Open Source GIS UK Conference 2009

09 March 2009, 10:11am

Abstract Submission deadline: 15 March 2009

FIRST OPEN SOURCE GIS UK CONFERENCE 2009

22 June 2009
Centre for Geospatial Science
University of Nottingham

Contributions are invited but are not limited to the following topic areas:

o State of the Art developments in Open Source GIS
o Open Source GIS in Education
o Interoperability and standards - OGC, ISO/TC 211
o Open Source GIS application use cases : Government, Participatory
GIS, Location based services, Health, Energy, Water, Climate change etc
o Web processing services o Open architectures, open content
o Case studies of open source implementations
o Open Source GIS Internationalisation and Localisation
o Using Open Source GIS with proprietary software
o Transition to Open Source GIS
o Open Source GIS business models
o Open Source GIS implementation and deployment case studies
o Sensor Web enablement o Hands-on workshops on using and developing
open source GIS tools

Abstracts (max 500 words) can be submitted to
Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk before 15 March 2009. Abstracts will be reviewed by the members of the program committee. Speakers of accepted papers and workshop presenters will get complimentary conference registration.

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Tyler Mitchell (Executive Director, Open
Source Geospatial Foundation)

Professor William Cartwright (President of the International Cartographic Association)

Szabolcs Szekacs (European Commission, Informatics Directorate-General,IDABC)

OSGIS UK Workshops:

o Mapwindow - Dr Daniel Ames (Idaho State University,USA)
o Introduction to gvSIG as desktop GIS/SDI client - Alvaro Anguix (IVER Technologas de la Informacion, Spain)
o Workshop on Perl, Python, Ruby- Prof Ari Jolma (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland )
o Open source tools for support across the GI data lifecycle: from creation to delivery - James Reid (EDINA) & Jo Cook (Oxford Archaeology)

Contact for any information required.

Dr Suchith Anand
Centre for Geospatial Science
Sir Clive Granger Building
University of Nottingham
Tel: (0)115 846 8408

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