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Google Earth Non-Profit Event in Kampala and Nairobi

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:45:40 PDT

Source:
http://kampala.earthoutreach.org/
http://nairobi.earthoutreach.org/

What is this event?
Google Earth Outreach is a program that helps non-profit organizations and public benefit groups learn to use Google Earth and Maps as powerful communications tools to educate the public and policy-makers. At this event, you will hear first-hand from organizations who have used Google Earth for outreach and advocacy in Africa. You will also learn how to implement Google Maps and Google Earth for your own projects in our afternoon workshop.

Please visit link above for more detail.

Quantum GIS Tutorials and Video available

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:41:26 PDT

Source: http://linfiniti.com/dla/

You may download 10 issues from link above, which are:

1. Introduction to GIS

2. Vector data

3. Attribute data

4. Digitizing vector data

5. Raster data

6. Topology

7. Coordinate Ref. System

8. Map production

9. Spatial analysis: vector data, and

10. Spatial analysis: raster data.

Those materials provided in PDF file and Video.

Someone to Watch Over You - National Geographic Blog Wild

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:18:27 PDT

Someone to Watch Over You - National Geographic Blog Wild

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International Workshop on Application of Hyperspectral Technology to Support National Food Security: Rice Monitoring and Prediction

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:55:30 PDT

HyperSRI Workshop 2009
Jakarta, 19 August 2009

Rice is one of agricultural crops and constitutes major staple food for Asian countries, especially in Indonesia. The Indonesian organizations highly expect the application development of technology to provide information on agricultural crops quantitatively, instantaneously, and nondestructively over large areas, and also abilities to estimate paddy growth phase, cropping pattern, rice biophysical parameters, especially for monitoring/managing paddy fields to help address the food security problem.

Recently, Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia stated during National Coordinating Meeting event, that each year there is deviation in number and errors found relating to calculation of the inaccurate national food shortage, which are based on assumption, not on factual data. As a result, government policy is often erroneous. An example is the calculation of national rice production. This statement by the vice president should be a challenge for researchers to contribute in finding the solution for the national food security problem. The question is: there a technology able to solve the above problem?

A new and significant development has taken place in Indonesia in the field of remote sensing research and development. Hyperspectral technology is a new technology and now developing beyond the current technological status of conventional multispectral remote sensing. This technology significantly improves the resolving power of remote sensing, starting from determination to identification oriented problem solving. Thus, application development of hyperspectral remote sensing differs from that of multispectral remote sensing.

BPPT has been assessing hyperspectral technology since mid-1997’s by using various platforms and developing several application prototypes through a program called Hyperspectral Assessment, Development and Application Program (HADAP), which involve a number of international partners and recognize the importance of understanding hyperspectral remote sensing technology as one of the key technologies to solve Food Security issues in Indonesia.

In order to gain the Hyperspectral program above, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology of the Republic of Indonesia (BPPT) and the Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center (ERSDAC) Japan recognize the importance of hyperspectral remote sensing and mutually interested in cooperative research activities for agricultural study in Indonesia. BPPT and ERSDAC Japan start the collaborate project, “Research Project of Hyperspectral Technology for Agricultural Application in Indonesia (or for short called: HyperSRI). The period of this research project is conducted from 2007 to March 2010. The Project Coordinator from BPPT is Dr. Muhamad Sadly, and Project Coordinator from ERSDAC Japan is Mr. Masatane Kato.

METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan) since 2006 have been engaged in Hyperspectral sensor development, which will be a successor to ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) on Terra satellite. ERSDAC is in charge of the research and development for Hyperspectral data application in natural resources management, environmental monitoring and other fields. ERSDAC hopes that this cooperative research can accelerate the research and development of hyperspectral remote sensing application and expand the base of user communities. In 2006-2007, ERSDAC conducted surveys to find the current status and potential of Hyperspectral data utilization in Asian countries. These surveys show Indonesian governmental organizations are the best partner to carry out the cooperative research and to get the successful results.

The main objective of this research cooperative is the application of hyperspectral technology for agricultural application (food security) in Indonesia. The specific objectives are to establish a framework/structure to realize sustainable use of Hyperspectral data in practice in Indonesia, to develop an algorithm/method to utilize Hyperspectral data for monitoring/managing paddy field, and to develop a prediction model that applicable to estimate rice yield in various area, human resources development, establish long-term and collaborative relationship between Japan and Indonesia on this area.

For implementing of this research project, Indramayu District and Subang District which are chosen to be the national prototype regions, because both districts are located in Java Island which produces around 55 % of total national rice production.

The HyperSRI program is a significant research project and the results are anticipated by our nation, so it is impossible to be conducted by BPPT alone. For this, the related institutions such as National Aeronautics and Space Agency (LAPAN), Data and Information Center (PUSDATIN) Dept of Agriculture, Institute of Climate-Agro Land Research and Development (ICALRD), Biology Tropical (BIOTROP), Indramayu Distric and dan Subang Distric (which are chosen to be the national prototype regions) and the Remote Sensing Community in Indonesia (MAPIN) to be involved in this project. The target output is “production estimation” which is consists of three factors. Harvest area, Yield, and Rice field base map.

Agenda
Speakers
Date and venue
Workshop Committee

Source: http://202.46.14.100/hypersriworkshop/

2009 ESRI International User Conference Proceedings

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:06:38 PDT

San Diego, CA - 13 -17 July 2009

The 2009 ESRI International User Conference (ESRI UC) is a weeklong GIS conference that offers sessions, exhibits, and unique highlights, such as the multimedia Map Gallery, special displays, unbeatable networking and collaboration opportunities, and preconference seminars held the weekend prior.

Downloadable documents:

Technical workshops

Paper presentations

GIS & Industry sessions

Technology keynotes

Click here for more information

6th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography CGS, University of Nottingham, UK

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:51:55 PDT

2nd Sept - 4th Sept 2009

The symposium will bring together experts from around the world to present the latest research results and developments with focus on Location Based Services in the fields of Cartography, Geoinformation, Computer Sciences, Telecommunication, Geodesy, and Geomedia Techniques.

Keynote speakers include:

Professor William Cartwright (RMIT, Australia)
Mr Joseph Leigh (Nokia)
Professor Derek McAuley (Director of Horizon, University of Nottingham)
Ms Ulrike Daniels (Anwendungszentrum GmbH, Germany)
Professor Georg Gartner (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Check out the Agenda for LBS 2009

Horizon Bursaries for LBS 2009

We are pleased to announce bursaries (each worth GBP 120) for high quality MSc/PhD students attending LBS 2009 to help cover thier registration fees for LBS 2009 conference. These bursaries are sponsored by University of Nottingham Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub centre and Horizon Doctoral Training Centre

The Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub centre is a new 12 million pound research centre at The University of Nottingham to develop digital technology to transform modern living. This builds on the success of the 5.7 million pound Horizon Doctoral Training Centre in Location-aware Pervasive Computing at University of Nottingham. The Centre for Geospatial Science is part of both Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub centre and Horizon Doctoral Training Centre.

Latest Conference News

ITC Netherlands has block booked 34 places for LBS 2009. We welcome ITC's active participation for the conference.

We are pleased to welcome GIS4EU delegates for LBS 2009

Five bursaries are available for East Midlands based SMEs, covering the delegate registration fees for 6th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography. This is sponsored by The GNSS Research and Applications Centre of Excellence (GRACE).

Download Welcome presentation

Click here for more information

METI and NASA Announce Plans for ASTER Global DEM Release

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:27:41 PDT

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) was developed jointly by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) of Japan and the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Initial studies to validate and characterize the ASTER GDEM recently were completed by NASA and METI, in cooperation with the U.S Geological Survey (USGS) and the Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center (ERSDAC) of Japan, as well as with support from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and numerous other collaborators from around the world.

ASTER Global DEM

Following review of the validation results, METI and NASA have decided to jointly release the ASTER GDEM on June 29, 2009. Previously, METI and NASA announced their intent to contribute the ASTER GDEM to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). Upon release, the ASTER GDEM will be available at no charge to users worldwide via electronic download from ERSDAC and from NASA’s Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) by visiting:

* http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp/ and
* https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/~wist/api/imswelcome/, respectively.

The ASTER instrument was built by METI and launched onboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft in December 1999. It has an along-track stereoscopic capability using its near infrared spectral band and its nadir-viewing and backward-viewing telescopes to acquire stereo image data with a base-to-height ratio of 0.6. The spatial resolution is 15 m in the horizontal plane. One nadir-looking ASTER VNIR scene consists of 4,100 samples by 4,200 lines, corresponding to about 60 km-by-60 km ground area.

The methodology used to produce the ASTER GDEM involved automated processing of the entire 1.5-million-scene ASTER archive, including stereo-correlation to produce 1,264,118 individual scene-based ASTER DEMs, cloud masking to remove cloudy pixels, stacking all cloud-screened DEMs, removing residual bad values and outliers, averaging selected data to create final pixel values, and then correcting residual anomalies before partitioning the data into 1°-by-1° tiles. It took approximately one year to complete production of the beta version of the ASTER GDEM using a fully automated approach.

The ASTER GDEM covers land surfaces between 83°N and 83°S and is composed of 22,600 1°-by-1° tiles. Tiles that contain at least 0.01% land area are included. The ASTER GDEM is in GeoTIFF format with geographic lat/long coordinates and a 1 arc-second (30 m) grid of elevation postings. It is referenced to the WGS84/EGM96 geoid. Pre-production estimated accuracies for this global product were 20 meters at 95 % confidence for vertical data and 30 meters at 95 % confidence for horizontal data. Initial validation studies concluded that the ASTER GDEM generally meets the pre-production accuracy predications, but results do vary and include areas where GDEM accuracy does not meet the pre-production estimates.

The topography of the land surface is one of the most fundamental geophysical measurements of the Earth, and it is a dominant controlling factor in virtually all physical processes that occur on the land surface. Topography of the land surface also significantly controls processes within the overlying atmosphere, and it reflects the processes within the underlying lithosphere. Consequently, topographic information is important across the full spectrum of earth sciences, and the availability of an up-to-date, high resolution (1-arc-sec or less) global DEM has been a priority of earth scientists for a long time. The ASTER GDEM, with 30m grid postings and produced from a consistent primary data source, is expected to meet the requirements of many users for global topographic information.

Source: http://earthobservations.org/art_200906_aster.shtml

Intermap Technologies: Free Educational Webinars

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:37:29 PDT

What is a Webinar?
A Webinar is a seminar that is conducted on the World Wide Web (Web + seminar = Webinar) and viewed with a computer that has an Internet connection. Organizations provide Webinars on any topic that would be appropriate for a traditional seminar, and, just as in a traditional seminar, experts on a particular subject present visual and audio information. Most Webinars include a visual presentation as well as an audio broadcast that is accessed either over the computer and/or via a toll-free (no cost to the participant) telephone number.
click here for more on Webinars...

Terrainscapes 2009, Intermap Technologies' series of complimentary Webinars, continues with compelling topics. These 50-minute Webinars focus on how Intermap's high-resolution 3D digital elevation models (DEMs) enable GIS and geospatial solutions across a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, telecom, water and power, engineering, consumer electronics, automotive, flood control, and more. Intermap encourages your interaction in these events - you can discuss the issues with mapping experts, value-added partners, and end users who have successfully used precise Intermap DEMs to develop a host of unique solutions.

Upcoming webinars:

What Is Radar Data?

Radar remote sensing is a technique that has matured substantially over the past two decades. The focus of this Webinar is the processing, interpretation, and application of radar imagery. It will begin with basics and physics of radar remote sensing and continue with current and future prospects, followed by a discussion on applications using radar imagery.

When: Wednesday, June 3, 8:00 a.m. PDT; 9:00 a.m. MDT; 10:00 a.m. CDT; 11:00 a.m. EDT; 16:00 GMT

Introduction to Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
As the fields of digital mapping and geospatial analysis continue to grow, the use of 3D data is becoming more widespread. One of the most common types of 3D data is a digital elevation model, or DEM. In this Webinar, we'll talk about what DEMs are and how they differ from other types of spatial data. We'll also look at some of the sources of DEM data, their quality, and how they are generated. Lastly, we'll look at examples of how you can use DEMs in sophisticated geospatial analysis to solve real-world problems.

When: Wednesday, June 24, 8:00 a.m. PST; 9:00 a.m. MST; 10:00 a.m. CST; 11:00 a.m. EST; 16:00 GMT

Intermediate Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) - Characteristics and Uses
This Webinar will detail how characteristics of the terrain model are important, what artifacts could cause issues, how the accuracy requirements will impact the product, and more. You will learn how elevation datasets can be used to provide an address-based risk assessment, as well as how the radar image and terrain model can be used to extract 3D road vectors.

When: Wednesday, July 8, 8:00 a.m. PDT; 9:00 a.m. MDT; 10:00 a.m. CDT; 11:00 a.m. EDT; 15:00 GMT

Source: http://www.intermap.com/right.php/pid/6/sid/38

The releases of QGIS 1.0.2

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:15:33 PDT

The Quantum GIS project announce the releases of QGIS
1.0.2 (stable release) and QGIS 1.1.0 'Pan' (unstable release).

The 1.0.x 'stable' release series are part of our effort to provide a
stable, unchanging, long term supported environment. Each minor release
in our stable series contains only bug fixes and no new features. For a
list of bugs that were closed in the 1.0.2 release, please see the 1.0.2
release milestone.

The 'unstable' release series are provided to offer users a chance to
try out new features as they make their way into the code base. We will
not support these releases over a long term and they are aimed more for
those who value new features over stability.

Binary and source code packages are available at
http://www.qgis.org/en/download/binaries.html.

A visual changelog for the release is available here:

http://blog.qgis.org/node/134

Along with the release of QGIS 1.1.0, the QGIS Community Team is also
extremely pleased to announce the immediate availability of the QGIS
Users' Guide version 1.1. The guide can be downloaded from
http://www.qgis.org/en/documentation/manuals.html.

QGIS is a completely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a
dedicated team of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend our
thanks and gratitude for the many, many hours people have contributed
to make this release happen.

If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please
visit http://www.qgis.org/en/sponsorship.html . QGIS is Free software
and you are under no obligation to do so.

Source: QGIS Release Team
http://qgis.org/

DigitalGlobe Announces Singapore Ground Station as Direct Access Program Partner, Expands Access to World Imagery

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:51:11 PDT

Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) at the National University of Singapore Receives Direct Access to DigitalGlobe’s Next-Generation Satellite Constellation

Longmont / Boulder, Colo., April 1, 2009 – DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of world imagery solutions, today announced that it has signed a direct access agreement with the National University of Singapore to allow the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) to receive high-resolution imagery from its WorldView-1 satellite and WorldView-2 upon its launch in the third quarter of 2009.

“CRISP has been closely involved in numerous regional environmental disaster monitoring and humanitarian assistance activities, such as the tsunami and earthquake disasters,” said Kwoh Leong Keong, Director of CRISP. “With this agreement, we will have access to DigitalGlobe’s highly accurate earth imagery faster than ever before, and will be better equipped to meet the diverse needs of our users.”

“DigitalGlobe is proud to work with CRISP and provide the Asia Pacific region with rapid access to the world’s most sophisticated constellation of next-generation satellites, which provides the accuracy and vibrancy for commercial, scientific and government applications,” said Jill Smith, DigitalGlobe's chief executive officer and president. “With direct access to DigitalGlobe’s high-resolution earth imagery, CRISP and its customers will develop a deeper understanding and perspective on the world, gaining the ability to more closely monitor its landscape and its changing face from space.”

“This is a fantastic relationship with a world class organization,” said Jeff Kerridge, DigitalGlobe’s senior vice president. “CRISP and DigitalGlobe will benefit greatly from the direct reception of DigitalGlobe’s WorldView constellation. With access to WorldView-2’s industry-first 8-bands of multispectral imagery, CRISP will be able to contribute even more dynamic information to their efforts in a timely manner.”
DigitalGlobe’s constellation of high-resolution satellites conducts a daily collection rate of nearly 1 million square kilometers of new images. When WorldView-2 joins DigitalGlobe’s constellation, the collection rate will jump to 2 million square kilometers per day, which is larger than Indonesia, the world's 16th-largest country in terms of land area.

To learn more about advanced DigitalGlobe’s constellation of next-generation satellites, please visit www.digitalglobe.com.

About DigitalGlobe
Longmont, Colorado-based DigitalGlobe (http://www.digitalglobe.com) is a leading global content provider of high-resolution world imagery solutions. Sourced from our own advanced satellite constellation and aerial network, our imagery solutions deliver a real world perspective to governments, businesses, technology developers and humanitarian associations worldwide. The company’s imagery solutions consist of one of the world’s largest image libraries, growing at a rate of up to 1 million square kilometers per day and distributed and accessed through online search and retrieval, production ready image layers, development tool-kits for internet enabled applications and devices, and software solutions for integration with GIS products and services. DigitalGlobe currently operates the largest high-resolution commercial satellite constellation with QuickBird and the first of two next-generation satellites, WorldView-1. The company plans to launch its second next-generation satellite, WorldView-2, in the third quarter of 2009.

DigitalGlobe is a registered trademark of DigitalGlobe.

About CRISP (Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing)
CRISP was established in 1992 as a Research Centre located at the National University of Singapore with funding from the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR). The Centre has focused on scientific research in the basic principles and applications of remote sensing technology. CRISP has been receiving, processing and archiving imagery from various commercial remote-sensing satellites since 1995. The Centre is a major international satellite ground station and research facility with a reputation for quality scientific research, technical competence and superior products and consultancy services. CRISP has achieved international recognition for its research on natural disaster monitoring such as forest fires, earthquakes and the Indian Ocean Tsunami. For more information about CRISP, visit its web site at http://crisp.nus.edu.sg.

Source: http://media.digitalglobe.com/index.php?s=43&item=161

GeoEye Delivers GeoEye-1 Satellite Imagery Products to Google

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:48:24 PDT

World's Highest-Resolution, Color Satellite Imagery Can be Previewed on Google Earth

DULLES, Va., March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GeoEye, Inc. , a premier provider of satellite and aerial-based geospatial information, announced today it has started delivering high-resolution, color satellite imagery from its newest satellite to Google. The GeoEye-1 satellite images that are being highlighted by Google were all taken within the last 60 days and include images of the Pyramids of Giza, Mount Fuji, Sydney Australia, and many other recognizable locations. Examples of imagery can be seen at http://earth.google.com/geoeye/.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080625/LAW528LOGO)

Bill Wilt, GeoEye's vice president of North American sales, said, "Google is a very important customer with a huge appetite for map-accurate satellite imagery. We will work hard to ensure we meet all of their expectations and provide them a continuous stream of the world's highest resolution color satellite imagery."

The images were all taken from 423 miles in space as GeoEye-1 moved around the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour. The 4,300-pound GeoEye-1 satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on Sept. 6, 2008.

About GeoEye

GeoEye's products and services enable timely, accurate, and accessible location intelligence. The company is recognized as one of the geospatial industry's most trusted imagery experts, delivering reliable service and exceptional quality imagery products and solutions to customers around the world. GeoEye has developed an advanced information technology infrastructure for collecting, receiving, processing and distributing imagery information products and processing services to the U.S. Government including the national security community as well as international governments and commercial customers. These products serve applications including defense and intelligence, precision mapping, on-line mapping, infrastructure development, planning and monitoring, and environmental assessment. The company collects tens of millions of square kilometers of imagery per year with its existing satellites and aerial assets, which includes GeoEye-1, the world's highest resolution commercial imaging satellite. The company also provides support to academic institutions and non-governmental organizations through the GeoEye Foundation (http://www.geoeyefoundation.org). Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, GeoEye is a public company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol GEOY. It maintains a comprehensive Quality Management System (QMS) and has achieved company-wide ISO accreditation. For more information, visit http://www.geoeye.com/.

Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Statements including words such as "anticipate", "believe", or "expect" and statements in the future tense are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. GeoEye's actual financial and operational results could differ materially from those anticipated. Additional information regarding these risk factors and uncertainties is described more fully in the Company's SEC filings. A copy of all SEC filings may be obtained from the SEC's EDGAR web site, http://www.sec.gov/, or by contacting: William L. Warren, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, at 703-480-5672.
Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080625/LAW528LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org
PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com

SOURCE: GeoEye, Inc.

Web site: http://www.geoeye.com/
Source: http://geoeye.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=319

The 10th SEASC 2009 in Bali, 4-7 August 2009

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:20:46 PDT

The 10th SOUTH EAST ASIAN SURVEY CONGRESS 2009 (SEASC 2009) is coming. As you may aware, this event will be held in Bali – “the Ultimate Island” – Indonesia, from 4 to 7 of August 2009.

There will be hundreds of delegates from various countries expected to attend and participate the congress, technical session, business forum, and trade exhibition including poster sessions; and they will be your directive target audience. Delegates will include professional institutions and academicians, or even individuals who have special interest in surveying and mapping, geospatial, geo-information and any relevant aspect to geo-information technology and its management in facilitating planning for sustainable development.

The benefit in attending SEASC 2009 is to synchronize regional and international activities and experience with the developments of the subject. It is also to promote and advance the science, practice and application of land surveying and geomatics for the advancement of mankind and community and to foster regional cooperation and transfer of technology

There will be 3 Plenary Sessions, more than 90 Technical Sessions, more than 15 Business Forum, and exhibitors who show their products and services in the 1,300 sqm hall, including more than 50 topics are ready to offer in the Poster Session activity.

One of the SEASC’s goals is to foster the development of various affinity societies. These are social networks that are used during the year between participants to share knowledge and understanding, including awareness and togetherness. As such, SEASC social activities play an important role in cementing these affinity societies

Do not hesitate to contact the SEASC 2009 Organizer for further information on the above mentioned event. Please send your request or any question to info@seasc2009.org, or visit our http://www.seasc2009.org for further information.

GeoEye Announces the Start of Commercial Operations for Its GeoEye-1 Earth-Imaging Satellite

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:40:54 PST

Source: http://geoeye.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=316

World's Highest-Resolution, Color Satellite Imagery Now Available for Commercial Sale

DULLES, Va., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GeoEye, Inc. , a premier provider of satellite and aerial-based geospatial information, announced today the start of commercial operations for its new GeoEye-1 Earth-imaging satellite. The Company is also submitting imagery from the satellite to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for their certification under the terms of the NextView contract.

"We are now selling imagery from GeoEye-1 to commercial customers around the world and to our government customers in Europe, Asia and the Middle East," said Matthew O'Connell, GeoEye's chief executive officer. "We are submitting imagery to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for certification and look forward to beginning to serve NGA under our new Service Level Agreement with them."

Bill Schuster, chief operating officer for GeoEye, said, "We established extremely exacting requirements for GeoEye-1 and meeting them proved to be very technically challenging -- particularly in the calibration phase. Additional improvements can still be made, but we have now succeeded in attaining our performance objectives. The combination of resolution, clarity, color and accuracy make it the best satellite imagery on the market. We look forward to working with NGA over the next few weeks to complete the certification process."

The NextView program is designed to ensure that the NGA has access to commercial imagery in support of its mission to provide timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security. GeoEye won its $500-million NextView contract in September 2004. In October 2004, GeoEye selected General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems as the GeoEye-1 prime contractor. The satellite's sensor was built by ITT Corporation.

GeoEye-1 imagery products and solutions are now commercially available in half-, one-, two- and four-meter ground resolutions. Imagery products are available in color and black & white. Color imagery comprises four bands: blue, green, red and near-infrared. There are several ways commercial customers can purchase GeoEye-1 imagery. Service Experts are available to assist with the purchasing of GeoEye's imagery products and value-added solutions. Please call 1.800.232.9037 (within the United States) or +1.703.480.5670 (from overseas), Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. EST for more information. Customers may also send an email to info@geoeye.com or contact an authorized GeoEye Channel Partner (available via GeoEye's Web site). The GeoEye partners consist of businesses and organizations with a long history of expertise in the geospatial world, remote sensing and extensive domain experience in a variety of disciplines. For more details, please visit http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/products/Default.aspx.

Additionally, customers can search for IKONOS data in the GeoEye satellite imagery archive using the company's newly released search-and-discovery tool called GeoFUSE, where "FUSE" stands for "Find, Use, Serve and Extend." GeoFUSE gives users access to a number of search-and-discovery tools, assists customers in locating available imagery which meet specific project needs and enables them to easily navigate and efficiently search. To search GeoEye's archive, which contains more than 300 million square kilometers, please visit http://geofuse.geoeye.com or to learn more about the platform, go to http://geofuse.geoeye.com/help.

About GeoEye

GeoEye is the premier provider of geospatial information for the national security community, strategic partners, resellers and commercial customers to help them better map, measure and monitor the world. The Company is recognized as the industry's trusted imagery expert for delivering reliable service and the exceptional quality of its imagery products and solutions. It operates a constellation of Earth imaging satellites, mapping aircraft and has an international network of ground stations, a robust imagery archive, and advanced imagery processing capabilities for developing innovative geospatial products and solutions. On September 6, the Company launched its GeoEye-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The Company also provides support to academic institutions and non-governmental organizations through the GeoEye Foundation. Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, GeoEye is a public company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol GEOY. It maintains a comprehensive Quality Management System (QMS) and has achieved company-wide ISO accreditation. For more information, visit http://www.geoeye.com/.

9th International Symposium on GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zone Management (CoastGIS’09)

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:22:22 PST

CoastGIS, the International Symposium on GIS and Computer Mapping for Coastal Management, is a series of conferences that began in Cork, Ireland, in 1995 as a collaboration between the Commission on Coastal Systems of the International Geographical Union and the Commission on Marine Mapping of the International Cartographic Association. In the early 1990s, both were aiming to find a vehicle through which coastal issues and technological processes could be examined and means by which recent advances in the mapping of the world's coastal zones could jointly find an outlet. This has taken on an increased significance with each Conference and the meeting previously planned as a one-off has now evolved into a regular, two-yearly event.

Subsequent CoastGIS meetings have now been held in Ireland (Cork, 1995), Scotland (Aberdeen, 1997), France (Brest, 1999), Canada (Halifax, 2001), Italy (Genova, 2003), Scotland (Aberdeen, 2005), Australia (Wollongong, 2006), and Spain (Santander, 2007). The conference series focuses mainly on applications of GIS and, more recently, coastal Spatial Data Infrastructure, for the coastal and marine research and management communities, globally.

The first meeting in convened at the University College in Cork, between 3rd - 5th February 1995, was attended by 160 participants with delegates coming from as far afield as Mexico, South Africa and Australia. There was no particular sub-theme other than the title, which has remained: The International Symposium on GIS and Computer Mapping for Coastal Zone Mapping. As the firs of the series, the 1995 event was devoted to comparing notes and defining the "state of the art" among a very heterogenous set of interest groups, most of whom had had little opportunity to gather in the one forum before. GIS was then recognized as a useful technological tool for considering coastal zone issues, from management to specific modelling and research issues.

In 1997, the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) was the venue for the second meeting (sub-title 'The Next Millennium') which was attended by 120 delegates plus local researchers and students. European moves towards the development of coastal zone initiatives were a dominant feature of this gathering. Research projects and techniques discussed database ideas and data usage, and started to see the modelling of pollutants and tidal phenomena. The increased sophistication brought to the table in the techniques and combination of different data sets marked the two years since the Cork meeting.

The third meeting in Brest was convened at the establishment of IFREMER between 9th – 11th September 1999. The sub-theme was "Geomatics and Coastal Environment", and around 150 or so delegates participated in the event. The convergence of GIS technologies and analytical methods, with traditional methods of marine charting, showed eloquently that GIS applications in hydrography had come a long way, and offering dynamic real-time use of the databased information for an increasingly sophisticated range of applications. Data acquisition was similarly becoming more sophisticated, with the use of airborne laser; and the web was starting to be discussed as a means for delivering free data. Also at Brest, a number of research projects were presented that started to consider the regulatory aspects of data interoperability, as well as the importance of standards to facilitate such integration, legal implications, regulatory issues, training and education and, especially for the Developing World, the role of technology transfer.

From 18th to 20th June of 2001, the Saint Mary's University in Halifax (Canada) convened around 170 or so delegates with locals and researchers. Under the sub-theme "Geomatics and Coastal Environment, the CoastGIS 2001 was attended by delegates from participation from India, Nigeria, Cameroon, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, among others.

Environmental analysis was emphasised as was the use of temporal data sets. Various methods for mapping shorelines was exposed and discussed. Pollution issues were focused upon by some researchers.

Resource applications, such as fisheries management, were dominant in a number of presentations. Overall, the shift in emphasis towards integration of systems for coastal management, and the growing interest in coastal SDI as noted above, were especially in evidence at this meeting. So too was the international dimension of coastal GIS:

as well as the stalwart regulars from nations such as France, the US, Canada, UK and other European countries, many of whom had attended most, or in some cases all, previous CoastGIS meetings, in Halifax we were joined by new colleagues from countries such as India, Ecuador, Togo, Greenland and Colombia.

The fifth CoastGIS was held between 16-18th October at the Palazzo Ducale in Genova (Italy). The 2003 event, attended by 93 participants, was conceived and structured to foster an increase in knowledge of GIS technology and usability for technical people and for researchers in the field, also considering the potential interest for the Conference by people who are not "GI experts" such as researchers not directly involved in the use and management of geo-related data, or decision makers and planners. Most presentations covered coastal zone research, monitoring or management.

Back in Scotland in 2005, the sixth edition addressed the sub-theme "Defining and Building a Marine and Coastal Spatial Data Infrastructure" attracting an international audience of 88 participants including coastal researchers, managers and practitioners. CoastGIS 2005 topics included spatial data infrastructures, remote sensing and photogrammetry, visualisation and modelling, climate change, and coastal zone management and coastal planning.

In July 2006, approximately 150 delegates converged on the Wollongong University in New South Wales, Australia, for the 7th International CoastGIS meeting. The conference offered three days of papers and poster presentations, on topics as diverse as technologies for capturing and managing data for on- and off-shore environments; the challenges inherent in joining up marine and terrestrial data into integrated seamless databases; institutional aspects of designing and implementing spatial data infrastructures; and GIS-based modelling of coastal processes and activities; as well as a broad diversity of applications of the techniques for coastal zone planning, management and administration. Considerable attention was devoted to the challenges of integrating and linking the landward and seaward elements of the coast into truly unified, seamless 3- and 4-dimensional geospatial databases.

From 8th to 10th October 2007, 142 coastal science researchers and coastal environmental managers met on the delightful Cantabrian coast in Santander, Spain, for the 8th in the series of CoastGIS international conferences. The papers and presentations had evolved over the years from a 'micro' view, looking specifically at GIS applications mainly related to better understanding of coastal processes to the 'macro' level. Much of the research presented now covered a range of GIS technologies, especially embracing the Internet and web services delivering coastal information not only to decision makers but directly to citizens, in easy to use and understandable forms.

CoastGIS 2009 is the second time the Symposium will be held in the southern hemisphere after Australia, and it is the first time it is being held in the South America. It is with great honour that we invite you to attend the 9th International Symposium on GIS and Computer Mapping for Coastal Zone Mapping. CoastGIS 2009 will be held at the beautiful coastal city Florianopolis, in southern Brazil.

Please feel free to contact the Conference Secretariat or one of the local organising committee.

Links and materials from the previous conferences as well as upcoming events can be found at www.coastgis.org.

Source: http://www.coastgis.com.br/history.php

QGIS 1.0 'Kore' released

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:43:33 PST

Below is an announcement from http://blog.qgis.org/node/123

Announcing the release of QGIS 1.0 'Kore'

We are extremely pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.0 and the shiny new QGIS 1.0 User's Guide. We have also revamped our web site at http://qgis.org. See the note below from our project chair, and for a summary of changes and new features in this release.

Preface : A Message from the Project Steering Committee Chair

Welcome to Quantum GIS version 1.0. and version 1.0 of the QGIS Users Guide. This release is the culmination of literally hundreds of hours of work by a team of developers, translators, documentation writers, and graphics designers.

QGIS began life in February of 2002, with the first release in June of the same year. The initial goal was to create a viewer for PostGIS data that ran on Linux. From those humble beginnings, QGIS has become a true cross-platform application that runs on all major versions of unix, Linux, as well as Mac and Windows. It supports editing and map composition as well as integration with GRASS to provide powerful GIS capability.

At 1.0 we provide a stable API from which you can develop custom solutions in Python or C++. Even though 1.0 is fresh, there are a number of exciting developments underway in both the core application and plugins. Although it took nearly 7 years to get to version 1.0, I think you'll find that this version is the best yet. Thanks for using QGIS---you, the users, have played a large part in its success.

-- Gary Sherman, Chair, QGIS Project Steering Committee

Direct link to download: http://download.qgis.org/downloads.rhtml
Source: http://qgis.org/

Featured Satellite Images

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:34:17 PST

2009 Inaugural Celebration

Below, you will find snapshots of DigitalGlobe and GeoEye-1 imagery on January 20th, 2009 located on Washington D.C. National Mall. These are amazing imageries, and you can download it directly to the sources.

Source: http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/detail.aspx?iid=220&gid=1

Source: http://www.digitalglobe.com/index.php/27/Sample+Imagery+Gallery

52°North Geoprocessing Community: New WPS release!

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:07:12 PST

The 52°North Geoprocessing Community is proud to announce the release of the Web Processing Service Version 2.0! This new release contains the following changes and extensions:

Sextante processes integration: the current 52N WPS now provides more than 220 Sextante geoalgorithms as real WPS processes. Sextante support can easily be enabled/disabled and does not hinder custom developments of individual processes.
GRID support: any existing process or algorithm can be reused and distributed in the grid for parallel execution. This release enables the user to easily outsource geoprocessing tasks to an external data processing center. It fully supports the widely adopted UNICORE 6 grid middleware. In addition, it is possible to support other grid middlewares (e.g. Globus Tookit 4). No administrative access to the grid infrastrucutre is necessary, only a valid certificate for accessing the target system is required.
internal architecture redesign with new flexible bindings of different internal datastructures (e.g. Geotools Datamodel)
support for (very large) rasters
new Geotiff parser and generator
improved asychronous datahandling + download of stored files
several bugfixes
extended Tutorial: it guides the user through the process of setting up the 52N WPS, creating a new process, as well as executing and exporting the process.

The 52N Web Processing Service enables the deployment of geo-processes on the web. It features a pluggable architecture for processes and data encodings. The implementation is based on the current OpenGIS specification: 05-007r7.

tutorial here

download binary distribution here

browse the sources in our svn repository here

test instances can be invoked here:
http://52north.org:8080/wps/WebProcessingService
http://geoserver.itc.nl:8080/wps/WebProcessingService

more information here

Source:
http://52north.org/
http://52north.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=282:wps20&catid=35:news-lnews-mila&Itemid=252

Positioning Planning in the Global Crises

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:07:12 PST

An International Conference on Urban & Regional Planning to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary
of Planning Education in Indonesia

Bandung, Indonesia
November 12-13, 2009

This International Conference aims to bring together researchers, scientists, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Urban, Regional Planning, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

Important Dates:

Abstract/full paper submission: 29 May 2009
Notification of acceptance: 31 July 2009
Final paper submission and authors' registration: 30 September 2009
Conference Dates: 12,13 November 2009

Steering Committee

* Professor Dr. Tommy Firman (Chair)
* Dr. Ir. Myra P. Gunawan MSP.
* Dr. Ir. Dewi Sawitri MSP.
* Professor Dr. B. Kombaitan
* Ir. Haryo Winarso M.Eng., PhD.
* Ir. Tubagus Furqon Sofhani MSc. PhD.
* Ir. Widiarto MSc. PhD.
* Ir. Hastu Prabatmodjo MSc., PhD.

Organizing Committee

* Ir. Haryo Winarso M.Eng., PhD.
* Pradono SE., M.Ec.Dev., Dr.Eng.
* Ir. Teti Armiati Argo MSc., PhD.
* Miming Miharja ST., MSc.
* Rina Priyani ST., MT.
* Urban Planning & Design Research Division

Source and for complete information, please visit: http://www.sappk.itb.ac.id/ppgc/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Damage Assessment for the Gaza Strip (As of 10 January 2009)

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:43:11 PST

Product ID: 1329 - 15 Jan, 2009 - English

Product FOOTPRINT (LAT x LONG, WSG84 Geographic, decimal degrees)
TopLeft: 31.7 x 33.77
BottomRight: 31.1 x 34.97

This map presents a preliminary and on-going satellite-based damage assessment for the whole of the Gaza Strip. Damaged buildings, infrastructure and impact craters have been identified with WorldView-1 satellite imagery acquired on 10 & 6 January 2009, and received at a reduced spatial resolution of 2 meters.

Pre-crisis Ikonos satellite imagery from June 2005 was also used. Affected buildings were classified either as destroyed or severely damaged by standard image interpretation methods. Please note: Buildings not marked in the map as damaged does not imply the buildings are undamaged, only that damages were not identified with the available satellite imagery at the time of map publication. Because of the reduced spatial resolution of this satellite imagery, the confidence level for damage identification within dense urban areas is significantly reduced. It is highly probable, therefore, that the damages currently identified in this map underestimate the actual building and infrastructure damages present on the ground at the time of satellite image acquisition. This damage map will be revised and updated as additional analysis and ground information is available. Please send any additions/corrections to UNOSAT.
Total estimate of identified affected buildings is 400: Affected building sub-totals by damage level: 302 buildings have likely been destroyed & 98 buildings have likely been severely damaged. There are an additional 97 impact craters identified on roads & 395 impact craters identified in cultivated or empty fields.
Map Scale for A3: 1:45,000; Projection : UTM Zone 36 North; Datum : WGS84

Source(s):
Satellite Image (1) : WorldView-1
Resolution : 2m (Reduced Resolution)
Imagery Dates : 10 & 6 January 2009
Copyright : Digital Globe (2008)
Distributed by : Eurimage (6 Jan09)
Satellite Image (2) : Ikonos (2m)
Imagery Copyright : GeoEye 2008
Imagery Date : 6 June 2005
Damage Analysis : UNOSAT
GIS Data : UNRWA, OCHA, GIST, UNOSAT

UNOSAT_GazaStrip_WV_Damage_Overview_10Jan09_Lowres_v1.pdf (1.3MB)
UNOSAT_GazaStrip_WV_Damage_Overview_10Jan09_Highres_v1.pdf (3.6MB)

Source: http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/prod_free.asp?id=120

UNOSAT is the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Operational Satellite Applications Programme, implemented in co-operation withthe European Organisation of High Energy Physics (CERN).

UNOSAT is a people-centred programme delivering satellite solutions to relief and development organisations within and outside the UN system to help make a difference in the life of communities exposed to poverty, hazards and risk, or affected by humanitarian and other crises.
People-centred means that we operate keeping in sight the beneficiary needs at the end of the process.

The UNOSAT core team consists of UN fieldworkers as well as satellite imagery experts, geographers, geologists, development experts, database programmers and internet communication specialists. This unique combination gives us the ability to understand the needs of our users and to provide them with suitable, tailored solutions anywhere at any time.

UNOSAT created an extended network of public and private partners, and collaborates with the majority of UN agencies, space agencies and several international initiatives active in satellite technologies field.

Created initially to exploit fully the potential of satellite earth observation, UNOSAT has developed skills in additional technical areas such as satellite navigation and telecommunications and is today looking into the future of integrated solutions.

Our mission is to deliver integrated satellite-based solutions for human security, peace and socio-economic development, in keeping with the mandate given to UNITAR by the UN General Assembly since 1963.

Our goal is to make satellite solutions and geographic information easily accessible to the UN family and to experts worldwide who work at reducing the impact of crises and disasters and plan sustainable development.

[Update] Elshayal Smart GIS Map Editor 3.8 released

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:43:11 PST

Current features:

Elshayal Smart GIS Map Editor 3.8
1.Free GIS Software
2.Download Google Earth Maps
3.Trace and save GPS route
4.View and Rectify Raster Images
5.Edit and make shape files
6.Spatial Analysis
7.Shortest Path
8.Convert Coordinates Systems
9.Convert Shape types
10.Edit and make Tables
11.UnDo and ReDo drawing map and editing tables
12.Apply VB Scripts

Join Elshayal Smart GIS Users Group :
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ElshayalSmartGIS/
ElshayalSmartGIS@yahoogroups.com

More info: http://www.smartwebonline.com/

Direct link for download: http://www.smartwebonline.com/Pages/Downloads/ElshayalSmart.zip

IWSAR 2009

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:43:11 PST

International Workshop on Synthetic Aperture Radar

The main goal of the workshop is to promote the Novel Innovations on research and applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar and to exchange information on recent research directions in this area. The conference will cover many current topics as aircraft and small satellite onboard SAR system, radar application, signal processing, antenna design, interferometry, polarimetry, mapping and so on. An important role of the workshop will be to provide a forum for technical interactions among industry practitioners, research scientists from subject matter area.

Paper Submission

The International Workshop on Synthetic Aperture Radar (IWSAR2009) serves the Oral Session for Invited Presentations and Poster Session for Open Submissions. The Committee encourage you to submit the paper for Poster Sessions. Please, send the list of author(s), affiliation(s) and abstract. We will arrange the Program base on this information.

Proceedings and Guide for Authors
The proceedings of IWSAR2009 will be published after the Symposium held. The official language is English. The paper(s) for Proceedings must be written in Microsoft Word (MS-Word) and submit as attachment file to Associate Prof. Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo by email (jtetukoss@faculty.chiba-u.jp) with no more than 6 MB. If the attachment file(s) is more than 6 MB, please send to jtetukoss@nifty.com. The guide for authors in Microsoft Word and adobe acrobat format could be downloaded below.

Guide of authors : [Microsoft Word] [Adobe Acrobat]

The questions or comments relating the paper(s), please confirm to the Secretariat Office.

Projectors and Poster Panel
The committee prepared PC Projector at the Symposium for Invited Presenters, and Poster Panel with A1 size (594 x 841 mm or 23.4 x 33.1 inches) for Presenters of Open Submissions. The Invited Presenters are recommended to prepare the presentations in Microsoft Powerpoint format (.ppt). Please bring your own note PC with a standard connector for computer presentation. In the case that you cannot bring one and you want to use a computer, we recommend to bring the presentation files on CD-ROM or USB memory. Japan’s electricity works with 100 Volts. If you have any questions about the devices, please don’t be hesitate to contact the IWSAR2009 Secretariat Office.

Program
Program will be published soon.

Secretariat

IWSAR2009 Secretariat Office :
Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Ph.D, Associate Professor
Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (Josaphat Laboratory)
Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University
1-33, Yayoi, Inage, Chiba 263-8522 Japan
Tel/Fax +81 43 290 3840 Fax +81 43 290 3857
Email jtetukoss@faculty.chiba-u.jp

Venue

The International Workshop on Synthetic Aperture Radar (IWSAR2009) is supported by the Center for Environmental Remote Sensing and Venture Business Laboratory, Chiba University, Japan.

Place : University Convention Hall (Keyaki Kaikan), Chiba University
Date : February 16, 2009

For a complete information, please go to: http://www2.cr.chiba-u.jp/iwsar2009/

2009 CTA Photo Competition

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:43:11 PST

Enter the competition to win prices up to a maximum of EUR 900!

CTA and partners are creating a multimedia multilingual training kit to support the spread of good participatory mapping practice. The training kit will promote examples of participatory mapping practice from around the world. To achieve this goal we need your help.

We would like to include your photos in the training kit. This provides us with a wide variety of examples and applications, and allows you to share photos of your experiences with other practitioners.

To make this fun, and encourage you to contribute, we decided to hold a competition. Photos that you donate to be used in the training kit will be entered into contest (there are 15 different categories). You will have the opportunity to win up to 900 Euros. To learn more about the competition, please read the legal conditions and click the "Read more ..." button below to read the full article including the guidelines for submission and the procedures of selection and awarding.

To enter the competition you have to be a registered user. After login the Photo Competition Menu will appear on the left navigation bar.

Guidelines for submission; selection and awarding procedures

You may submit your photographs and additional data the latest on February 25, 2009. You may submit a maximum of 3 photographs per Category. Your submissions must not infringe on the rights of any other photographer or person.

Photographs must be high resolution original files of camera-made digital photos in JPEG, JPG or TIFF formats.

To enter the competition you will have to register and submit the following information: (i) Your First Name and Family Name, (ii) your nationality, (iii) your occupation, (iv) date of birth, (v) postal address and (vi) e-mail.

Each photo will need the following information: (i) title of photo, (ii) year photo taken, (iii) place and country photo taken; (iv) category, (v) short statement explaining how your photograph is representative of the chosen category (max 300 characters);

Your entry to the Competition constitutes your agreement to allow CTA to make your photograph(s), name, occupation and state of residence, public in the case of being a winner of one or more the awards. In addition it constitutes your agreement to allow CTA to use your submitted photographs in the production and publication of media including the conduct of promotional activities. In the context of the PGIS training kit [insert link] images will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 license. You will retain ownership and all other rights to future use of your photographs.

Submitted images will be judged by a jury on relevance to the category, technical excellence, composition, overall impact, and artistic merit.

At the end of February 2009, four short-listed photographs in each category will be posted on the Photo Competition website and visitors will be able to vote for the best image in each category. The voting will begin on March 1, 2009 and end on March 20, 2009. The winners will be announced on March 31, 2009. CTA shall have the right to verify, in its sole judgment, winner eligibility.

Within each category, the best photo will receive a prize of EUR 300. Entrants may submit images for more than one category, but will be eligible to win in a maximum of 3 categories.

Winners will receive the prize(s) via a wire transfer.

Reminder: To enter the competition you have to be a registered user. After login the Photo Competition Menu will appear on the left navigation bar.

Source: http://pgis.cta.int/component/content/article/39-uncategorized/58-2009-cta-photo-competition

Fourth International Workshop on "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics"

noreply@blogger.com (carrier.wgs84) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:43:11 PST

GEOG-AN-MOD 09

in conjunction with

The 2009 International Conference on Computational
Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2009)
June 29th to July 2rd, 2009
Kyung Hee University-Global Campus, Yongin (Korea)

Workshop Description

The growth of Spatial Data Infrastructures, Geo-portals and private sector initiatives (e.g. Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, etc.) produced an increase of geographical data availability at any scale and worldwide. This growth has not been fully coupled by an increase of knowledge to support spatial decisions. Spatial analytical techniques and geographical analysis and modelling methods are therefore required in order to analyse data and to facilitate the decision process at all levels. Old geographical issues can find an answer thanks to new methods and instruments, while new issues are developing, challenging the researchers for new solutions. This workshop is aimed at contributing to the development of new techniques and methods to improve the process on knowledge acquisition.

The programme committee especially requests high quality submissions on the following Conference Themes:

Geostatistics and spatial simulation;
Agent-based spatial modelling;
Cellular automata spatial modelling;
Spatial statistical models;
Space-temporal modelling;
Spatial network modelling;
Geovisual analytics, geovisualisation, visual exploratory data analysis;
Visualisation and modelling of track data;
Spatial Optimization;
Interaction Simulation Models;
Data mining, spatial data mining;
Spatial Data Warehouse and Spatial OLAP;
Integration of Spatial OLAP and Spatial data mining;
Spatial Decision Support Systems;
Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis;
Spatial Rough Set;
Spatial extension of Fuzzy Set theory;
Ontologies for Spatial Analysis;
Urban modeling;
Applied geography;
Spatial data analysis;
Dynamic modelling;
Simulation, space-time dynamics, visualization and virtual reality.

Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub-committee and result in one of the following final decisions: accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this decision will take place March 24, 2009.
Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (10 to 16 pages).
Accepted contributions will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volumes.

Source and more information: http://www.lisut.org/workshop/GEOG-AN-MOD09/

GeoEye Signs Singapore Ground Station as GeoEye-1 Satellite Imagery Regional Affiliate

noreply@blogger.com (WGS84) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:43:11 PST

Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) at the National University of Singapore Will Have Access To World's Highest Resolution Commercial Earth Imaging Satellite with Half-Meter Ground Resolution

DULLES, Va., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GeoEye, Inc. , a premier provider of satellite and aerial imagery and geospatial information, announced today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with the National University of Singapore to allow the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) to collect and sell Earth imagery and related products from its GeoEye-1 satellite. Later this year, CRISP will move into their new state-of-the-art research center which will continue to support CRISP's existing IKONOS satellite imaging operations. The new facility will be upgraded to accommodate direct access to the GeoEye-1 data.

"GeoEye is excited to expand our relationship with CRISP to include our next-generation GeoEye-1 commercial Earth imaging satellite," said Matthew O'Connell, GeoEye's chief executive officer and president. "We have supplied IKONOS imagery to CRISP for seven years and have been impressed on how advanced they are in the use of imagery and geospatial technology."

Paolo Colombi, GeoEye's vice president of international sales, added, "We are very pleased that CRISP will now be able to task, download, process, store and distribute imagery from GeoEye-1. This contract will enable geospatial information users in Southeast Asia to gain access to the best commercial satellite imagery available in the market."

"We are very proud that CRISP will soon be tasking and receiving data from the GeoEye-1 satellite from our own ground station. We will be able to receive the best commercially available imagery in the world in a very timely fashion," said Professor Bernard Tan, chairman of CRISP management board. "CRISP has been closely involved in environmental disaster monitoring and humanitarian assistance, such as the Tsunami and earthquake disasters. With the direct reception of GeoEye-1 high-resolution satellite images, CRISP will be able to contribute even more accurate information to such efforts in a timely manner."

The GeoEye-1 satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on Sept. 6, 2008 and is currently undergoing satellite check-out and calibration. The Company expects to begin providing customers with imagery in the near future. Markets that will benefit from GeoEye-1's unprecedented image quality include defense, national and homeland security, infrastructure, air and marine transportation, energy, insurance and risk management, natural resources and environmental monitoring.

About CRISP (Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing)

CRISP was established in 1992 as a Research Centre located at the National University of Singapore with funding from the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR). The Centre has focused on scientific research in the basic principles and applications of remote sensing technology. CRISP has been receiving, processing and archiving imagery from various commercial remote-sensing satellites since 1995. The Centre is a major international satellite ground station and research facility with a reputation for quality scientific research, technical competence and superior products and consultancy services. CRISP has achieved international recognition for its research on natural disaster monitoring such as forest fires, earthquakes and the Indian Ocean Tsunami. For more information about CRISP, visit its web site at http://crisp.nus.edu.sg.

About GeoEye

GeoEye is the premier provider of geospatial information for the national security community, strategic partners, resellers and commercial customers to help them better map, measure and monitor the world. The Company is recognized as the industry's trusted imagery experts for delivering reliable service and the exceptional quality of its imagery products and solutions. It operates a constellation of Earth imaging satellites, mapping aircraft and has an international network of ground stations, a robust imagery archive, and advanced imagery processing capabilities for developing innovative geospatial products and solutions. On September 6, GeoEye launched its GeoEye-1 satellite which is now the world's highest resolution and most accurate commercial imaging satellite. The Company also provides support to academic institutions and non-governmental organizations through the GeoEye Foundation. Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, GeoEye is a public company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol GEOY. It maintains a comprehensive Quality Management System (QMS) and has achieved company-wide ISO accreditation. For more information, visit www.geoeye.com.

Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. GeoEye's actual financial and operational results could differ materially from those anticipated. Additional information regarding these risk factors and uncertainties is described more fully in the Company's SEC filings. A copy of all SEC filings may be obtained from the SEC's EDGAR web site, www.sec.gov, or by contacting: William L. Warren, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, at 703-480-5672.
Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080625/LAW528LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org
PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com

SOURCE: GeoEye, Inc.

Web site: http://crisp.nus.edu.sg/
http://www.geoeye.com/

Hyundai Climate Grant

noreply@blogger.com (WGS84) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:19:38 PST

The Hyundai Climate Grant program is an innovative component of the Genesis Forest Project. In addition to financing the development and implementation of the Genesis Forest in Brazil, Hyundai will award three $35,000 grants to project developers to create new projects to meet the Climate, Community & Biodiversity (CCB) Standards.

A major obstacle to the creation of new high-quality, multiple-benefit forest carbon projects is the up-front cost of project design and validation. Hyundai seeks to facilitate the establishment of new projects by easing the associated cost burden by awarding grants to three chosen projects. Hyundai’s leadership role will therefore make it even easier for other companies to follow its lead by supporting the implementation of high-quality forest projects.

Projects will be chosen by an independent board of industry experts through a competitive application process. If you are a carbon project developer and would like to apply for a Hyundai Climate Grant, please download the application below.

Applications are due January 16, 2009.

Click here for the application

Source: http://hyundai.carbonfund.org/climateGrants.aspx