Invitation to HUMBOLDT Open Day

04 August 2010, 9:59pm

On behalf of the HUMBOLDT consortium, we are delighted to invite you to participate in the *HUMBOLDT Open Day: Geospatial Data Harmonisation in Action* to be held on
28 September 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal

The HUMBOLDT project has entered its final phase. The HUMBOLDT Open Day will give you as stakeholders of INSPIRE and GMES the opportunity to get an insight into the main outcomes and achievements of the project.

The Open Source Tools and Services developed in HUMBOLDT will be demonstrated in the application context of selected scenarios (e.g. applications from the area of Protected Areas, Ocean and Marine Environment, Transboundary Catchments, Atmosphere, Urban Atlas, Forest Management, Flood Risk Management or Border Security). 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.

The following topics provide a short overview of the draft programme that will be presented in Lisbon:

* Principles of data modelling and harmonisation
* Introduction to the technical framework and its validation
* Showcases from application scenarios that demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of Spatial Data Infrastructures based on software tools and processes for Data Harmonisation
* Training Platform Overview and Access

Further information on the workshop and the meeting agenda can be found at the project website below.

This Workshop is organized and supported by the consortium of the HUMBOLDT project in cooperation with VESTA-GIS. This event 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.

The HUMBOLDT Open Day and the NatureSDIplus Training Conference are both free of charge, but a registration for participation is required. Participants can either register for the single event or for both events in a package. Registration opens on 2nd of August and will be and will be accessible from the HUMBOLDT, Vesta-GIS and NatureSDIplus homepages.

The HUMBOLDT Project in brief

The four-year EU project HUMBOLDT contributes to the implementation of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI) that integrates the diversity of spatial data available for a multitude of European organisations. The main goal of the HUMBOLDT project is to enable organisations to document, publish and harmonise their spatial information. The software tools and processes created will demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe as planned by the INSPIRE initiative, meeting the goals of Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES).

Learn more about HUMBOLDT by visiting our Website at the final link below.

Contact

HUMBOLDT Project Office
zeitform Internet Dienste OHG
Fraunhoferstraße 5
64283 Darmstadt
Germany
Phone: +49 6151 155 637
Fax: +49 6151 155 634
E-Mail: po@esdi-humboldt.eu

Dr. Eva Klien, Co-ordinator of the HUMBOLDT Project
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research, Darmstadt, Germany

Further information on the workshop and the meeting agenda

VESTA-GIS

NATURESDIPlus

Instituto Geográfico Português

Learn more about HUMBOLDT here!

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