Geomatics covers the science and technology of gathering different sources of geospatial data, which after storing, interpreting, analyzing, modelling and distributing, can be turned into useful geographic information. Geomatics involves the tools and techniques used in surveying, cartography, photogrammetry, remote sensing, satellite navigation systems, geographical information systems and other earth-related disciplines.

August 26, 2012

FIG Foundation PhD Scholarships


The FIG Foundation will be providing scholarships of up to 4,000 euros to PhD students. 

Applicants shall:
1.     be studying for a PhD degree and registered solely in a surveying/geomatics academic programme that teaches surveying in a country listed by the World Bank as a low-income, lower-middle or upper-middle income economy ,
2.     must have had a paper accepted by a peer reviewed international journal based on their doctoral research project; applicants should be the lead author, and the paper should be co-authored with their supervisor,
3.     should not have submitted their final thesis at the application deadline. 

Applications will be judged on the quality of the application and need. In the event that two excellent applications are judged to be of equal quality, applications from low-income and lower-middle income countries will be preferred. Applications are to be sent to fig@fig.net with “FIG Foundation PhD Scholarship Application” shown in the Subject Line. 

OSGeo-Live 6.0 released


Version 6.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection has been
released, and will be officially launched at OSGIS 2012, the Open
Source GIS conference in Nottingham, UK, 4-5 September.

Release Highlights

Applications All geospatial applications on the disc have been updated
to their latest stable releases. OpenJDK 7 All OSGeo-Live java
applications have been successfully migrated to OpenJDK 7. Migration
to OpenJDK was driven by Oracle's announcement that including Sun Java
in Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, or OSGeo-Live, is no longer
allowed. Translations There has been significant activity translating
OSGeo-Live documentation. Core documents are available in ten
languages, and comprehensive translations are available for many other
languages, including: Catalan (new), Chinese (new), English, French (new), German, Greek, Italian (new), Japanese, Korean (new), Polish, Spanish Xubuntu 12.04 LTS The Xubuntu base has been upgraded to 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support)


About OSGeo-Live

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and
Virtual Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux that is pre-configured with a
wide variety of robust open source geospatial software. The
applications can be trialled without installing anything on your
computer, simply by booting the computer from a DVD or USB drive, or
running in a Virtual Machine environment. An accompanying collection
of lightning presentations introduce the breadth and depth of Free and
Open Source for Geospatial.

World Wind Europa Challenge Summer School (Como, Italy, 19-21 September 2012)


Official Website: 

Poster / Programme: 

August 16, 2012

Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation


Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation is a peer-reviewed, semiannual, open access and widely distributed periodical, published by UCTEA Chamber of Surveying and Cadastre Engineers, Turkey. The Journal was published under the name of "Hkm Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management" between 2003 and 2011.

http://www.hkmodergi.org/jgg/index.php/JGG/index

August 03, 2012

GeoMundus 2012, Lisbon, November 9-10, 2012


Call for Participation

http://www.geomundus.org

 

GeoMundus is a symposium on different Geoscience disciplines including, but not limited to Geography, Earth and Environmental Studies, Geographic Information Science and Geoinformatics, Agriculture, Ecology and Environment, Disaster Management, and any other area in the broad field of Geoscience. This conference is organized by the students from the consortium of Erasmus Mundus (EM) International Master's program in Geospatial Technologies. It is a free of charge conference organized by students and for students. The conference will have participants from more than 25 countries, and is also an opportunity to hear from expert speakers from different fields of Geoscience.

PE&RS Special Issue Call for Papers: "Geospatial Responses to Disasters - A Holistic Approach"


Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS)

Special Issue Call for Papers - “Geospatial Responses to Disasters: A Holistic Approach (Web-based GIS/Mobile Devices)”

http://www.asprs.org/PE-RS-Submissions-Policy-and-Guidelines/Call-for-Papers-Geospatial-Responses-to-Disasters-A-Holistic-Approach.html

 

Guest Editors:

Dr. Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano

Dr. Piero Boccardo, Politecnico di Torino

Mr. David Alvarez, Fluor-B&W Portsmouth

Special Hydrology Session at the AGU Fall Meeting 2012 (H049): Using Remote Sensing and Global Weather Datasets for Hydrologic Modeling in Data-Scarce Regions: Opportunities and Challenges


Participate and submit an abstract to this special session at the American Geophysical Union 2012 Fall Meeting.  AGU Fall meeting (3-7 December 2012) will be held in San Francisco, USA.

H049: Using Remote Sensing and Global Weather Datasets for Hydrologic Modeling in Data-Scarce Regions: Opportunities and Challenges

Co-conveners: Gabriel Senay, Mekonnen Gebremicheal, and Naga Manohar Velpuri

Description: Hydrologic modeling in data-scarce regions is challenging because in situ data required to parameterize, calibrate, validate and operate hydrologic models are not available. Remote sensing and global weather datasets that offer consistent and spatially distributed data have brought a new dimension to hydrologic modeling in data scarce regions. However, there is a clear need to understand and articulate the opportunities and challenges of using such datasets. In this session, we encourage submissions that address this need. This session also responds to one of the IAHS's Predictions in Ungauged Basins Initiative goals.

Index Terms: [1846] HYDROLOGY / Model calibration; [1847] HYDROLOGY / Modeling; [1855] HYDROLOGY / Remote sensing and [1874] HYDROLOGY / Ungaged basins

The deadline for all submissions is August 8, 23:59 EDT. You can submit your abstract online at http://agu-fm12.abstractcentral.com