envirogrids

GeoPortal and Social Networks

2011-10-31T09:19:44Z

Connection of GeoPortal and Social Networks was initially implemented on EnviroGrids URM portal. Not the some approach is also extended for EnviroGrids. “A social network consists of a finite set or sets of actors and the relation or relations defined on them. The presence of relational information is a critical and defining feature of a social network.” [Wasserman, 1994]. As already stated, examples of web 2.0 applications include blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds, tagging, social network sites (e.g. Facebook, Myspace), search engines, Massive Multiplayer Online and others.

The focus of the EnviroGrids project is on social network sites (e.g Facebook, Twitter) as one of the main dissemination and communication tool. The main aim of this activity is to communicate (to give information and to retrieve some feedback) about the EnviroGrids developments through the EnviroGrids Geoportal. This will enable to induce discussion about certain topics. The retrieved feedback should serve as input information for further developments.

The EnviroGrids Geoportal will be an entry point for any news (new developments, problematic topics, progress in the project, etc.). News will be posted by the project partners and will be automatically distributed to a number of selected communities – social network sites. Feedback from these social network sites will be retrieved using RSS and answered again from the central point – EnviroGrids Plus Geoportal.

This approach will allow involving other communities from one place without having to enter each community. Users of various social network sites can read entries and comment through their respective communities and don’t have to register elsewhere.

TIEMS News

2012-01-17T16:58:17Z

Dear TIEMS Members and Friends,

Please, be informed about the following good TIEMS news:

Deadline for submitting a paper or poster abstract extended to 1st December 2010
TIEMS Secretariat opened in Brussels
Emergency Management Asia event in Bangkok 12 - 13 January 2011

Deadline for submitting a paper or poster abstract extended to 1st December 2010

After several requests, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting a poster or paper abstract for:

TIEMS Annual Conference 2011 in Bucharest to 1st Decemeber 2011
TIEMS Workshop in Alés to 1st December 2010

Please, use this opportunity to join international experts with presenting your scientific or practical work in emergency and disaster management and response at one or both of these events!

TIEMS Secretariat opened in Brussels

We are pleased to announce that TIEMS secretariat was opened in Brussels 1st November 2010.

Address: 22 Avenue Plasky, 1030 Brussels, Belgium

Tel: +32 2 286 80 38; Fax: +32 2 286 80 39; Web: www.squaris.com

Contact person: Marie-Christine BONNAMOUR at mc.bonnamour@squaris.com

This has been possible through a platinum sponsorship from TIEMS Director for Communication and Publication and Chairman of HARMONY Technologies Co., Ltd:

http://www.harmonytech.com.cn/web/gongsi/

Established in 2002, Harmony is the largest solutions provider in China for Emergency Management System ICT platform construction. HARMONY provides services in the Emergency Management industry for the government, including: consulting, platform design & fulfilment, application and data development and management.

Headquartered in Beijing, with branches in Hei-longjiang, Shanxi, Guangdong, and Sichuan provinces, HARMONY focuses on government EMS, HIT, eGovernment info sharing and resource integration applications.

HARMONY is the founder and consulting member of the Emergency Management System (EMS) research project for the State Council of China,the consulting member of Beijing EMS Research Group, the Chief architect for the EMS IT platform of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Summer Games.

Emergency Management Asia event in Bangkok 12 - 13 January 2011

This event is supported by TIEMS, where TIEMS President will be a Keynote speaker and initiate a TIEMS chapter in ASEAN.

www.emergencymanagementasia.com

In its inaugural year, Emergency Management Asia will address the issues of interoperability at both the risk management and crisis management stages. Drawing on regional and international expertise, delegates can expect to project lessons learned and real scenarios onto their own current and future projects and plans.

Additionally, Emergency Management Asia will also focus on the development phase of the disaster management cycle, allowing any party that is involved in this phase to implement best practice planning and policy execution.

This conference will be the most focused disaster management conference in the region and, will attract some of the community’s most respected regional practitioners to speak at the event.

Organizer is: IQPC Worldwide Pte Ltd, 61 Robinson Road #14-01 Robinson Centre, Singapore 068893. Email: enquiry@iqpc.com.sg; Tel: +65 6722 9388; Fax: +65 6224 2515.

Yours sincerely

K. Harald Drager

TIEMS President

Call for contributions

2012-01-17T16:54:43Z

Dear Potential Authors/Contributors,

We would like to address you with this attractive proposal. Czech Centre for Science and Society is going to set out a monograph on ICT for Agriculture and Environment. The book will be published with registered ISBN in electronic and paper version and it will be distributed free of charge in paper and electronic form.

Body of editors is now publishing call for contributors. We are very interested in new research results in this area. We would like to invite you to consider submitting a proposal for the chapter in this book. If you have an unpublished article on your hand or if you are able to prepare such article in a short time, please send electronic version of abstract of your paper to us (tentative title, abstract and contact details is enough according scheme below). From the offered articles will be selected contribution for monograph.

You can focus your submissions on following topics:

Vision of future farming systems
ICT- technologies, equipment and know-how for integrated and sustainable land- and farm-management
ICT as enabler for future sustainable rural business
How ICT could support environmentally friendly production
New enabling technologies
Sensors technologies
Robotics
Agriculture 2.0 Communities, Social Networks in Research and Practices
Communities, Social Networks – State-of-the-Art and Future in Rural World

You are of course welcome to expand them or come up with your own topics related to ICT for Agriculture and Environment.

Please use this form of abstract:

Title
Author(s)
Affiliation
Keywords (4-7)
Abstract (200 - 300 words)

Please send us your abstract on October 31^th 2010 at the latest by e-mail in any common format (e.g. DOC, ODT, PDF, RTF,..).

After acceptance of your contribution (November 6^th 2010), you will receive a template for your chapter. Deadline for final version (10 pages max.) will be on November 30^th 2010.

We will also be most grateful to you if you can further circulate this call for chapters amongst your friends/colleagues and help me post it on appropriate servers.

We are looking forward to your contribution.

Best Regards

Karel Charvat Junior, Book Editor

Czech Centre for Science and Society

charvat_junior@ccss.cz

14th International Convention and Fair Informática 2011

2012-01-17T14:03:04Z

14th International Convention and Fair Informática 2011 Dear colleagues: From February 7th to 11th, 2011, Havana will host the 14th edition of the Convention and International Fair Informática 2011 that will take place in the Havana´s Palacio de las Convenciones and the PABEXPO Fairgrounds. “Convergent Technologies: integration and independence”, is the central theme of our Informatics meeting in Havana. We invite you to a scientific-technological discussion, as well as to the presentation of projects and initiatives on the main subjects summoned in each one of the events taking part of the Convention and the Fair.

Informática 2011 will be a space for the interchange among professionals, scientists, technicians, entrepreneurs, governmental representatives, international organizations and the general public interested in researching, promoting, analyzing and learning about the advances in the fields of information technologies, telecommunications, electronics, medical equipment and automatics in Cuba and in the World.

The Informática 2011 Organizing Committee reiterates the invitation to present your professional contributions and commercial samples, with our assurance that all of us will reach our common objectives in a climate of friendliness and cooperation.

PhD. Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella
Organizing Committee Executive President
Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Informatics and Communications

Last Mile: GEOProcessing 2011 || February 23-28, 2011 - Gosier

2012-01-17T16:59:18Z

INVITATION:

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Note that we are entering the last few days to submit articles as the
submission deadline is October 15, 2010

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups
the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results

============== GEOProcessing 2011 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

GEOProcessing 2011: The Third International Conference on Advanced
Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services

February 23-28, 2011 - Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/GEOProcessing11.html

Call for Papers:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CfPGEOProcessing11.html

Submission deadline: October 15, 2010

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts,
state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments,
applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit
complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other
conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of
Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business
presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

GEOProcessing 2011 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the
site)

Geo-spatial fundamentals

Fundamentals of geo-information; New trends in GIS technologies and
research; Techniques for geographical representation; Integrated
architectures for geo-spatial information; Geo-spatial data in net-centric
environment; Geo-spatial technology; Discovery, indexing and integration of
geographical information systems; Geo-processing of distributed data;
Geo-information processing; Use of computational geometry for GIS problems;
Virtual globes and their application to scientific research; Spatial
decision support systems

Geo-spatial Web Services

Geo-spatial Web Services and applications; Geo-spatial Web Services and
simulation and modeling; Geo-spatial Web Services and sensors; Geo-spatial
Web Services and interoperability; Geo-spatial Web Services and processing;
Geo-spatial Web Servcies and spatial analysis; Geo-spatial Web Services and
society; Geo-spatial Web Services and information retrieval; Geo-spatial Web
Services and human computer interaction; Geo-spatial Web Services and
mobility

GIS

Wireless and mobile GIS; Integration of remote sensing, GIS and GPS;
Statistics and application models of spatial data; GIS for the environment
and health; Satellite positioning technology and LBS; Urban GIS and its
applications; Theories and algorithms in GIS; Government and public GIS

Geo-spatial simulation and visualization

2D and 3D information visualization; Distributed simulations and sensor
webs; Simulation modeling dynamic geo processes; Exploratory spatial data
analysis; Fine-grained, terrestrial monitoring platforms; Geo-visualization
and geo-visual analytics; Visualization of geospatial uncertainty;
Representation and visualization of geospatial data

Geo-modeling

Standards and geo-spatial metadata; Novel geo-spatial data processing and
management mechanisms; Spatio-temporal data modeling and reasoning; 3D
modeling and GIS; Modeling and analysis of terrains; Modeling uncertainty in
geo-spatial information; Spatial and spatio-temporal statistics; Geo-spatial
and spatio-temporal data mining; Virtual modeling of large geographic areas;
Time-geography modeling

Digital cartography data

Digital geographical libraries; Exploratory cartography and interfaces;
Digital cartography; Automated mapping and map generalization; Cartographic
theory and applications; Data models in cartography; Geographical search
engines

Earth Geo-observation

Climate change and the global environment; Data systems for the future Earth
observation satellites; Calibration and validation of remotely sensed data;
Earth observation sensor networks and applications; Earth observation
technology and systems

Geo-sensing

Acquisition and processing of remotely sensed data; Information extraction
from remotely sensed data; Data mining across sensor; Intelligent
sensors/sensor fusion; Co-operative sensing and organization; Sensor
information management systems; Spatio-temporal sensor data mining; Sensor
networks and interaction with actuators; Geo-sensor specialized networks
(e.g. disaster management, early warning systems, environmental monitoring)

Geo-spatial domain applications

Geology and hydrogeology geographical data; Standardization of geodata and
geoservices; Environment and land surveying; Oceanographic geo-information;
Natural resource information systems; Remote sensing geospatial data
collection; Geo-spatial data and vehicular technologies; Geology and
Hydrology applications; Location-based services; Environmental monitoring;
Special applications: 3D cadastre, traffic management, etc.

Managing geo-spatial data

Managing uncertainty in spatial information; Automatic mapping (possibly
web-based ...); Digital elevation/shape modeling; Web-based visualization of
statistical data within a geographic framework; Tools and links between GIS
and statistical software packages; Business mapping (spatial analysis for
business processes as customer segmentation, churn analysis, etc.); Wireless
sensor networks for spatial applications; Errors and their measurement in
spatial data

Committee:

http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/ComGEOProcessing11.html

GeoPortal and Social Networks

2012-01-17T14:21:28Z

“A social network consists of a finite set or sets of actors and the relation or relations defined on them. The presence of relational information is a critical and defining feature of a social network.” [Wasserman, 1994]

As already stated, examples of web 2.0 applications include blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds, tagging, social network sites (e.g. Facebook, Myspace), search engines, Massive Multiplayer Online and others.

The focus of the NaturNet Plus project is on social network sites (e.g Facebook, Twitter) as one of the main dissemination and communication tool.

The main aim of this activity is to communicate (to give information and to retrieve some feedback) about the NaturNet Plus developments through the NaturNet Plus Geoportal. This will enable to induce discussion about certain topics. The retrieved feedback should serve as input information for further developments.

The NaturNet Plus Geoportal will be an entry point for any news (new developments, problematic topics, progress in the project, etc.). News will be posted by the project partners and will be automatically distributed to a number of selected communities – social network sites. Feedback from these social network sites will be retrieved using RSS and answered again from the central point – NaturNet Plus Geoportal. See Figure 1.

Fig. 1 - Geoportal & Social Network Sites

4th way 2 SDI

2012-01-17T14:34:38Z

What are three common ways, how to build SDI, how 4th way could integrate all this approaches

3 ways of SDI building

Public administration - this group is oriented on INSPIRE. Data stored on this portals have life cycle. This means that this data are acquired every day, week, month, year, … and it is known when this data was made.
Commercial Public portals –it can be put Google, yahoo and another portals in this group. It is used every day by ordinary users whose looking for some information. This data can't be mainly used because we don't know for example license, property or time of making of data.
Online communities –best known in this group is probably OpenStreetMap . This is open source spatial data which is available all over the world. Data are made by everyone who knows how to do it. Problem is that this data are made continuously and don't have conditions of checking up of changes. What is big advantage is that it has big human power.

4^th way

Solution provided by Help Service Remote Sensing, Czech Centre for Science and Society and WirelessInfo, which is interconnection of information of public administration, commercial sector and social networks into one large distributed network of information and services.
Intellectual Property Rights to information and services are preserved (provider can decide to whom and how the data and the services will be provided).
INSPIRE compliant, exploitation of open standards. Our “4^th WAY 2 SDI” is a support for building of Single Information Space in Europe for the Environment (SISE) and Shared Environmental Information Space” (SEIS) .

Pyramide versus "SpiderNet" principle

Abbas Rajabifard at all in „From Local to Global SDI initiatives: a pyramid of building blocks“ defined pyramid as basic infrastructure for building of global SDI. Current experiences demonstrate, that for practical usage is more efficient “spider net infrastructure”, where different local or global levels are able directly share data. As examples could be for example mentioned cross border systems, system of different communities across Europe or world, etc.

What is URM

2012-01-17T14:29:14Z

Uniform Resource Management (URM) provides a framework in which communities can share information and knowledge through their description, which is easy understandable inside of the community. In order to effectively share information and knowledge, there is a standardized schema, which supports uniform description of information and knowledge including common vocabularies.

A schema defines the meaning, characteristics, and relationships of a set of properties, and this may include constraints on potential values and the inheritance of properties from other schemas. The schema specification language is a declarative representation language influenced by ideas from knowledge representation (e.g. semantic nets, frames, predicate logic) as well as database schema specification languages and graphic data models. The context characterizes any information, knowledge and observation. Context strongly influences the way how the information will be used. There are different definitions of context in existence. The important issues for the context are:

• to identity of an entity;

• to profile of an entity;

• spatial information

• temporal information

• environmental information

• social relation

• resources that are nearby

• availability of resources;

Many context attributes characterize the environmental information or knowledge. From the point of view of context, the information or knowledge could be divided into different parties:

• Information or knowledge provider i.e. a party supplying the resource;

• Custodian accepts accountability and responsibility for the resources and ensures appropriate care and maintenance of the resource;

• Owner of the resource;

• User, who uses the resource;

• Distributor who distributes the resource;

• Originator who created the resource;

• Point of Contact to be contacted for acquiring knowledge about or acquisition of the resource;

• Principal investigator responsible for gathering information and conducting research;

• Processor who has processed the data in a manner such that the original resource has been modified;

• Publisher, i.e. party who published the resource;

• Author, i.e. party who authored the resource.

Geoportal is a place which allows users to search, view, examine and share spatial and non-spatial data. Geoportal is based on interoperability standards (OGC, W3C, OASIS, ISO) which are connected to other resources on web and helps to create distributed structure of information and knowledge based on spatial localisation. Geoportal should not be closed central storage of spatial data without possibility of redistribution of this data. Geoportal should not be a solution that doesn't support searching of data and information and their viewing and using by external sources.

The EnviroGrids portal is a new integrated solution being designed as combination of previous technologies - Uniform Resource Management, Geohosting and new technological development of a visualization client based on HSLayers. The URM Geoportal is not one integrated solution, but set of modules and services, which are able to communicate through interoperable services (OGC, W3C). The solution is modular and could be easy modifying for different purposes. URM Geoportal is based on Open Source technologies, but it could be integrated with different technologies like MS SQL or ArcSDE. Uniform Resource Management (URM supports validation, discovery and access to heterogeneous information and knowledge. It is based on utilization of metadata schemas. The URM models currently also integrate different tools, which support sharing of knowledge. Geoportal contains common visualization, data sharing, metadata and catalogue functionalities. Additional parts of solution could be also tools for management sensor observation and spatial data transformation and processing.

GeoPortal4everybody

2012-01-17T14:27:51Z

4th way 2 SDI

What is geoportal

Geoportal is an interface that enables search, portrayal, evaluation, sharing, analyse and reuse of spatial and non-spatial data.
Geoportal is a solution based on interoperable standards (OGC, W3C, OASIS, ISO). Geoportal is interconnected to other resources through the Internet. It helps to create a distributed structure of information and knowledge with spatial position.

What is not geoportal

Central data storage
Closed web application with maps
A solution that does not offer an open interface and that creates one-way collection space for spatial information (e.g. Google)
A solution that does not support search of data and information and their portrayal and use by help of other resources (Geoportal can be limited to paid outputs)

3 ways of SDI building

Public administration - this group is oriented on INSPIRE. Data stored on this portals have life cycle. This means that this data are acquired every day, week, month, year, … and it is known when this data was made.

Commercial Public portals –it can be put google, yahoo and another portals in this group. It is used every day by ordinary users whose looking for some information. This data can't be mainly used because we don't know for example licence, property or time of making of data.

Online communities –best known in this group is propably OpenStreetMap . This is open source spatial data which is available all over the world. Data are made by everyone who knows how to do it. Problem is that this data are made continuously and don't have conditions of checking up of changes. What is big advantage is that it has big human power.

4^thway

Solution provided by Help Service Remote Sensing, Czech Centre for Science and Society and WirelessInfo, which is interconnection of information of public administration, commercial sector and social networks into one large distributed network of information and services.
Intellectual Property Rights to information and services are preserved (provider can decide to whom and how the data and the services will be provided).
INSPIRE compliant, exploitation of open standards. Our “4^thWAY 2 SDI”is a support for building of Single Information Space in Europe for the Environment (SISE) and Shared Environmental Information Space” (SEIS) .

GeoPortal4Everybody

Independent components
Composition according to user requirements
Based on SOA
Possibility to integrate with other resources
Maximum openness
- Open Source
- Open Standards
Extension to non-GIS community
- Open Search
- Administration of other (non-spatial) data sources

Geoportal4everybody

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SDI, Communities and Social Networks

2012-01-17T15:37:11Z

Dear Potential Authors/Contributors,

We would like to address you with this attractive proposal. We are going to set out a monograph on SDI, Communities and Social Networks topic.

We are very interested in your research. If you have an unpublished article on hand or if you are able to prepare such article in a short time, please send electronic version of abstract of your paper to us.

You can focus your submissions on following topics:

Communities, Social Networks and Business Facilities in GIT World
Community activities in GIT
Communities, Social Networks in Research and Academic Sphere
Building SDI & Networking
Communities, Social Networks – State-of-the-Art and Future in GI World
Voluntary initiatives and SDI

You are, of course, welcome to expand on them or come up with your own topics related to SDI, Communities and Social Networks.

We would like to invite you to consider submitting a proposal for the chapter in this book (tentative title, abstract and contact details is enough).

Please use this form of abstract :

Title
Author(s)
Affiliation
Keywords (4-7)
Abstract (200 - 300 words)

Please send us your text on September 10th 2010 at the latest by e-mail in any common format (e.g. DOC, ODT, PDF, RTF,...).

After receiving and acceptance (September 20th 2010) of your contribution there will be a deadline for final version on October 15th 2010 (10 pages max.).

After acceptance of your abstract (September 20th) you will receive a template for your chapter.

We will also be most grateful to you if you can further circulate this call for chapters amongst your friends/colleagues and help me post it on appropriate servers.

Looking forward to your proposal.

Regards

Kristýna Čerbová

cerbova@ccss.cz

GeoServer on URM portal

2012-01-17T16:53:35Z

GeoServer was integrated as part of URM Geoportal. It give possibility to extend functionality of Geoportal and also use Geoportal by other communities.

GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards. GeoServer is the reference implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS) standards, as well as a high performance certified compliant Web Map Service (WMS). GeoServer forms a core component of the Geospatial Web. GeoServer is now optional possibilities on Geoportal for user publishing of Geospatial services. With this integration GeoServer Community could use advantage of URM portal.

envirogrids

GeoPortal and Social Networks

TIEMS News

Call for contributions

14th International Convention and Fair Informática 2011

Last Mile: GEOProcessing 2011 || February 23-28, 2011 - Gosier

GeoPortal and Social Networks

4th way 2 SDI

3 ways of SDI building

4th way

Pyramide versus "SpiderNet" principle

What is URM

GeoPortal4everybody

4th way 2 SDI

What is geoportal

What is not geoportal

3 ways of SDI building

4thway

GeoPortal4Everybody

SDI, Communities and Social Networks

GeoServer on URM portal

4^th way

4^thway