GSDI 6 Budapest HungaryGSDI 6 Budapest, Hungary September 16-19, 2003 Theme: From Global to Local Conference Program September 16, 2002 9:30 – 18:00 Registration at conference site (MATÁV Telecommunications Company) 9:00-10:30 GSDI Steering Committee Meeting [abstract] [slides] [paper] 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:30 GSDI Steering Committee Meeting [abstract] [slides] [paper] 14:00 – 15:30 Pre Conference Workshops Workshop 1a: Meet EUROGI members, EUROGI roundtable, Burning GI Issues in Europe [abstract] [slides] [paper] Workshop 2a: Legal & Policy Issues, SDI Legal and Policy Issues, An Overview [abstract] [slides] [paper] Workshop 3a: Technical Issues, Interoperability in GSDI, Standards, solutions [abstract] [slides] [paper] 15:00-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:00 Pre Conference Workshops Workshop 1b: Meet EUROGI members, EUROGI roundtable; Burning GI issues in Europe [abstract] [slides] [paper] Workshop 2b: Legal & Policy Issues, Providing services and addressing legal barriers [abstract] [slides] [paper] Workshop 3b: Technical Issues, Interoperability Showcase; Standards in action [abstract] [slides] [paper] 18:30-20:00 Icebreaker party at Mercure Buda Hotel September 17, 2002 8:00-18:00 Registration at conference site 9:00-9:30 Welcome Session Ian Masser, President, European Umbrella Organization for Geographical Information, [abstract] [slides] [paper] Zsolt Sikolya, President, Hungarian Association for Geographic Information, HUNAGI, Elek Straub, Chief Executive Officer, MATAV Hungarian Telecommunications Company, Hungary [abstract] [slides] [paper] 9:30-10:00 Opening Address “Geographic information and developments in Hungary” [abstract] [slides] [paper] Kalman Kovacs, Minister of Informatics and Communication, Hungary 10:00-10:30 Session “Overview of achievements since GSDI 5” [abstract] [slides] [paper] Santiago Borrero, 2001-2001 Chair, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure, GSDI, [abstract] [slides] [paper] 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Panel Discussion “Global Issues” [abstract] [slides] [paper] Chair: Klaus Barwinski, Director, Surveying and Mapping Agency North-Rhine Westphalia, [abstract] [slides] [paper] Panel: Hiroshi Murikami, Chair, United Nations Geographic Information Working Lu Yongxiang, President, International Symposium for Digital Earth, ISDE, China Fraser Taylor, Chair, International Steering Committee for Global Mapping, ISCGM, [abstract] [slides] [paper] Larry Roeder, Executive Director, Global Disaster Information Network, GDIN, [abstract] [slides] [paper] 14:00-15:30 Panel Discussion “Views from the regions” [abstract] [slides] [paper] Chair: Peter Holland, General Manager, National Mapping Division of GeoScience, Panel: Ian Masser, President, European Umbrella Organisation for Geographical [abstract] [slides] [paper] General Brig, Romer Mena Nava, President, Permanent Committee for Geographic Yang Kai, President, Permanent Committee for Geographic Information in Asia & [abstract] [slides] [paper] Dozie Ezigbalike, Development Management Office, United Nations Economic committee [abstract] [slides] [paper] 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:30 Plenary Session “Report from GSDI Working Groups” [abstract] [slides] [paper] Chair: Alan Stevens, International Program Co-ordinator, Federal Geographic Data [abstract] [slides] [paper] Panel: Douglas Nebert, Chair, GSDI Technical Working Group and US Federal Geographic [abstract] [slides] [paper] Harlan Onsrud, Co-Chair, GSDI Workings Group on Legal and Economic Issues and [abstract] [slides] [paper] Jack Dangermond, President, Environmental Systems Research Institute, ESRI, USA [abstract] [slides] [paper] 9:00-22:00 Opera and cocktail reception September 18, 2002 9:00-12:00 Registration at conference site (MATAV Telecommunications Company) 9:00-9:30 Keynote speaker “UK government information initiatives – encouraging global access [abstract] [slides] [paper] Carol Tullo, Controller and Queen’s Printer, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 9:30-10:30 Panel discussions “Innovations in GI technologies” [abstract] [slides] [paper] Chair: Mark Reichardt, Director, Marketing and Public Sector Programs, Open GIS [abstract] [slides] [paper] Panel: Jack Dangermond, President, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Preetha Pulusani, Executive Vice President, Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions [abstract] [slides] [paper] Jack Pellicci, Group Vice President Business Development Oracle, Government Education [abstract] [slides] [paper] 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Three parallel sessions Stream 1- Developing SDI’s, session 1 - Global perspectives Chair Jarmo Ratia, Director General, National Land Survey of Finland, Finland [abstract] [slides] [paper] Abbas Rajabifard, Deputy Director, Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and [abstract] [slides] [paper] Roger Longhorn, Director, IDG, United Kingdom, EC Projects Office, Luxembourg, [abstract] [slides] [paper] Mark Reichardt, Director, Marketing and Public Sector Programs, USA “Advancing [abstract] [slides] [paper] Karen Kline, Researcher, Remote Sensing Research Unit, Department of Geography, Alessandro Annoni, Head of Sector, Land Management Unit, Institute for Environment Stream 2 – Implementing SDI’s, session 1- Data sharing initiatives [abstract] [slides] [paper] Chair: David Cowen, Chair, Mapping Sciences Committee, National Academy of Sciences, [abstract] [slides] [paper] Francis Harvey, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, Hanne Brande–Lavridsen, Associate Professor, Geo Information and Media Technology, Aegidius Kap, Assistant professor, Department of Geodetic Engineering, Delft [abstract] [slides] [paper] Uta Wehn de Montalvo, Advisor/Researcher, Institute for Strategy, Technology Gerhard Muggenhuber, BEV, Federal Office of Metrology and Survey, Austria, “Sharing Stream 3 – SDI tools and methodologies, session 1 - Emerging Solutions [abstract] [slides] [paper] Chair: Spencer Chainey, Head, Consultancy Services Team, InfoTech Enterprises [abstract] [slides] [paper] Oliver Schleider, Project Manager, Professional Services, Terra Map Server GmbH, [abstract] [slides] [paper] Henk Scholten, President, Geodan, The Netherlands, “New challenges in Geo-ICT” [abstract] [slides] [paper] Laurant Raynal, EADS Systems and Defense Electronics, France, “BRIDGE-IT, Innovative [abstract] [slides] [paper] Garfield Giff, PhD Candidate, Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Josef Strobl, Department of Geography and Applied Geoinformatics, University [abstract] [slides] [paper] Three Parallel Sessions Stream 1 – Developing SDI’s. session 3 – SDI case studies 1, Focus on Policy Chair: François Salgé, Secretary General, French GI Association, AFIGéO, France [abstract] [slides] [paper] Ulrich Boes, Directory, URSIT Ltd., Services in information Technology, Bulgaria, “Bulgaria’s E-Government strategy as foundation of the national SDI” Josef Hojdar, Chair, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CAGI Consultancy TERIS, “The programme of the Czech National Geo-Information Infrastructure Mukund Rao, Deputy Director, Earth Observations System, Indian Space Research “National Spatial Data Infrastructures – a story [abstract] [slides] [paper] Francisco Hansen Albites, Co-ordinator, National Spatial Data Infrastructure “Towards Ewa Wysocka, Head of Cadastre and Geo-Cartographic Resources Department, Institute “From Global to Local and from Local to Global, [abstract] [slides] [paper] Tomaz Petek, Head, State Boundary and Register of Spatial Unts Department, Ministry “Slovenian Geoinformation Infrastructure” Stream 2 –Implementing SDI’s, session 2 – Innovations of Interagency Collaboration 1, Focus on dada producers Chair: Ian Masser, President, European Umbrella Organization for Geographical [abstract] [slides] [paper] Don Grant, Professional Fellow, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, “SDI in Australia: Jurisdictional Partnering” Leen Murre, Director, Federal Data Geographic Committee, FDGC, USA, “The I Team [abstract] [slides] [paper] Andrew Larner, Managing Director, Improvement & Development Agency\Employers’ “Delivering spatial data infrastructure [abstract] [slides] [paper] Jens Riecken, Chair, Department Development and Data Processing Services, Surveying “GDI NRW and GEOBASIS NRW Stream 3 – SDI tools and methodologies, session 2 – Reference data Chair: Douglas Nebert, Chair, GSDI Technical Working Group and US Federal Geographic [abstract] [slides] [paper] John Latham, Environment and Natural Resources Services, Research Extension & “Africover, a contribution towards SDI development in Heinz Bennat, Project Manager, SABE, Germany, “Pan-European datasets: challenges Jean Philippe Lagrange, Director, International and European Activities of the “European geographic data Claude Luzet, Programme Manager, EuroGeographics, France, “From data harmonization [abstract] [slides] [paper] Andrew Trigg, Head of Technology, Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom, “The digital 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 – 17:30 Three parallel sessions Stream 1 – Developing SDI’s, session 3 – SDI case studies 2, Focus on metadata/clearinghouse Chair: Richard Kirwan, Executive Director, Ordnance Survey, Ireland [abstract] [slides] [paper] Joep Crompvoets, Assistant Professor, Geo-Information Science of the Laboratory “Developments of national clearinghouse for geo-information” Michael Gould, Department of Information Systems, University “Jaume I”, Spain, “A spatial data catalogue based initiative to launch the Spanish SDI” Jiang Jingtong, Professor, National Geomatics Centre of China, Beijing, China, “Implementation of data sharing for sustainable development information in China” [abstract] [slides] [paper] Stepán Kafka, GIS specialist, Czech Association for Geoinformation, CAGI, VSB-TU, “Project MIDAS” Rodrigo Barriga Vargas, Advisor, Military Geographic Institute, Chile, “Experience Stream 2 – Implementing SDI’s, session 3 – Innovations in interagency collaboration Chair: Abbas Rajabifard, Deputy Director, Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures Gilberto Corso Pereira, Researcher, Federal University of Bahia, REBATE, Brazil, “Spatial data infrastructure in Brazil – the REBATE project” Spencer Chainey, Head, consultancy Services Team, InfoTech Enterprises Europe, “Combating crime through partnership: examples from England” [abstract] [slides] [paper] Ruth Matthews, Development Manager, RDS GI Unit, Department for Environment, “Multi-Agency Geographic Information Franco Vico, Co-ordinator, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, “The Torino Geographic [abstract] [slides] [paper] Francis Harvey, Assistant professor, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, “Potentials and problems for the involvement of local government in the NSDI” [abstract] [slide-A] Stream 3 – SDI tools and methodologies, session 3- Decision support systems Chair: Harlan Onsrud, Co-Chair, GSDI Working Group on Legal and Economic issues, [abstract] [slides] [paper] John Kelmelis, Chief Scientist, United States Geological Survey, USGS, USA, “GSDI [abstract] [slides] [paper] Mary-Ellen Feeney, Researcher Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, “SDI development to support spatial decision making” Hans Voss, Researcher, Mediation Systems Team, Frauhofer Institute, Germany, “Enabling technology for participatory spatial decision making” Stefanie Roeder, Researcher, Mediation Systems Team, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany, “Group decision support for spatial planning and e-government” [abstract] [slides] [paper] 19:00 – 22:00 Gala Dinner at National Museum September 19, 2002 9:00 – 9:30 Keynote speaker “Europe’s overview of environmental themes, ”Chris Patermann, [abstract] [slides] Chair: John Kelmelis, Chief Scientist, United States Geological Survey, USGS, [abstract] [slides] [paper] Panel: “INSPIRE, Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe” Marc Vanderhaegen, DG Environment, European Commission, Belgium, “COGI, Commission [abstract] [slides] [paper] Daniel Rase, Head GIS-Sector, Eurostat, European Commission, Luxembourg, “World [abstract] [slides] [paper] Fernando Echavarria, US Department of State, USA [abstract] [slides] [paper] Robert Ford, Natural Resources Advisor, USAID, Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture [abstract] [slides] [paper] 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30 Three parallel sessions Stream 1- Developing SDI’s, session 4 – SDI implementation, the experience of Chair: Sebastian Mas Mayoral, Director, National Geographic information Centre, [abstract] [slides] [paper] “Nation – wide digital ortophoto coverage as the skeleton of the Hungarian GSI Peter Winkler, Deputy General Director, Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and [abstract] [slides] [paper] “Countrywide operation remote sensing based crop production forecast system and Gabor Csornai, Project Leader, Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing, [abstract] [slides] [paper] “Role of the military mapping organizations in the creation of the Hungarian Laszlo Alaber, Technical Advisor, Ministry of Defense Mapping Company, Hungary “Local GI data infrastructure and data broker system development n country Somogy” Laszlo Bakos, CAD-manager and Software Engineer, HungaroCAD Ltd., Hungary [abstract] [slides] [paper] “Administrative boundary data services as part of spatial data infrastructures” Szabolcs Mihaly, General Director, Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote [abstract] [slides] [paper] Stream 2 – Implementing SDI’s, session 4 – SDI capacity building projects Chair: Don Grant, Professional Fellow, Department of Geometrics, University of [abstract] [slides] [paper] “E-governance: Making GSI local” Ravi Gupta, Editor, GSI@development, India [abstract] [slides] [paper] “Human and organizational factors for the better GSI implementation in Botswana” Branko Cavric, Senior Lecturer, Urban and Regional Planning Programmes, Department “Testbed geo spatial data infrastructure (T-GSDI): A research and learning environment” Yola Georgiadou, Associate Professor and Head. Geoinformatics and Spatial Data “Comparative analysis of national geographic information associations in Europe” Anton Wolfkamp, 1999-2002 Secretary General, European Umbrella Organization for [abstract] [slides] [paper] “(Global) knowledge infrastructure in land administration” Bela Markus, Director, College of Geoinformatics, University of West Hungary [abstract] [slides] [paper] Stream 3 – SDI tools and methodologies, session 4 – Environmental data Chair: Marc Vanderhaegen, DG Environment, European Commission, Belgium [abstract] [slides] [paper] “Environmental management as business driver for implementation of the Zambia Victor Mbumwae, IT/GSI Expert. Environmental information Network & Monitoring [abstract] [slides] [paper] “AREALIS programme – an environmental NSDI for Norway” Arvid Lillethun, Project Manager/ Detached National Expert, European Environment [abstract] [slides] [paper] “Amazonia GSI system” Ryan Valdez, Director, Amazon GSI Program, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, “The establishment of national environmental database system project” Dirim Ayral Balta, Team Leader, TUSA Aerospace Industries Inc., Turkey [abstract] [slides] [paper] “Construction of a large scale (1:50k) land cover database in Hungary” George Buttner, Head Environmental Applications, Institute of Geodesy, Cartography 14:00-16:00 Presentation and approval of conference resolutions Chair: Santiago Borrero, 2001-2002 Chair, Global Spatial Data infrastructure, [abstract] [slides] [paper] 16:00-16:30 Closing session “Presentation on GSDI 7 2004” Chair: Detrekoi Akos, Director, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, [abstract] [slides] [paper] 16:30-17:00 Formal Transfer of GSDI Steering Committee Chair [abstract] [slides] [paper] 17:00 End of conference 17:30-19:00 Press conference with Europe’s GI magazines on Resolutions Panel: Ian Masser, President, European Umbrella Organization for Geographical Santiago Borrero, 2001-2002 Chair, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure GSDI, Colombia
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