Rodolphe Devillers participated and helped organizing a 3-day workshop on systematic conservation planning in the open-ocean. The workshop took place from March 5-8th, 2012 near Brisbane, Australia, organized by Dr Natalie Ban and Prof. Bob Pressey (James Cook University) and involving 10 experts in marine conservation and systematic conservation planning. This was a very productive workshop and the outcome of the discussions will be published in the coming year to encourage the use of systematic conservation planning approaches in the open ocean.
VGI workshop @GIScience’12
We are co-organizing a workshop on data quality/credibility and volunteered geographic information (VGI) at the next GIScience conference.
Title: Role of Volunteer Geographic Information in Advancing Science: Quality and Credibility
Date and venue: September 18th 2012, Ohio State University, USA (GIScience 2012 conference)
Details: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/gist/workshops/2012/index.shtml
Organizers: Budhendra Bhaduri (bhaduribl@ornl.gov); Rodolphe Devillers (rdeville@mun.ca); Muki Haklay (m.haklay@ucl.ac.uk); and Michael Goodchild (good@geog.ucsb.edu)
Synopsis: Recent advancements in geospatial and cyber technologies, combined with a population that is well informed and interested in global issues, have cultivated an environment in which scientific research can potentially benefit significantly from the enormous volume of data that can be provided by citizens through their offering of volunteered geographic information (VGI). Social networks also provide a vast volume of VGI that can include observations (e.g. vegetation, critical infrastructures), measurements (e.g. temperature), and even personal perspectives and experiences in the form of images, videos, and text. However, the value of VGI is still largely limited to satisfying the intellectual curiosity of the common public. The critical challenge that faces the research and operational communities is to assess the quality of VGI by understanding and assessing its authenticity, validity, and uncertainty. Determining the most appropriate sources of data, promoting the involvement of those sources, acquiring accurate and useful information, assessing and communicating the accuracy of the data, and ultimately connecting these data with scientific research are key issues that need to be addressed in this context.
GSDI papers
We have two extended abstracts accepted at the next Global Geospatial Conference / GSDI World Conference that will take place in May in Quebec City, Canada (see additions in the Publications section). One of the paper summarizes the work accomplished in our GEOIDE project during the past four years. The second one will present some of the work done by Dr Garnett Wilson (post-doc) on the improvement of geographic information retrieval, the work being also part of the GEOIDE project. In addition, a chapter discussing the history of the GEOIDE Students’ Network and Summer School will be published in a book edited by the GEOIDE network titled “The added value of scientific networking” to be released at the same conference.
New Lab Web Site !
Welcome to the new Web site of the Marine Geomatics Lab! It has been a project for a number of years but here it is! You will find information on who we are, what we do, our publications and how you can to contact us. We hope that you will find some of this information useful!
Congratulation to René!
Congr
atulations to René Enguehard that has just submitted the final copy of his MSc thesis! René has worked on the geovisual analytics of fishing vessel movement data, as part of an NSERC-funded project led by Dr Orland Hoeber (MUN Computer Science). In addition to having been a great lab mate, René has been very productive, having presented his work at the 2011 GeoViz workshop in Hamburg, Germany, and has also having two journal papers currently under review. René will stay with us for some more months as a research assistant, working on other aspects of the same NSERC project. Good job René!