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Geospatial Sensing | Virtual 2020
From Sensing to Understanding our World
Geospatial Sensing Conference 2020 goes virtual and extends abstract deadline
2020
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 virtual event will take place from August 31 – September 2, 2020. It continues the Geospatial Sensor Webs workshops and conferences that began in 2013. Our focus ‘From Sensing to Understanding our World’ includes sensor data interpretation, analysis and visualization, tools and infrastructures for sharing geospatial sensor data, and novel sensor platforms. Join us to discover, exchange ideas about, and discuss new developments, emerging technologies, as well as ongoing research activities in the field of geospatial sensing. Become a part of an exciting mix of tutorials/webinars, live discussions, presentations, lightning talks and more addressing aspects of geospatial sensing.
The 52°North Open Innovation Network invites researchers, software developers and practitioners to submit abstracts as presentation proposals. This year’s program includes an EDC Forum session, which particularly invites members of Esri’s EDC community to present and discuss their work in the field of Geospatial Sensing.
The abstract should be 200 – 300 words and include title, authors and an outline of the presentation. Please submit the abstract as a pdf file to "> by June 14, 2020. All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and accepted on the basis of content, available space, and overall program balance. The authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by July 14, 2020. Final abstracts will be published on the conference website. We intend to invite authors of high quality abstracts to expand their contributions to a full paper for a special journal issue.
Conference Topics
Sensor Web sensors in the cloud sensor data sharing and integration event-driven architectures real-time sensing spatial data mining spatial data analytics visualization big geospatial data semantics of sensors and observations novel sensor platforms sensor data on the Web sensor data quality citizen science smart cities and mobility sensor data and spatial data infrastructures standards and interoperability Internet of Things metadata research data infrastructures data modelling applications and best practices
Program Committee
Lars Bernard (Technische Universität Dresden)
Rolf de By (ITC, University of Twente)
Michael Gould (Universitat Jaume I/Esri)
Simon Jirka (52°North)
Thomas Kolbe (Technische Universität München)
Alex Kotsev (Joint Research Centre)
Joan Masó (CREAF)
Dietmar Mothes (ITZBund)
Edzer Pebesma (Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster)
Matthes Rieke (52°North)
Dick Schaap (MARIS)
Sven Schade (Joint Research Centre)
Ingo Simonis (OGC)
Dawn Wright (Esri)
Andreas Wytzisk-Arens (Hochschule Bochum)
Sponsors
2019
Geospatial Sensing – from sensing to understanding our world
Earth observation networks, e.g. in-situ sensors and remote sensing systems, deliver a multitude of data capturing the state of our environment. The data sets delivered are highly valued by scientists and other stakeholders from various 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 such sensor data. The Geospatial Sensing Conference gives an overview of current developments and provides a discussion platform for scientists, developers and users.
The conference takes place September 2 – 4, 2019 in Münster (Germany). It continues the series of Geospatial Sensor Webs workshops and conferences that began in 2013. This year’s focus is ‘From Sensing to Understanding our World’. Topics include sensor data interpretation, analysis and visualization, tools and infrastructures for sharing sensor data, and novel sensor platforms. Join us to learn about, exchange ideas on and discuss new developments, emerging technologies, as well as ongoing research activities in the field of geospatial sensing.
Archive
Former 52°North Innovation Challenge winners.
Yao-Hsin Chiang received the first prize for his work on integrating an IoT Sensor Service and a 3D city models.
This Student Innovation Challenge addressed the topic of of analyzing sensor data in the Sensor Web and generating higher level information products. Yao-Hsin Chiang, currently a masters student student at the Department of Civil Engineering, National Central University in Taiwan, implemented a framework for an intelligent fire and disaster prevention system in his project “A Real-time Intelligent Three-Dimensional Fire Management System Based on Sensor Web Service and 3D City Models Open Standards”. He received 2000,- EUR, which was awarded during the Geospatial Sensor Webs Conference (September 3 – 5, 2018).
Norwin Roosen and Jan van Zadelhoff both received first prizes for their work on exploring the link between IoT and Sensor Web technology. 52°North was impressed by the winners’ interesting and challenging projects.
Norwin Roosen implemented a technically challenging TNN-OGC SWE integration in his project „Integrating LoRaWAN Sensors into the OGC SensorWeb“. Jan van Zadelhoff showcased an attractive project „Measuring User Interactions with a Contextual One-ButtonInterface“. 52°North was particularly impressed by the exchange of ideas and consideration of each others‘ ideas and developments in the final stages of each project. As a result, we have decided to award two first prizes. Each winner receives 1500,- EUR.
In March 2013, Peter Broßeit, a Bachelor student at the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, received the 52°North Student Innnovation Prize for Geoinformatics 2012 for his paper “Providing methods for the capture and analysis of dynamic phenomena through a PostgreSQL extension”. He is joined by Gerard Casas Saez from Barcelona’s Santa Teresa de Lisieux School in Spain, who was awarded the 52°North Innovation Incentive Award for his proposal: “gTweet, a Tool for the Geolocation of Social Movements”.
This year’s jury, comprised of nine representatives from science and the IT industry, awarded First Prize to Tobias Kohr of the University of Technology Dresden for his paper “Development of a service-based Geoportal enabling the Mapping of Whale Watching”. Marcell Roth from the Insitute for Geoinformatics at the University of Muenster received second prize for his paper “Geographic Feature Pipes”.
In February 2010, Daniel Nüst, diploma student at the Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi) at the University of Münster, was awarded first prize for his project “sos4R – Accessing a Sensor Observation Service from R“. He was joined by Alexander McKeown and James McHugh from the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO) ICT Centre in Tasmania, Australia, who also received first prize for their proposal “Developing an SOS Client for Use by the General Public”.
In June 2008, 52°North opened the competition for the first 52°North Student Innovation Prize for Geoinformatics. Due to the number of applicants and the high quality of proposals, the jury awarded three prizes. First prize went to Thorsten Deelmann and Martin Wilden from the Institute for Geoinformatics in Muenster, Germany for their proposal “Prioritizing tasks for a Web Processing Service“. Victor Gonzales Cortés from the Universidad Politécnica in Valencia, Spain received second prize for his proposal “SQL Script Profile for 52°North WPS-T“. The special award for applied open source development was awarded to Amos Kabo-Bah and Yin Zun from the International Institute for GIS and Earth Observation (ITC) in Enschede, the Netherlands for their proposal “Developing a GUI for Modelling the Water Quality of the 52°North Dinkel River“.