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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

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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 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. ranyaalsayed@.com

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]

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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

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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

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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: International Society for EPA: Environmental Protection Agency Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing EPSG: European Petrol Survey Group (used in JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency projection IDs) KML: Keyhole Markup Language ESA: European Space Agency LiDAR: Light Detection and Ranging ESERO: European Space Education Resource Office LOC: Local Organizing Committee EUROGI: European Umbrella Organisation for LOD: Level Of Detail Geographic Information MIL: Media and Information Literacy EuroSDR: European Spatial Data Research MoU: Memorandum of Understanding FOSS: Free and Open Source Software NAD: North American Datum FOSS4G: Free and Open Source Software For NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing Geospatial Applications GCP: Ground Control Point NED: National Elevation Dataset GloFAS: Global Flood Awareness System NEPAD: NEw Partnership for African GNSS: Global Navigational Satellite System Development GODAN: Global Open Data for Agriculture and NGA: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Nutrition NHD: National Hydrologic Dataset GPS: Global Positioning System NLCD: National Land Cover Dataset GPX: GPS Exchange Format NSDI: National Spatial Data Infrastructure GRASPgfs: Geospatial Resource for Agricultural NSF: National Science Foundation Species and Pests and Pathogens with OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation workflow integrated modeling to support and Development Global Food Security OER: Open Educational Resources GSoC: Summer of Code OGC: Open Geospatial Consortium HOT: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team OHI: International Hydrographic Office HPC: high-performance computing OSGeo: Open Source Geospatial Foundation ICA: International Cartographic Association OSM: OpenStreetMap OTB: Orfeo Tool Box

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RCMRD: Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development 17. Ideas / Information RDA: Research Data Alliance 1. To post your FOSS4G educational information go to ROSHYDROMET: Russian Federal Service for http://www.osgeo.org/education. There you can Hydrometeorologyand Enviromental Monitoring find more educational activities posted by members RUFORUM: Regional Universities Forum for of our community. capacity building in agriculture FOSS4G is the annual global event of the Open Source SaaS: Software as a Service Geospatial Foundation. It is the largest technical SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar geospatial Open Source conference in the world. The FOSS4G conference focuses on Free and Open Source SDI: Spatial Data Infrastructure Software for Geospatial applications. In addition to SIG: Geographic Information System high level technical talks four key domain are SIGTE: The GIS and Remote Sensing Service of discussed every year to showcase the connection the University of Girona, Spain between free and open source software and SQL: Structured Query Language communities from neighbouring domains. STISA 2024: Science Technology Innovation 2. University of Colorado – College of Liberal Arts & Strategy for Africa Sciences STSM: Short Term Scientific Missions Assistant Professor position TIN: Triangulated Irregular Network The University of Colorado Denver l Anschutz Medical UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Campus seeks individuals with demonstrated commitment to creating an inclusive learning and UML: Unified Modeling Language working environment. We value the ability to engage UN-GGIM: United Nations Global Geospatial effectively with students, faculty and staff of diverse Information Management backgrounds. USGS: U.S. Geological Survey The Department of Geography and Environmental USGIF: United States Geospatial Intelligence Sciences (GES) at the University of Colorado Denver Foundation (CU Denver) invites applications for a tenure-track VGI: Volunteered Geographic Information appointment at the Assistant Professor level in the area of Human-Environment Interactions to begin in XSEDE: Extreme Science and Engineering August 2020. We seek a Human Geographer focused Discovery Environment on environment-society topics such as energy and WCS: resources, environmental justice, food and WFS: agriculture, natural hazards, social vulnerability, WGCapD: Working Group on Capacity Building urbanization and development, and/or water and Data Democracy resources. Candidates should demonstrate rigorous and innovative theoretical, methodological and public WGS: engagement/communication components to their WISERD: Wales Institute of Social & Economic social science research. We also seek candidates Research, Data & Methods committed to excellent teaching and mentoring at the WMO: World Meteorological Organization undergraduate and graduate levels. WMS: Assistant Professor – 17211 Assistant Professor WMTS: Web Map Tiles Services https://cu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl 1 of WOIS: Water Observation Information System 4 9/13/2019, 2:15 PM WPS:

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The candidate will be expected to teach four courses 4. EgyptSat-A, owned by Egypt’s National Authority (2/2) per academic year that may include for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, an Egyptian undergraduate classes such as Environment, Society government agency tasked with gathering and and Sustainability and Introduction to Human studying satellite imagery of the Earth, was launched Geography as well as advanced undergraduate and on February 21st from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The graduate courses in their area of specialization. spacecraft’s electro-optical imaging system includes Candidates must have a PhD in geography or related an Earth-viewing telescope and camera that can spot discipline at the time of appointment and maintain an surface features as small as 3.3 feet (1 meter), with active research program that yields publications and similar capabilities as the failed EgyptSat 2 satellite. external grant submissions. EgyptSat-A is the third Egyptian Earth observation Posting Date Sep 12, 2019, 9:09:30 AM satellite built in Russia, following the EgyptSat 1 Unposting Date Ongoing spacecraft launched in 2007 and EgyptSat 2 launched Posting Contact Name: Gregory Simon in 2014. Posting Contact Email: [email protected] The satellite weighs more than a ton fully-fueled, and Position Number: 00636687 Tass reported EgyptSat-A features several improvements over the EgyptSat 2 design, including 3. The European Commission - Joint Research Centre improved solar batteries and a high-speed radio link (JRC) in Ispra (Italy) has just opened a position for a with ground stations. More details at: trainee to join the team working on the https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/02/20/soyuz-ready- implementation of the INSPIRE Directive. for-launch-with-egyptian-imaging-satellite/ In the context of improving the usability of INSPIRE data and facilitating the integration with other relevant sources, the trainee will explore the synergies between the INSPIRE and the OpenStreetMap (OSM) data ecosystems. More specifically, the trainee will contribute to the development of an OSM encoding for INSPIRE data through the definition of transformation rules resulting from the analysis of data models. These rules will be applied in practice to transform existing INSPIRE data sets and integrate them with OSM data

sets. The trainee will also assess the pros and cons of the transformation, technical and organisational 5. Egypt succeeds in winning the hosting of the barriers and challenges encountered, as well as African Space Agency. More details at: usability issues solved. The work is expected to https://www.youm7.com/story/2019/2/8/%D9%85% produce scientific outputs such as research papers D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%AD- and/or oral presentations at conferences/workshops. %D9%81%D9%89- Candidates shall have a Masters/PhD degree, or be %D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B2- enrolled in a PhD degree or in the final year of a %D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B6%D8%A7 Masters degree in Geoinformation Science, %D9%81%D8%A9- Geomatics, Computer Science, or a related discipline. %D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A9- You can download the vacancy notice at %D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%A1- https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showprj.php?ty %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A pe=T&id=13310 and submit an application at %D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9/4133355 (in Arabic) and https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/call-for- Rania Elsayed ([email protected]) training.php?inst=DGI&pid=13310 Deadline for applications is January 10, 2020.

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6. "Collaborative list of events on Geographic Information Technology (TIG)". An excellent source of information (in Spanish)

Add a TIG event "Collaborative list of events on 7. There is an invitation to anyone interested in Geographic Information Technology (TIG) " submitting research articles to the Special issue "You can include an event from the form "Advances in Social Network Analysis – Spatio- https://forms.gle/AfvDzJjWLBCVi6qV7; Temporal and Semantic Methods" in the How to add an event View added events License Open Access Journal ISPRS To add an event use the form: The events added by the community can be found in the "Form response" International Journal of Geo-Information. More tab. Also included in the Nosolosig Events Agenda: information and the full call for papers can be found The “Collaborative List of Events on Geographic at Information Technologies (TIG)” of Nosolosig has a https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/so Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International cial_spatial license Submission deadline: 30 June 2020. https://forms.gle/AfvDzJjWLBCVi6qV7 Data from geospatial "Form responses" tab applications, such as social https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ media, location-based service http://www.nosolosig.com/geo-eventos (LBS) and volunteered Types of events geographic information (VGI) - All related to Geographic Information Technologies platforms, has become a and maps. Workshops and webinar are included but prominent source for modeling not courses, for which a similar list is being prepared Ambit human behavior and for better - Although the events are mainly in Spanish (or held in understanding complex social Spain and Latin America), you can add other dynamics in geographic spaces. The massive amount international events that you think are relevant of multi-dimensional data (spatial, temporal, Who semantic) from these sources is typically unstructured - Anyone can add an event, even if it is not part of the and thus calls for an advance in data representation, event organization modeling, analysis, and visualization for the successful Veracity of the data transition from data to information. This Special Issue - There is no responsibility for the accuracy of this is inviting contributions that demonstrate integrated data; the data is collected by volunteers many times analysis of spatial, temporal, and semantic data from outside the organization of events social networks, including their content, linkage, and Comments structure, towards a better understanding of social - Any comments, suggestions, congratulations or behavior, human interaction patterns and the scolding, please contact Nosolosig: [email protected] dynamic characteristics of real-world phenomena and Share events. This involves novel use of machine learning - URL of the collaborative List of TIG events to share: approaches, analysis frameworks, data mining, and https://nosolosig.page.link/listaEventosTIG (geo-) statistical methods to exploit unstructured More info content of social network data. This Special Issue also - In the news Collaborative list of events on encourages the demonstration of new analytical Geographic Information Technologies published in tools, discussion of current data privacy and licensing Nosolosig issues, the exploration of data from lesser known

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social media, LBS, and VGI platforms, and the OpenStreetMap (e.g., through gamification or citizen application of fusion methods of data across multiple science approaches) Bridging the communities: platforms. Creating better connections and collaborations 8. You are invited to submit a research paper to between the scientific community and the “OpenStreetMap as a multi-disciplinary nexus: OpenStreetMap community Open research problems Perspectives, Practices and Procedures”, a Special in OpenStreetMap and challenges for the scientific Issue of the ISPRS community Cultural, political, and organizational International Journal aspects of data production and usage practices in of Geo-Information. OpenStreetMap Literature reviews and theoretical The aim of this papers on any of the listed topics or topics related to Special Issue is to the scope of the Special Issue More details at: showcase both the https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Op ongoing innovation enStreetMap and the maturity of

scientific investigations and research into

OpenStreetMap, demonstrating how, as a research object, it converges multiple research areas together. Collecting contributions from multiple disciplines and domains, this Special Issue will show how the sum total of investigations of issues like VGI, geo- information, and geo-digital processes and representations can shed light on the relations between crowds, real-world applications, technological developments, and scientific research. This Special Issue is primarily aimed at collecting papers that extend the research works presented in the Academic Track of State of the Map 2019, held in Heidelberg (Germany) on September 21–23, 2019. However, other original submissions aligned with the area of research are also highly welcome. We expect empirical, methodological, or conceptual contributions addressing any scientific aspect related to OpenStreetMap, in particular, but not limited, to the following: ● Extrinsic and intrinsic quality assessment of OpenStreetMap data Analysis of contribution patterns in OpenStreetMap Interactions between OpenStreetMap and other data sources Analysis/comparison of available software for scientific purposes related to OpenStreetMap New approaches to facilitate or improve data collection in

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