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"Spatial Information: tool for reducing poverty"

All workshops are free at no additional charge to conference registrants. There will be two half-day pre-conference workshops addressing commercial solutions to GSDI development provided by Conference Sponsors on Monday November 6. There will also be several parallel half-day workshops in the middle of the conference on the afternoon of Wednesday November 8. For the general times and locations of the workshop sessions, consult the Schedule Overview.

Schedule Overview

Descriptions of the workshops including the subject matter to be addressed, level of knowledge required, materials to bring, and materials provided are specified below. The pre-conference workshops will be presented in Spanish with translation to English. Most of the mid-week workshops will provide simultaneous translation from either English to Spanish or Spanish to English.


Monday Morning, November 6th - Sponsor 1
Workshop on a Spatial Technology Infrastructure Vision and its Practical Implementation
Room
Courtyard

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 9:00-10:30, 11:00-12:30
Sponsor Intergraph
In the past several years we have seen an explosion of spatial data collected and available in digital form. This represents a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge is represented by the complex technical issues of managing, analyzing and distributing large amount of information. The opportunity is opened by the variety of applications that impact development and quality of life. Spatial Information is truly becoming an essential tool supporting sustainable development. Intergraph Corporation, a world leading supplier of geospatial technology, will present a review of software solutions related to Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).

This workshop will be divided in two parts. In the first segment we will examine the Intergraph technologies that relate to SDI and in the second part we will examine the applications that SDI enables.

Topics in First Session (90 minutes)

Capturing Data (Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry)
Managing Feature Data and Images
Geospatial Interoperability on the web and desktop

Topics in Second Session (90 minutes)

Data Collection workflows
Web Portals and local communities
SDI in support of infrastructure management: Practical Examples

Tentative Instructors / Speakers:
Team of Intergraph Corporation experts from the USA and Latin America

Intended Audience:

This workshop will be at an introductory level and suitable for anyone interested in SDI implementations and applications

Organizer/Contact Person:

Videográfica - Intergraph
El Gobernador, 020 - Tercer Piso,
Providencia, Santiago, Chile
tel: 56-2-333-1171
e-mail: mbarria@vg.cl

Sisgraph - Intergraph
R. Estados Unidos, 116.
São Paulo - SP - Brasil
01427-000
tel: 55 11 3889 2000
e-mail: mkt@sisgraph.com.br


Monday Afternoon, November 6th - Sponsor 2
Workshop on GIS: The Spatial Information Platform for Reducing Poverty
Room
Courtyard

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor ESRI

GSDI-9 attendees are welcome to attend all four parts of the two half-day ESRI workshops

What to Expect
Please join us to learn practical solutions about the use of GIS technology for building and optimizing your Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) as demonstrated through real-world examples. In keeping with the theme of GSDI9, the focus of the workshop will be on building SDIs that focus on poverty reduction at local levels and through national strategies. The 2 half-day workshops will review how a GIS provides the foundation for developing, maintaining, and sharing spatial data, services, and applications whether in a networked or non-networked computing environment. Lessons learned on successful GIS development and SDI integration will be shared. Attendees will receive a CD of the workshop materials and supplemental documents, and have the opportunity for dialogue with the ESRI staff who are presenting.

PART 1: GIS – A FOUNDATION FOR SDI
Topics that will be covered:
• GIS as a foundation for SDI and poverty reduction:
o how does GIS relate to SDI?
o why does SDI matter to poverty reduction?
o enhancing the typical SDI strategy with mechanisms for poverty reduction
• Overview of the SDI Lifecycle:
o Comprehensive spatial data management - from data creation to application for meeting our world’s challenges
• ESRI’s ArcGIS architecture for SDI and solutions for:
o individual users
o Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based Enterprise, and
o a societal GeoWeb
• Standards and Interoperability:
o Metadata, Metadata, Metadata – leverage your investment in spatial data
o The ISO TC211 standards and OGC specifications supported by ESRI technology
o How standards support services and workflows

PART 2: ONE SYSTEM - DATA CREATION AND MANAGEMENT FOR PRODUCTION CARTOGRAPHY & ESSENTIAL SDI LAYERS
Topics that will be covered:
• ESRI’s solutions for database driven map, chart, and data production systems:
o managing spatial data and presentation specifications
o building essential SDI data layers
• Encapsulating a data model to support mapping organizations' specifications for spatial data, metadata, cartographic and digital data products, and workflows
• The data management framework of the geodatabase
• Opportunities in using GIS with a mapping organization’s workflow
o digital data capture into a multipurpose, open geodatabase
o updating a master geodatabase with dynamic, real-world changes
o the role of metadata in your work
o automated processes for digital and paper map production from the masterß geodatabase to minimize time and cost
o storage of derived map products in the geodatabase
o advancements in cartographic finishing processes to ensure clarity and elegance of final products
o output of map products in industry-standard formats for target printing, prepress, and on-demand publishing systems
Organizer/Contact Person:  TEAM OF ESRI EXPERTS


Wednesday Afternoon, November 8th - Workshop 1
GIS: The Spatial Information Platform for Reducing
Room
1

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor ESRI

PART 3: DISSEMINATING SPATIAL CONTENT: VIA THE GEOWEB AND NON-INTERNET ENVIRONMENTS
Topics that will be covered:
• What are elements of spatial dissemination?
• Review of GeoWeb
• ESRI's GIS Portal Toolkit - a solution that has been used to implementing local, regional, institutional, and national spatial data infrastructure (SDI) portals
o organization of GIS portals content and services including directories, search tools, community information, support resources, spatial data, and applications
o capabilities of GIS portals to query metadata records for relevant data and services and link directly to the online sites that host content services
o visualization of GIS portal content and services as maps and for use in geographic queries and analyses
o support for OGC specifications and ISO TC211 standards in the ESRI GIS Portal Toolkit
• Using ArcGIS Explorer - a lightweight, free GIS data viewer
o Learn an easy platform to visualize spatial data and conduct basic GIS functions, including query, and data retrieval
o Use of this tool on its own with local data sets or as a client to Internet data and map servers (including .kml format)
• ArcPublisher and ArcReader – publishing and sharing your data and applications without the Internet.

PART 4: SHARING BEST PRACTICES IN GIS DEVELOPMENT FOR SDI IMPLEMENTATION
Topics that will be covered:
• Ensuring SDI and GIS implementation success through sound GIS planning and design methods
o conducting an effective user needs (requirements) assessment
o data evaluation
o functional requirements definition
o requirements analysis
o architecture planning
o institutional planning
o cost/benefit analysis
o cost recovery strategies for spatial data development
• The basics of system design and architecture for GIS and SDI
o conceptual geodatabase design
o physical geodatabase design
o application system design
o metadata development
o hardware configuration – network and non-network centric options

Wednesday Afternoon, November 8th - Workshop 2
Spatial Technology Infrastructure Theory and Practice
Room
2

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor Intergraph
Intergraph Corporation, a world leading supplier of geospatial technology, will present a review of SDI foundation technology and practical applications. Spatial Information is truly becoming an essential tool supporting sustainable development. Nations which are able to build robust spatial data infrastructure will be able to leverage on this foundation to build applications that enhance productivity and hence accelerate development. SDI is a critical element needed to manage natural resources, infrastructure and government services.

This workshop will be divide in two parts. In the first segment we will examine the technologies that impact SDI and in the second part we will examine the applications that SDI enables

Topics in First Session (90 minutes)

Geospatial Interoperability
Services Architecture
SDI 1.0 baseline
Technology Futures

Topics in Second Session (90 minutes)

Web Portals and local communities
SDI in support of public safety
SDI in support of infrastructure management
SDI and natural resources

Tentative Instructors / Speakers:

Team of Intergraph Corporation experts from the USA and Latin America

Intended Audience:

The workshop will be at an introductory level and suitable for any one interested in SDI implementations and applications
Organizer/Contact Person:

Videográfica - Intergraph
El Gobernador, 020 - Tercer Piso,
Providencia, Santiago, Chile
tel: 56-2-333-1171
e-mail: mbarria@vg.cl

Wednesday Afternoon, November 8th - Workshop 3
Users and the GEOSS Architecture
Room
3

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor - Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) is a complex system of sensors, communication devices, storage systems, computational and other devices used in concert to observe the Earth and eventually come to a better understanding of the Earth’s processes. In addition, GEOSS will include models and processes to create information from the observations. The Washington Summit of July 2003 established the objective “to monitor continuously the state of the Earth, to increase understanding of dynamic Earth processes, to enhance prediction of the Earth system, and to further implement our international environmental treaty obligations”, and thus the need for “timely, quality, long-term, global information as a basis for sound decision making”. The Group on Earth Observations has been created to carry out the development of GEOSS.

For more information on GEO and GEOSS see: http://www.earthobservations.org/
The User and the GEOSS Architecture workshop is a dialogue for users looking at GEOSS and its benefits to their application area. Societal benefit areas will be represented at the workshop and an informal environment will be provided for exchange of ideas and to make recommendations. To help with this exchange, the workshop will provide an overview of the architecture and a demonstration of some of its capabilities.

Participants will be encouraged to ask questions to further their understanding of the information system and the GEOSS approach. Recommendations of the workshop will be available to GEO committees as we move forward with GEOSS implementation. In summary, the workshop is a forum for users to interact with technologists to address the benefits and challenges of an advanced global system of systems providing earth observing data and information for the benefits of society.
An emphasis of the workshop will be to highlight the elements of the GEOSS 10 Year Implementation Plan that build on the principals of GSDI.

Topics in First Session (90 Minutes):
• Vision of GEOSS
• Societal Benefits of GEOSS including addressing issues related to poverty
Topics in Second Session (90 Minutes):
• Architecture Based on Open Standards
• Demonstrations

Tentative Instructors/Speakers:
Chair, Carl Reed or Mark Reichardt OGC with Ivan DeLoatch FGDC. Speakers will be selected to represent: GEO members, GSDI members and societal benefit users relevant to GEOSS

Intended Audience:
The workshop will interest those individuals and organizations that will benefit from the increased access to Earth observations for application to societal benefit areas provided by GEOSS. Also, the workshop will interest individuals and organizations that seek to understand how their systems can contribute to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems.

Organizer/Contact Person:
George Percivall Jay S Pearlman, PhD
Chief Architect Chief Technologist
Open Geospatial Consortium NCO Programs and Technology,
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ The Boeing Company
E-mail: percivall@opengeospatial.org P.O. Box 3707 MC 84-24
Voice: 1+301-560-6439 Seattle, Washington 98124-2207
Telephone 253 773 5419
Fax 253 773 2772
jay.pearlman@boeing.com

Wednesday Afternoon, November 8th - Workshop 4
Science and Poverty: Applications of Remote Sensing for Defeat of Poverty
Room
4

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor Aerophotogrammetric Service of the Chilean Air Force (S.A.F.)

Engage researchers and companies from countries with different degrees of scientific and technological development in exposing their own solutions for defeating poverty, using the tools that remote sensing delivers.

Topics in First Session (90 Minutes):
Digital Vision and Image Understanding:
The central focus of this session is computer analysis of digital and pictorial data, covering all aspects of image analysis, processes and interpretation. Digital and pictorial data are those acquired from remote sensing platforms such as satellites and aircraft, complemented and supplemented by surface and subsurface measurements and mapping.

Topics in Second Session (90 Minutes):
Practical Experiences:
The central focus of the second session is showing practical experiences in the employment of remote sensing as a tool to eradicate poverty. The session includes all major themes in geoinformation, such as capturing, database creation, visualization, data quality, interpretation of data, and their application in developing solutions for eliminating poverty.

Tentative Instructors/Speakers:
Invited speaker from Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Additional speakers from Instituto de Geografía de la Pontificia Universidad Católica, Proyecto Plan de Desarrollo Forestal Comunal and Servicio Aerofotogramétrico.
The Aerophotogrammetric Service (SAF) is a specialized agency of the Chilean Air Force and is the permanent body in Aerial Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Its aims and objectives are quality, professionalism, and constant support to national development. It also provides vital information to serve decision making for sustainable improvement. It creates and delivers tools of analysis in the field for land science, aeronautical charting, remote sensing and aerophotogrammetry.

Intended Audience:
Unspecified

Organizer/Contact Person:
M. Viviana Barrientos Lardinois
Geographer
Geographic Department
E-mail: vivianab@saf.cl
Phone: 56 2 5407817

Wednesday Afternoon, November 8th - Workshop 5
Toward a Latin American Metadata Profile (LAMP)
Room
Auditorium

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor - Pan American Institute for Geography and History (PAIGH),
- International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 211, Geographic Information/Geomatics, (ISO TC 211)
- Military geographic Institute of Chile (IGM)
- ESRI.

Implement an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Metadata Standard that will help to enable local, national, regional, and global spatial data infrastructures to share and use geographic information to efficiently and effectively reduce poverty and facilitate humanitarian efforts in developing regions.
This standards workshop provides an overview of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards for geographic information and their relationship with Spatial Data Infrastructures ( SDI's ) at the local, national, regional, and global levels. It will feature an overview on the ISO Metadata Standard and its related standards and the development of a draft Latin American Metadata Profile (LAMP) that is defined by representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean and implemented at this workshop. A profile is a defined subset of a standard for use within a region or application community. The intent is to initialize the process for the adoption and implementation of the ISO Metadata Standard in the Latin American region.
Prior to the workshop, documents on how to use the ISO Metadata Standard, profile development, and listing of metadata elements will be translated into Spanish and distributed along with a Latin American Metadata Survey that will solicit the identification of metadata elements that would comprise the Latin American Metadata Profile. The results of this Metadata Survey will be announced at the workshop and workshop attendees will participate in the process of implementing the draft Latin American Metadata Profile. This portion of the workshop will be conducted in Spanish. Workshop attendees will each receive a complimentary flash (stick) drive with all the presentations, documents, Latin American Metadata Survey, and implementation of the draft Latin American Metadata Profile at the end of the workshop.

Topics in First Session (90 Minutes):
• Welcome
• ISO Standards for SDIs
• Summary of Metadata Standards Activities in Chile
• ISO Metadata and its related standards:

Topics in Second Session (90 Minutes):
• Overview of Metadata Survey Results
• Implementation Portion
• Wrap-up & flash drive distributions

Tentative Instructors/Speakers:
Rodrigo Barriga, Santiago Borrero, Dave Danko, Henry Tom, plus ESRI Spanish speaking technical person

Intended Audience:
technical experts, managers, and policymakers, a large audience can be handled

Organizer/Contact Person:
Henry Tom
ISO/TC 211 Geographic information / Geomatics
5888 Bridge Spring Road
Frederick, MD 21704 USA
+ 1 301 631 1982 Voice / FAX
+ 1 240 422 2237 Cell phone
HenryTom@Verizon.net


Wednesday Afternoon, November 8th - Workshop 6
The Basics of SDI Development: Standardization and Interoperability
Room
Los Naranjos

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
To follow the “Standards In Action” workshops held the last three GSDI conferences under the auspices of the Technical Working Group, we propose to conduct a ‘state-of-the-standards’ presentation to highlight and describe the available and mature geospatial standards and specifications followed by integrated presentations illustrating different implementations focused on a common problem with common data and services used.

Topics in First Session (90 Minutes):
Status of Geospatial Standards, 2006
• ISO TC 211 work items
• Open Geospatial Consortium specifications
• Internet standards (OASIS/W3C/IETF)
• Concept of “SDI Version 1.0” standards suite

Topics in Second Session (90 Minutes):
Common problem will be defined around the conference theme. Documented data and services will be registered with catalogues. Multiple implementors will demonstrate their ability to support the solution to the common problem space through services, portals, and analytical client software.
Tentative Instructors/Speakers:
Douglas Nebert, FGDC
Dave Danko, ESRI
George Percivall, OGC
Ignacio Guerrero, Intergraph GeoMedia
Chris Holmes, GeoServer services
Michael Gould, gvSIG SDI Client
Liping Di, George Mason University WMS/WCS client

Intended Audience:
Technical and managerial professionals interested in learning the status and capabilities of the existing standards and a sampling of implementations available in the marketplace

Organizer/Contact Person:
Doug Nebert


Thursday Morning, November 8th - Workshop 7
Getting Started with Open Source Software for SDI's
Room
Auditorium

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 09:00-10:30, 11:00-12:30
Sponsor  

The workshop will introduce some of the latest advances in open source tools for SDI development. Centering mostly on uDig, GeoServer and GeoNetwork Open Source, the workshop will consist of a lecture and a hands-on introduction to installing, configuring, and using the tools for SDI, focusing on WMS, WFS and Catalog 2.0 OGC standards. The workshop will walk through building the basics of a functioning open source SDI. Different Open Source GeoSpatial packages for SDI will also be discussed. The first half will be more structured, with discussion of what constitutes an 'OpenSDI', the advantages of a truly open SDI, and an introduction to the tools that can be used to build it today. The second half will be a hands on 'installfest', getting participants up and running with the tools, and a question and answer session about real issues building SDI's on open source software. The presenters are experienced open source community members with a wealth of knowledge. A laptop is recommended, but not required. If possible bring geospatial data to use in the tools. All software demonstrated will be available on a CD for participants to take home.

Topics in First Session (90 Minutes):
Definition of 'OpenSDI'. Advantages of building an SDI built on open source software and open data. Demonstration of uDig, GeoServer and GeoNetwork. Discussion of other open source SDI tools such as MapServer, gvSig, MapBuilder, MapBender, ect.

Topics in Second Session (90 Minutes):
Hands on installation of open source packages on user computers. Question and Answer session about real world issues with open SDI building.

Tentative Instructors/Speakers:
- Chris Holmes, VP of Strategic Development, The Open Planning Project and Board of Directors, Open Source GeoSpatial Foundation.
- Jeroen Ticheler, lead of GeoNetwork Open Source for UN FAO.
- one more to demo uDig or perhaps gvSig

Intended Audience:
Anyone interested in learning about open source for SDI's. The workshop will be introductory in general, and only the second half will be technical. Room size of 40 or less for best experience.
Because attendance is limited, participants must sign up in advance. After registering for the conference, send a note titled “Open Source Intro Seat Request” to Kenton_Williams@umit.maine.edu and he will confirm your position on the acceptance or waiting list.

Organizer/Contact Person
Chris Holmes, VP Strategic Development
The Open Planning Project
349 W. 12th Street
New York, NY 10014
USA
718-290-5730
cholmes@openplans.org


Thursday Morning, November 8th - Workshop 8
TerraLib/TerraView: Free Open Source Technologies to Build Customizable Geographical Applications
Room
Los Naranjos

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 09:00-10:30, 11:00-12:30
Sponsor  
This workshop presents the Brazilian experience on building a free open source technology to build customizable geographical applications. TerraLib is a library of components but it is, in a more ample view, a project that intends to give Brazil complete independence in geoinformation technology. TerraLib is developed by the Image Processing Division – DPI of the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research – INPE which carries twenty years of experience in GIS technology building. This project responds to an important technological change: the rise of Database Management Systems – DBMS that are able to store geometrical as well as conventional attributes of geographical data, and also to allow the efficient access and sharing of data in a multi-user environment. The main focus of TerraLib is on projects that demand analysis capacity in space and time, dynamic modeling simulation, spatial data mining and other characteristics not much explored by the market systems.

The workshop consists of a presentation session and a hands-on session. To participate in the hands-on session attendees must bring their own laptop, individually or in small groups (3 or 4 people).
Attendees will receive a CD with:
• the presentations of the first session;
• the source and executables related to TerraLib, TerraView and TerraWeb;
• the Terralib programming tutorial;
• the TerraView user manual; and
• the data set used in the hands-on session.

Topics in First Session (90 Minutes):
The first session consists of a set of presentations about the TerraLib project, covering the following topics:
• How the TerraLib project addresses the challenges of building free open source geographical tools.
• Examples of projects based on TerraLib technology: public health, urban cadastre, environmental surveillance, service networks and crime events analysis.
• Technological decisions and a general view of the TerraLib architecture and its functionalities.
• How to participate in the TerraLib project as a user and as a collaborative partner.
This session will provide the audience with the necessary knowledge base to attend the second session.

Topics in Second Session (90 Minutes):
The second session is a hands-on activity using TerraView GIS. TerraView is general purpose GIS built on top of TerraLib with visualization capacities available as free open source software.
The audience will be guided through a set of practical exercises that shows the functionalities provided by TerraLib. The exercises build a TerraLib database from geographical data and manipulate this data through some typical GIS operations such as spatial statistics analysis, geographical operations, graphical brushing and conventional and spatial queries. Questions about the conceptual model of a TerraLib database will be addressed while the exercises are carried out.
Finally, the database generated during this session will be published on the Web using a PHP and TerraWeb solution.

Tentative Instructors/Speakers:
Dr. Lúbia Vinhas, MSc. Karine Reis Ferreira and MSc. Gilberto Ribeiro de Queiroz. The three instructors are computer engineers with the Image Processing Division of INPE where they are senior participants in the TerraLib and TerraView projects.

Intended Audience:
This workshop is appropriate for people interested in learning about a free open source GIS project and advanced GIS technology. Audience members should have some knowledge about geoinformation and GIS.
The room should accommodate people and their laptops. Because this is a practical session, the instructors will not be able to help more than 30 people simultaneously.
Because attendance is limited, participants must sign up in advance. After registering for the conference, send a note titled “Open Source Intro Seat Request” to Kenton_Williams@umit.maine.edu and he will confirm your position on the acceptance or waiting list.

Organizer/Contact Person:
Lúbia Vinhas, Dr.
INPE – Divisão de Processamento de Imagens
Av. dos Astronautas, 1758
12230-010 São José dos Campos SP – Brasil
Phone: +55 12 39456523
Fax: +55 12 39456468
e-mail: lubia@dpi.inpe.br



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Workshop Schedule


"Spatial Information: tool for reducing poverty"

All workshops are free at no additional charge to conference registrants. There will be two half-day pre-conference workshops addressing commercial solutions to GSDI development provided by Conference Sponsors on Monday November 6. There will also be several parallel half-day workshops in the middle of the conference on the afternoon of Wednesday November 8. For the general times and locations of the workshop sessions, consult the Schedule Overview.

Schedule Overview

Descriptions of the workshops including the subject matter to be addressed, level of knowledge required, materials to bring, and materials provided are specified below. The pre-conference workshops will be presented in Spanish with translation to English. Most of the mid-week workshops will provide simultaneous translation from either English to Spanish or Spanish to English.


Monday Morning, November 6th - Sponsor 1
Workshop on a Spatial Technology Infrastructure Vision and its Practical Implementation
Room
Courtyard

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 9:00-10:30, 11:00-12:30
Sponsor Intergraph
In the past several years we have seen an explosion of spatial data collected and available in digital form. This represents a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge is represented by the complex technical issues of managing, analyzing and distributing large amount of information. The opportunity is opened by the variety of applications that impact development and quality of life. Spatial Information is truly becoming an essential tool supporting sustainable development. Intergraph Corporation, a world leading supplier of geospatial technology, will present a review of software solutions related to Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).

This workshop will be divided in two parts. In the first segment we will examine the Intergraph technologies that relate to SDI and in the second part we will examine the applications that SDI enables.

Topics in First Session (90 minutes)

Capturing Data (Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry)
Managing Feature Data and Images
Geospatial Interoperability on the web and desktop

Topics in Second Session (90 minutes)

Data Collection workflows
Web Portals and local communities
SDI in support of infrastructure management: Practical Examples

Tentative Instructors / Speakers:
Team of Intergraph Corporation experts from the USA and Latin America

Intended Audience:

This workshop will be at an introductory level and suitable for anyone interested in SDI implementations and applications

Organizer/Contact Person:

Videográfica - Intergraph
El Gobernador, 020 - Tercer Piso,
Providencia, Santiago, Chile
tel: 56-2-333-1171
e-mail: mbarria@vg.cl

Sisgraph - Intergraph
R. Estados Unidos, 116.
São Paulo - SP - Brasil
01427-000
tel: 55 11 3889 2000
e-mail: mkt@sisgraph.com.br


Monday Afternoon, November 6th - Sponsor 2
Workshop on GIS: The Spatial Information Platform for Reducing Poverty
Room
Courtyard

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor ESRI

GSDI-9 attendees are welcome to attend all four parts of the two half-day ESRI workshops

What to Expect
Please join us to learn practical solutions about the use of GIS technology for building and optimizing your Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) as demonstrated through real-world examples. In keeping with the theme of GSDI9, the focus of the workshop will be on building SDIs that focus on poverty reduction at local levels and through national strategies. The 2 half-day workshops will review how a GIS provides the foundation for developing, maintaining, and sharing spatial data, services, and applications whether in a networked or non-networked computing environment. Lessons learned on successful GIS development and SDI integration will be shared. Attendees will receive a CD of the workshop materials and supplemental documents, and have the opportunity for dialogue with the ESRI staff who are presenting.

PART 1: GIS – A FOUNDATION FOR SDI
Topics that will be covered:
• GIS as a foundation for SDI and poverty reduction:
o how does GIS relate to SDI?
o why does SDI matter to poverty reduction?
o enhancing the typical SDI strategy with mechanisms for poverty reduction
• Overview of the SDI Lifecycle:
o Comprehensive spatial data management - from data creation to application for meeting our world’s challenges
• ESRI’s ArcGIS architecture for SDI and solutions for:
o individual users
o Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based Enterprise, and
o a societal GeoWeb
• Standards and Interoperability:
o Metadata, Metadata, Metadata – leverage your investment in spatial data
o The ISO TC211 standards and OGC specifications supported by ESRI technology
o How standards support services and workflows

PART 2: ONE SYSTEM - DATA CREATION AND MANAGEMENT FOR PRODUCTION CARTOGRAPHY & ESSENTIAL SDI LAYERS
Topics that will be covered:
• ESRI’s solutions for database driven map, chart, and data production systems:
o managing spatial data and presentation specifications
o building essential SDI data layers
• Encapsulating a data model to support mapping organizations' specifications for spatial data, metadata, cartographic and digital data products, and workflows
• The data management framework of the geodatabase
• Opportunities in using GIS with a mapping organization’s workflow
o digital data capture into a multipurpose, open geodatabase
o updating a master geodatabase with dynamic, real-world changes
o the role of metadata in your work
o automated processes for digital and paper map production from the masterß geodatabase to minimize time and cost
o storage of derived map products in the geodatabase
o advancements in cartographic finishing processes to ensure clarity and elegance of final products
o output of map products in industry-standard formats for target printing, prepress, and on-demand publishing systems
Organizer/Contact Person:  TEAM OF ESRI EXPERTS


Wednesday Afternoon, November 8th - Workshop 1
GIS: The Spatial Information Platform for Reducing
Room
1

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor ESRI

PART 3: DISSEMINATING SPATIAL CONTENT: VIA THE GEOWEB AND NON-INTERNET ENVIRONMENTS
Topics that will be covered:
• What are elements of spatial dissemination?
• Review of GeoWeb
• ESRI's GIS Portal Toolkit - a solution that has been used to implementing local, regional, institutional, and national spatial data infrastructure (SDI) portals
o organization of GIS portals content and services including directories, search tools, community information, support resources, spatial data, and applications
o capabilities of GIS portals to query metadata records for relevant data and services and link directly to the online sites that host content services
o visualization of GIS portal content and services as maps and for use in geographic queries and analyses
o support for OGC specifications and ISO TC211 standards in the ESRI GIS Portal Toolkit
• Using ArcGIS Explorer - a lightweight, free GIS data viewer
o Learn an easy platform to visualize spatial data and conduct basic GIS functions, including query, and data retrieval
o Use of this tool on its own with local data sets or as a client to Internet data and map servers (including .kml format)
• ArcPublisher and ArcReader – publishing and sharing your data and applications without the Internet.

PART 4: SHARING BEST PRACTICES IN GIS DEVELOPMENT FOR SDI IMPLEMENTATION
Topics that will be covered:
• Ensuring SDI and GIS implementation success through sound GIS planning and design methods
o conducting an effective user needs (requirements) assessment
o data evaluation
o functional requirements definition
o requirements analysis
o architecture planning
o institutional planning
o cost/benefit analysis
o cost recovery strategies for spatial data development
• The basics of system design and architecture for GIS and SDI
o conceptual geodatabase design
o physical geodatabase design
o application system design
o metadata development
o hardware configuration – network and non-network centric options

Wednesday Afternoon, November 8th - Workshop 2
Spatial Technology Infrastructure Theory and Practice
Room
2

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor Intergraph
Intergraph Corporation, a world leading supplier of geospatial technology, will present a review of SDI foundation technology and practical applications. Spatial Information is truly becoming an essential tool supporting sustainable development. Nations which are able to build robust spatial data infrastructure will be able to leverage on this foundation to build applications that enhance productivity and hence accelerate development. SDI is a critical element needed to manage natural resources, infrastructure and government services.

This workshop will be divide in two parts. In the first segment we will examine the technologies that impact SDI and in the second part we will examine the applications that SDI enables

Topics in First Session (90 minutes)

Geospatial Interoperability
Services Architecture
SDI 1.0 baseline
Technology Futures

Topics in Second Session (90 minutes)

Web Portals and local communities
SDI in support of public safety
SDI in support of infrastructure management
SDI and natural resources

Tentative Instructors / Speakers:

Team of Intergraph Corporation experts from the USA and Latin America

Intended Audience:

The workshop will be at an introductory level and suitable for any one interested in SDI implementations and applications
Organizer/Contact Person:

Videográfica - Intergraph
El Gobernador, 020 - Tercer Piso,
Providencia, Santiago, Chile
tel: 56-2-333-1171
e-mail: mbarria@vg.cl

Wednesday Afternoon, November 8th - Workshop 3
Users and the GEOSS Architecture
Room
3

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor - Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) is a complex system of sensors, communication devices, storage systems, computational and other devices used in concert to observe the Earth and eventually come to a better understanding of the Earth’s processes. In addition, GEOSS will include models and processes to create information from the observations. The Washington Summit of July 2003 established the objective “to monitor continuously the state of the Earth, to increase understanding of dynamic Earth processes, to enhance prediction of the Earth system, and to further implement our international environmental treaty obligations”, and thus the need for “timely, quality, long-term, global information as a basis for sound decision making”. The Group on Earth Observations has been created to carry out the development of GEOSS.

For more information on GEO and GEOSS see: http://www.earthobservations.org/
The User and the GEOSS Architecture workshop is a dialogue for users looking at GEOSS and its benefits to their application area. Societal benefit areas will be represented at the workshop and an informal environment will be provided for exchange of ideas and to make recommendations. To help with this exchange, the workshop will provide an overview of the architecture and a demonstration of some of its capabilities.

Participants will be encouraged to ask questions to further their understanding of the information system and the GEOSS approach. Recommendations of the workshop will be available to GEO committees as we move forward with GEOSS implementation. In summary, the workshop is a forum for users to interact with technologists to address the benefits and challenges of an advanced global system of systems providing earth observing data and information for the benefits of society.
An emphasis of the workshop will be to highlight the elements of the GEOSS 10 Year Implementation Plan that build on the principals of GSDI.

Topics in First Session (90 Minutes):
• Vision of GEOSS
• Societal Benefits of GEOSS including addressing issues related to poverty
Topics in Second Session (90 Minutes):
• Architecture Based on Open Standards
• Demonstrations

Tentative Instructors/Speakers:
Chair, Carl Reed or Mark Reichardt OGC with Ivan DeLoatch FGDC. Speakers will be selected to represent: GEO members, GSDI members and societal benefit users relevant to GEOSS

Intended Audience:
The workshop will interest those individuals and organizations that will benefit from the increased access to Earth observations for application to societal benefit areas provided by GEOSS. Also, the workshop will interest individuals and organizations that seek to understand how their systems can contribute to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems.

Organizer/Contact Person:
George Percivall Jay S Pearlman, PhD
Chief Architect Chief Technologist
Open Geospatial Consortium NCO Programs and Technology,
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ The Boeing Company
E-mail: percivall@opengeospatial.org P.O. Box 3707 MC 84-24
Voice: 1+301-560-6439 Seattle, Washington 98124-2207
Telephone 253 773 5419
Fax 253 773 2772
jay.pearlman@boeing.com

Wednesday Afternoon, November 8th - Workshop 4
Science and Poverty: Applications of Remote Sensing for Defeat of Poverty
Room
4

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor Aerophotogrammetric Service of the Chilean Air Force (S.A.F.)

Engage researchers and companies from countries with different degrees of scientific and technological development in exposing their own solutions for defeating poverty, using the tools that remote sensing delivers.

Topics in First Session (90 Minutes):
Digital Vision and Image Understanding:
The central focus of this session is computer analysis of digital and pictorial data, covering all aspects of image analysis, processes and interpretation. Digital and pictorial data are those acquired from remote sensing platforms such as satellites and aircraft, complemented and supplemented by surface and subsurface measurements and mapping.

Topics in Second Session (90 Minutes):
Practical Experiences:
The central focus of the second session is showing practical experiences in the employment of remote sensing as a tool to eradicate poverty. The session includes all major themes in geoinformation, such as capturing, database creation, visualization, data quality, interpretation of data, and their application in developing solutions for eliminating poverty.

Tentative Instructors/Speakers:
Invited speaker from Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Additional speakers from Instituto de Geografía de la Pontificia Universidad Católica, Proyecto Plan de Desarrollo Forestal Comunal and Servicio Aerofotogramétrico.
The Aerophotogrammetric Service (SAF) is a specialized agency of the Chilean Air Force and is the permanent body in Aerial Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Its aims and objectives are quality, professionalism, and constant support to national development. It also provides vital information to serve decision making for sustainable improvement. It creates and delivers tools of analysis in the field for land science, aeronautical charting, remote sensing and aerophotogrammetry.

Intended Audience:
Unspecified

Organizer/Contact Person:
M. Viviana Barrientos Lardinois
Geographer
Geographic Department
E-mail: vivianab@saf.cl
Phone: 56 2 5407817

Wednesday Afternoon, November 8th - Workshop 5
Toward a Latin American Metadata Profile (LAMP)
Room
Auditorium

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor - Pan American Institute for Geography and History (PAIGH),
- International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 211, Geographic Information/Geomatics, (ISO TC 211)
- Military geographic Institute of Chile (IGM)
- ESRI.

Implement an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Metadata Standard that will help to enable local, national, regional, and global spatial data infrastructures to share and use geographic information to efficiently and effectively reduce poverty and facilitate humanitarian efforts in developing regions.
This standards workshop provides an overview of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards for geographic information and their relationship with Spatial Data Infrastructures ( SDI's ) at the local, national, regional, and global levels. It will feature an overview on the ISO Metadata Standard and its related standards and the development of a draft Latin American Metadata Profile (LAMP) that is defined by representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean and implemented at this workshop. A profile is a defined subset of a standard for use within a region or application community. The intent is to initialize the process for the adoption and implementation of the ISO Metadata Standard in the Latin American region.
Prior to the workshop, documents on how to use the ISO Metadata Standard, profile development, and listing of metadata elements will be translated into Spanish and distributed along with a Latin American Metadata Survey that will solicit the identification of metadata elements that would comprise the Latin American Metadata Profile. The results of this Metadata Survey will be announced at the workshop and workshop attendees will participate in the process of implementing the draft Latin American Metadata Profile. This portion of the workshop will be conducted in Spanish. Workshop attendees will each receive a complimentary flash (stick) drive with all the presentations, documents, Latin American Metadata Survey, and implementation of the draft Latin American Metadata Profile at the end of the workshop.

Topics in First Session (90 Minutes):
• Welcome
• ISO Standards for SDIs
• Summary of Metadata Standards Activities in Chile
• ISO Metadata and its related standards:

Topics in Second Session (90 Minutes):
• Overview of Metadata Survey Results
• Implementation Portion
• Wrap-up & flash drive distributions

Tentative Instructors/Speakers:
Rodrigo Barriga, Santiago Borrero, Dave Danko, Henry Tom, plus ESRI Spanish speaking technical person

Intended Audience:
technical experts, managers, and policymakers, a large audience can be handled

Organizer/Contact Person:
Henry Tom
ISO/TC 211 Geographic information / Geomatics
5888 Bridge Spring Road
Frederick, MD 21704 USA
+ 1 301 631 1982 Voice / FAX
+ 1 240 422 2237 Cell phone
HenryTom@Verizon.net


Wednesday Afternoon, November 8th - Workshop 6
The Basics of SDI Development: Standardization and Interoperability
Room
Los Naranjos

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Sponsor U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
To follow the “Standards In Action” workshops held the last three GSDI conferences under the auspices of the Technical Working Group, we propose to conduct a ‘state-of-the-standards’ presentation to highlight and describe the available and mature geospatial standards and specifications followed by integrated presentations illustrating different implementations focused on a common problem with common data and services used.

Topics in First Session (90 Minutes):
Status of Geospatial Standards, 2006
• ISO TC 211 work items
• Open Geospatial Consortium specifications
• Internet standards (OASIS/W3C/IETF)
• Concept of “SDI Version 1.0” standards suite

Topics in Second Session (90 Minutes):
Common problem will be defined around the conference theme. Documented data and services will be registered with catalogues. Multiple implementors will demonstrate their ability to support the solution to the common problem space through services, portals, and analytical client software.
Tentative Instructors/Speakers:
Douglas Nebert, FGDC
Dave Danko, ESRI
George Percivall, OGC
Ignacio Guerrero, Intergraph GeoMedia
Chris Holmes, GeoServer services
Michael Gould, gvSIG SDI Client
Liping Di, George Mason University WMS/WCS client

Intended Audience:
Technical and managerial professionals interested in learning the status and capabilities of the existing standards and a sampling of implementations available in the marketplace

Organizer/Contact Person:
Doug Nebert


Thursday Morning, November 8th - Workshop 7
Getting Started with Open Source Software for SDI's
Room
Auditorium

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 09:00-10:30, 11:00-12:30
Sponsor  

The workshop will introduce some of the latest advances in open source tools for SDI development. Centering mostly on uDig, GeoServer and GeoNetwork Open Source, the workshop will consist of a lecture and a hands-on introduction to installing, configuring, and using the tools for SDI, focusing on WMS, WFS and Catalog 2.0 OGC standards. The workshop will walk through building the basics of a functioning open source SDI. Different Open Source GeoSpatial packages for SDI will also be discussed. The first half will be more structured, with discussion of what constitutes an 'OpenSDI', the advantages of a truly open SDI, and an introduction to the tools that can be used to build it today. The second half will be a hands on 'installfest', getting participants up and running with the tools, and a question and answer session about real issues building SDI's on open source software. The presenters are experienced open source community members with a wealth of knowledge. A laptop is recommended, but not required. If possible bring geospatial data to use in the tools. All software demonstrated will be available on a CD for participants to take home.

Topics in First Session (90 Minutes):
Definition of 'OpenSDI'. Advantages of building an SDI built on open source software and open data. Demonstration of uDig, GeoServer and GeoNetwork. Discussion of other open source SDI tools such as MapServer, gvSig, MapBuilder, MapBender, ect.

Topics in Second Session (90 Minutes):
Hands on installation of open source packages on user computers. Question and Answer session about real world issues with open SDI building.

Tentative Instructors/Speakers:
- Chris Holmes, VP of Strategic Development, The Open Planning Project and Board of Directors, Open Source GeoSpatial Foundation.
- Jeroen Ticheler, lead of GeoNetwork Open Source for UN FAO.
- one more to demo uDig or perhaps gvSig

Intended Audience:
Anyone interested in learning about open source for SDI's. The workshop will be introductory in general, and only the second half will be technical. Room size of 40 or less for best experience.
Because attendance is limited, participants must sign up in advance. After registering for the conference, send a note titled “Open Source Intro Seat Request” to Kenton_Williams@umit.maine.edu and he will confirm your position on the acceptance or waiting list.

Organizer/Contact Person
Chris Holmes, VP Strategic Development
The Open Planning Project
349 W. 12th Street
New York, NY 10014
USA
718-290-5730
cholmes@openplans.org


Thursday Morning, November 8th - Workshop 8
TerraLib/TerraView: Free Open Source Technologies to Build Customizable Geographical Applications
Room
Los Naranjos

Location

Historical & Military Museum
Times 09:00-10:30, 11:00-12:30
Sponsor  
This workshop presents the Brazilian experience on building a free open source technology to build customizable geographical applications. TerraLib is a library of components but it is, in a more ample view, a project that intends to give Brazil complete independence in geoinformation technology. TerraLib is developed by the Image Processing Division – DPI of the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research – INPE which carries twenty years of experience in GIS technology building. This project responds to an important technological change: the rise of Database Management Systems – DBMS that are able to store geometrical as well as conventional attributes of geographical data, and also to allow the efficient access and sharing of data in a multi-user environment. The main focus of TerraLib is on projects that demand analysis capacity in space and time, dynamic modeling simulation, spatial data mining and other characteristics not much explored by the market systems.

The workshop consists of a presentation session and a hands-on session. To participate in the hands-on session attendees must bring their own laptop, individually or in small groups (3 or 4 people).
Attendees will receive a CD with:
• the presentations of the first session;
• the source and executables related to TerraLib, TerraView and TerraWeb;
• the Terralib programming tutorial;
• the TerraView user manual; and
• the data set used in the hands-on session.

Topics in First Session (90 Minutes):
The first session consists of a set of presentations about the TerraLib project, covering the following topics:
• How the TerraLib project addresses the challenges of building free open source geographical tools.
• Examples of projects based on TerraLib technology: public health, urban cadastre, environmental surveillance, service networks and crime events analysis.
• Technological decisions and a general view of the TerraLib architecture and its functionalities.
• How to participate in the TerraLib project as a user and as a collaborative partner.
This session will provide the audience with the necessary knowledge base to attend the second session.

Topics in Second Session (90 Minutes):
The second session is a hands-on activity using TerraView GIS. TerraView is general purpose GIS built on top of TerraLib with visualization capacities available as free open source software.
The audience will be guided through a set of practical exercises that shows the functionalities provided by TerraLib. The exercises build a TerraLib database from geographical data and manipulate this data through some typical GIS operations such as spatial statistics analysis, geographical operations, graphical brushing and conventional and spatial queries. Questions about the conceptual model of a TerraLib database will be addressed while the exercises are carried out.
Finally, the database generated during this session will be published on the Web using a PHP and TerraWeb solution.

Tentative Instructors/Speakers:
Dr. Lúbia Vinhas, MSc. Karine Reis Ferreira and MSc. Gilberto Ribeiro de Queiroz. The three instructors are computer engineers with the Image Processing Division of INPE where they are senior participants in the TerraLib and TerraView projects.

Intended Audience:
This workshop is appropriate for people interested in learning about a free open source GIS project and advanced GIS technology. Audience members should have some knowledge about geoinformation and GIS.
The room should accommodate people and their laptops. Because this is a practical session, the instructors will not be able to help more than 30 people simultaneously.
Because attendance is limited, participants must sign up in advance. After registering for the conference, send a note titled “Open Source Intro Seat Request” to Kenton_Williams@umit.maine.edu and he will confirm your position on the acceptance or waiting list.

Organizer/Contact Person:
Lúbia Vinhas, Dr.
INPE – Divisão de Processamento de Imagens
Av. dos Astronautas, 1758
12230-010 São José dos Campos SP – Brasil
Phone: +55 12 39456523
Fax: +55 12 39456468
e-mail: lubia@dpi.inpe.br



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