FIG Working Week, 29 May – 2 June 2017, Helsinki, Finland, is an exciting week-long conference that brings the international community of surveying and spatial professionals together to experience a mix of interesting plenary and technical sessions and workshops, a trade exhibition and a variety of side events and social functions.
The week gives a unique opportunity to discuss key challenges of our time within the surveying profession with fellow peers.
The overall theme of the Working Week is “Surveying the world of tomorrow – From digitalisation to augmented reality”. We have been witnessing the first beginning of a development leading towards services which not only describe the visible world around us but also simultaneously bring up other information connected to our place of interest.
One step is to become digitalized and to use the digital information; the next step is to combine information and be able to collect the data intelligently and to take further steps into the intelligent use of digital information. The theme was chosen to highlight the opportunities and open a view into a future where the large amount of information we produce is, again, put into a more efficient use.
Sensor calibration, image orientation, object extraction and scene understanding from images and image sequences are important research topics in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Computer Vision and Geoinformation Science. In these tasks, geometry and semantics both play an important role, and high quality results require proper handling of all these aspects. While individual algorithms differ according to the imaging geometry and the employed sensors and platforms, all mentioned aspects need to be integrated in a proper workflow to solve most real-world problems.
This observation has led to launching a common event for a number of well-established scientific meetings under the roof of the ISPRS Hannover Workshop. While HRIGI and EuroCOW are more on the geometric side, CMRT and ISA have a legacy in automatic object reconstruction and trajectory computation.
Under the banner theme ‘Great Stories Start Here,’ HxGN LIVE, Hexagon’s international conference brings together Hexagon businesses and its customers to discover and share new and innovate ways to work smarter. Together we are establishing a dynamic new normal – challenging the status quo – delivering fresh ways to create new business models, value and revenue streams.
The HxGN LIVE international conference brings together Hexagon’s businesses, customers and partners to exchange ideas, get inspired and explore solutions that are shaping the way we work and live.
HxGN LIVE highlights the latest trends in geospatial and industrial enterprise information technologies, and fosters discussion, ideas and solutions towards creating a better, smarter world.
Combining the strengths of Hexagon’s businesses, HxGN LIVE provides an exciting lineup of innovative technologies, exclusive presentations by industry experts, hands-on training, inspiring keynotes from thought leaders and networking opportunities with peers from around the world.
The State of GIS Seminar is the biggest spatial event in Tasmania. Retaining the same proven format of short, sharp 10-minute presentations, the State of GIS Seminar offers a unique opportunity to network, to hear about the latest projects from around the state, and to share your work experiences with fellow spatial professionals.
Trade sponsors, both locally and from interstate, will exhibit their latest spatial technology offerings. The Exhibition commences at 12:30. A light lunch will be served during the exhibition so it’s a good time to catch up with people and talk to exhibitors as well as have something to eat.
Presentations begin at 1:50pm and the event concludes with a networking drinks and canapés session, concluding at 6.30 pm.
The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) is facilitating a one day seminar/workshop of interest to the drone and spatial data research community.
The use of spatial data and drones is rapidly increasing across academia and research resulting in the generation of high-resolution geospatial information. The deployment of these advanced technologies not only provide greater opportunities and enable innovation in research but also present equal challenges in data management, technological & computing capabilities, sensitivities and other ethical issues.
The Australian National Data Service (ANDS), a federally funded NCRIS facility, is facilitating a workshop on drones and big spatial data which aims to bring together researchers and data specialists from various disciplines and agencies to showcase their expertise, knowledge and information exchange. This workshop consists of presentations, multiple hands-on tutorials, and also provides the participants with an opportunity for networking with leading spatial data experts.
There is no cost to register for this event but registration is essential for catering if you are attending the full day program. There is also an option available to choose either to attend morning seminar or afternoon hands-on session only.
CVPR is the premier annual computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and short courses. With its high quality and low cost, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.
CVPR represents an international community of scholars whose collective efforts are embodied in one of the finest conferences in all of Computer Science.
The CVPR 2017 organisers take the view that good ideas could come from anyone, anywhere and that these good ideas should be disseminated for the good of all humanity – without exception. The organizing committee will continue to work to ensure that we do all we can to live up to these ideals. Our community knows no boundaries and we will strive to help researchers to participate, no matter where they live.
Commercial UAV Expo is the leading trade show and conference for the commercial drone market. The Commercial UAV Expo Europe 2017 is a conference and exhibition, taking place 20-22 June 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.
The organisers have issued a call for speakers with use case presentations of UAV/UAS solutions for:
- Process/power/utilities inspection: pipeline, cell tower, transmission line, asset management, planning
- Infrastructure design, construction and inspection: roads, bridges, tunnels, facilities
- Construction: progress on a jobsite, innovative uses of UAV/UAS for precision measurement
- Mining applications: volumetric measurement, stockpile management, risk mitigation
- Asset management case studies: using UAV/UAS for documentation and management of physical assets
- Environmental Monitoring: case studies of UAV/UAS for environmental projects
- Surveying & Mapping: case studies of UAV/UAS for survey and mapping projects
- Precision Agriculture applications: case studies of UAV/UAS for agriculture, farming
- Law enforcement, Security, Emergency Response: case studies of UAV/UAS integration for first responders, to address security concerns
- Regulatory landscape, regulatory initiatives, current regulatory structure, updates by country on existing and future regulations, EU perspective, harmonization of standards
- Privacy issues
- Safety, legal, liability and insurance considerations: opportunities to field test within legal framework, risk mitigation, safety and training
- Privacy issues
- Planning for UAV/UAS integration with existing workflows
- Data fusion: Integrating UAV/UAS with other precision measurement systems and data capture methods
- University/Industry Collaboration: developments and opportunities, public-private partnerships, university research
The Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute in conjunction with the Australasian Hydrographic Society will be holding a World Hydrography Day (WHD) seminar and dinner in Darwin on 21 June 2017.
Many end users of spatial data may not be directly involved in hydrographic surveying but will have some link to the outputs. To understand what hydrographic surveyors can provide your spatial profession you should consider attending this seminar and realise your unknown connection.
Areas where hydrographic surveying influences other spatial sciences and are intended topics of the seminar include:
- LiDAR deployment from boat – links with all of the other SSSI Commissions, infrastructure, environmental monitoring;
- ROV operations – links to engineers, infrastructure inspection, environmental science;
- Feature detection using Sonar, Magnetometer – links to pipeline survey, ports and harbour navigational safety, UXO (Unexploded Ordnance);
- Depiction and modelling of bathymetry Bathy – links to GIS;
- The land/sea interface and the linkages to the vertical datum and mapping;
- Drone work – links to remote sensing; etc
The WHD theme for the seminar is “Mapping our seas and oceans – more important than ever.” This theme will raise awareness that depths have not been directly measured in about 50% of the World’s coastal waters and about 90% of the oceans. Further, it raises awareness of the current lack of comprehensive data to underpin many maps and charts of the seas and oceans. It will help promote and encourage innovative supplementary data gathering and data maximizing initiatives already under investigation in the IHO, including crowd-sourced bathymetry (volunteered geographic data) and satellite-derived bathymetry.
The theme will also help to promote the increasing role of those involved in hydrography in maritime spatial data infrastructures and the benefits of making hydrographic data accessible to the widest possible audience for uses that go well beyond the safety of navigation.
Following the successful inaugural RPAS in Australian Skies conference in March, 2016, Australian Association for Unmanned Systems (AAUS) is proud to be continuing this very important discussion within the aviation community.
This years event RPAS in Australian Skies 2017 will be held in Canberra during June 27-28, 2017. The conference format will include key note presentations from CASA, Air Services, Defence and Industry as well as panel discussion sessions. The following themes will be explored:
- ADF plans for RPAS use in domestic civil airspace
- Lessons learned from Military RPAS operations in shared airspace
- European & US approaches to RPAS operations in shared airspace
- Australian Roadmap for regulatory development
- Industry perspective and challenges
- Controlling illegal RPAS operators
- Beyond Visual Line Of Sight operations for RPA
- Emerging Technologies
- Integration of RPAS into ATM and ATM procedures
- Shared use of Aerodromes
- Lower Airspace Concepts
AAUS is now inviting papers for the conference. Please submit short abstract to greg.tyrrell@aaus.org.au by April 30, 2017.
The Far North GIS Users Group (FUNGIS) aims to unite the far northern spatial community through events and workshops, the sharing of resources and the distribution of news of local geospatial initiatives.
On the Thursday, the participants will be challenged by the Queensland Police in Disaster Response and Search and Rescue. You can then learn more about spatial information in the new Queensland Globe, mapping marine debris and 3D modelling -that’s just in the morning. The afternoon will cover how UAVs can be used in innovative agriculture and get a quickie on practical drone use.
Friday will be focused on getting you trained up, flying and analysing the data that comes out of a semi-professional drone.
