[OSGeo-Edu] 1st Call for Papers: OGRS 2014, Helsinki, Finland

[Ari Jolma]

Dear Colleagues,

The Steering Group of the OGRS community would like to invite you to 
participate at the next Open Source Geospatial Research & Education 
Symposium on June 10 - 13, 2014 in Helsinki, Finland.

The OGRS symposium is an excellent opportunity for researchers, 
teachers, students, developers, innovators and entrepreneurs interested 
in exploring the growing potential of free and open source geospatial 
software in research and education.

Participants will learn about cutting-edge scientific findings and 
results obtained with free and open source geospatial software through 
presentations, hands-on workshops and discussions while enjoying the 
bright summer season in the beautiful Finnish scenery.

* Please feel free to forward this invitation. *
* Apologies if you receive this invitation more than once. *


============== OGRS 2014 | Call for Papers ===========

OGRS 2014, The Third Open Source Geospatial Research and Education 
Symposium

June 10 - 13, 2014 - Espoo, Finland

http://2014.ogrs-community.org/


============== Important Dates =====================

Deadline for abstracts (1000 to 1500 words): December 2, 2013
Registration opens:                                     December 2, 2013
Decision on abstract acceptance:              December 16, 2013
Deadline for full papers:                             March 3, 2014
Early bird registration ends:                       March 31, 2014
The symposium:                                         June 10 - 13, 2014

============== Symposium Topics ===================

Papers
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Applications of Open Source Geospatial Tools in Education: Share your 
experience and present interesting use cases in applying open source 
technologies in education.

Applications of Open Source Geospatial Tools in Research: Present your 
original scientific findings, innovative developments or novel use cases 
of open source geospatial software.

Workshops
----------------

The workshops will provide an in-depth overview and hands-on experience 
in a topic and related free and open source geospatial software. 
Workshop leaders are researchers and/or core developers of the software 
and therefore well prepared to demonstrate and explain the software and 
its functionalities, and help the workshop participants learn the 
installation and use of the software. Participants also get information 
where to find more information about the software, download it, and how 
to contact or join the development team.

Discussion Groups
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The aim of a discussion group is to talk about an initiative, open 
source project, new research idea, or a joint collaborative research 
paper in the area of open-source in geospatial.

About Call for Papers
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Please submit an abstract (1000 - 1500 words) on the abstract submission 
page. The abstracts will be reviewed by the conference scientific 
committee which will decide on accepting the original submission as an 
oral presentation (full conference paper) or as a poster. A full 
conference paper is then requested for each accepted oral presentation 
so as to be published in the peer reviewed conference proceedings. A 
subset selection of papers will be considered and assisted for 
publication in journals.

http://2014.ogrs-community.org/ocs/index.php/ogrs/2014/schedConf/cfp

============== Symposium Program ====================

Confirmed key note talks:

Prof. Roger Bivand, Norwegian School of Economics
Prof. Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen
Dr Matt Duckham, University of Melbourne

Planned workshops (titles tentative):

Big Data Analytics with rasdaman, the raster data manager
Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R
Processing LiDAR data with LAStools
Analyzing and Visualizing Linked Spatio-Temporal Data with R
Using and providing OGC standard compliant services in Python

==============  The OGRS Community ===================

Erwan Bocher, National Center for Scientific Research,
     Institute for Research on Urban Sciences and Techniques, France
Olivier Ertz, HEIG-VD, University of Applied Sciences Vaud, Switzerland
Ari Jolma, Aalto University,
     Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Finland
Stéphane Joost, EPFL, Geographic Information Systems Laboratory, 
Switzerland
Ivan Marchesini, National Research Council,
     Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection IRPI, Italy
Sergio J. Rey, Arizona State University,
     School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, US

==============  Further Information ======================

For any information with respect to the conference, please contact the 
organizers at

info at ogrs2014.org

http://2014.ogrs-community.org/