Tag Archive for 'GIS'

What are popular Programming Languages for GIS Developers?

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on May 28, 2008
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Dave Bouwman has done an informal “2008 Geospatial Developer Survey“. 320 people took the time and have completed the survey. He has now published some results.

I’ll sumerize some interesting points:

The role of people, who participated:

His statement:

The split across titles was somewhat interesting - almost even between “Analysts who write code”, and those who consider themselves “GIS Software Developers”, with “Software Engineer” trailing slightly. I see this as a progression from “getting things done” coding towards more “built to last” coding.

Primary Development Language:

The idea of this question was to get a feel for what you most commonly work with. “.NET” was the prominent platform with a 61% share.

Here is how the “other” broke out by count of times they were mentioned. As Dave I’m also surprised that there are still people using VB6 and VBA.

Use of ESRI products:

This is an interesting resut showing the dominace of ESRI in the GIS community.

Link: http://blog.davebouwman.net/2008/05/27/GeospatialDeveloperSurveyResults.aspx

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Augmented Reality and mobile GIS - An interesting topic

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on May 11, 2008
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Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (see definition at Wikipedia).

The application fields of augmented reality for spatial problems are very broad. The contain navigation, enviromental planning, etc. Object recognition is here also an issue. Currently many GI researchers are dealing with the topic of augmented maps. Some interesting papers are for example:

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AGIT 2008

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Today I got the official program of the AGIT conference 2008 in Salzburg. This year they celebrate 20 years “Network for Geoinformatics“. The symposium will be on 2nd until 4th of July.

Some highlights are:

  • Geoinformation and Education
  • Computer oriented Geology
  • Geospatial Management of Emergency Situations
  • ESRI User Group Austria
  • SAGA GIS User Group
  • OSGEO Day

More information can be found at agit.at

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ProGIS Conference 2008 Villach

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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

[via progis.com]

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SensorWeb the new trend word

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Everyone is talking about the SensorWeb, but what is this all about and where is the relation to Geoinformatics?

Wikipedia defines the sensorweb as follows:

The Sensor Web is a type of sensor network or geographic information system (GIS) that is especially well suited for environmental monitoring and control. The term describes a specific type of sensor network: an amorphous network of spatially distributed sensor platforms (pods) that wirelessly communicate with each other. This amorphous architecture is unique since it is both synchronous and router-free, making it distinct from the more typical TCP/IP-like network schemes. The architecture allows every pod to know what is going on with every other pod throughout the Sensor Web at each measurement cycle.

The basic concept of a network of sensors is not new. The novelty of the Sensor Web architecture lies in the ability of the individual pieces to act and coordinate as a whole. This immediately allows the system to be synchronous throughout, unlike many other networks. In addition, the individual pods of a Sensor Web are all equal with one another and a Sensor Web architecture does not require special gateways or routing to have each of the individual pieces communicate with one another or an end user. By definition, a Sensor Web is an autonomous, stand-alone, sensing entity that does not require the presence of the World Wide Web to function.

The term “Sensor Web” is sometimes used to refer to sensors connected to the Internet (or “World Wide Web”). Such terms are occasionally used in conjunction with projects of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) or SensorNet. In this case, the network architecture requires the Internet to link together the individual sensing elements. The OGC architecture is very different than that of a true Sensor Web system and requires schemes to bring together vastly different datasets, in the same way that TCP/IP is used to tie together vastly different pieces of hardware and computing platforms. Note also that a single Sensor Web may be an individual sensing element inputing into an OGC-type network.

Some further readings:

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