^2012-05-24

The first local conference focused on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial in Central and Eastern Europe (FOSS4G CEE) was held in Prague. It attracted approximately 160 participants mainly from research and development. True to its slogan “exploring horizons”, 52°North demonstrated its penchant for innovation and addressing new topics, such as BigData.

^2012-05-24

52°North recently attended the OGC Web Services (OWS) 9 kickoff meeting in Washington, DC. This year’s testbeds cover 3 Acitivity Threads. 52°North contributes to the Aviation, Cross-Community Interoperability and Compliance (CITE) threads.

^2012-05-22

The 52°North Sensor Web Community announces a new Sensor Observation Service release. Version 3.2.1 has been successfully tested with the OGC TEAM Engine Beta to ensure correct implementation of the OGC SOS 1.0.0 standard.

^2012-05-10

Albert Remke, general manager of the 52°North R&D network and head of Innovation Management at the Esri Germany Group of companies, has been invited to join the advisory board of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Research in Visual Computing (Fraunhofer IGD) in Darmstadt, Germany. The Fraunhofer IGD is the world’s leading institute for applied research in Visual Computing. Research fields include, among others, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Virtual and Augmented Reality. The institute contributes to the Visual Computing research and develops prototypes, as well as turn-key solutions for early adopters in industry and public sector.

The Fraunhofer IGD belongs to the German Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research, which is the largest R&D association in Europe. It employs more than 20,000 people, mainly scientists and engineers.

^2011-04-24

The Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science is known for its excellent series of workshops and conferences. The 10th Annual Summer Institute on Geographic Information Science comprises takes place in Florence (Firenze), Italy this summer and comprises the follwoing two sessions:

1. "Interoperability 360" (week June 3 to 9, 2012)
2. 10th Anniversary Conference “Spatial Information in Science and Society" (week July 1 to 7, 2012)

Registration for both events is now open and ends on May 7, 2012.

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