Geospatial Technologies for All

The 21st conference on geoinformation science will be held from June 12-15, 2018 in Lund, Sweden. This year’s theme is Geospatial Technologies for All. 52°North co-organizes a workshop to discuss how to make scientific work more transparent and reproducible. We also present social media and disaster management applications.

Tuesday, June 12

Workshop: Research Data Management and Reference Datasets for the Environmental Sciences

Organizers: Stephan Mäs, Daniel Henzen, Lars Bernard – TU Dresden,  Ivo Senner – Fraunhofer IGD, and Simon Jirka – 52°North

Wednesday, June 13

12.20 – 13.00   Social media applications
Geocoding of Crisis Related Social Media Messages for Assessing Voluntary Help Efforts as a Contribution to Situational Awareness (Sebastian Drost, Andreas Wytzisk and Albert Remke)

16:30 – 17:30   Disaster and Risk Management
A Platform for Coordinating Voluntary Helpers in Disaster Response (Matthes Rieke, Sebastian Drost, Simon Jirka and Hans Betke)

Thusday, June 14

16:30 – 17:30   Integration and Modeling of Geospatial Data
Generic Schema Descriptions for Comma-Separated Values Files of Environmental Data (Stephan Mäs, Daniel Henzen, Lars Bernard, Simon Jirka, Matthias Müller and Ivo Senner)