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The Wall Street Journal povides a service where you can compare the air polution near Beijing. With a time sider you can go back to 2005. The data is baed on the Beijing government.
Link: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-BEIJINGSMOG0807.html
I’ve uploaded the keynote of this years AGIT from Mike Goodchild with the topic ASSERTION AND AUTHORITY: USER-GENERATED GEOGRAPHIC CONTENT. As said in one previous post he talks about Web 2.0 mechanisms for compiling and distributing massive amounts of information volunteered by users and the role of Geographic Information in this context. He shows some differences between traditional approaches to generate geographic content form authoritative sources. The talk includes some examples for volunteered geographic information (VGI); the motivations that drive it, its accuracy, its value to science, its preservation, and a number of other issues. In his opinion (and also mine) VGI is likely to play an increasingly important role in spatial data infrastructure in the coming years.
I’m sorry for the video quality. I’ve recorded the video using my standard digital camera and as you see not from the best location of the Audimax in Salzburg. Despite this I hope you can enjoy the talk.
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In November there will be the next annual GIS day. This video is an announcement of this event. I think also in Salzburg and Carinthia there will be a GIS day 2008.
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Google has already launched a site for the Earth Day 2008, which will be in five days. Recently they won new partners in the transport industry which will provide their data for Googgle Transit.
Google’s tip for Earth Day 2008:
Reduce Pollution: Plan your trip using Google Transit. We’ve added new cities just in time for Earth Day! (See the site here)
And this without having something else in mind :-), Google is just good, like their sogan promises: “Don’t be evil.” They really do a lot for their image. But the critisism about Google in general is becomming stronger.
All in all Google Transit is a great product, which makes sense - like to have it in Austria too.
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Today and Tomorrow (14th and 15th april) I’m at the ProGIS Conferenece 2008 which takes place in Villach.
The topic is: “Advanced ICT to cope with the challenges of agriculture, forestry and environment.”
I’m looking forward to hear some interesting topics about GIS and agriculture and hopefully meet some people of the GIS industry. If there is something interesting, I hear in one of the talks I will try to post some hints.
Programm Monday:
09:00 Welcome address
09:20 Food security, bioenergy and climate change: Cahllenges for spatially detailed integrated multidisciplinary research
DI Günther Fischer, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
09:40 Main issues and concerns in the implementation of FAS in EU Member States
Vincenzo ANGILERI, European Commission JRC-Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen, Ispra (IT)
10:10 Spatial data infrastructure (INSPIRE)
Karen Fullerton, European Commission - JRC-SAI, Italy
10:20 Vision of the Farm of tomorrow
WERNER, A./ DREGER F./ SCHWARZ J., Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e. V. Gemany
10:50 FAS - needed demands of farmers and farm entrepreneurs
DI M. HARDEGG, Gutsverwaltung Hardegg, Austria
11:20 Coffee Break
11:50 GIS supporting agriculture, forestry and environment - the holistic approach
Walter MAYER, PROGIS Software Austria
12:10 SaRAM - awareness, know-how transfer, training - a necessity
Walter MAYER, PROGIS Software Austria
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Geographical data: Private data supplier – what is the difference?
Dr. Matthias BACHMANN. GeoContent GmbH Germany
14:20 Logistics and automatic order processing – the core competence of machine cooperatives best practise
Dieter OTT, Bundesverband der Deutschen Maschinenringe e.V. Germany
14:50 Biomass Logistics with “mobGIS” best practise
Christian WEISS Maschinen- und Betriebshilfsring Schwandorf e.V.
15:20 Coffee Break
15:50 Farm Advisory Service as a business partner: a new integrated approach based on Progis solutions”
Arman MANUKYAN, marketing director, PROGIS Software, Austria
16:10 Integrated Water Management with Sensors and Telemetry
Dr. Bernhard PACHER, ADCON TELEMETRY GMBH, Austria
16:30 CO2 & Energy balance a new dimension in farm management
EULENSTEIN, F. /WERNER, A Leibniz-Zentrums für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e. V. Gemany
16:50 FOMUMIIS - ecological evaluation and risk management best practise
Prof. A. PITTERLE, ForCERT and University of Natural Resources and applied life science, Vienna, Austria
18:00 End
18:00 - 19:30 Side meeting on “precision farming” for selected participants
20:00 Dinner with culture in the background
Program Tuesday:
09:00 WinGIS the European GIS-solution, news and updates
B. AIGNER, GIS-Developer, PROGIS software Austria
09:20 DokuPlant, the modular agro-software tools for farmers and advisors
R. WRITZL, Agro-expert, PROGIS Software, Austria
09:40 PROGIS logistic system: mobGIS + mobJOB
Chr. PIRKER, logistics expert PROGIS Software, Austria
10:00 WinGIS-Internet solutions and the WinGIS Developer Environment
B. AIGNER,GIS-Developer, PROGIS software Austria
10:20 Community management based on WinGIS
W. SPREITZHOFER, TWS Datensysteme Ges.m.b.H, Austria
10:40 Coffee Break
11:10 Utility mananagment based on WinGIS development environment best practise
DI Werner REITERER, X-matic, Austria
11:30 Forest inventory and Forest management based on WinGIS plus applications best practise
DI Christian BENGER, forest consultant and owner of Forstgut Wallersberg Austria
11:50 Real estate cadastre in Romania based on WinGIS technology best practise
Alin PFANDL, S.C. Pfandl, gisromania, Romania
12:10 Numerical addressing in the city of Aleppo with the Arabic version of WinGIS best practise
Prof. Sami Makdisi, Kaplo Eng. Syria
12:30 HuntGIS for KETTNER a WinGIS based tool for planning and monitoring hunt-territories best practise
R. WRITZL, Agro-expert, PROGIS Software, Austria
12:40 Lunch break
14:00 TRUST Centers - a necessity to be organized
Dr. Peter MÜLLER AgriFoodAdvisors, Germany
14:20 External drivers influencing the farm of tomorrow
Karel CHARVAT WirelessInfo – Virtual Research Laboratory (Living Lab) Czech Republic
14:40 WinGIS based Fire-brigade management best practise
A. TRATTLER, MDAI, Germany
15:00 Food traceability and documentation tbd
Burkhard Fabiszisky, Transparent Goods Gmb, Gemany
15:20 Coffee Break
15:50 The situation in agriculture in CEE/CIS-countries
Arman MANUKYAN, marketing director, PROGIS Software, Austria
16:10 The situation in agriculture in MENA-countries
Dr. Alaa Ezz, CEEBA Cofederation of Egyptian European Business Association, Egypt
16:30 From Agro/Forestry to food, biomass, environment – growth markets
Markus Nickl, Austria
16:50 Technology for growth - Megatrends
Walter MAYER, PROGIS Software Austria
17:10 Discussion
17:50 End
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