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Very few universities/ educational institutions in developing/ poor countries currently are in developing/ poor countries currently are able to teach Geospatial Science courses High cost of software Lack of skilled staff Lack of skilled staff Lack of freely available training materials

IC A- OS Geo MoU

• Prof. Georg Gartner (ICA President) and

Arnulf Christl (OSGeo President) shake Arnulf Christl (OSGeo President) shake hands after signing the MoU at Intergeo 2011 in Germany (Sep 2011)

ICA is the world authoritative body for cartography and Geographic Information Science

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) established in Feb 2006 OSGeo is the leader of Open Source Geospatial and high impact community OS Geo Product development statistics 2008

Making resources including software and data openly available offers an opportunity data openly available offers an opportunity for knowledge to be shared widely so as to increase learning opportunities.

Example – Collaborating with educational initiatives like gvSIG Batoví

For details contact: Sergio Acosta y Lara sacosta@dntopografia.gub.uy Alvaro Anguix aanguix@gvsig.com

For details contact: Sergio Acosta y Lara sacosta@dntopografia.gub.uy Alvaro Anguix aanguix@gvsig.com

https://gvsig.org/web/home/projects/gvsig-educa

Aim s of I CA-OSGeo Labs I nitiative I nitiative

• Establishing research and training
• pportunities in open source GIS
• pportunities in open source GIS
• Build teaching and research infrastructure

worldwide worldwide

• Provide worldwide learning platform
• Provide worldwide learning platform

“Geo for All” E ducation Initiative “Geo for All” E ducation Initiative

ICA-OSGeo MoU in Sep 2011 ICA-OSGeo MoU in Sep 2011

Over 75 labs es tablis hed worldwide as

• f today

worldwide as

• f today

North America – 13 labs

Distribution ICA-OS

Geo labs established in E urope

Image : OSGeoREL @NCSU (6 months back)

North America – 13 labs Europe – 31 labs South America – 9 labs Africa – 4 labs

Asia – 15 labs Asia – 15 labs

Australia - 1 lab

Will be establishing over 100 labs in universities worldwide by Sep 2014 universities worldwide by Sep 2014

Why having a framework for Open Why having a framework for Open Geospatial Science important for the future? future? Strategic level Strategic level Research Teaching Teaching Attracting research funding Attracting research funding / sustainability Social Responsibility Social Responsibility

Open Geospatial Research Big Picture - Open GIS is key for innovation in GIS

Ability for showing the

• peration of general laws

is fundamental for

Geospatial Standards (for

Maturity of open

Open Data

is fundamental for scientific research

Standards (for

• ex. OGC spec.)

Maturity of open source software (for

• ex. OSGeo stack)

Government level initiatives - Key for interoperability and lower costs and lower costs

Open Data – key for innovation and transparency

Research importance - Increasing software quality Increasing software quality

Increasing innovation

Internet backbone is powered by OSS Since April 1996 Apache has been the Since April 1996 Apache has been the most popular HTTP server software in use. As of May 2011 Apache was estimated to serve 63% of all websites and 66% of the serve 63% of all websites and 66% of the million busiest

"May 2011 Web Server Survey". Netcraft. May 17, 2011

http: / / ec.europa.eu/ enterprise/ ict/ policy/ doc/ 2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf

Reuse big enabler for Research and Teaching Research and Teaching

Reuse big enabler for Research and Teaching

Aim 1 Establishing open Establishing open source GIS research and training

• pportunities

Strategic Training Programs

Aim 2 – Scale up research and teaching

Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching in this theme globally (ICA-OSGeo MoU) University of Pretoria, South Africa University of Pretoria, South Africa

Build teaching and research infrastructure worldwide June 2010 Open Source Geospatial Lab founding meeting at UoN

University of Southampton OSGL

"applied" research and Spatial Data

Infrastructure

– delivery of real world Open Source geospatial and – delivery of real world Open Source geospatial and data management applications for research infrastructure, government and industry, e.g.: –

• Channel Coastal Observatory

–

• Channel Coastal Observatory
• MEDIN UK Marine metadata portal

development and dissemination of software:

– Web – OpenLayers, Leaflet, OSM, PostGIS, MapServer… – Web – OpenLayers, Leaflet, OSM, PostGIS, MapServer… – Quantum (custom plugins)

delivery of specialist CPD and GIS training delivery of specialist CPD and GIS training

– Quantum, etc.

www.osgl.soton.ac.uk osgl@geodata.soton.ac.uk www.osgl.soton.ac.uk osgl@geodata.soton.ac.uk

Research topics & collaborators

Current projects

• Disaster recovery monitoring
• Activities
• Disaster recovery monitoring
• Crowd-sourcing data quality

assessment

• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

intercropping mapping system

• Remote sensing data fusion
• Remote sensing monitoring of
• large-scale construction

projects Contact:

• Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu

School of Geography School of Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus tuongthuy.vu at nottingham.edu.my

Launch in October 2012 Launch in October 2012

ICA-OSGeo Lab at the University of Pretoria ICA-OSGeo Lab at the University of Pretoria

First in Africa

Jeff M cKenna (OSGeo President) visited us for the launch

Back: Jeff McKenna (OSGeo President), Gavin Fleming (OSGeo South Africa) Front: Prof Elri Liebenberg (Former ICA vice-resident), Dr Serena Coetzee, Prof Hannes Rautenbach

Centre for Geoinformation Science Research focus groups Research focus groups

Forensic geography

Dr Peter Schmitz Dr Peter Schmitz

GISc Education and Training

Sanet Eksteen Sanet Eksteen

Open source and data for geospatial / ICA-OSGeo Lab

Dr Serena Coetzee Dr Serena Coetzee

Space geodesy, earth and atm

• spheric
• bservation

Dr Joel Botai

Spatial data infrastructures

Dr Serena Coetzee

Education and training Education and training

Undergraduate BSc Geoinformatics

Students from Geology, Zoology, Geography, Spatial planning,

Computer Science, …

Computer Science, …

Practicals and assignm ents in PostGIS, QGIS, SAGA, … Postgraduate

Postgraduate BSc (Hons) Geoinformatics, BSc (Hons) Computer Science

Spatial databases: practicals and assignm ents in PostGIS Internet GIS: practicals and assignm ents in OpenLayers, Internet GIS: practicals and assignm ents in OpenLayers,

GeoServer…

Education and training Education and training

Continued Education at UP (CE at UP) Continued Education at UP (CE at UP) Short courses, CPD points for registered professionals

Introduction to Quantum GIS

Spatial databases with PostGIS

Spatial databases with PostGIS The Basics of GIS with QGIS

NFP Alumni Course in Nambia, Windhoek, Oct/Nov 2013 With ITC and Polytechnic of Namibia With ITC and Polytechnic of Namibia

The use of social media, crowdsourcing and webmapping to enable spatial web presence for the private sector in Southern Africa private sector in Southern Africa

The Geomatics Lab of Politecnico di Milano has been active in Como Campus since '95 and is now composed

• f two full professors, three assistant professors, one
• f two full professors, three assistant professors, one

technician, 13 PhD and PostDoc Students, many Master Students ...

Laboratorio di Geomatica

Students ...

Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching in this theme globally (ICA-OSGeo MoU) North Carolina State University, USA

Free webinars

Example of an excellent Example of an excellent Initiative led by Prof. Maria Brovelli and colleagues http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it

Aim 3 - Providing Global learning platform and training opportunities

Geospatial I G

The Research Data Alliance is supported by the European Commission, the U.S. Government and the Australian Government.

Open Science 2014 sessions planned at OSGIS 2014. We look forward to welcoming you to Nottingham.

Building an open source, open standards, open data research framework through OpenGIS framework through OpenGIS

Key advantages

• Scalable
• Scalable
• Interoperability
• Low costs
• Low costs
• No proprietary lockin
• Benefits wider community

Represents the individual content creator on the World Wide Web

Building Open Geospatial Science -“Geo for All”

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Acknowledgements

To all colleagues in the “Geo for All” initiative initiative