Exciting presentations and practical hands-on workshops at the Interdisciplinary Center for Geoiformation (IZG) in Bochum
Ben Gräler opens the summer program with his presentation “Turning Data through Models into Information for improved Climate Change Adaptation”. He presents current work in the DIRECTED and I-CISK projects. Both projects aim to >develop user-centered local Climate Services and to foster disaster-resilient European societies.
Innovating Climate Services through Integrating Scientific and Local Knowledge
The latest newsletter is available! Project partners provide updates on their latest actitivies in the EU-funded I-CISK project as well as informing about inspiring events that took place between November 2022 and April 2023.
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Geospatial Caravan – Embracing One and All
This year’s Geospatial World Forum was held in Rotterdam during the first week of May. Traditionally, the General Board Meeting (GBM) of the European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information (EUROGI) takes place during this international conference. As a member of the German Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information (DDGI), Benedikt Gräler (52°North General Manager and Head of Research) attended the GBM as DDGI’s European delegate. In addition to the regular business of a GBM, EUROGI also signed an MoU with EuroGeographics to cooperate in promoting the use of geospatial data [1]. Ben was also part of an EUROGI discussion panel on the topic of current advances in AI for geospatial application. The discussion focused on what future developments might look like, building on the capabilities of large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT.
This year’s AGILE conference will be held in Delft, the Netherlands, from June 14-16, 2023. It’s focus on Spatial Data for Design emphasizes the links between GI science and various design activities, such as addressing data needed for spatial planning, and also spatial data used in the preparation and evaluation of various designs of human created objects (buildings, roads, dykes, parks, etc.). 52°North’s Arne Vogt highlights the co-design process, i.e. the interaction of scientific researchers with co-researchers and software developers in the co-design process.
Session 4b, Map creation&use (Rhythm A & Rhythm B)
15:30 Development of an inclusive Mapping Application in a Co-Design Process (Arne Vogt, Johannes Flacke, Karin Pfeffer, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Jane Strugar Kolesnik and Johannes Schnell)