Virtual conference on geospatial sensing highlights importance of sensor data
52°North welcomed geospatial sensing researchers and practitioners to its first virtual event. From August 31st – September 2nd, approximately 60 participants from research, industry and public administration exchanged ideas about current developments for managing, publishing and visualizing sensor data. This year, a particular focus on data analysis emerged.
The 52°North Open Innovation Network announces that the Geospatial Sensing | Virtual 2020 program is online!
Earth observation networks, e.g. in-situ sensors and remote sensing systems, deliver a multitude of data capturing the state of our environment. These data sets are highly valued by scientists and stakeholders from a variety of domains and backgrounds such as hydrology, marine sciences, traffic management, environmental monitoring, energy supply or smart city systems. An active research and development community works on new approaches to share, manage, discover, analyze, and visualize geospatial sensor data. The Geospatial Sensing Conference provides a platform for scientists, developers and users to examine current challenges, present best practices and discuss future developments.
This year’s conference Geospatial Sensing – From Sensing to Understanding Our World emphasizes the importance of sensor data interpretation, analysis and visualization, as well as tools and infrastructures for sharing geospatial sensor data. Sensor data users, researchers and experts meet to present and discuss their ideas, use cases and solutions.more >
Citizens test apps to improve traffic flow
Chemnitz, the last of the three cities to start testing the CITRAM (Citizen Science for Traffic Management) technology, just recently started its pilot project to further environmentally-friendly urban tranport. The smartphone apps [ui!]ecomat and enviroCarr help drivers adapt their driving styles according to traffic light synchronization.
Hamm kicked off the testing phase in mid June, with Krefeld following shortly after. Since the beginning of the testing phase, close to 600 tracks have been recorded.
Stay tuned for more!
We are pleased to announce that there will be a special issue “Geospatial Sensing 2020 – from Sensing to Understanding Our World” to the International Journal of Geoinformation!
This special issue, along with our Geospatial Sensing | Virtual 2020, provides a platform for scientists, developers, and users to examine current challenges, present best practices, and discuss future developments on sharing, managing, discovering, analyzing, and visualizing geospatial sensor data. While selected presentations from the conference will be featured in this Special Issue, we invite anyone engaged in any work related to the theme of “Geospatial Sensing – from Sensing to Understanding our World” to submit a manuscript for publication.
Please note: This open access journal issue is dedicated but not limited to the selected papers of this conference.