Program

The program for this conference is available via the following link.
Program (11 July 2009)

Pre-Conference Cultural Event

A Midsummer Night's Dream on July 12, 2009; ballett in the State Theatre Baden-Wuerttemberg in Karlsruhe, based on William Shakespeare. More details can be found in the announcement page.

Midsummernights Dream

Opening Reception

Tuesday Evening: Above the roofs of Stuttgart. Meet the organisaers, speakers, participants, and alumni on top of the University of Applied Sciences.

Keynotes

  • Dr. A.P. Pradeepkumar, India: Globalization and the Internationalization of Education
  • Dr. Kai Holschuh, Germany: Towards a clearer Understanding of Globalisation
  • Osayande Omokaro: Oil and Gas Extraction in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: The social and environmental challenges
  • Josef Braun, INPHO GmbH: New developments in Photogrammetry
  • Prof. Dr. Matthias Moeller, University of Bamberg, Austrian Academy of Sciences: Uniform Geo-data Infrastructures (GDI) - Challenges for the Information Society

Workshops


Workshop Workshop Workshop
  • Dr. Gennady Andrienko: Geospatial Visual Analytics (14/07/2009: 12:30 - 16:30)

    Drs. Natalia Andrienko and Gennady Andrienko received Master degree in Computer Science from Kiev State University in 1985-1986 and Ph.D. equivalent in Computer Science from Moscow State University in 1992-1993. They undertook research on knowledge-based systems at the Institute for Mathematics of Moldavian Academy of Sciences (Kishinev, Moldova), then at the Institute for Mathematical Problems of Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushchino Research Center, Russia). Since 1997 Drs. Andrienko are research fellows at GMD, now Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS.

    They are authors of the monograph "Exploratory Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Data" (published in December 2005 in Springer), 40 peer-reviewed journal papers, 10+ book chapters, and 100+ papers in conference proceedings. They have been involved in numerous international research projects. Their research interests include geovisualization, information visualization with a focus on spatial and temporal data, visual analytics, interactive knowledge discovery and data mining, spatial decision support and optimization.

    Since 2007 Dr. Gennady Andrienko is chairing the ICA commission on GeoVisualization. He co-organized several scientific events on visual analytics, geovisualization, and visual data mining, and co-edited several special issues of journals and proceedings volumes.

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  • Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Behr: Geo-Mashups in the Web 2.0 environment

    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz-Josef Behr, Professor of Geoinformatics at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (http://www.gis-management.de/). His specializations include

    • Internet, Internet GIS
    • XML, GML, SVG
    • Data exchange and Interoperability
    • Visualization
    • Open Source Solutions
    • Consulting

    Member of the DIN working group NA 005-03-03 AA "Arbeitsausschuss Kartographie und Geoinformation" (Sp CEN/TC 287+ISO/TC 211). He teaches popular courses in the university like "Scientific Skills and Media Competence - Web Presentation", "Customization, Internet, Visualization: Internet GIS" etc.

    He is the author of two authoritative books on GIS in German, one is Strategisches GIS-Management - Grundlagen und Schritte zur Systemeinführung published by Wichmann Verlag, Heidelberg, 2004. The second is Einführung in Geographische Informationssysteme published by Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt in 1997. Some of the websites he maintains are gis-management.de/ and gis-news.de and his blog.

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  • Prof. Dr. Volker Coors: CityGML 

    Volker Coors is Professor in Geoinformatics and Computer Science at University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart. His research is focused on 3D Geographic Information Systems and Information Logistics, in particular data management and visualization of large 3D urban models.

    He holds a Diploma degree with honours in Computer Sciences and a doctoral degree in Computer Graphics from Technical University of Darmstadt. From 1997 to 2002 he worked as a researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, department GIS. Volker Coors earned a DAAD scholarship and holds a patent in the area of 3D mesh compression. He received the “Patent Awards of the INI-GraphicsNet” in 2002 as well as the price for “Outstanding Concepts for VirtualReality” of the German Ministry for Education and Research. He was involved in several national and European research projects on 3D urban modelling, location based computing and augmented Reality.

    He is head of the Bachelor program on Information Logistics. Current research projects include the use of 3D-GIS in internet-based Public Participation for Urban Planning, 3D urban models for mobile pedestrian navigation and optimization of information logistic processes.
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  • Dr. Kai Holschuh, Germany: Understanding Social Networking in international Contexts

    Born and raised in the USA, Dr. Holschuh worked for Mitsubishi, the World Bank and US Peace Corps in Latin America and Daimler-Benz in Germany before completing an MBA at Indiana University. From 1991 to 2000 he was a senior manager at Grupo Planeta, Call Center Alliance and Bertelsmann in Spain, and from 2000 to the present works as freelance consultant and trainer, now based in Karlsruhe, Germany. Dr. Holschuh received his PhD in Leadership and Organizational Communication from ESADE in 2005 and presently lectures on Services Management, Operational Marketing and Business Environment Analysis.
  • Professor Rainer Kettemenn: GPS Data Collection & GIS Data Integration

    This workshop will demonstrate the entire line of geo-data collection in the field, data manipulation, data transfer, data integration and update into a desktop GIS. In the practical part GPS sensors will be used by the participants to collect their own data in field. In addition a GPS camera will be available. Finally the participants will able to see their recently collected GPS geo-data.

    Prof. Rainer Kettemann is Professor for Geoinformation Systems, Land Surveying and Urban land Use Planning at the Faculty of Geomatics, Computer Sciences and Mathematics, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences.

    He was together with Prof. Dr. Schröder winner of Intergraph's First international Best Practices Award (2002), sponsored by the Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions for Education Program for his formulation GIS problems that illustrate groundbreaking GIS programs in the classroom. The worldwide competitions recognize projects and programs based on Intergraph's GeoMedia and MGE technology.

    Some of his projects include
    • Integration of GPS and GIS
    • Solar Urban Planning with GIS
    • Data interoperability based on Databases
    • Data interoperability based on OGC Web Services
    He organizes annual user group meetings for INTERGRAPH (GeoMedia) and ESRI (ArcGIS) users, GIS users in the field of urban planning and with his laboratory for GIS he always participates at the annual international GIS Day.

    Prof. Kettemann is a member of the board for Spatial Data Infrastructure in the state of Baden-Württemberg (GDI-BW) and member of its working groups "Gesamtkonzeption" and "Geoportal Baden-Württemberg"
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  • Prof. Dr. Dietrich Schröder: Workshop on Free and Open Source Desktop GIS

    In recent years, a noticeable number of new Free and Open Source Desktop GIS (FOSGIS) have emerged on the market. As FOSGIS have been widely used in the field of Internet GIS/Web Mapping, this is still not true for desktop GIS. Here the market is still dominated by proprietary products. Even though there is the trend to shift also geo-processing to the Internet, for sophisticated analysis as well as rich clients in a GDI environment, there will be still the necessity for desktop GIS in the future. This holds in particular for many developing countries, where still the availability of broad bandwidth for Internet applications is a problem.

    In the workshop, a short overview of the different desktop FOSGIS projects and their status of development will be given. This presentation will be followed by a hands-on workshop; here an introduction to the Software gvSIG will be given. An environmental analysis will be developed together with the participants, so that they will be able to gather their own feelings and impressions on the software.

    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietrich Schröder is Professor for Geoinformation Systems, Database Systems, Programming and Urban Land Use Planning at the Faculty of Geomatics, Computer Sciences and Mathematics at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences

    He was the winner of the Intergraph's First international Best Practices Award (2002), sponsored by the Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions for Education Program for his formulation GIS problems that illustrate groundbreaking GIS programs in the classroom. The worldwide competitions recognize projects and programs based on Intergraph's GeoMedia and MGE technology.

    Some of his projects include

    • Solar Urban Planning with GIS
    • Computer Networks Online - Development of an E-Learning Module, sponsored by LARS-Project
    • Extensions for Intergraph’s GeoMedia®
    • Consulting in the frame of the EU TEMPUS Program in Bishkek/Kirgistan
    He is active in the area of Free and Open Source GIS.
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  • Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn: Acquisition of Spatial Data with Terrestrial, Airborne and Mobile Laserscanning

    Prof. Hahn joined the University of Applied Sciences (HFT) in Stuttgart in 1998 having held academic and research appointments at the Universities of Karlsruhe (1984-86), Stuttgart (1986-1996/8, including a four year-period as lecturing assistant and an eight-year period as senior lecturer) and Brisbane (where he was ARC Fellow and Guest Professor at QUT, School of Electrical Engineering from 1996 to 1997). He obtained a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Geodesy at the University of Karlsruhe and a Dr.-Ing. degree with summa cum laude at Stuttgart University for his dissertation on "Image Sequence Analysis for Passive Navigation". From 1999 to 2001 he was founding Director of the Master Course Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics and from 2001 to 2007 Vice-President Science, Research and Internationalisation at HFT.

    In 2002 he has been appointed as an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Architecture.

    Professor Hahn has contributed significantly to the field of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Image processing, Geoinformatics, Navigation and Statistics (Parameter estimation), evidenced by an extensive list of publications. These include four books (Editor), many invited papers, around 10 keynote papers and over 120 journal and conference papers. He has experience on the accreditation board of ASIIN, national and international grants committees and chaired ISPRS working groups for more than 16 years.

    Prof. Hahn's current research interests centre on the modelling of measurements from vehicle-based, airborne and spaceborne platforms, and the related data processing algorithms for platform orientation, spatial data acquisition, data fusion, image analysis, object recognition and modelling of 3D virtual cities. Current research in LiDAR processing and hyperspectral imaging is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Ministry for Science, Baden-Württemberg and the DAAD in the Go8 Australia Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme.
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  • Hui LI, M. Sc.: Setting up a WMS- / WFS-Server in 45 minutes

    Hui LI holds a Master degree in Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics from Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (2004 – 2006). Since 2006 he works as software developer for M-Way Solutions GmbH, Stuttgart, mainly working with Java and related technologies. He is author of several papers about Geoinformatics related open source solutions. In his free time, he likes programming in Java and PHP, using Ajax technology and free frameworks. He contributes to open source projects, which can be found at http://www.easywms.com. He is the main developer of SUAS Map Server (initiated by Prof. Behr). SUAS Map Server has been downloaded from SourceForge about 2000 times.
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Key Notes



  • Osayande Omokaro, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria: Oil and Gas Extraction in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: The social and environmental challenges

    Mr Osayande Omokaro holds a master degree in Development Management from the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy based at Ruhr University, Bochum, and other postgraduate certificates from the Center for Advanced Training in Rural Development based at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

    Since 1994, he has been working with the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (an NGO) and has produced several research works on the negative impacts of oil and gas extraction in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. He has also delivered several papers on the negative effects of crude oil extraction on the environment at the European Parliament, Belgian Parliament, Estonian Parliament, Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as other important international venues and events.

    Mr. Osayande Omokaro is a recipient of the German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship and a fellowship from the Senate of Berlin.
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  • Josef Braun, INPHO GmbH: New developments in Photogrammetry Josef Braun holds a diploma degree from Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. He has profound experience in software development and photogrammetry. From 1981 - 1987 he worked as Software Developer for Carl Zeiss Oberkochen in the area of Photogrammetry. Until 1994 he was head of the Software Development Devision of Carl Zeiss Photogrammetry. From 1994 - 1999 he was leading Product Manager for all Systems of Carl Zeiss Photogrammetry Division. Since 1999 Mr. Braun is the head of Suppport and Product Management of INPHO GmbH a world-leading photogrammetric systems supplier located in Stuttgart. INPHO's portfolio covers the entire workflow of photogrammetric projects, including aerial triangulation, stereo compilation, terrain modelling, orthophoto production and image capture. In addition, INPHO offers innovative software solutions for processing digital terrain models, including advanced filtering and editing of LIDAR data.
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  • Prof. Dr. Matthias Moeller: Uniform Geo-data Infrastructures (GDI) - Challenges for the Information Society

    Matthias S. Moeller received his Diploma in Geography from the University of Osnabrueck, Lower Saxony, Germany in 1996. He received his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Environmental Sciences from the University of Vechta, Lower Saxony, Germany in 2002 based on the thesis: Analysis of extremely high resolution airborne scanner data for urban applications and their integration into a GIS - environment (German). He taught as a part time lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrueck and the University of Vechta. He is with the Center for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), University of Salzburg, Austria, as a full time lecturer and responsible for Remote Sensing. Matthias S. Moeller started his scientific career as a research assistant at the University of Vechta in 1996 at the Institute for Spatial Analysis and Planning in Areas of Intensive Agriculture (ISPA). He led the GIS part of the EU funded project: Development of prevention and control strategies to address animal health and related problems in densely populated livestock areas of the Community (FAIR5-PL97-3566). At the Institute for Environmental Science (IUW), University of Vechta, he developed a number of methods for the analysis of Extremely High Resolution Airborne Scanner Imagery (EHRAS) bridging the gap between photogrammetry and remote sensing in terms of large scale urban monitoring from 1999 through 2002. In 2002 he was authorized to build up the Center of Excellence for Geoinformatics in Lower Saxony (GiN) by the Ministry for Science of Lower Saxony. From 2003 through 2007 he was with Arizona State University (ASU), Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), coordinating and leading the Remote Sensing part of the NSF funded project Agricultural Landscapes in Transitions (AgTrans) for six U.S. partner sites. From April 2006 until September 2007 he was with the Bonn University, Germany as a substitute full professor and chair for Cartography and Geoinformatics at the Institute of Geography. In February 2007 he started working parallel for the Austrian A cademy of Sciences – GIScience in Salzburg, Austria as a senior research associate. Since April 2008 he is acting as a full professor for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing at the Otto - Friedrich - University Bamberg, Institute of Geography. He gave more than 50 oral and poster presentations at scientific conferences and published his research results in over 50 papers. He organized a number of public as well as scientific conferences (GIS days, GIS discussion Forums, Remote Sensing conferences focusing on special themes). Matthias S. Moeller has a strong international teaching background in Applied Physical Geography, Geoinformatics and remote sensing at the University level. He gave introductory courses as well as courses dealing with the sophisticated, advanced application of GIS and image analysis tools (e.g. 3D, Visualization, new sensors, GPS, Location Based Services, etc.) As a lecturer for UNIGIS studies he is responsible for the education in remote sensing based on distance learning tools. He organized several excursions to the Austrian Alpine Mountains with the teaching background of Geomorphology.
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  • Claudia Specht-Mohl M. Sc.: Nationwide spatial base data acquisition and provision – Implementation process in developing countries under the aspect of data actuality and quality

    Claudia Specht-Mohl, M.Sc. in Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, has been working for many years as international consultant and trainer for Geoinformation, Photogrammetry and Landmanagement.

    She worked as lecturer and trainer in the International Advanced Training Centre for Photogrammetry (IPO) at University of Applied Science in Stuttgart (1984-1998) and has long term experience in advanced training of trainers and of qualified personnel and decision makers from Africa, Asia and Europe during short term and long term courses in photogrammetry and mapping (partly on the job training and consulting in Germany and abroad at different national geodetic and mapping agencies and private companies).

    From 1999 to 2005 she was project manager at Steinbeis Transfer Centre for Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, DiAccent in Stuttgart. She accomplished the postgraduate Master Course in Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences from 2001-2003.

    Beginning of 2006 she was engaged by "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit" GTZ (German Technical Assistance) as consultant for municipal GIS in Serbia. In Mai 2006 she became Resident Twinning Advisor (RTA) in an EU funded CARDS Twinning project "Institutional Capacity Building of the Republic Geodetic Authority (RGZ) to manage land and real property information" in Serbia. Twinning partners were Republic Geodetic Authority (RGZ), Republic of Serbia and the German Ministry of Food and Rural Regions, Baden-Württemberg in cooperation with GTZ, Germany. Supported by a large number of German short term experts she was responsible for the establishment of a Digital Mapping Information unit, which mainly included intensive staff training, the implementation of a modern digital photogrammetric production line, the establishment of a Topographic Geoinformation System and the developpment of methods for updating cadastre maps from orthophotos and stereomodels. The Twinning project terminated successfully end of 2008.
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