NOTE: This is not an original web of the conference. It has been lost in backups of the server (still searching for it ...).
International conference GIS Visions 2025
September 19. - 20. 2005
Organiser: VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Institute of Geoinformatics
Venue: VSB-TU Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic
Dear GI-friends and sci-fi fans,
We are organising non-traditional conference concerned on geographic information science and technology. The goal of our conference is bring together people that are bored of traditional conferences in that area, that show usually solved problems from different points of view and applied in different areas. Our conference would like to present only ideas and views how geographic science and technology could look in the year 2025.
The scientific committee will accept only papers that present ideas that are not applicable (or very hardly applicable) in the year 2005. Part of the conference will be workshop on Open Source GIS, because we believe that open source GIS software could be future of the GIS.
Sponsors
- GEODIS Brno, s.r.o.
- ARGUS GEO SYSTÉM s.r.o.
- T-MAPY spol. s r.o.
- ARCDATA PRAHA, s.r.o.
Journal partners
- GEOinformace
Conference topics
- open source and its future,
- man as a natural part of the global information system,
- knowledge based society,
- space (cosmic) information systems,
- and more ...
Programme
Monday 19th September 2005
9:00 - 12:00 Workshop - Open Source GIS (Room C5)
The workshop will briefly introduce participants to the open source GIS comunity (some principles and software wil be presented), but we hope that the main part of the workshop will be about discussion between potencial open source users, current open source users and open source developers (current or future). We hope that the workshop will produce some type of document that will contain user needs and current user experience with open source GIS tools. We do not want to just discuss, but also recognise what are the GIS users needs and we would like to find out if there are software in the open source are that are powerful enough to perform user's tasks. We know that the are big gaps in the functionality of the open source GIS tools and the workshop can help to describe them.
9:00 - 10:00: Presentation of the GIS Open Source tools: GRASS, JUMP, QGIS, PostGIS, GDAL, OGR, UMN MapServer, uDIG, gvSIG, Thuban, ...
10:00 - 10:10: Short break
10:10 - 11:10: User needs and white gaps. What we need? Is there any available tool? - Discussion
11:10 - 11:20: Short break
11:20 - 12:00: Open Source Bussiness model
14:00 - 14:10 Opening the conference (Room C5)
14:10 - 15:50 Session (Room C5)
Wolfgang Stoessel (Bavarian State Mapping and Surveying Agency, Germany): Building a spatial data infrastructure in Bavaria using Open Source software
Shattri Mansor (University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia): Imagery, detection, and management of oil spills in Malaysian Marine environments
Pavel Praks (VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic): Intelligent information retrieval for future GIS
Malgorzata Gajos (University of Silesia, Poland): Freedom of access to the geoinformation
Jan Ruzicka (VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic): Open Semantic GeoWeb and its Orchestration
Discussion
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 - 17:50 Session (Room C5)
Ovidiu Anicai (Institute for Computers, Romania): Astrographic Information Systems (AIS)
Petr Rapant (VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic): Parallel worlds
Lukas Madl (Austrian Research Centers, Seibersdorf research GmbH, Austria): From fun to insight - virtual earth tools of tomorrow
Sven Schade and Alexander C. Walkowski (University of Münster): Five Revolutions in Geoinformatics – Caused by Geo-Sensor Networks
Karel Jedlicka and Václav Čada (University of West Bohemia): Generalized World
Discussion
18:00 - 18:10 Walk to the after session party place called Panorama
18:10 - 01:30 After sessions party
Tuesday 20th September 2005
9:00 - 10:00 Session (Room C5)
Bitta J., Jančík P., Umlauf M. (VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic): Vision of Air Quality Management System
Li Zhong (National University of Singapore, Singapore): Geoinformation support for exploratory teams
Discussion
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 - 10:50 Session (Room C5)
Petr Fuks (VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic): Agents are everywhere
Ad hoc Papers
Discussion
10:50 - 11:50 Round table: Future of the "GIS education" (Room C5)
11:50 - 12:00 Summary, greetings ... (Room C5)
14:00 - 17:00 Workshop - GRASS GIS (Room J339 (Advanced users), Room J424 (Beginners))
Workshop introduces participants with GRASS GIS 6.0 and its basic functionality. Workshop will proceed in computer room where participants can try practical tasks in GRASS GIS with training datasets used during presentation.
We will split workshop to two groups: Beginners and Advanced users. Beginners will start with using OS GNU/Linux and then follow with some basic GRASS GIS tasks such as environment, visualisation, mapcalc. Advanced users will be concerned on more sofisticated tasks.
Following list shows tasks that could be exercised.
- Getting started with GRASS GIS 6.0 - text vs. graphical environment, mapset creation, coordinate system setting
- Graphical environment, menu system, graphical monitors, working with Display Manager
- Utilisation of OGR (vector data) and GDAL (raster data) library for data import/export
- Working with raster data, raster operations and analyses, vectorisation
- Working with vector data, map algebra, net analyses, interpolation, digitisation
- Transformation between coordinate systems - vector and raster data (S-JTSK, S-42, WGS-84, UTM)
- 3D data visualisation - NVIZ module, virtual flights
- Module Vis5D+ (visualisation of 4D and 5D data)
- A number of participants of the workshop GRASS GIS is limited. They will be choosen according to date of registration to the confenece.