Events

  • FOSS4G – Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics Conference
    Sep. 6th - 9th 2010
    Barcelona, Spain

    FOSS4G is "the conference" for Open Source Geospatial Software and in year 2010 will meet in Barcelona, Spain. FOSS4G is heralded as the international "gathering of tribes" of open source geospatial communities, where developers and users show off their latest software and projects. The spatial industry is undergoing rapid innovations and the open source spatial community is one of the forces driving the change. The FOSS4G conference is more than a melting pot of great ideas it is a catalyst and opportunity to unite behind the many successful geospatial products, standards and protocols.

  • 15th IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress
    Sep. 11th - 16th 2010
    Vancouver, Canada

    The 2010 IUAPPA Congress theme of "Achieving Environmental Sustainability in a Resource Hungry World" recognizes the need for holistic management approaches to effectively mitigate potential water, food, energy and environmental challenges. This Congress will bring together specialists from academia, industry, consulting, environmental advocacy groups and government to present innovative ways to improve air quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and minimize environmental impacts. The program will examine international, national and local-scale issues facing both emerging and developed economies.

  • 6th GIScience
    Sep. 14th - 17th 2010
    Zurich, Switzerland

    GIScience 2010 aims to bring together scientists from academia, industry, and government to discuss the state-of-the-art in geographic information science, and explore emerging research directions. The conference focuses on basic research findings across all sectors of the field, and pure application papers are discouraged.

  • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURES 2010
    Sep. 15th - 17th 2010
    Skopje, Macedonia

    The main theme of the Conference is the development and use of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI's) and all their aspects - technology, criteria and standards for organizing and sharing spatial data. The realization of the European INSPIRE directive in the countries of South East Europe is expected to be an important part of the conference.

    The ambition of the conference is to become the major SDI conference in the region and be influential for SDI development.

    Deadline for submitting abstracts is the 15th of February 2010.

  • EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference
    Sep. 20th - 24th 2010
    Córdoba, Spain

    The 2010 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference will focus on atmospheric composition - the situation today and the path to the future. Research and observational activities are being used to deepen the understanding of our atmospheric system to support decision-making globally.

    Session topics will address:

    Current and future satellites and applications Monitoring climate and understanding climate processes based on satellite data Satellite-based observation of the oceans Nowcasting Atmospheric composition Training and outreach Facilitating data access and utilisation

  • LBS 2010
    Sep. 20th - 22nd 2010
    Guangzhou, China

    The symposium brings together experts from around the world to present the latest research results and developments focusing on Location Based Services in the fields of Cartography, Geoinformation, Computer Sciences, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Telecommunication, Geodesy, and Geomedia Techniques.

  • HUMBOLDT Open Day: Geospatial Data Harmonisation in Action
    Sep. 28th 2010
    Lisbon, Portugal

    The HUMBOLDT Open Day will give stakeholders of INSPIRE and GMES the opportunity to get an insight into the main outcomes and achievements of the EU project HUMBOLDT: the HUMBOLDT Open Source Tools, Services and processes for data harmonisation. These results will be demonstrated in the application context of selected scenarios (e.g. applications from the areas of Protected Areas, Ocean and Marine Environment, Transboundary Catchments, Atmosphere or Flood Risk Management).

    In addition to these showcase presentations, the participants will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the training courses available on the HUMBOLDT training platform as well as to receive supervised hands-on experiences with the tools for data harmonisation.

    This Workshop is organized and supported by the consortium of the HUMBOLDT project in cooperation with VESTA-GIS. It is co-located with a Training Conference organized by the NATURESDIPlus project on Wednesday, 29th September 2010. The host for both events is the Instituto Geográfico Português (IGP) from Portugal which is the national agency from the public central administration, responsible for the national SDI (SNIG), geodetic network and cadastre.

  • Open Days 2010: Objective 2020 – Competitiveness, cooperation and cohesion for all regions
    Oct. 4th - 7th 2010
    Brussels, Belgium

    The OPEN DAYS bring together political representatives, decision-makers, experts and practitioners of regional policy as well as stakeholders from business, banking, civil society organisations, academia and EU institutions to discuss common challenges for European regions and cities and debate possible solutions. It provides a platform for capacity-building to those involved in implementing EU cohesion policy and in managing its financial instruments.

  • INTERGEO 2010 – Conference and trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and landmanagement
    Oct. 5th - 7th 2010
    Cologne, Germany

    INTERGEO is the world's largest event and communication platform for geodesy, geoinformation and land management. The trade fair and conference cover all the key trends that crop up along the entire value-added chain – from geo-based information surveys and data processing to integrated applications.

  • Development and cooperation in the Mediterranean region using satellite services
    Oct. 14th - 15th 2010
    Rabat, Morocco

    This Conference aims to offer a forum to development experts, policy- and decision-makers at local, regional, continental and international levels, satellite service providers, civil society organisations and specialists of the Mediterranean region to:

    Exchange good practices on how satellite information and services help tackle the challenges around the Mediterranean Identify the needs of public administrations, businesses, civil society organisations and other potential users with regard to satellite services Analyse service providers' capacities to meet users' needs Initiate cooperation among service providers, and among users, around the Mediterranean Identify user requirements for infrastructure development Provide the resulting bottom-up feedback to decision-makers

  • GSDI 12 World Conference
    Oct. 18th - 22nd 2010
    Singapore, Singapore

    The Conference is organised by the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) together with GSDI Association, and the Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific (PCGIAP). It will include a range of geospatial events in addition to the 12th GSDI Conference and the 16th PCGIAP Annual Meeting. The organisers expect to attract more than 800 delegates and exhibitors from all over the world. Delegates will have the opportunitiy to meet and exchange views about implementing and developing spatial data infrastructure (SDI) concepts and practice.

  • 3rd International Conference on Geoinformation Technology for Natural Disaster Management & Rehabilitation
    Oct. 19th - 20th 2010
    Chiang Mai, Thailand

    The symposium will focus on the use of geoinformatics for natural disaster preparedness such as earthquake, flood, typhoon and tsunami etc.,and for rehabilitation and risk management by exploring the various causative factors. There will also be deliberations on how to use GIS for better planning of risk areas.

  • Climate Change and Impact Assessment
    Oct. 25th - 26th 2010
    Aalborg, Denmark

    This European special symposium will involve important actors and stakeholders from all levels and sectors to help foster a fruitful dialogue and bridge gaps among climate change and impact assessment communities. Dialogue within as well as across groups and disciplines is key in the effort to build sustainability in societal decision making.

  • Enviromatics 2010
    Nov. 1st - 3rd 2010
    Ammam, Jordan

    Environmental Management research and practice is increasingly aided by and dependent on information technology. Enviromatics 2010 addresses recent developments in Geomatics and their applications in the field of environmental management. It addresses all aspects of the geo-information cycle, from data acquisition, processing, management, visualization and delivery.

  • 14th ASITA Conference
    Nov. 9th - 12th 2010
    Brescia, Italy

  • Maps and the Internet Meeting
    Nov. 19th 2010
    Orlando, United States

    The annual meeting of the Maps and the Internet Commission will take place November 19, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, in association with AutoCarto 2010 (http://www.cartogis.org/autocarto). The focus of this meeting with be on Online Maps with APIs and Webservices and papers will appear in planned book to be published in 2011.

  • DGI 2011
    Jan. 24th - 27th 2011
    London, United Kingdom

    Over 45 MODs across the world have named GIS as their top priority and are currently looking for solutions and integration tools, to give their users effective geospatial intelligence and capability support. Geospatial intelligence strategies across entire organisations will be a key focus at DGI 2011.

  • GEOProcessing 2011 - Third International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services
    Feb. 23rd - 28th 2011
    Gosier, Guadeloupe

  • 10th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2011)
    Mar. 3rd - 4th 2011
    Kyoto, Japan

    The 2011 Symposium, hosted by Kyoto University, is intended to provide an up-to-date review of advances in recent development of Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS). W2GIS is a series of successful events alternating locations between East Asia and Europe, with the most recent event held in Maynooth, Ireland. The 10th Symposium is returning to Kyoto, where the W2GIS series was first launched in 2001.

  • BioMarine Business Convention
    Mar. 21st - 23rd 2011
    Nantes & Saint-Nazaire, France

    BioMarine Business Convention is a unique event dedicated to marine bioresources. It is organized around a platform of meetings and discussions for industrials, scientists, investors, economic development agencies, allowing them to boost their acquisitions, investments, trade agreements, technologies transfers, and development partnerships at an international level. Its goal is to develop small, medium and national companies on the international stage.

  • Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience
    Apr. 12th - 16th 2011
    Seattle, United States

    A special symposium focused on the research status, recent advances and research needs of space-time integration, modeling and analysis in geography and GIScience will be organized within the AAG Annual Meeting. This special set of invited papers will feature many leading geography and GIScience researchers from Asia and Europe as well as from other regions of the world, and will form a high-profile international symposium within the AAG Annual Meeting.

  • 5th International Workshop on Information Fusion and Geographical Information Systems: Towards the Digital Ocean (IF&GIS 2011)
    May 10th - 11th 2011
    Brest, France

    The 5th event will move to Brest in France with a specific focus on maritime geographical information systems and the digital ocean. It will be organised under the umbrella of the 3rd International conference on Safer Seas. The 5th IF&GIS workshop will bring academic and industrial experts from a large set of fields such as GIS, mathematics, statistics, artificial intelligence, geography, computational geometry, cognitive science, spatial databases, visualisation, environment sciences, underwater acoustics. The scope of the 5th IF&GIS workshop will address several research issues from the modelling, analysis, information processing and visualization of geographical information with a specific application to the maritime environment.

  • 4th International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2011)
    May 12th - 13th 2011
    Brest, France

    GEOspatial Semantics (GEOS) is an emerging research area in the domain of geographic information systems and spatial databases. The fourth edition of GeoS aims at providing a forum for the exchange of state-of-the-art research results in the areas of modelling and processing of geospatial semantics. It has been largely recognized that Geospatial semantics play an important role for the development of next-generation spatial databases and geographic information systems, as well as specialized geospatial web services.

  • 9th International Navigational Symposium on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation (TRANS-NAV 2011)
    Jun. 15th - 17th 2011
    Gdynia, Poland

    The 9th Navigational Symposium is addressed to scientists and professionals in order to share their expert knowledge, experience and research results concerning all aspects of navigation, safety of navigation and sea transportation.

  • 25th International Cartographic conference and the 15th General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association (ICC 2011)
    Jul. 3rd - 8th 2011
    Paris, France