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IEI-20 Free and open source geospatial software: applications in Earth Sciences and recent development

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Wiki-Daoane: /* '''Geoscience Information Super-Session at the 33rd IGC Geoscience World Congress 2008''' */

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'''Geoscience Information Super-Session at the 33rd IGC Geoscience World Congress 2008'''

Wiki-Daoane: /* '''Geoscience Information Super-Session at the 33rd IGC Geoscience World Congress 2008''' */

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'''Geoscience Information Super-Session at the 33rd IGC Geoscience World Congress 2008'''

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 === IEI-20 Free and open source geospatial software: applications in Earth Sciences and recent development ===
-An immense amount of spatial data are collected by earth-scientists every year, e.g. geophysical investigations, remotely sensed data and information acquired during field-work. This information has to be stored, interpreted and, ideally, published and shared within the Earth Sciences community. To tackle this challenge without the help of dedicated geospatial software and networks is unthinkable. Unfortunately, proprietary software-solutions tend to be expensive or downright unaffordable for scientific institutions, particularly in less developed countries and data sharing is impeded by proprietary formats. However, during the last two decades several alternative software packages were developed in the open-source community and are now available for free. The functionality of these highly flexible software solutions includes, amongst others, classical GIS and remote sensing task, virtual reality and geospatial data storage and sharing. This symposium attempted to provide a forum to present and discuss all aspects of scientific work in Earth Sciences which utilises and/or is related to free and open-source geospatial software. Its main intention was to make the geoscientific community aware of the diversity, power and advantages of free and open source geospatial software and to attract new users.
+An immense amount of spatial data are collected by earth-scientists every year, e.g. geophysical investigations, remotely sensed data and information acquired during field-work. This information has to be stored, interpreted and, ideally, published and shared within the Earth Sciences community. To tackle this challenge without the help of dedicated geospatial software and networks is unthinkable. Unfortunately, proprietary software-solutions tend to be expensive or downright unaffordable for scientific institutions, particularly in less developed countries and data sharing is impeded by proprietary formats. However, during the last two decades several alternative software packages were developed in the open-source community and are available for free. The functionality of these highly flexible software solutions includes, amongst others, classical GIS and remote sensing task, virtual reality and geospatial data storage and sharing. Furthermore, the open source nature of the software allows for peer review of the programme code and therewith a good understanding of the processes operating on the users' data. This symposium attempted to provide a forum to present and discuss all aspects of scientific work in Earth Sciences which utilises and/or is related to free and open-source geospatial software. Its main intention was to make the geoscientific community aware of the diversity, power and advantages of free and open source geospatial software and to attract new users.
 Although the session got only 9 contibutions (5 oral and 4 poster presentations; 2 were cancelled), the authors represented the whole width of the open source community with affiliations at universities, public service, research institutes, industry and high school. Equally broad were the topics of the presentations, covering latest free and open source software development, its use in research, outreach and teaching and spatial data infrastructure, e.g. spatial data storage and its publication and sharing via internet. Surprisingly large was the interest in the session and the audience was about 90-100 people during Paul Wessel's talk about the Generic Mapping Tools. The apprehension that the audience would disperse in the break due to the cancelled talks did not become true and a lively discussion developed about free and open source geospatial software in general and its utilization for geology in particular. The relatively good attendance and a poll to the audience which indicated that only about 20% of the attendees were activily using free and open source software shows that session has been successful and our intention has been achieved.

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-== '''Geoscience Information Super-Session at the 33rd IGC Geoscience World Congress 2008''' ==
+== '''Retrospect of GFOSS Session at the 33rd IGC Geoscience World Congress 2008'''==
 The Geoscience Information Super-Session has been proposed to and accepted by the organizers of the '''33rd Geoscience World Congress 2008 (IGC 2008)''' http://www.33igc.org/ (6th to 14th August 2008 in Oslo, Norway). This symposium is intended to cover all aspects of geoscience information in four parallel sessions which will last three days.
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 '''Postponed abstract deadline Friday 7th March 2008!'''
-== GFOSS Session ==
+=== GFOSS Session ===
 Included as 4.3 in the framework (see below).
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 Contact: Henning Lorenz
-== Public Geodata Session ==
+=== Public Geodata Session (not implemented)===
 '''Title:''' The necessity of public geodata in research co-operation
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 The symposium also effects to gauge interest within the geomatics community in establishing an precedent for Earth Sciences interoperability of data and standards across Europe. In the US, the Conservation Commons ( http://conservationcommons.org ) and Information Commons for Science ( http://informationcommonsforscience.org/ ) may be strong models to look forward to.
-== Framework for a Geoscience Information Super-Session ==
+=== Framework for a Geoscience Information Super-Session ===
 '''Overall coordination: Ian Jackson, John Broome and Udo Strauss'''

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-'''For up-to-date details about the congress and abstract submission see'' http://www.33igc.org/). ''Don't forget to specify the OSGeo sessions on your abstract submission :)'''
+'''For up-to-date details about the congress and abstract submission see'' http://www.33igc.org/). ''Don't forget to specify the OSGeo sessions (IEI-20) on your abstract submission :)'''
-Abstract deadline: 1 February 2008.
+'''Postponed abstract deadline Friday 7th March 2008!'''
 == GFOSS Session ==

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        Markus Neteler
-       Center for Scientific and Technological Research
+       Fondazione Mach - Centro di Ecologia Alpina
-       MPBA/SSI
+Viote del Monte Bondone (Trento)
-      Via Sommarive 18
+       Italy
-Povo (Trento)
+      http://www.cealp.it
        e-mail: neteler AT osgeo.org

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 Convenors (preliminary):
        Henning Lorenz
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        Sweden
        e-mail: henning.lorenz AT geo.uu.se
 Contact: Henning Lorenz

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	== '''Geoscience Information Super-Session at the 33rd IGC Geoscience World Congress 2008''' ==		== '''Geoscience Information Super-Session at the 33rd IGC Geoscience World Congress 2008''' ==