Summary Events of Interest Previous Numbers Editorial Policy Search Version française MARCH - APRIL 2003 Québec's Forests from Every Angle Managing a forest required in-depth knowledge of forest ecosystems. This is a rather difficult task for Québec's land-use planners, who must manage 750 000 km2 of forests, of which 90% is government-owned and 10% belongs Join Our List to some 130 000 private landowners! Fortunately, the Ministère des of Subscribers! Ressources naturelles (MRN) has a number of appropriate tools, in particular, the Système d'information écoforestière (SIEF). We will inform you when each new issue is published Article Enter your email address: Serving up Québec on a Silver Platter The first time that the term dynamic cartography appeared on Tourisme Québec's linguistic landscape, everyone understood the concept without realizing that they may have already experienced it with their computer mouse! After the major feat of integrating 30,000 sheets of paper into a computerized database had been pulled off, everyone was anticipating the arrival of a super-robot capable of serving up Québec on a silver platter by offering tourist accommodations, tourist attractions, and restaurants. Since there wasn't a robot, however, it rapidly became apparent that the logical follow-up to the technological adventure of BonjourQuébec.com was to implement a mapping solution based on geomatics. Article GÉOinfo is a bimonthly Internet newsletter produced by the Plan Geomatics serving Centre-du-Québec géomatique du gouvernement du Québec, PGGQ team. Its The Centre-du-Québec region is modernizing and using geomatics to take articles principally address charge of its economic, social, and cultural development. Indeed, the current issues in the field of administrative region created an ad hoc committee for implementing geomatics in geomatics within the the territory. As a result of the commitment of the Table des préfets du Centre-du- government of Québec. Québec, a project for digitizing graphic registers related to assessment roll data was carried out in 2001-2002. This project firmly establishes Centre-du-Québec's Editor-in-Chief foundation in geomatics. Nathalie Kinnard Article Editorial Committee Geneviève-Ilou Boucher Luc Gravel Maritime Technologies Make Headlines Chantal Seuthé (NUMÉRIMAGE section) The maritime industry constantly faces new challenges: improving winter navigational conditions, optimizing inland waterways, competing against means Contributors of ground transportation... In order to maintain its competitiveness with a view Yann Alix Alain Coulombe towards sustainable development, it must be innovative and stay at the cutting Olga Dupont edge of technology. The job has gotten somewhat easier in the last year as a Anne-Marie Joanes result of expertise from Innovation maritime, a center for applied research in Nathalie Kinnard maritime technologies in which geomatics is playing a growing role. André Quenneville Guy Le Rouzès Article Translation Garriss et Vachon inc. Graphic Design Annie Jutras Content Integration Karine Sanschagrin Québec as Seen by Landsat 7 Electronic Edition Prospection Inc. First there was the Spatiocarte du Québec... now there's the renewed spatiocarte du Québec! The Ministère des Ressources naturelles (MRN) recently began Networking offering the first 42 map sheets of Québec with ETM (Enhanced Thematic Jacques Roussin Mapper) images captured by the Landsat 7 satellite. These recent images will draw the attention of many users due to their higher resolution, better geometric GÉOinfo correction, and scale of 1:100 000. Phone: (418) 627-6250, ext. 2162 Fax: (418) 646-9424 Article Comments Luc Gravel Using the New Satellite Image Map of Québec for Better Park Management Even before it was finalized, the new satellite image map of Québec produced by the Ministère des Ressources naturelles had attracted the attention of provincial park managers in the provincial capital area. Indeed, satellite image map 21 M- Baie-Saint-Paul (available in four sheets at the 1:100 000 scale) reveals a wealth of details that weren't apparent before. Now vacation sites, shore restoration, ancient moraines, and rockslides are readily visible. The Jacques-Cartier, Grands- Jardins, and Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie provincial parks reveal their distinctive features through the ETM images of the new satellite image map. Article Return on top ISSN : 1488-0741 Une gestion concertée | Une vision intégrée | Une organisation efficace L'expertise gouvernementale | Le savoir-faire québécois Nous joindre | Plan du site | Accueil © Gouvernement du Québec, 2003 Summary Events of Interest Previous Numbers Editorial Policy Search Version française 2003 6th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information 4th International Symposium Science "Remote Sensing of Urban Areas 2003" "The Science behind the Infrastructure" When: June 27-29, 2003 Organization: The Association of Geographic Where: Regensburg, Germany Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE) When: April 24-26, 2003 +1 (604) 254-6778 Where: Campus La Doua, Lyon, France [email protected] http://www-urs2003.uni-r.de [email protected] http://agile2003.insa-lyon.fr/francais.htm 23rd Annual ESRI International User Conference Organization: ESRI 49th CASI Annual General meeting and Conference When: July 7-11, 2003 2003 Where: San Diego Convention Center, San Diego "Aerospace Technologies / The Way forward in (California), USA Challenging Times" Organization: Canadian Aeronautics and Space [email protected] Institute http://www.esri.com/events/uc When: April 28-30, 2003 Where: Hôtel Delta, Montréal (Québec), Canada IGARSS 2003 Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society [email protected] Organization: "Learning Earth's Shapes and Colors" http://www.casi.ca/AGM%202003%20flyer.pdf When: July 21-25, 2003 Where: Centre des Congrès Pierre-Baudis, Toulouse, 2003 ASPRS Annual Conference France Organization: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) +1 (604) 254-6778 May 3-9, 2003 When: [email protected] Where: Anchorage (Alaska), USA http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/grss/igarss.html (301) 493-0290, ext. 106 st [email protected] 21 ICA International Cartographic Congress Organization: International Cartographic Association (ICA) http://www.asprs.org/alaska2003/index.html When: August 10-16, 2003 Where: Durban, South Africa Colloque AGMQ du printemps 2003 "La démocratisation des données municipales" Organization: Association de géomatique municipale 31 30 2531373 du Québec (AGMQ) [email protected] When: May 7, 2003 http://www.icaci.org/ Where: Hôtel Universel, Drummondville (Québec), Canada PIA'03 "Photogrammetric Image Analysis" (514) 282-3819 Organization: International Society for Photogrammetry [email protected] and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) http://www.agmq-quebec.com When: September 17-19, 2003 Where: Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany GeoAlberta 2003 "Stretching the Limits" [email protected] When: May 7-9, 2003 http://serv.photo.verm.tu-muenchen.de/pia03/ Where: Calgary Convention Center, Calgary (Alberta), Canada XXIIth World Forestry Congress Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the [email protected] United Nations (FAO) http://www.geoalberta.com When: September 21-28, 2003 Where: Palais des congrès, Québec (Québec), Canada GIS BRASIL 2003 9th Geotechnologies Tradeshow (418) 694-9922 Organization: FATOR GIS [email protected] When: May 12-15, 2003 http://www.cfm2003.org Where: São Paulo, Brazil 4th International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and [email protected] Modeling http://www.gisbrasil.com.br/english/ When: October 6-10, 2003 Where: The Banff Center, Banff (Alberta), Canada 2003 Bentley International User Conference When: May 18-22, 2003 [email protected] Where: Baltimore Convention Center, MD http://www.3DIMconference.org [email protected] URISA 2003 Annual Conference http://www.bentley.com/biuc/default.cfm "Looking Back, Moving Forward" Organization: Urban and Regional Information Systems GeoSpatial World 2003 Association Organization: Intergraph Corporation When: October 11-15, 2003 When: May 19-21, 2003 Where: Atlanta (Georgia), USA Where: Hyatt Regency, New Orleans (Louisiana), USA http://www.urisa.org/annual.htm http://www.intergraph.com/geospatialworld 25th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing / 11th FIG Working Week and XVI General Assembly Scientific Congress of the Association québécoise de Organization: International Federation of Surveyors télédétection When: May 19-23, 2003 "De l'image à l'information" Where: Eilat, Israël When: October 14-17, 2003 Where: Université de Montréal, Montréal (Québec), Canada [email protected] http://www.kenes.com/surveyors/ (514) 343-8016 (514) 343-8008 "Partnership - Partenariat : A mari usque ad mare / [email protected] Partenariat : D´un océan à l´autre" http://casi.ca/CRSSfre.pdf GEOIDE Network's 5th Annual Conference Organization: GEOIDE Network 2003 ANNUAL CONFERENCE When: May 21-23, 2003 "Geomatics for Industry, from MICRO TO MACRO"" Where: Laurel Point Inn, Victoria (BC), Canada Organization: Canadian Institute of Geomatics Information: Nathalie Michaud When: October 16-18, 2003 Where: Fairmont Palliser, Calgary (Alberta), Canada (418) 656-7758 (613) 224-9851 http://www.cig-acsg.ca/page.asp?intNodeID=8205 ISU 14th World Congress Organization: International Stereoscopic Union th When: May 28 to June 2, 2003 30 International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Where: Besançon, France Environment Organization: