GSDI 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
and futures
[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
in the virtual era; Best practices from Europe.
[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,
EUROGI, United Kingdom
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Zsolt Sikolya, President, Hungarian Association for Geographic Information, HUNAGI,
Hungary
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,
Columbia
[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,
Germany
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Panel: Hiroshi Murikami, Chair, United Nations Geographic Information Working
Group, UNGIWG, New York
Lu Yongxiang, President, International Symposium for Digital Earth, ISDE, China
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Fraser Taylor, Chair, International Steering Committee for Global Mapping, ISCGM,
Canada
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Larry Roeder, Executive Director, Global Disaster Information Network, GDIN,
USA
[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,
Australia
Panel: Ian Masser, President, European Umbrella Organisation for Geographical
Information, EUROGI, United Kingdom
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
General Brig, Romer Mena Nava, President, Permanent Committee for Geographic
Information in the Americas, PC IDEA and President, Simon Bolivar Geographic Institute,
Venezuela
Yang Kai, President, Permanent Committee for Geographic Information in Asia &
Pacific, PC GIAP and president, Chinese Society of Geodesy, Cartography, Photogrammetry,
China
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Dozie Ezigbalike, Development Management Office, United Nations Economic committee
Africa, UNECA, Africa
[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
Committee (FGDC), Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Secretariat, USA
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Panel: Douglas Nebert, Chair, GSDI Technical Working Group and US Federal Geographic
Data Committee, USA
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Harlan Onsrud, Co-Chair, GSDI Workings Group on Legal and Economic Issues and
Professor of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine, USA
[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
and re-use”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Carol Tullo, Controller and Queen’s Printer, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office,
United Kingdom
9:30-10:30 Panel discussions “Innovations in GI technologies”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Chair: Mark Reichardt, Director, Marketing and Public Sector Programs, Open GIS
Consortium Inc., USA
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Panel: Jack Dangermond, President, Environmental Systems Research Institute,
ESRI, USA
Preetha Pulusani, Executive Vice President, Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions
Division, Europe
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Jack Pellicci, Group Vice President Business Development Oracle, Government Education
and Heath, Oracle, USA
[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
Land Administration, “Key factors influencing regional SDI Development and relevance
to global and other levels” Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne,
Australia
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Roger Longhorn, Director, IDG, United Kingdom, EC Projects Office, Luxembourg,
“Global Spatial data sharing frameworks: the case of the intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission (IOC)”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Mark Reichardt, Director, Marketing and Public Sector Programs, USA “Advancing
the global spatial data infrastructure and sustainable development objectives via
interoperable spatial and location services”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Karen Kline, Researcher, Remote Sensing Research Unit, Department of Geography,
University of California, USA “A quantitative analysis of Global Map and other global
data set users”
Alessandro Annoni, Head of Sector, Land Management Unit, Institute for Environment
and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre, European Commission ISPRA, Italy “Towards
a European Spatial Data Infrastructure: Recommendations for Action from the GINIE
project”
Stream 2 – Implementing SDI’s, session 1- Data sharing initiatives
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Chair: David Cowen, Chair, Mapping Sciences Committee, National Academy of Sciences,
USA
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Francis Harvey, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota,
USA, “The MetroGIS initiative: development, integration and sharing of geographic
data through regional collaboration.”
Hanne Brande–Lavridsen, Associate Professor, Geo Information and Media Technology,
Aalborg University, Denmark, “Towards a building registration in the Netherlands”
Aegidius Kap, Assistant professor, Department of Geodetic Engineering, Delft
University of Technology, The Netherlands, “Towards a building registration in the
Netherlands.”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Uta Wehn de Montalvo, Advisor/Researcher, Institute for Strategy, Technology
and Policy, TNO, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, The
Netherlands, “Facing the Facts: the extent of spatial data sharing.”
Gerhard Muggenhuber, BEV, Federal Office of Metrology and Survey, Austria, “Sharing
knowledge in spatial information management.”
Stream 3 – SDI tools and methodologies, session 1 - Emerging Solutions
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Chair: Spencer Chainey, Head, Consultancy Services Team, InfoTech Enterprises
Europe, United Kingdom
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Oliver Schleider, Project Manager, Professional Services, Terra Map Server GmbH,
Germany, “Terra Map Server – a perfect platform for managing geospatial information
via the web”
[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
developments for geographic information technology”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Garfield Giff, PhD Candidate, Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering
University of New Brunswick, Canada, “Funding Models for SDI implementation: from
Local to Global”
Josef Strobl, Department of Geography and Applied Geoinformatics, University
of Salzburg, Austria, “From Geodata to Geoservices – Designs for GI Infrastructures”
[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,
Czech Republic,
“The programme of the Czech National Geo-Information Infrastructure
for Years 2001-2005”
Mukund Rao, Deputy Director, Earth Observations System, Indian Space Research
Organization Headquarter, India,
“National Spatial Data Infrastructures – a story
from India”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Francisco Hansen Albites, Co-ordinator, National Spatial Data Infrastructure
(DGG) for the National Institute for Geographic Information (INEGI), Mexíco,
“Towards
the Mexican national spatial data infrastructure”
Ewa Wysocka, Head of Cadastre and Geo-Cartographic Resources Department, Institute
of Geodesy and Cartography, Poland,
“From Global to Local and from Local to Global,
Can we meet?”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Tomaz Petek, Head, State Boundary and Register of Spatial Unts Department, Ministry
of Environment and Spatial Planning, Surveying and Mapping Authority, Republic of
Slovenia,
“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
Information, EURGI, United Kingdom
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Don Grant, Professional Fellow, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne,
Australia,
“SDI in Australia: Jurisdictional Partnering”
Leen Murre, Director, Federal Data Geographic Committee, FDGC, USA,
“The I Team
experience”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Andrew Larner, Managing Director, Improvement & Development Agency\Employers’
Organization for Local Government, United Kingdom,
“Delivering spatial data infrastructure
through local e-government”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Jens Riecken, Chair, Department Development and Data Processing Services, Surveying
and Mapping Agency of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany,
“GDI NRW and GEOBASIS NRW
– a regional initiative in a GSDI perspective”
Stream 3 – SDI tools and methodologies, session 2 – Reference data
Chair: Douglas Nebert, Chair, GSDI Technical Working Group and US Federal Geographic
Data Committee, USA
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
John Latham, Environment and Natural Resources Services, Research Extension &
Training Division, Sustainable Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization,
FAO, United Nations, Italy,
“Africover, a contribution towards SDI development in
Africa”
Heinz Bennat, Project Manager, SABE, Germany,
“Pan-European datasets: challenges
and lessons from SABE”
Jean Philippe Lagrange, Director, International and European Activities of the
Geographic National Institute of France, IGN, France,
“European geographic data
infrastructures: the EuroRegionalMap and EuroGlobalMap projects”
Claude Luzet, Programme Manager, EuroGeographics, France,
“From data harmonization
to data interoperability”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Andrew Trigg, Head of Technology, Ordnance Survey, United Kingdom,
“The digital
national framework of Great Britain”
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
for Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, The Netherlands,
“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,
Czech Republic,
“Project MIDAS”
Rodrigo Barriga Vargas, Advisor, Military Geographic Institute, Chile,
“Experience
of the Military Geographic Institute of Chile in the national database infrastructure”
Stream 2 – Implementing SDI’s, session 3 – Innovations in interagency collaboration
2, Focus on data uses
Chair: Abbas Rajabifard, Deputy Director, Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures
and Land Administration, Department of Geomatics University of Melbourne, Australia
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,
United Kingdom,
“Combating crime through partnership: examples from England”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Ruth Matthews, Development Manager, RDS GI Unit, Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs, DEEFRA, United Kingdom,
“Multi-Agency Geographic Information
for the Countryside: the MAGIC project”
Franco Vico, Co-ordinator, Politecnico di Torino, Italy,
“The Torino Geographic
data service center (GDSC)”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Francis Harvey, Assistant professor, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota,
USA,
“Potentials and problems for the involvement of local government in the NSDI”
[abstract] [slide-A]
[slide-B] [paper]
Stream 3 – SDI tools and methodologies, session 3- Decision support systems
Chair: Harlan Onsrud, Co-Chair, GSDI Working Group on Legal and Economic issues,
USA
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
John Kelmelis, Chief Scientist, United States Geological Survey, USGS, USA,
“GSDI
Decision Support Systems Working Group report”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Mary-Ellen Feeney, Researcher Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne,
Australia,
“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,
inisterial dirigent, European Commission, Belgium Panel discussion, “Environmental
issues”
[abstract] [slides]
[paper]
Chair: John Kelmelis, Chief Scientist, United States Geological Survey, USGS,
USA
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Panel: “INSPIRE, Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe”
Marc Vanderhaegen, DG Environment, European Commission, Belgium,
“COGI, Commission
GI Interservice Working Group, co-ordinating environmental and other geographic
information in Europe – the role of COGI in the European Commission”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Daniel Rase, Head GIS-Sector, Eurostat, European Commission, Luxembourg,
“World
Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)”
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Fernando Echavarria, US Department of State, USA
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Robert Ford, Natural Resources Advisor, USAID, Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture
and Trade, EGAT, USA
[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
Hungary
Chair: Sebastian Mas Mayoral, Director, National Geographic information Centre,
Spain
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
“Nation – wide digital ortophoto coverage as the skeleton of the Hungarian GSI
and RS reference systems”
Peter Winkler, Deputy General Director, Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and
Remote Sensing, FOMI, Hungary
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
“Countrywide operation remote sensing based crop production forecast system and
it’s additional applications (1997-2002)”
Gabor Csornai, Project Leader, Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing,
FOMI Hungary
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
“Role of the military mapping organizations in the creation of the Hungarian
national spatial data infrastructure”
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
Sensing, FOMI, Hungary
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Stream 2 – Implementing SDI’s, session 4 – SDI capacity building projects
Chair: Don Grant, Professional Fellow, Department of Geometrics, University of
elbourne, Australia
[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
of Environmental Science, University of Botswana
“Testbed geo spatial data infrastructure (T-GSDI): A research and learning environment”
Yola Georgiadou, Associate Professor and Head. Geoinformatics and Spatial Data
Acquisition Division, International institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences,
ITC, The Netherlands
“Comparative analysis of national geographic information associations in Europe”
Anton Wolfkamp, 1999-2002 Secretary General, European Umbrella Organization for
Geographical Information, EUROGI, The Netherlands
[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
national spatial data infrastructure”
Victor Mbumwae, IT/GSI Expert. Environmental information Network & Monitoring
System, Environmental Support Programme, Lusaka
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
“AREALIS programme – an environmental NSDI for Norway”
Arvid Lillethun, Project Manager/ Detached National Expert, European Environment
Agency, Ministry of Environment, European Environment Agency, Norway
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
“Amazonia GSI system”
Ryan Valdez, Director, Amazon GSI Program, Smithsonian National Zoological Park,
Washington DC, USA
“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
an Remote Sensing, FOMI, Hungary
14:00-16:00 Presentation and approval of conference resolutions
Chair: Santiago Borrero, 2001-2002 Chair, Global Spatial Data infrastructure,
GSDI, Colombia
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
16:00-16:30 Closing session “Presentation on GSDI 7 2004”
Chair: Detrekoi Akos, Director, Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Hungary
[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
Information, EUROGI, United Kingdom
Santiago Borrero, 2001-2002 Chair, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure GSDI, Colombia