Cartographic Conference

On 23 and 24 April 2009, a conference themed ‘Conference on Cartographic Challenges: movement, participation, risk' will be organised in Bergamo (Italy). The conference is an opportunity of encounter among researchers interested in sharing two levels of considerations about cartography: the epistemic one, concerning the communicative role it is playing actually; the empiric one, regarding the production of maps, able to face globalisation challenges. About the empistemic role, assuming that the information technologies and the world wide web have undermined the elaboration and the basic assumptions of the map, it comes out the need to wonder whether we... (read more)

2009-04-08 08:17:40

Addressing Conference

URISA and the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) have announced the 2010 URISA/NENA Addressing Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, taking place from 16th to 18th August 2010. The conference features three full-day workshops:•Open Source GIS for Addressing •Addresses: Key to GIS Success •Introduction to NG 911 - Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a major aspect of Next Generation 9-1-1.The Program Committee organized an educational program based upon abstracts submitted through a Call for Participation and organised according to these topics:•Adventures in Addressing •E-911•Addressing Strategies for Success (read more)

2010-05-06 03:16:14

Conference Reports

ISPRS Technical Commission I SymposiumThe ISPRS Commission I Symposium took place at Calgary Convention centre from 15th to 18th June, in parallel with the first Canadian Geomatics Conference the theme of which was: Convergence in Geomatics - Shaping Canada's Competitive Landscape. The opening ceremony included an address by Professor Orhan Altan, ISPRS president. Plenary speeches were given by Glen Hodgson, vice-president and senior economist of the Conference Board of Canada, and Jim Garinger, former Governor of the State of Wyoming. A keynote was also delivered by Deputy Premier the Honourable Doug Horner, also Minister of Advanced Education and Technology. The... (read more)

2010-10-05 02:20:24

Racurs Conference

The VIIIth International Scientific and Technical Conference "From imagery to map: digital photogrammetric technologies" was held on the shores of the Adriatic Sea in Porec, Croatia from 15th to 18th September 2008. The conference was organised by Racurs (Russia) with the support of the ISPRS, Russian Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and Federal Real Estate Cadastre Agency of Russia (Rosnedvizhimost) and sponsored by Geolidar (Russia), Leica Geosystems AG (Switzerland), Geofoto (Croatia), and GeoEye (USA). Media sponsors included GIM International. The conference provided opportunities for discussions, knowledge and experience exchange in the sphere of remote sensing and digital photogrammetric... (read more)

2008-10-14 10:51:48

SDI Conference

The international conference on spatial data infrastructures 2010 will be held from 15th to 17th September 2010 hosted by FON University in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. The main theme of the Conference is the development and use of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI's) and all their aspects. The ambition of the conference is to become the major SDI conference in the region of South-East Europe and be influential here for SDI development. The conference will show the importance of SDIs and their use, on local, national or regional level in South East Europe and its relation to global initiatives. The realisation... (read more)

2010-05-26 01:41:19

EFGS Conference 2017

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2017-09-05 02:28:30

QGIS User Conference

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2017-07-05 11:58:31

ISPRS Conference Director Reports

During the General Assembly on Monday afternoon, Congress Director Lena Halounova reported on this event. This ISPRS Congress in Prague welcomed 2,294 participants from 88 countries. There were 710 contributions submitted by young authors. China was the country of origin of most delegates, followed by Germany and the host country, the Czech Republic. The exhibition that took place on the second floor during the first days counted 77 participating companies. That makes this ISPRS Congress a great place to share knowledge, learn, meet fellow scientists and professionals working with geospatial technology! (read more)

2016-07-18 04:50:58

GSDI 12 World Conference

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) advocates around the world seek to make optimum use of geospatial technologies to serve societal goals. The industry focal point for many of these activities is the Global SDI (GSDI) Association: an inclusive organisation of international organisations, agencies, firms and individuals promoting international cooperation and collaboration in support of local, national and international SDI developments. Two key contributions of the GSDI involve knowledge transfer. The first is the Geographic Information Knowledge Network or GIKNetwork, open to everyone in the geospatial industry. This resource means that anyone working on an SDI at any level, anywhere in the... (read more)

2011-01-04 03:51:49

Two Conference Reports

Theory, Data Handling and ModellingThe Joint International Conference on Theory, Data Handling and Modelling in GeoSpatial Information Science took place in Hong Kong from 26th to 28th May 2010, collating activities of the ISPRS Technical Commission II mid-term symposium, the International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling of IGU Commission on GIS and the International Conference of IGU Commission on Modelling Geographical Systems. The meeting was held at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in collaboration with The Baptist University, the Chinese Academy of Science and the University of Hong Kong.GIS From All SidesThe conference gathered together about two hundred participants from 29... (read more)

2010-09-09 04:12:29