SANY Sensors Anywhere

The EGU General Assembly 2010 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Especially for young scientists the EGU appeals to provide a forum to present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geosciences. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcome you in Vienna!

ESSI15/GI11 Web Sensors session

"In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together. It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices: thermostats, pressure gauges, pollution detectors, cameras, microphones, glucose sensors, EKGs, electroencephalographs. These will probe and monitor cities and endangered species, the atmosphere, our ships, highways and fleets of trucks, our conversations, our bodies--even our dreams." (Neil Gross: Interview with Terry Murray in Business Week, August 1999)

Ten years later, the low-cost miniaturized sensors and wireless sensor nodes are on a way to become truly ubiquitous, but the vision of a fully fledged electronic skin is still a remote dream. The aim of this session is to discuss the factors that have so-far prevented the establishment of the "electronic skin", analyze the recent developments, and propose the agenda for achieving the Murray's vision in a technologically feasible, economically sane and societally acceptable manner.

We encourage the submission of both conceptual and application oriented contributions for the following topics (but are not limited to):

• Business Models: how can we achieve the sustainability of the "electronic skin" infrastructure?
  
• Cost & performance: which main cost factors exist; how do they scale (e.g. with network size, number of nodes, time, type and quality of observations), and what can be done to optimize the total cost of ownership?
  

The INSPIRE Conference 2010 will take place from 23 to 25 June 2010 in Krakow, Poland. On 22 June pre-conference workshops will be organized. The theme of this year’s edition is "Spatial Data Infrastructure as a Framework for Collaboration".

The INSPIRE Conference will be organised through a series of plenary sessions addressing common policy issues, and parallel sessions focusing in particular on applications and implementations of SDIs, research issues and new and evolving technologies and applications and poster presentations.

Participation in the INSPIRE Conference is open to all individuals interested in or working in the field of SDI development and implementation. Abstracts must be received by the deadline will be considered for program placement under the standard review process.

Topics for which contributions are sought include, but are not limited to,

• INSPIRE Implementation: Legislative measures, coordination and organisational models
  
• INSPIRE and the global context: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, Global Earth Observation System of Systems, United Nations SDI
  
• Thematic communities
  
• Licensing frameworks
  
• GeoPortals and registries
  
• Social and economic impacts
  
• Education and awareness raising
  
• Trans-national SDI projects (including EU (co-)funded projects)
  
• New policies, new requirements, new stakeholders
  
• New and Evolving tools and technologies

In November 2009, the International Cartographic Association will hold its conference in Santiago, Chile.

This is an opportunity to keep abreast with the latest scientific and technical developments in our profession. As well, it provides the possibility to meet Chilean colleagues. The conference in Santiago provides the opportunity, for the first time, for the activities of the ICA to be showcased in South America.

ISESS 2009 is part of a series organized by IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Working Group 5.11 “Computers and Environment”, and is managed by the University of Guelph's Computing Research Laboratory for the Environment (CRLE). The purpose of the symposium is to present and discuss the progress and trends in Enviromatics, which is operationally defined as the application of information technology to environmental science, engineering, and management.

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.

The annual "Hydro" conferences are renowned for their high-level international participants from all parts of the world. This year, Soldata will participate on a technical exhibition associated to Hydro conference, and
present the results of the SP6 (Geo Hazards) application to international geotechnics professionals interested in dams, hydrology, tunnels, and foundations building.

The SP6 "Barcelona Pilot" presentation will run continuusly on Soldata boot. Conference participants interested in use of Open Standards in Geo Hazard monitoring projects will also have an opportunity to discuss SANY experiences with Soldata researchers and technical managers, as well as to participate in live demonstration of the Barcelona Pilot services. The live demonstration will include following topics:

• Soldata Sensor Obsevation Service (SDA SOS)
  
• Soldata Sensor Alert Service (SDA SAS)
  
• Soldata Web notification Service (SDA WNS)
  
• Wireless sensor data logger (Micron V2-SOLDATA)
  
• Wireless high precison GPS (Geocube-IGN)

OGC Interoperability Day to Feature Role of OGC in EU funded Projects

Bonn, Germany, 31 August, 2009: On Wednesday 30 September 2009 The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC)® will host “EU funded Projects and the OGC: Standards, Benefits and Implementations“, an OGC Interoperability Day to be held at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), Fraunhoferstrasse 5, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany.

To efficiently deal with societal, environmental and economic challenges in our increasingly complex world, current and accurate information is the single most important aspect. The key that enables such information access in the first place is standardisation. It is the definition of common interfaces and terminology between heterogeneous systems that enables interoperability. A decision maker who needs to to retrieve information shouldn’t need to know about the underlying nuts and bolts of distributed and often proprietary IT solutions.

Geospatial information is playing an increasingly integrated role in mainstream IT. On regional, national and pan-European levels, Spatial Data Infrastructure projects have been implemented to guarantee an efficient and effective use of geographical information to face these challenges. The OGC’s international standards enable interoperabilty between geospatial systems and facilitates the seamless integration of these systems into mainstream IT solutions.

The European Commission long ago anticipated the relevance of geospatial information as a core buidling block for a well informed information society and funded a great number of related projects in the framework programmes. Through direct as well as indirect involvement in several of these projects, many European agencies and companies have introduced geospatial interoperability into the standardisation process. Likewise, many project partners have learned about the benefits of actively engaging in the standardisation process and becoming Consortium members.

Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences

MSSANZ and IMACS bring together a broad spectrum of scientists who apply
mathematical modelling, simulation, statistical, engineering, spatial and computer science methodologies and skills in solving practical problems coming from a wide range of endeavours including:environmental and global change modelling, water resources management, health care, biological simulation and engineering.

For them, the practical matter under investigation and the available data are the driving forces behind the methodology chosen for the task, or in developing techniques required to analyse new models.

The Congress is the first time MSSANZ and IMACS have combined their meetings and it is sure to provide a rich forum for the exchange of knowledge about modelling and simulation.

The European conference Towards eEnvironment is dedicated to information exchange among public administrations, EU institutions, environmental agencies, scientists and businesses involved in developing and using environmental informatics for the delivery of modern eEnvironment services in Europe. The conference is organised by the Masaryk University in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic, the European Commission and European Environment Agency.

Main topics for the conference will include; ICT research towards the development of a Single Information Space in Europe for the Environment (SISE); best practices of European Member States in the implementation of the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS); cooperation and integration of GMES and INSPIRE activities.

StatGIS is addressed to researchers in academia and research institutes, as well as practitioners and industry professionals who want to learn about recent developments in spatial statistics and their applications, and to share their experiences in these areas. Application fields of interest for this conference will include, but not be limited, to: spatial environmental modelling, early warning monitoring systems for the environment, geostatistics in natural hazards prediction, optimum spatial design, space-time analysis and renewable energy resources, remote sensing applications in land reclamation after mining exploitation, spatial metrics for biodiversity assessment and monitoring, etc.