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Volume 5, No. 12 DecemberDecember 201 20189 Monthly Newsletter Table of Contents North and Central America and the 1. Activities of Caribbean Editorial ..…...............…............ the Network December 2019 Editorial Board ………………....…. 1. Activities …………………..……… 1 4. 9-13 December: AGU Meeting Venue: San Francisco, California, USA 2. A) Lab of the month..…....... Ottawa, Ontario, OSGeo Meetup B) GeoAmbassador ……….…… Group meets on the third Thursday of each month. If you are located 3. Events …………….....…........…. in the area, go to the link to sign up 4. Conferences ………...…...…….. 1 to the group and get updates about April 2020 5. Webinars ………..….….……..…. 4 future events. 5. 6-10 April: AAG 2020 Annual Meeting 6. Courses …………….…………..…. (http://www.meetup.com/Ottawa Venue: Denver, Colorado, USA 7. Training programs ……….…… 4 OSGeo/ 6. 6-10 April: Symposium on Frontiers in 8. Key research publication ..… CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science 9. Funding opportunities ……... 10. New free and open software, Venue: Denver, Colorado, USA open data …………......…..……… 4. Conferences May 2020 11. Free Books ………..….…….… 12. Articles …….…………..…......... 4 7. 24-27 May: 17th International Conference Europe on Information Systems for Crisis Response 13. Scholarships for students and Management (ISCRAM 2020) and staff …….……………............ April 2020 Venue: Blacksburg, Virginia, USA 14. Exchange programs for 1. 21-24 April: GISRUK students and staff Venue: London, UK. 15. Awards ……..….…............. 16. Web sites ……..….………..... May 2020 17. Ideas ………………..............…. 6 2. 12-15 May: INSPIRE Conference 18. Social contribution ………… 2020 Venue: Dubrovnik, Croatia September 2020 3. 15-18 September: GIScience Venue: Poznań, Poland Volume 5, No. 12 December 2019 Editorial Board Please refer to the appropriate person according to the following table: Chief Editor Nikos Lambrinos, Professor, Dept. of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Oceania President of the Hellenic digital earth Centre of Excellence [email protected] Co-editor Rizwan Bulbul, Assistant Professor of GIScience India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Head of Geospatial Research and Education Lab Burma, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Department of Space Science, Institute of Space Technology, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, United Arab Islamabad, Pakistan Emirates, Kuwait and Islands of S. Pacific. [email protected] Co-editors Pavel Kikin, Senior Lecturer “Department of applied informatics Russia, Mongolia, China, Japan, S. Korea, and IT”, Siberian State Univer. of Geosystems and Technologies Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar, Alexey Kolesnikov, Senior Lecturer “Department of cartography Cambodia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, and GIS”, Siberian State Univer. of Geosystems and Technologies Philippines, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan [email protected] and Kyrgyzstan. Co-editor Rania Elsayed, Computers & Information Researcher, Division of Scientific Training & Continuous Studies, National Authority for Africa Remote Sensing & Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt. [email protected] Co-editor Seraphim Alvanides, Reader (Geographical Information Science) Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Germany, Northumbria University, Newcastle NE1 8ST, United Kingdom. Austria, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, Iceland [email protected] Co -editor Antoni Perez Navaro, Associate Professor at Universitat Oberta de Italy, Malta, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, The Catalunya (UOC) Computer Sciences and Multimedia Department Netherlands, Luxemburg. [email protected] Co -editor Emma Strong, Planner with the City of Gulfport, Mississippi North and Central America [email protected] Co-editor Sergio Acosta Y Lara, Departamento de Geomática Dirección, Nacional de Topografía, Ministerio de Transporte y South America Obras Públicas, URUGUAY [email protected] Co-editor The Balkans, Ukraine, Moldavia, Estonia, Codrina Ilie, PhD student at the Technical University of Civil Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, Hungary, Czech Engineering, Bucharest, Romania Republic, Slovakia Production Designer Nikos Voudrislis, MSc, PhD in geography education. Design and final formation of the newsletter [email protected] Paulo César Coronado Sánchez, Professor of computer sciences at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Head of GISEPROI and OSGeoLabUD research Group. Bogotá, Colombia Translator and designer of the Spanish Edition [email protected] 2 Volume 5, No. 12 December 2019 GeoForAll Regional Chairs GeoForAll Themes and Contact Information . OpenCity Smart North America Region Chairs: Chris Pettit (Australia), Patrick Hogan Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA) (USA), Phillip Davis (USA) Subscribe at mail list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- Mail list: http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/ bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-northamerica mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience Email: [email protected] Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart Iberoamerican Region Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana . Teacher Training & School Education Camboim (Brazil) and Antoni Pérez Navarro (Spain). Chairs: Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska Subscribe at mail list: (Poland), Nikos Lambrinos (Greece) https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geoforall- Mail list: geoforall-teachertraining@lists. iberoamerica osgeo.org Email: [email protected]. Website: Africa Region http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geo ForAll_TeacherTrai Chairs: Msilikale Msilanga (Tanzania), Serena ning_SchoolEducation Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South . CitizenScience Africa) Subscribe at mail list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- Chairs: Peter Mooney (Ireland) and Maria bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-africa Brovelli (Italy) Email: [email protected] Mail list: https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- bin/mailman/listinf o/geoforall-geocrowd Asia Region (including Australia) Website: Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geocrowdsourcing_Citi Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India) Subscribe at zenScience_FOSS4G maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-asiaaustralia . AgriGIS Email: [email protected] Chairs: Didier Leibovici (U.K.) and Nobusuke Iwasaki (Japan) Europe Region Mail list: https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Peter Mooney bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-agrigis (Ireland) Subscribe at mail list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi- Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Agrigis bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-europe Email: [email protected] 3 Volume 5, No. 12 December 2019 5. Webinars 12. Articles Using the UN Biodiversity Lab to Support Acronyms Biodiversity Monitoring & Reporting by Nikos Lambrinos, Chief Editor, and Michael Spatial data are available for your country through Finn. the UN Biodiversity Lab [1] on trends such as the rate of forest loss between 2000-2017 and protected area For those who would like to support this effort, coverage of key biodiversity areas. You can also please send any acronyms to the Chief Editor access maps that can help you understand where to ([email protected]). take actions, such as those that safeguard ecosystem 3DEP: 3-D Elevation Program services and carbon stores in the environment. Would AAG: Association of American Geographers you like to learn how to use the UN Biodiversity Lab Status Maps [2] to support biodiversity monitoring AGS: American Geographical Society and reporting? AGU: American Geophysical Union Watch the webinar recording at AM/FM: Automated Mapping/Facilities https://youtu.be/Bo2WiIWtQ9s Management [1] https://unbiodiversitylab.org ASPRS: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing [2] http://nbsapforum.net/knowledge- AURIN: Australian Urban Research base/resource/18-draft-biodiversity-status-maps-–- Infrastructure Network 6nr-18-cartes-préliminaires-sur-létat-de BBSRC: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 7. Training programs BIM: Building Information Modelling CAADP: Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme GeoForAll educational materials have been CAD: Computer Aided Design transferred to our new web CaGIS: Cartograhy and Geographic Information site. GeoForAll educational inventory system, a place to Society search and share CEGIS: Center of Excellence for Geospatial educational materials Information Science CEOS: Committee on Earth Observation Satellites CI: CyberInfrastructure CLGE: The Council of European Geodetic Use of geodata in the social sciences Surveyors by Dr. Jan-Philipp Kolb Date: May 04 – 05 2020 CODATA: Committee on Data for Science and Technology Venue: Mannheim B2,8, Germany / Course language: German COGO: Coordinate geometry CRS: Coordinate Reference System CSA: Canadian Space Agency CUDA: Compute Unified Device Architecture 4 Volume 5, No. 12 December 2019 DAAC: Distributed Active Archive Center (of ICSU-WDS: International Council for Science – NASA) World Data System DEM: Digital Elevation Model IDE: Spatial Data Infrastructure DSM: Digital Surface Models INSPIRE: Infrastructure for Spatial Information DWG: Design file format in Europe DXF: Drawing Interchange File IPGH: Pan American Institute of Geography and History ECMWF: European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasting ISO: International Organization for Standardization EOS: Earth Observation Science ISPRS: International Society for EOSDIS: Earth Observing System and Data Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Information System ISPRS: