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[maria.brovelli at diiar-topo.polimi.it]

Dear Markus, dear all
the ISPRS Working Group IV/5 "Distributed, Web-based Geoinformation  
Services and Applications" has started its work.
The call for Partecipation follows. Presence of OSgeo people is appreciated.
Cheers. Maria

International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
ISPRS WG IV/5
2008-2012

Call for Participation and First Circular Letter

The fast emergence of Web 2.0 and the increased role of the Internet  
and location-based geospatial services and "virtual globe" (or  
"virtual earth", "digital earth") in society have created many new  
potentials of using the Web for spatial information dissemination and  
application development. Over the past few years, we have seen  
constant updating of related web and geospatial technologies as well  
as the revolution of web mapping caused by mainstream IT vendors such  
as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft; increased interest from industry on  
geospatial information technologies; and increasing demand from the  
general public for prompt and effective geospatial information  
services. There is a need to continue collaboration at the  
international level to advance science and technology in the area, and  
to explore many recommendations such as those stated in ISPRS Congress  
Resolution in 2008:

     * the encouragement of research in pervasive geo-computing
     * the development of geospatial data processing techniques using  
distributed services and grid computing
     * the development of Web search engines for spatiotemporal data

Our working group, in its second term under ISPRS Technical Commission  
IV, aims at informing and activating people interested in distributed,  
web-based geoinformation services and applications, and working in  
academic institutions, government agencies and private sectors. We are  
focused on promoting the goals of the WG as expressed in its Terms of  
Reference by means of various activities and events and in  
co-operation with ISPRS, other national and international  
organisations and Geomatics-related firms.



In addition, we advise you to have a look at our WEB page at

http://www.commission4.isprs.org/wg5

The website provides detailed information, updates and news and many  
useful links and information. We aim at making our Website an  
effective collaboration platform as well as a useful information  
source for the WG members and other interested people in the area.



You are cordially invited to participate in the activities of this WG.  
If you want to join the WG please send back to the WG Officers the  
information required by the enclosed questionnaire, which you can also  
fill-out and send electronically from our Website. Please feel free to  
pass this information to your colleagues who may be interested in the  
WG.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to join us.



Yours sincerely,
Songnian Li, Bert Veenendaal, Maria Brovelli, and Suzana Dragicevic


Maria Antonia Brovelli
Politecnico di Milano - Campus Como
http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/cv/