From jsanz at osgeo.org Thu Jan 7 02:15:21 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 11:15:21 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GEOSTAT 2016 Summer School for PhD students, 18-25 September 2016, Albacete Spain Message-ID: The GEOSTAT 2016 Summer School for PhD students and R-sig-geo enthusiasts will be held this year at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain in the period 18-25 September (arrive Sunday to depart Sunday). The topics include: spatial and spatio-temporal data and analysis in R, spatial and spatio-temporal geostatistics, processing large rasters using the raster package, CartoDB and gvSIG software tutorials, visualization of spatial and spatio-temporal data in Google Earth. To register for this summer school please visit: http://geostat-course.org/2016 Please note the registration deadline: *March 1st 2016*. This summer school is limited to 55 participants. Selection of candidates is based on a ranking system, which is based on: time of registration, solidarity (participants further away from the venue receive higher ranking), academic record, and contributions to open source projects. The registration costs for the summer school are typically between EUR 400 and 500; these cover the actual costs, no profits are made. Accommodation will cost ca (EUR 40) per person per night (not included in the course fees). The organizers provide no funding/scholarships to participants. Participants from ODA-listed countries ( http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/daclist), however, can apply for a subsidized price for registration costs. Lecturers: * Roger Bivand: Representing and handling spatial and spatio-temporal data in R: sp, rgdal, maptools packages * Edzer Pebesma: Handling and analyzing spatio-temporal data with R * Robert Hijmans: Spatial modeling with environmental data (raster and dismo packages) * Marta Blangiardo: Bayesian spatiotemporal models in R * Michela Cameletti: Spatio-temporal models for environmental data in R * Matthias Templ: Robust analysis of compositional data / Small Area Estimation * Jorge Sanz: CartoDB tutorial * C?sar Mart?nez Izquierdo: gvSIG tutorial * Virgilio Gomez Rubio: Spatial and Spatiotemporal point process analysis in R * Tomislav Hengl: Automated geostatistics and visualization in 3D+T: GSIF and plotKML packages To register for this Summer school visit: http://geostat-course.org/register For more information about GEOSTAT 2016 please write to: * T. (Tom) Hengl: registrations, website materials * V. (Virgilio) Gomez Rubio: the official program, local organizer Local organizing committee: Esteban Alfaro-Cort?s, Jos? Luis Alfaro-Navarro, Mar?a Teresa Alonso-Mart?nez, Mat?as G?mez-Mart?nez, Noelia Garc?a-Rubio, Virgilio G?mez-Rubio (Chair), Emilio L. Cano, Francisco Palm? Perales and Francisco Parre?o-Torres. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsanz at osgeo.org Thu Jan 7 02:38:00 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 11:38:00 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] UMGEOCON Call for Abstracts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A coalition of six upper Midwest geospatial organizations has come together to produce a unique learning experience which will provide mid-level, career-minded GIS personnel with the opportunity to broaden their community/regional connections and professional knowledge. The Upper Midwest Geospatial Conference (UMGEOCON) will take place on *May 25-26, 2016* at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and focus on emerging geospatial trends and technologies. As such, the event Program Committee is seeking cutting-edge presentations and workshops that explore the Geospatial Revolution. Some potential topics include: * Cross border/regionally significant issues (e.g. invasive species control) * Indoor positioning systems * LiDAR developments * Spatial law * Open data polices * Drones/UASs/UAVs developments and issues * Building Information Modeling (BIM) systems * Automatic Vehicle Location systems * Emergency Services Sector issues (e.g. NG-9-1-1 and COP) * Smart Grid * 3D geospatial modeling * Open source software * Cloud services * Data sharing solutions * Systems integration * Professional certifications This call for abstracts will remain open through *January 18*, with announcement of selected abstracts made by February 8. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsanz at osgeo.org Thu Jan 28 07:19:24 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:19:24 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] pycsw 1.10 Receives OGC Compliance Certification and Reference Implementation Status Message-ID: 28 January 2016 The pycsw development team is happy to announce that pycsw 1.10 is now certified OGC Compliant for OGC CSW 2.0.2 [1], and passes all CITE tests. In addition, pycsw 1.10 is now an official OGC Reference Implementation. A demonstration instance of the reference implementation is available at http://demo.pycsw.org. "Reference Implementations are an important piece of community compliance tools," said Luis Bermudez, Executive Director Compliance and E-Learning, Open Geospatial Consortium. "They not only support OGC verifying that new releases of the tests are not breaking previous implementations, but also provide practical help to new developers that want to implement the standard. pycsw has been Reference Implementation of CAT 2.0 for over 2 years since version 1.4. OGC appreciates the effort of the OSGeo community to keep pycsw compliant with the current CAT 2.0 test." Standards are at the core of pycsw; acheiving OGC compliance and reference implementation status is part of the project's ongoing commitment to an open source, standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures. pycsw is an OGC Compliant CSW server implementation written in Python. Please visit http://pycsw.org for more information. [1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/details/?pid=1325 The pycsw Development Team.