[Geo4All] Ideas for the building global research agenda for Geospatial Data Science

[Suchith Anand]

Dear colleague,

The Geospatial IG of the Research Data Alliance will be meeting in Barcelona on 5th April 2017 to keep building ideas for the global research agenda for Geospatial Data Science.I am pleased to send the final meeting agenda and invite all interested to join.

The meeting objectives are to :

* Discussions on Geospatial Data Science - Vision 2030 [1]
* Plan next steps from OpenCitySmart and UrbanGeoBigData [2]

* Ideas for Education programs for Geospatial Data Science

* Discuss Ideas for starting new WGs in Transport Data

Meeting agenda

This meeting aims to build upon our previous meetings and draft agenda below

* Updates on Geospatial IG - Suchith Anand (GODAN/University of Nottingham)
* Discussions on new WG in Transport Data that is in progress - Beth Zeitler (Millennium Challenge Corporation, USA)
* Coverage: Standards for Big Earth Data - Peter Baumann (Jacobs University)
* Enabling the re-use of spatial information across domains - Andrea Perego (JRC, European Commission)
* Copernicus EU Programme - Andrea Perego (JRC, European Commission)
* Joint W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web WG - Andrea Perego (JRC, European Commission)
* Discussions on Geospatial Data Science - Vision 2030 - chaired by Suchith Anand (GODAN/University of Nottingham)
* The Rise of OpenStreetMap as a World Mapping Agency [3] - discussions chaired by Suchith Anand (GODAN/University of Nottingham)
* NASA Europa Challenge 2017 and OpenCitySmart updates - Suchith Anand (GODAN/University of Nottingham)

* Updates on Capacity Development from IGAD meeting - Suchith Anand (GODAN/University of Nottingham)

* Ideas/updates on Training programs for Geospatial Data Science - All
* Ideas for specific actions /new WGs in Geospatial IG - All

There will be gotomeeting facility for those interested to join remotely. I am waiting for the RDA hosts to send me the details of this and it will updated in the main website at
https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-geospatial-rda-9th-plenary-meeting

I look forward to welcome you all for productive discussions and actions for building  the global research agenda for Geospatial Data Science.

Best wishes,

Suchith



[1] http://www.geoconnexion.com/uploads/publication_pdfs/uk_v15i18-058-059-Op951AF3.pdf

[2] https://www.devex.com/news/how-nasa-and-the-un-are-using-location-intelligence-to-build-smart-cities-in-developing-countries-89721
[3] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/03/the-rise-of-openstreetmap-as-a-world-mapping-agency/





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