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Liaison’s Report

on GSDI Association

An update on selected activities

since WGISS-41

Dr. Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp

Liaison, GSDI-WGISS

Past Secretary-general, HUNAGI (1994-2015)

GSDI Liaison’s report for CEOS WGISS 42 Meeting hosted by ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, 19-22 September, 2016

Source: ESA ESRIN

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GSDI an update in nutshell

GSDI 15 World Conference – Themes with relevance to EO

WGISS at GSDI 15

Activities and topics of the past six months

GSDI at the GEO Work Program 2017-2019 Workshop in Geneva

GSDI at the GEOSS Common GEO Infrastructure in Geneva

GSDI at the Digital Earth Summit and 10th Anniversary of ISDE in Beijing

NASA WWEC 2016 – introduction of the selected 5 of the 20

entries. All has EO/SDI relevance

Conclusions

Acknowledgements


Outline2

Features of GSDI established in 2004 for academic, government,

industry entities and individual professionals in geomatics:

GSDI today has 38 Organisational Members from 20 countries and

over 400 individual members from 55 countries with a high

concentration in developing nations.

GSDI has Special Consultative status with UN ECOSOC and

supports the UN Global Geospatial Information Management (UN

UN GGIM) initiative.

GSDI promotes the Open Data Principles of GEO/GEOSS


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GSDI is involved in SDI capacity building activities in several ways,

including:

the GSDI Small Grants Program (in cooperation with URISA’s GISCorps volunteers)

SDI and geomatics training opportunities offered by our

institutional members, and

SDI-focused workshops and seminars offered by members

globally.

Since 1996, the Association has conducted GSDI World

Conferences around the globe, offering significant networking

opportunities and offering the opportunity for SDI researchers and SDI implementors to present their latest work, challenges

and solutions.

More information. www.gsdiassociation.org



http://www.gsdiassociation.org/

GSDI have liasons and Memorandums of Understanding with several

global organisations, including:

Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JBGIS)

International Cartographic Association (ICA)

International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)

International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

(ISPRS)

International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE)

Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety

(CDMPS - Univ. of Melbourne)

More information. www.gsdiassociation.org



http://www.gsdiassociation.org/

Venue: Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center


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Themes: Spatial Enablement in the Smart Homeland

Smart Disaster Prevention, Smart transportation, Smart City

EO/SDI’s relevance to socio-economic and environmental impacts of global urbanisation and serving more liveable cities were clearly

shown among other by UN, OECD and FIG.

Even the recent Davos Meeting in January called the attention of

the challenges related to sustainable cities. GIM’s 2016 August-

September issue reviewed ten technological drivers which support

urban development and services in need of transformation

Organisers: The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association

and the Taiwan Association of Disaster Prevention Industry (TADPI), with strong support from Ministry of the Interior (MOI).



Building Resource Wealth,

Ensuring Community Safety,

Securing Water Resources,

Managing Marine Jurisdictions,

Providing Fundamental Geographic Information,

Maintaining Geoscience Knowledge and Capability

Above: GA’s major

focus areas

15th GSDI World ConferenceTheme Groups at a Glance


2 Land Information

and Management

Systems

3 SDI Governance

and Policy Development

4 Disaster Management, Reduction and

Mitigation

5 Earth Observation and Sensors

6 Geo Technology

and Innovation

for SDI

7 Geo Data for Decision

Making

8 Geo Education

and Cartography

9 Regional and Global

SDI Initiatives

Spatial Data

Infrastructure

for the

Smart

Homeland

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The 15th GSDI World Conference

Theme Groups at a Glance 1/3


Theme 1: SDI for the Smart HomelandSDI for Smart Cities, Smart Territories and Smart Environments

Location-based Services and (indoor/outdoor )Positioning for Smart homeland

Indoor SDI (positioning) and Personal SDI Developments

VGI(Volunteered Geographic Information), Crowdsourcing, and Citizen Science

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)

Advanced Traffic Management and Application Service Platform

Application of 4S (seamless, smooth, safety, sharing) in smart transportation

Theme 2: Land Information and Management SystemsLand Information Systems

Land and Urban Data Management

SDI for Low Impact Development (LID)

SDI for Resilience and Sustainable Development

Theme 3. SDI Governance and Policy Development

Open Data and Open Government E-

Government and E-Governance

Geospatial Legislation and Policies

Privacy, Security and Institutional Concern

2 Land Information

and Management

Systems

3 SDI Governance

and Policy Development




Theme 4. Disaster Management, Reduction and Mitigation

Innovation in Disaster Management Technology

Disaster Management ‘Best Practice’

Protecting Critical Infrastructure

Earthquake Mitigation Challenges, earthquake early warning system(EEWs)

Economic Exposure & Loss Database development

Hazard Model Development

Loss estimation, transforming risk and Insurance

Risk Modelling and Assessment, Mitigation and Management

Disaster prevention and Emergency Management for smart homeland

Disaster Response Transportation Management Service

Theme 5. Earth Observation and SensorsObservatories (environmental, transportation, logistics, citizen, health, urban)

Wearable device and technology

Earth Observation

Remote Sensing, Survey & Mapping Applications (UAVs, LiDAR, SAR...)

Sensor Web / Internet of Things (IoT) and Linked Data

4 Disaster Management, Reduction and

Mitigation

5 Earth Observation and Sensors




Theme 6. Geo Technology and Innovation for SDISDI in the Cloud – Challenges and Solutions for smart homeland,

CyberGIS,

Geospatial Big Data Management and Analytics,

3D/4D Spatial Data Visualization and Analytics

Theme 7. Geo Data for Decision MakingGeospatial Decision Support Systems

Geospatial Business Modelling

Geo-Intelligence

Theme 8. Geo Education and Cartography

Geospatial Education

Web Cartography

Historic Geo Data Management

Theme 9. Regional and Global SDI Initiatives

UN-GGIM Global and Regional Initiatives

GEO/GEOSS Developments

GEO/GEOSS

UN Sustainable Development Goals

European Pan-European SDI – INSPIRE

7 Geo Data for Decision

Making

8 Geo Education

and Cartography

9 Regional and Global

SDI Initiatives

6 Geo Technology

and Innovation

for SDI

Keynote speakers incude:



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Prof. David Coleman,

UNB, President

President, OGC Geospatial technologist, Executive Director

Google FGDC at USGS

General information is available from [email protected]

GSDI World Conference website: http://gsdi15.org.tw/

IJSDIR - International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research

is a peer-reviewed journal operated by JRC will publish some GSDI 15 papers

mailto:[email protected]

http://gsdi15.org.tw/

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc


WGISS at the GSDI 15 World Conference 1

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WGISS-41 (Canberra) Minutes with

Action to share information on WGISS

Activities with the GSDI community

WGISS contributing paper submitted written by the Chair-Co-Chair

The basic version of the presentation is ready but might be updated by

the authors, including the authorized speaker on behalf WGISS

(based on inputs from WGISS-42 and GEO XIII Plenary)

WGISS paper accepted for oral presentation in the most relevant session

GSDI’s liaison invited to the GSDI Council and Board Meetings to share

recommendations on potentials of closer cooperation with WGISS

GSDI at the GEOSS Work Program 2017-2019 Workshop

held in Geneva


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Plenary Discussion with intervention of GSDI

GEOSec Director Barbara Ryan reflected positively

In the Urban group GSDI made written contribution

raising awareness on the Smart City session of the

GSDI World Conference on „Spatial enablement

in the Smart Homeland”, which was reflected in the

rapporteur’s summary in the final plenary.

GSDI President-elect Dave Lovell had a personal

meeting with GEO Sec Director

Barbara Ryan in London, mid-June.

GSDI at the GEOSS Common infrastructure (GCI) Workshop held in Geneva in May 2016

Chaired by Ivan DeLoatch (FGDC)

Attended by WGISS Chair Andrew Mitchell

Introduction of the vision of GEOSS till 2025

Introduction of flagship projects such as

GeoBON, GEOGLAM, Blue Planet ICIMOD,

GeoSUR and HOT (Humanitarian Open Street

Map)

GEOSS portal

Discussion with intervention of GSDI



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GSDI at the 6th Digital Earth Summit “Digital Earth in the Era of Big Data” and 10th Anniversary of ISDE in Beijing July 7-8, 2016

Past President of GSDI Prof. Abbas Rajabifard delivered welcome speech and took part on the Editorial Board Meeting of the Int Journal of Digital Earth Chaired by the Editor-in-Chief GUO Huadong and Editor Prof WANG Changlin

High profile keynote speakers shared their vision on the trends

Award ceremonies affected Alessandro Annoni of JRC and many other EO/SDI experts

Next Digital Earth Symposium will be in Sydney in 2017 and in Florence, Italy in 2019. Stefano Nativi of CNR is one of the supporters of the International Scientific Committee.



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Selected news on forthcoming EO related

GSDI activities

Coming event: 14th Annual domestic Fény-Tér-Kép (Light-

Space-Image) Conference arranged by Gábor Kákonyi of

GeoIQ Ltd for professionals in remote sensing, image

processing, and geoinformatics with presentations and at least

so much discussions Velence, 7-8 October, 2014.

This time some recent novelities on GSDI, Digital Earth Summit,

the 42nd CEOS WGISS and the 4th WWEC will be shared with

the participants by GSDI liaison to WGISS.

GSDI at the GEO XIII Plenary in Saint Petersburg with a 3-

member delegation Jeanne Foust, Steve Kopp and Gabor

Remetey-Fülöpp.


Recent version is a joint NASA/ESA collaboration (at ESA ESRIN: Pier Giorgio Marchetti and Olivier Barois)

Third parties are able to use this technology to serve their own needs.

Wide-range of governmental and academic applications eg. FAA is using WorldWind for their next generation Air Traffic Management system NESAT3D

“NASA developers certainly would like to work in concert with others, so that together they can advance this platform to better serve all of our needs.” – Patrick Hogan

Annual contest for young SME professionals and Academic/students teams “World Wind Europa Challenge”

Summer School in Italy: to set up WWEC goals and criteria (Como, 2012), The series of annual Challenges with WWEC sessions and award ceremonies were hosted by INSPIRE Conference (Florence, 2013), First FOSS4G Europe Conference hosted by the Jacobs University (Bremen, 2014), 2nd FOSS4G Europe Conference hosted by the Milano Politecnico Campus Como(2015) and this year in Trento and Awards ceremony in Perugia, Italy

Looking back: 2015 Projects, 2014 Projects and 2013 Projects. GSDI Liaison’s report for CEOS WGISS 42 Meeting hosted by ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, 19-22 September, 2016

NASA WorldWind, the open source,

4D virtual globe technology

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http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015



http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

The theme for WWEC 2016 is sustainable cities This week, the city of Trento Italy is hosting the top teams for three

days of presentations, code sharing and a final push for the very

best application addressing the ‘smart city’ theme aligned with the

INSPIRE Directive. http://www.trentinoinnovation.eu/progetti/nasa-

challenge

(N.B. of course the top six teams will be highlighted at INSPIRE:

http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2016/)


Open source platform and apps capable for

development of further applications and services

using Earth observation and spatial data infrastructures

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WWEC 2016 Awards ceremony will be in mid-

OctoberPerugia Open Source Geospatial Research

and Education Symposium (OGRS)

http://2016.ogrs-community.org/special-

events

http://www.trentinoinnovation.eu/progetti/nasa-challenge

http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/events/conferences/inspire_2016/

http://2016.ogrs-community.org/special-events

WWEC 2016 “The Five” : ESP





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WWEC 2016 “The Five” : Quake Hunter





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WWEC 2016 “The Five” : MultiVis Analysis Suite





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WWEC 2016 “The Five” : Space Birds





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WWEC 2016 “The Five” : World Weather





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NASA World Weather and

the USGS collaborated to

host the

USGS Dynamically

Down-scaled Climate Simulations over North

America

(Hostetler et al, 2011).

The data can be

displayed at monthly

intervals between 1975 to 2095.”

Courtesy by Khaled Sharif, Amman, Jordan


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5WW EUROPA CHALLENGE 2016 EXAMPLEWhat World Weather is capable of doing already?

“We have collected real-time accurate GIS data from NASA, ESA, EUMETSAT, NOAA, and

more and presented them to the user (weather forecaster, scientist, meteorologist,

researcher, enthusiast, etc) in an easy to use way that is accessible from any web browser

on any device.” – Khaled Sharif

August 31 Storm over the

Atlantic Ocean

"The two images show different

zoom levels of a storm in the

Atlantic Ocean on August the

31st. NASA World Weather

increases in resolution as you

zoom into images and

automatically saves the images to

conserve bandwidth.

The satellite imagery is from

NASA and the wind and rainfall

forecasts are from Environment

Canada."



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6WW EUROPA CHALLENGE 2016What World Weather is capable of doing already?

The World Weather app: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/worldweather/Wiki and source code: https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/WorldWeather/wiki

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/worldweather/

https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/WorldWeather/wiki

"Using World Weather you can overlay weather forecasts onto real-time satellite imagery

Displayed is dust information from EUMETSAT (at 15 minute intervals) and the latest wind forecast from Environment Canada's GeoMet service.”



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7WW EUROPA CHALLENGE 2016What World Weather is capable of doing already?

"Displayed is World Weather tracking Hurricane Hermine (late

August 2016, to the west of Florida); on the left globe is near-real-

time satellite imagery from NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites

overlayed with a wind forecast from GeoMet. The right globe shows anticipated rainfall amounts."



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"World Weather can consume GIS that are time aware and contain legends; the interface displays the legend and current time and the user can modify the time of the information and see it update on the globe automatically."



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"What makes NASA World Weather special is that it can combine data sources and visualize them all on four synchronized globes at

once; displayed is a mix of satellite imagery (EUMETSAT and NASA)

and weather forecasts (GeoMet, NOAA GFS) for tracking a storm

near Western Europe."



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Local, national, regional SDIs and associated services are enabling tools for EO applications

GSDI is capable not only serving and supporting EO applications, but also capacity building, providing awareness raising and generating user feedbacks with special emphasis on user requirements

As GEOSS foundational tasks are concerned, GSDI is continuing support the GEOSS data sharing policy and ready to contribute to the data management principles implementation guideline development,

The theme ‘Smart Homeland’ of coming GSDI World Conference in Taipei are matching many of the GA’s focused areas introduced at the WGISS-41 Plenary

The synergy provided by the combined use of EO and SDI technologies and services is inevitable for achieving the UN sustainable development goals


Conclusions3

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Roger Longhorn, Secretary-General, GSDI

Association

[email protected], http://gsdiassociation.org,

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/GSDI-Association-3794985

Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind Project

Manager, NASA Ames Research Center

(ARC-PX) [email protected]

Khaled Sharif, Amman, Jordan

[email protected] working at NASA ARC

Prof.Maria Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano

Como Campus [email protected]


Acknowledgements3

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