Fwd: Announcement (Fishery GIS Symposium, Publication, Logo & Cover designs)

[Brent Wood]

This may be of interest to some here...

Some background:

I presented a paper on fishery data visualisation based on GMT & OpenDX at the
2001 Symposium. It was very well received, with the interest being at least as
much on the fact that this could be done with free software as the actual
visualisations (sigh!).

Given the proportion of attendees from 3rd world countries, the idea that you
could do all this GIS stuff without keeping Microsoft & ESRI profits up was
quite exciting. In his closing speech, the keynote speaker commented that the
future of fisheries GIS may well lie more with OS than commercial/closed source
software.

I agreed to prepare a 2nd paper for the proceedings, describing how a GIS for
fisheries work could be implemented using just free (as in speech :-) data &
software.

Given the upcoming conference is in China may make the presentation of OS GIS
capabilities even more appropriate.

I hope to be there & to present a paper describing a fisheries GIS set up with
PostGIS, QGIS & GMT. I'd love to see others from the OS GIS community
presenting a paper/poster or demo there as well!!


Cheers,

  Brent Wood


--- Fishery-Aquatic GIS Research Group <aco20320 at par.odn.ne.jp> wrote:

> From: "Fishery-Aquatic GIS Research Group" <aco20320 at par.odn.ne.jp>
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> Subject: [I4]Announcement (Fishery GIS Symposium, Publication, Logo & Cover
> designs)
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:41:55 +0900
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> Dear Colleagues and Friends,
>
> We are pleased to inform three announcements today:
>
> (1) 'Third International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses
> in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences' .
>
> This Symposium will be held in the Shanghai Fisheries University,
> Shanghai, China from August 22-26, 2005. For details, please refer to:
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> http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/3rd/01_01.pdf
>
> (Deadline for the registration and submission of abstract is June 15, 2005)
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>
> (2) Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium
> (Textbook: GIS/Spatial analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences, Volume 2).
>
> This book has been published. A limited number of the copies is now
> being printed and will be ready by the end of February, 2005.
> For details and the order, please refer to:
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> http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/2nd/sympo15.htm
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>
> (3) Winners of LOGO & Cover Designs
>
> Regarding this competition, refer to
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> http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/announcements.pdf
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> For the winners of the logo, please refer to:
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> http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/logo/Results%20of%20the%20votes%20logo.pdf
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> For the winners of the cover designs refer to:
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> http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/logo/Results%20of%20the%20votes%20cover.pdf
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> Best wishes,
>
> PS: Please distribute this announcement to your colleagues or friends
> who might be interested in its contents.
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