Date: June 22, 2009
Location: University of Nottingham, UK
Website: www.opensourcegis.org.uk
Author: Olaf Schroth
GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference
Date: May 27-29, 2009
Venue: Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel
Location: Vancouver, BC
Website: www.geoide.ulaval.ca/conf09/main.asp
GoogleEarth 5.0: 20000 Miles Under The Sea
The new version of GoogleEarth, which can be downloaded now, has been extended by the underwater landscape of the Earth – which is two third of the Earth’s surface… Furthermore, the function for setting up your own tours has been improved and the time-travel function has become standard. Now, it will be really interesting to use GoogleEarth to show landscape development over time, historic and into the future. Oh, and finally, they added the Mars. For a more detailed summary of the new functions in German, see the Der Google Produkt-Kompass: Reise unter die Meeresoberfläche mit Google Earth 5.0 or Youtube (English):
AGILE 2009 Hanover
AGILE – Call for extended abstract
Cross Atlantic Workshop on Economic Value of Geoinformation – GeoValue ‘09
Date: June 2-5, 2009
Location: Hannover, Germany
The 12th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science will be hosted by the City of Hanover and organized by the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics of the University of Hanover.
Conference Topics
Contributions are invited on all topics within the fields of geo-information, geomatics, geocomputation and remote sensing and image interpretation, including (but not limited to):
- Geospatial Data Capture, Fusion and Harmonisation
- Discovery and Retrieval of GI
- Semantics of GI
- Spatial Information Infrastructures
- Location Based Services and Mobile Applications
- Demographic and Socioeconomic Modelling
- Environmental/Ecological and Urban/Regional Modelling
- Health and Medical Informatics
- Natural Resources Management and Monitoring
- Disaster and Risk Management
- Spatial Decision Support
- Spatial Data Usability and Data Quality
- Spatiotemporal Modelling and Analysis
- Spatial Cognition
- Geosensor Networks
- Visual Analytics and Geovisualisation
- GI Education and Training
- GI Policy and Society, e-Government
Special Topics Related to Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation
- Earth Observation Systems: Issues and Applications
- Lidar Processing Algorithms and Applications
- Image Interpretation for Topographic Mapping
- Image Analysis for Change Detection
There are also several workshops, among them the “Cross Atlantic Workshop on Economic Value of Geoinformation”. Please have a look at the call for papers for this workshop as well: agile-workshop geovalue-09
ISSRM 2009
15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management
Meet old and new worlds in Research, Planning, and Management
The 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management will be hosted by The University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) from July 5 – 8, 2009 in Vienna, Austria.
The symposium will be held at the Austria Center Vienna, the largest conference centre in Austria.
The theme for the ISSRM 2009 is:
Meet Old and New Worlds in Research, Planning and Management
– Discussing methodological traditions versus pragmatic solutions
– Exploring cultural and political influences on planning and decision making processes
– Feeling the transdisciplinary and transboundary character of research and management
The topics for the symposium include:
- Outdoor recreation
- Nature-based tourism
- Sustainable tourism development
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Management and development of protected areas
- Social science and collaborative planning in forestry and agriculture
- Innovative approaches to resource management
- Wildlife management
- Environmental education
- Human behaviour and recreation research
- Visitor monitoring
- Landscape perception and preferences
- Place attachment
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Forest inventory and sustainable resource management
- Water management
- Cross-cultural cooperation and management
- Collaborative landscape planning
Further information and abstract submission: http://www.issrm09.info/
Digital Landscape Architecture 2009
Abstracts not exceeding 250 words should be submitted online via a web-based submission system at
http://www.landschaftsinformatik.de by January 31, 2009,
for review and possible inclusion in the program.
The conference proceedings are published by Wichmann Verlag, Heidelberg.
The conference language is English.
The conference will be hold in Malta in order to address the regional focus of the conference on the Mediterranean Islands.
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Dr. Stephen Ervin, Harvard University, USA
Prof. Ian Jorgensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Döllner, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Jörg Schaller, ESRI Germany
Prof. Dr. Marc Bonazountas, Epsilon, Greece
(other keynote speakers will be announced later)
Topics
The program committee cordially invites you to submit proposals for original,
unpublished presentations focusing on one of the following topics
A: Digital Landscape Design for the Mediterranean Islands
B: Landscape Information Models LIMs
C: 3D, 4D and VR Landscape Visualization
D: Teaching Digital Landscape Architecture /
E: Knowledge Based Landscape Architecture
F: 3D-Workmethod in Landscape Design
Important Dates
Abstracts due February 16, 2009
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2009
Full manuscript draft due: March 23, 2009
Reviewed manuscript due: April 6, 2009
Conference: May 21 – 22, 2009
Further Information
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Hochschule Anhalt (FH)
Forschungsbereich Landschaftsinformatik, Prof. Erich Buhmann
INDIGO Innovationspark, Solbadstraße 2, D-06406 Bernburg, Germany
Telephone: +49-3471 -355-1116, Fax +49-3471-628179
conference proceedings: atelier.bernburg@t-online.de
conference organization: la@loel.hs-anhalt.de
Conference Scientific Director: Prof. Erich Buhmann
Submit Entries LA-Conferences at http://www.landschaftsinformatik.de
Conference partners:
AGIT2009, LE:NOTRE TW and partners in Malta
Conference sponsors:
ESRI Geoinformatik GmbH, SYNERGIS Informationssysteme GmbH, K2-Computer Softwareentwicklung GmbH a.o.
LVIZ wishes you a Happy New Year !
What will 2009 bring? Plans for the LVIZ blog include a detailed review of the new VNS3 and an overview of landscape visualization labs at universities around the world. Furthermore, the LVIZ blog community will formulate a mission statement, further develop its design and provide download resources for landscape visualization.
See you in 2009!
Low Carbon Cities
45th ISOCARP International Congress
Porto – Portugal, 18-22 October 2009
www.isocarp.org
Porto – Portugal, 18-22 October 2009
www.isocarp.org
“For our 2009 congress in Porto, we focus upon the environmental effects of man’s activities, in the context of the world’s expanding cities and city regions.
It is those cities and agglomerations that are undoubtedly the source of a large share of the greenhouse gas emissions that underlie climate change; at the same time, these are the places that are often the most vulnerable to its effects.
Time is short and if we are to avoid the worst effects of anthropogenic climate change, we must act and act quickly.
The challenge is to use (and reuse) our resources, including land, far more efficiently and, in particular, to move towards low carbon cities.”
(Chris Gossop – General Rapporteur)
It is those cities and agglomerations that are undoubtedly the source of a large share of the greenhouse gas emissions that underlie climate change; at the same time, these are the places that are often the most vulnerable to its effects.
Time is short and if we are to avoid the worst effects of anthropogenic climate change, we must act and act quickly.
The challenge is to use (and reuse) our resources, including land, far more efficiently and, in particular, to move towards low carbon cities.”
(Chris Gossop – General Rapporteur)
AGIT 2009 Call for Papers out now
AGIT 2009 is a well established GIS conference in Salzburg with one track on visualization and cartographic communication. For more information, please refer to www.agit.at
Visioning and Visualization: People, Pixels, and Plans
The Planetizen Top10 book list for 2009 suggests a very interesting book on participation and visualization:
Visioning and Visualization: People, Pixels, and Plans
- Authors: Michael Kwartler and Gianni Longo
- Publisher: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (April 30, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1558441808
- ISBN-13: 978-1558441804
If anybody has read the book already, please contribute your review to this blog. Otherwise, I will provide you a review as soon as possible.