4All" activity. This was at an OSGeo-sponsored "town hall" meeting to discuss open source geo in the geosciences.
This presentation has highlighted the strategic directions and contributions by the UN GGIM Academic Network of global geospatial Information Management, at the side event of the 13th UN-GGIM event in New York.
Introduction to the side event organized by the UN GGIM Academic Network and Private Sector at the Thirteenth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management. The outcome of two surveys (to Universities and to Member States) are presented.
ANALYSIS OF THE REMOTELY SENSED WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS OF THE INSUBRIC LAKE...Maria Antonia Brovelli
Lakes are a fundamental component of the environment and the territory and represent a precious source of fresh water for various
uses. The area of the Prealps north of the Po valley in Italy is characterized by the presence of lakes which represent almost 80%
of the total volume of fresh water in Italy (Rogora et al., 2018). The Insubric lakes (Lugano, Maggiore and Como) have their
shared basins between Italy and Switzerland, and they are the objective of the SIMILE project, a cross-border Italian-Swiss Interreg project
that aims to improve their coordinated management and strengthen stakeholder participation in the processes of knowledge and
monitoring of water resources by analyzing data acquired from in-situ to satellite sensors. The present work
refers to data collected by remote sensing methods which offer the possibility to obtain synoptic views of water bodies to monitor
water quality parameters (WQPs) such as the chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), the total suspended matter (TSM) and the lake surface water
temperature (LSWT). This work presents an extensive evaluation of the space-time trends of the parameters
based on the SIMILE remote sensing database.
Authors: Alessandro Austoni, Juan Francisco Amieva, Mariano Bresciani and Maria Antonia Brovelli
SIMILE (Informative System for the Integrated Monitoring of Insubric Lakes and their Ecosystems) is a project financed by the Interreg Italy-Switzerland 2014-2021 program. It involves partners from the scientific and technical sector (Politecnico di Milano – Lecco Campus; Fondazione Politecnico; Water Research Institute - National Research Council; SUPSI - University of Applied Sciences and Arts of; Southern Switzerland) and from the institutional sector (Lombardy Region; Ticino Canton) working in synergy. The main project goal is the protection of water quality for Lugano, Maggiore and Como lakes through a geoinformatic coordination of existing monitoring systems with new data collection methods. Images from European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinels will be integrated with high frequency sensors, placed on buoys and floating platforms, and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) produced with a Citizen Science approach. This virtual cycle is described in the presentation.
Presentation of the Politecnico di Milano activities in the new Erasmus project GIS4Schools. The project aims at bringing GIS at secondary schools teaching pupils with a learning-by-doing approach. Leader of the project is Euronike (https://euronike.it/)
Global Land Cover and Intelligent Analysis of Remote Sensed ImagesMaria Antonia Brovelli
ISPRS Session at the United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress.
Maria Antonia BROVELLI 1, Wen-zhong John SHI 2 , Peng SHU 3, Qingquan LI 4, Serena COETZEE 5
1 Politecnico di Milano – Italy; 2 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University – Hong Kong; 3 National Geomatics Center China; 4 Shenzhen University – China; 5 University of Pretoria – South Africa
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar ‘Digital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?’ on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus ‘Managing screen time: How to protect and equip students against distraction’ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective ‘Students, digital devices and success’ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
1. GeoForAll: a successful
OSGeo Initiative
Maria Antonia Brovelli and Venkatesh
Raghavan
maria.brovelli@polimi.it, venka@osgeo.org
Brindisi, 9th
March 2016
GeoSHAPE/Arbiter and OpenGDS Technical
Workshop in support of the UN OpenGIS Initiative
3. Mission
Making Geospatial education and
opportunities accessible to all
Dimensions to “Openess”
Open source software.
Open data.
Open standards.
Open access to research publications.
Open education resources.
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4. 2010 - Open Source Geospatial Lab founding
meeting at University of Nottingham
Aim: Build research and teaching infrastructure worldwide
Problem: No funding!
Biggest Strength: amazing support from colleagues and
students
7. Regional Groups
North America
Chairs: Helena Mitasova (VP), Charles
Schweik, Phillip Davis
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-northamerica
South America
Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara and Silvana
Camboim
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-
southamerica
8. Regional Groups
Africa
Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim, Serena
Coetzee and Bridget Fleming
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-africa
Asia (including Australia)
Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu and Venkatesh
Raghavan
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-asiaaustralia
9. Regional Groups
Europe
Chairs: Maria Antonia Brovelli and Peter
Mooney
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-europe
Language Groups
Spanish
Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara and Antoni
Pérez Navarro
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-spanish
10. GeoForAll Overall aims
● Establishing research and teaching opportunities
in ‘Open Geospatial Science
● Build global open access teaching and research
infrastructure
● Provide worldwide learning platforms and
training opportunities
● Establish collaborations between Academia,
Schools, Government and Industry around Open
Geospatial Science and Education
11. Why is GeoEducation important?
● Knowing the world around us:
be aware about the reasons of
problems of access to water,
sanitation, traffic congestions,
economic sustainability,
citizens’ health, impact on
environment, etc.
● Mapping is a critical component
to help create solutions for
sustainable development and
Future Earth.
THE POWER OF THE MAPS!
Kibera , Kenya
Dharavi, Mumbai
12. GeoEducation for Kids
Making resources including software and data openly
available offers an opportunity for knowledge to be
shared widely so as to increase learning opportunities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN9K07XPo
For more details:
sacosta@dntopografia.gub.uy
aanguix@gvsig.com
14. Mapathons for kids = Mini-Mapathons
For more details:
maria.brovelli@polimi.it
marco.minghini@polimi.it
aldo.torrebruno@polimi.it
15. Thematic Groups
Teacher Training & School Education
Thematic
Chairs: El bieta Wołoszy ska-Wi niewskaż ń ś
and Adrian Manning
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-
bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-teachertraining
Collaboration with Mapstory
http://mapstory.org/
16. ● Mapathons for Kids involving OSM, HOT, Missing
Maps.
– Preparation of material (short course)
– Coordination of G4A Labs in building the network of
humanitarian mini-mappers and teachers
– Organisation of one/more MiniMapathons Day(s).
Possible interactions
OSGeo/G4A UN
20. Summer Schools
Training School "FOSS4VGI - Using Free and
Open Source Software with VGI: integration,
analysis and visualisation", Como 12-14
July 2015.
Supported by: COST Action TD1202 - Mapping and the Citizen Sensor
21. Courses and Hackathons
European Center for Medium range Weather
Forecasting (ECMWF), GLOFASS (GLObal
Flood AwarnesS System)hackathon 16 and
17 January 2016.
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national Council for Science – World
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Data Analyst at ECMWF on the EarthServer-2 project.
Dear all,
First-ever hackathon of ECMWF took place on the
weekend 16 and 17 January 2016.
The event brought together participants from ECMWF,
universities, environmental consultancies, and software
development companies. Their goal was to explore
ways of making the Global Flood Awareness System
(GloFAS) more user-friendly for its end-users. GloFAS
already provides pre-operational global forecasts of
extreme flood events.
The hackathon saw about 50 volunteers working day and night to c
software prototypes using data from the GloFAS system.
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friendly way with key statistics which could help decision-
making.
FloodIT
Provides more intuitive information based on the GloFAS
output to help local users understand their
situation.
Interception
A Flood Awareness Education Platform
An educational game/online interactive platform to help
inform people about what they should be doing when a
flood watch/warning alert is issued in their region.
Also, the game/platform will educate them on what to do
during and after a flood event.
People at ECMWF are truly impressed with what solutions
all the teams came up with in only one and half days. They
got very good inspirations in order to improve GloFAS,
which will be essential for a better flood prediction and a
faster emergency response.
OpenCitySmart - The Open platform for Smart
Cities
by Suchith Anand, Nottingham GeospatialInstitute,
University of Nottingham, UK
Dear colleagues,
Inspite of all the technological advancements, it is a sad
fact that majority of the world's poorest living in urban
areas do not still have access to basic facilities (clean
water, proper sanitation and hygiene facilities , good
quality education opportunities etc). In order to achieve
UN Millennium Development Goals it is essential to
develop infrastructure facilities, strengthen the
muncipal authorities and local city government
organisations (reduce corruption etc) in the developing
world for helping improving the living standards of the
people.
Photo by Florian Rathgeber
Photo by Florian Rathgeber
22. Challenges for students and SMEs
NASA World Wind Europa Challenge
The crystal bull
The Alaska high school
team, winners in 2015
23. ● Webinars:
– Exigences of UN within geospatial information
– GeoSHAPE
– OpenGDS
– …
● OSGeo Live: free/open source products adopted by
UN
● Summer School: G4A/UN Summer School
● Osgeo/UN Challenge for the best student's project of
the year
Possible OSGeo/G4A UN
interactions
24. Thematic Groups
Urban Science - City Analytics
Chris Pettit and Patrick Hogan
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-
bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWuMfMMPfPw
26. Thematic Groups
GeoCrowd - VGI, Crowd Sourcing and
Citizen Science
Maria Antonia Brovelli and Peter Mooney
https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-
bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-geocrowd
27. Main topics of Geocrowds/G4A
● Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI):
OpenStreetMap, WikiMapia, Google Mapmaker,
Geograph project, etc and then many smaller less well
known examples.
● Passive, Ambient, Involunteered Geographic
Information, Geocrowdsourcing: systems and
services where the citizen or a group are not actively or
physically involved in the task of generating, collecting,
managing geographical data.
● Citizen Science: This is where citizens or groups of
citizens are involved in scientific research usually with
authoritative scientific organisations.
28. ● Geocrowdsourcing Apps and Software developed by
Labs
● Datathons coordinated by UN and G4A Labs all over
the world (collection/analyses of open data by means
of OSGeo products)
Possible OSGeo/G4A UN
interactions
29. Monthly Newsletter
Table of Contents
Editorial ..…..............…............. 1
1. Activities …………………………… 1
Editorial Board ………………....…. 2
2. Lab of the month..…............. 4
3. Events ……………….….…....…... 5
4. Conferences ……………… 5, 6, 7
5. Webinars
6. Courses …………….……………... 7
7. Training programs …..…...... 8
8. Key research publications
9. Funding opportunities
10. Free and open software.. 8, 9
11. Free Books ……………….. 9, 10
12. Articles ….. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
13. Scholarships for students and
staff
14. Exchange programs for
students and staff
15. Awards
16. Web sites
17. Ideas ………………………..…… 14
18. Social contribution
Volume 2, No. 2 February 2016
1. Activities of the
Network
Siberian State University of
Geosystem and Technologies has
announced opening of business
incubator for students based on
Siberian OpenSource Geospatial Lab.
More information at
http://sgugit.ru/news/the-opening-
of-the-workshop-projects-shuga/
Editorial
Nikos Lambrinos
Chief Editor
Dept. of Primary Education
Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki
Greece
Dear members of the Network/
readers of the Newsletter,
In this issue you can read two very
interesting articles: one for the
European Center for Medium range
Weather Forecasting and the second
about the OpenCitySmart – the Open
City Platform.
The first one has to do with the Global
Flood Awarness System while the
second for the improvement of the
living standards of the people living,
mainly, in the cities of poor countries.
In fact, both articles show how
volunteerism can help and upgrade the
living standards of the people and how
much the efforts or our Network can
upgrade the quality of life. It is
important to know that our ideas,
however bizarre they may seem at first
place, can become true when we share
with others and work together.
Along with the articles, you can find all
the other topics like conferences,
courses, free software, etc.
Have a nice reading
Nikos Lambrinos, Chief Editor.
NEWSLETTER:
issued every
month
30. 2
February 2 0 1 6Volume 2, N o. 2
Please refer to the appropriate person according to the following table:
Chief Editor Nikos Lambrinos, Associate Professor, Dept. of Primary
Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
President of the Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence
labrinos@eled.auth.gr
Oceania
Co-editor Rizwan Bulbul, Assistant Professor of GIScience
Head of Geospatial Research and Education Lab
Department of Space Science, Institute of Space
Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
bulbul@grel.ist.edu.pk
India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal,
Burma, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Lebanon,
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, United Arab
Emirates, Kuwait and Islands of S. Pacific.
Co-editors Pavel Kikin, Senior Lecturer “Department of applied
informatics and IT”, Siberian State University of
Geosystems and Technologies
Alexey Kolesnikov, Senior Lecturer “Department of
cartography and GIS”, Siberian State University of
Geosystems and Technologies
it-technologies@yandex.ru
Russia, Mongolia, China, Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam,
Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia,
Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and
Kyrgyzstan.
Co-editor Rania Elsayed , Computers & Information Researcher,
Division of Scientific Training & Continuous Studies,
National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences,
Cairo, Egypt.
ranyaalsayed@gmail.com
Africa
Co-editor
Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska (Ela), Head of Education
Unit UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre
ela@gridw.pl
Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Germany,
Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic,
Slovakia.
Co-editor Antoni Perez Navaro, Associate Professor at Universitat
Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Computer Sciences and
Multimedia Department
aperezn@uoc.edu
Portugal, Spain, France, U.K., Ireland, Iceland,
Luxemburg, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary,
The Balkans.
Co-editor
Emma Strong, GIS Coordinator with Southern Mississippi
Planning and Development District
eestrong118@gmail.com
North and Central America
Co-editor
Sergio Acosta Y Lara, Departamento de Geomática
Dirección, Nacional de Topografía, Ministerio de
Transporte y Obras Públicas, URUGUAY
sergio.acostaylara@mtop.gub.uy
South America
Production Designer
Nikos Voudrislis, Principal of the 1st
Primary School of
Asvestochori, Thessaloniki, Greece, MSc, PhD candidate in
geography education.
nvoudris@gmail.com
Design and final formation of the newsletter
Editorial Board
31. ● G4A Newsletter:
– a special UN session every month
● OSGeo/G4A - UN book about activities of OSGeo/G4A
relevant to UN (starting from the description of the
activities of the Labs)
Possible OSGeo/G4A UN
interactions
33. GEOlab – Politecnico di
Milano, Como Campus
● Website: http://geolab.como.polimi.it
● Point of Contact: Dr. Marco Minghini, marco.minghini@polimi.it
● Research: development of FOSS4G-based GIS processing tools,
WebGIS, Web geoservices & Virtual Globes; VGI & Citizen Science,
VGI & open data quality, open source software
● Teaching: courses, workshops and training materials on FOSS4G;
1st
Italian MSc in Geoinformatics Engineering (from Sept. 2016)
● Affiliations: OSGeo, ISPRS, AGILE, ICA, IAG, RDA, GIT, SIFET
● Recent Activities: humanitarian mapathons (with HOT & Missing
Maps), NASA World Wind Europa Challenge, FOSS4G Europe 2015
34. We
●
promote the open source geospatial software
and geodata for sustainable environmental
management
●
develop map applications based on the free
and open geospatial components
●
implement projects promoting crowdsourced
spatial data collection
●
provide expert support, for example in the field
of INSPIRE directive implementation
●
organise seminars, trainings, workshops,
online courses and webinars
working in particular with and for public
administration as well as teachers and educators
in cooperation with many national and
international organisations and institutions, incl.
UNEP Headquarter itself.
Open Source Geospatial Lab
at UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre
Contact: Mrs. El bieta Wołoszy ska-Wi niewskaż ń ś
UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre
website: http://www.gridw.pl/en/OpenSourceGeoLab
mailto: ela@gridw.pl
35. Laboratório Espacial Livre (Geo4all Lab 16)
Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) – Curitiba, Brazil
Contact: Prof. Dr. Silvana Camboim
silvanacamboim@gmail.com
http://www.labgeolivre.ufpr.br/ (in portuguese)
Academic
SDI
QGIS plugin
Boundaries
managemen
t
Web map –
Road
accidents
Mapathon –
OSMGeoWeek
•Developing a Spatial Database
Infrastructure to publish research
geographic data to the academic
community and society.
•Promoting the use of open source software
in the GIS disciplines at UFPR, and
publishing tutorials.
•Promoting mapathons and the research on
the use of Open Data and VGI in
cartography, mainly focusing in
developing countries with lack of official
data.
•Developing many applications on:
environmental analysis, security, health
management, food security, routing,
administrative boundaries management,
cadastral systems, sustainable tourism,
urban mobility and others.
•
36. Institute of Earth Sciences
● GIS courses in Civil engineering and Architecture curricula (QGIS)
● Survey courses in Civil engineering (CloudCompare, VisualSFM)
● OSM MapParty
● Research projects (H2020 FREEWAT, SNSF 4ONSE, EU VIA REGINA, etc.)
● OSGeo incubating project (istSOS)
37. Department of Civil,
Environmental and Mechanical
Engineering
Application of FOSS to environmental
studies, forestry, landscape change, future
scenarios, image classification, GPS, laser
scanning and more.
Recent activities:
● Education and training for academic
and for professionals
– GRASS tutorial
http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/docs/tutorial_70/inde
– Summer school Tropical rainforest
biodiversity, Tanzania
http://tinyurl.com/udzwungwa
● Renewable energies and
stakeholders involvement
– r.green GRASS module
– http://www.recharge-green.eu
● Cooperation projects
– Indoor pollution monitoring
with open source sensors
(Tanzania, Vietnam)
– Environmental emergencies
management for the poor
settlements (Nepal)
Clara Tattoni, Laboratorio di Ecologia
clara.tattoni AT unitn.it http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/
38. GIScience Heidelberg University
http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis
● Crowdsourced Geographic Information
– VGI Quality evaluation, analysis & enrichment e.g. OSM & Social Media
– core topic in many research and development projects
● Several OGC SDI developments (2D & 3D) and GIS tool development
– e.g. with examples to disaster etc., deployed for real world usage
– e.g. http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/online_en.html
● e.g. http://OpenRouteService.org used in real disasters (Haiti, Nepal)
– emergency routing based on OSM & OGC, accessibility analysis etc.
● Teaching activites & workshops on disaster management, VGI, OpenSource
GIS, Spatial Analysis, mapping etc.
– Regularily Mapathons (Member of Missing Maps Project)
– Disastermappers heidelberg (active group)
contact: Alexander Zipf, zipf@uni-heidelberg.de
39. NCSU OSGeoREL
Dr. Helena Mitasova,
MEAS and Center for Geospatial Analytics,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
NC, USA
ncsu_osgeorel@ncsu.edu
https://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/
● Development of open source
GIS-based tools to map,
analyze and model
landscape processes
● Development of open source
visualization and tangible
modeling environments to
engage stakeholders in
community driven decision
making
● Open Courses and
workshops in Geospatial
temporal modeling and
visualization
40. The GeoForAll Research and
Education Collaboration
… between Umass Amherst, Amherst College and Smith College
Charlie Schweik, UMass
Andy Anderson, Amherst College
Jon Caris, Smith College
Collaborator:
Ron Fortunato, Trillium Learning,
GeoForAll node
cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu
http://umass.edu/opensource
● New Web-GIS course using
open source software stack
● Research/teaching
collaboration with Trillium
Learning GeoForAll node on
Unmanned Aerial Systems
for Invasive Species
Management
● Grant proposal effort to
support the GeoForAll
network
● Participating in the planning
of FOSS4G Global in Boston,
2017
41. OSGEO.UNMC research lab
● Geospatial (remote sensing
& crowd-sourcing)
computation
● Sustainable urban
environment
● Disaster management
● Public health
Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu
School of Geography,
University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus
Email: tuongthuy.vu@nottingham.edu.my
http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Research/GeospatialScience/OSGEO-lab.aspx
42. Lab for Spatial Informatics
Dr. K. S. Rajan,
Head & Associate Professor
Lab for Spatial Informatics,
IIIT Hyderabad
Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500032
India
E-mail: rajan@iiit.ac.in
website: http://lsi.iiit.ac.in
Major Activities / Contributions
●
Hosts OSGeo-India Chapter
●
Range of Trainings – Technology
development to ToTs to Thematic (eg.
UNDP/CapNet training on IWRM)
●
Technology Development-
●
Largest contributor to OSGeo GsoC
Projects. Eg. PgRouting, QGIS, etc
●
LSIViewer 2.0 – an Online enterprise
level data viewer
http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/lsiviewerjs/
●
Thematic Areas
●
Land Use and Land Cover Modelling
●
Climate change & Agri Crop Impacts
●
Wetland Mapping & Biodiversity
Conservation
43. Centre for Geoinformation
Science
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Products used in teaching and research
projects
GeoDa, GeoServer, OpenLayers,
OpenStreetMap, PostGIS, QGIS, SAGA
Short courses
PostGIS, QGIS
Recent activities
• Geospatial Tech Camp where school
learners hear about geoinformatics as
a career choice
• Student team participation in the Open
Data Day 2015
•International Map Year celebrations
Contact: Serena Coetzee
serena.coetzee@up.ac.za
Website: www.up.ac.za/cgis
44. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Dr. Antoni Pérez-Navarro
Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i
Telecomunicació
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
mailto: aperezn@uoc.edu
http://dpcs.uoc.edu/wordpress/
http://smartlearn.uoc.edu/
Teaching:
• Subject introductory to GIS in technological
studies: telecommunication and computer science
• One year of postgraduate studies using GIS
technologies (prepared, but nowadays not
offered)
• Business Intelligence combined with GIS subject
• Final degree projects
Research
• Context Aware Recommender Systems
• Location Based Systems
• Indoor positioning
• Smart Logistics
• GIS applied to health monitoring and prevention
• Integrating Semantics in GIS
45. GeoForAll – ISE
● Website: https://www.unige.ch/tigers/en/autres-reseaux/geoforall/
● We are closely collaborating with UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva.GRID-Geneva
as a “Partnership Agreement” between UNEP, the Swiss Federal Office for
the Environment, and the University of Geneva.
● Contact: Dr. Gregory Giuliani, gregory.giuliani@unige.ch
http://www.unige.ch/envirospace
● Activities: promote applied interdisciplinary research based on
spatially explicit information and indicators on the past, present and
future state of changing and complex environment. Building several
Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) to improve data sharing and
processing. Fill the gap between scientific information on one hand
and decision making on the other hand
● Products: Bringing GEOSS services into practice workshop that is
aiming at teaching how to configure, deploy and use a set of Open Source
Software (GeoServer, GeoNetwork, PyWPS, OpenLayers) to set up a Spatial
Data Infrastructure
http://www.geossintopractice.org
46. TSNUK OSGeo Research and Education Lab
Dr. Daria Svidzinska
Department of Physical Geography
and Geoecology
Taras Shevchenko National University
of Kyiv, Ukraine
mailto: lab.osgeo@gmail.com
website: http://lab.osgeo.org.ua/
● Development of the open geodata on
protected areas and Ramsar sites in
Ukraine
http://opengeo.intetics.com.ua/osm/pa/
● Support and promotion of the open
source geospatial software and
geodata adoption for sustainable
landscape and natural resource
management
● Partnership in HORIZON 2020
FREEWAT project: FREE and open
source tools for WATer resource
management
http://www.freewat.eu/
● Courses, workshops, and training
materials on geospatial analysis for
research and practice
48. MTOP – gvSIG Batoví
●
Developement of open source
tool for education of issues
that have a geographic
component, and to be used
around the Plan Ceibal
(OneLaptopPerChild initiative
for Uruguay)
●
Open courses and workshops
for students, teachers and
future teachers
●
Worlwide spreading of the
project/new strategy: gvSIG
Educa
● http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/docentes/gvsigbatoviresumen
● https://gvsigbatovi.wordpress.com/
● http://blog.gvsig.org/2016/01/16/gvsig-educa-a-free-gis-education-prototype/
49. ● Research
Automatic monitoring &
sensor data processing
GNSS/GPS
QGIS plugin development
http://www.geod.bme.hu/ulyxes
http://github.com/zsiki/ls
http://github.com/zsiki/ulyxes
● Education
QGIS, GRASS, MapServer,
OpenLayers, Octave, PostGIS
courses and tutorials
http://osgeo.hu
http://www.geod.bme.hu/osgeolab
● Contact
Zoltan Siki, Budapest University
of Technology & Economics
siki.zoltan@epito.bme.hu
http://www.geod.bme.hu/osgeolab
● OSGeo
Organizing local FOSS4G.HU
http://foss4g.hu
FOSS4G software localization
QGIS GUI & Web, OSGeo Live
Laboratory
Department of Geodesy and Surveying at BME
50. World Wind
• Not just one app,
any app you want!
• Use any data format.
• Run on any platform.
• Open source, free and
unencumbered.
• Europa Challenge,
providing solutions for
a sustainable world.
• Education partner with
Politecnico di Milano at
Como and AWorldBridge.
World Wind
• Not just one app,
any app you want!
• Use any data format.
• Run on any platform.
• Open source, free and
unencumbered.
• Europa Challenge,
providing solutions for
a sustainable world.
• Education partner with
Politecnico di Milano at
Como and AWorldBridge.
Trillium Learning
Ron Fortunato
ron@trilliumlearning.com
www.AWorldBridge.com
51. Geo4All Lab 103
GET-IT
Build your Spatial Data Infrastructure components,
quickly.
Share sensors, maps and data, easily.
Semantic enablement.
Create OGC standard services (SOS, WMS, WFS,
WCS, and CSW.)
Free and open source.
On GitHub - https://github.com/SP7-
Ritmare/starterkit
EDI
Metadata Editor.
Template driven.
Customizable.
Free and open source.
On GitHub - https://github.com/SP7-Ritmare/EDI-
NG_client
Main activities:
Development of free and open
software to enable storage,
management, view and access to
sensors and geodata.
Methodologies and techniques for
sharing data from sensors on the
www.
Semantic qualification of spatial data
infrastructures.
www.irea.cnr.it
www.get-it.it
Contact: oggioni.a@irea.cnr.it
52. Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
sarawutn@ait.ac.th
Remote Sensing & GIS
School of Engineering and Technology
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
http://rsgis.ait.ac.th/osgeoait//
- Development of open source
solution for geospatial
data sharing
- Developing the Smart Phone
application and Web GIS
for Sugar Cane
Productivity Monitoring
- Development of Location Based
Service application using
FOSS4G
- Organize Courses and workshops
in Geospatial data sharing
and application development
- Geospatial Analysis using
Free Open Sources
Software
- PyQGIS for QGIS plugins
development
- GNSS & Crowdsourcing for
Geospatial Data using
OSM
OSGeoLab@AIT
53. Contact Person:
Prof. Kalum Udagepola
kalum.udagepola@aun.edu.ng
Geographic Information Science and
Systems Research Group
American University of Nigeria
Address:
98 Lamido Zubairu Way
Yola By-Pass
P.M.B. 2250, Yola
Adamawa State, Nigeria
Description:
Open-source Web
mapping, participatory
Geoweb, and spatial multi-
criteria decision analysis
tools; research,
teaching, and consulting
using QGIS and other
OSGeo software
54. Thanks to All Friends of Geo4All,
especially those providing us
information about their labs
and thank you for your attention
Questions?
http://www.geoforall.org/