The GI2009 cross border symposium 2009 – The European Year of Creativity and Innovation was held at the Technical University Dresden – ZINT – AgroCampus on the 14th and 15th May 2009.

The two day Symposium was moderated by Dr. Frank Hoffmann

Proceedings: Abstracts, Posters and Summaries 132 pages ( PDF Format )

DAY 1

Welcome and Opening address, presented by Professor Thomas Herlitzius and Dr. Matthias Grimsel, Technische Universitat, Dresden ( )

Session 1

EU PSI Re-use Directive Review Completed – What next?, presented by Christopher Corbin, UK

19 Slides ( PDF Format ), or 19 Slides ( PPS Format ), or 19 Slides ( PPT Format )

Current State of the Use of the ICT in Public Sector of Czech Republic, presented by Ales Pekarek, PhD student of Information Science, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Praha ( )

Session 2

Modern Search Technologies, presented by Joerg Weber, INTERFACE GmbH ( )

e-Government, Regional and Local SDI in Czech Republic – INSPIRE Explorations and Challenges, presented by Jiri Hiess, Czech Association for Geoinformation ( )

Towards Analysis and Processing in SDI 2.0 – Using OGC-WPS for Research in Geography and Cartography, presented by Wolfgang J. Eder and Alexander Zipf, University of Bonn ( *) (*) this presentation contains an interactive 3D-Video of DRESDEN (28 MB) connected with slide 18 which can be downloaded in a new browser window and visualized with a "wmv" or "vlc" plugin !

Session 3

Automated Generalization Across Europe, presented by Luc Van Linden, 1Spatial, Belgium ( )

Automated Analysis of Settlement Development using topographic maps, presented by R.Hecht, H.Herold and G.Meinel, Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development Dresden ( )

GEOGrids, presented by Sabine Witschas, Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development Dresden ( )

Possibilities of Cartographic Representation in Emergency Mapping: Experimental Testing, presented by Cenek Sasinka & Zdenek Stachon, Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic ( )

Portal for Old Maps, presented by Premysl Vohnout, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen ( )

Freie Software und Freie Geodaten – aktuelle trends, presented by Jorg Thomsen, MapMedia GmbH, Berlin ( )

Visualisierung von Indikatoren des Monitor der Siedlungs – und Freiraumentwicklung auf Basis eines SVG-Viewers, presented by Jochen Foerster, Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development Dresden ( )

Session 4

Mission-Sustainability – Searching Sustainability Resources – NATURNET-Content-NAVIGATOR, presented by Frank Hoffmann, IGN, Dresden ( )

WinGIS – AGROffice –DokuPlant: GIS basierende Technologien fur die Wasser-, Land- und Forstwirtschaft sowie im Umwelt- und Natorschutz, presented by Walter H. Mayer, CEO Progis, Austria ( )

DAY 2

Session 5

Natural Information – and Analysesystem for Forestry (NIAS-Forst) – The Digital Torrent – and Avalanche Register, presented by Ingo Schnetzer and Wolfgang Schweighofer, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Vienna, Austria ( )

How Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can Influence the Sustainability of the Rural areas: Helping LAG’s to be creative and innovative, presented by Mrs Tunde Kallai, Coordinator of the Hungarian, Swiss and Maltese Living Labs Initiatives. ( )

The Status-quo of X-GDI in Central Europe and its syntactic & semantic Gaps tested in EU-FP6-Project NATURNET+REDIME, presented by Frank Hoffmann, Dresden ( )

Session 6

The European Urban Atlas – a GMES service for harmonised spatial planning and monitoring, presented by Wolfgang Steinborn, DLR Bonn, Earth observation applications and networks ( )

Biogeographic Research and the Spatial Web: Towards Interoperable Analysis Tools for Global Change Based on the Web Processing Services (WPS), presented by Christian Graul and Alexander Zipf, Department of Geography, University of Bonn ()

Geoportal – publish your map yourself, presented by Stepan Kafka, Jachym Cepicky, Karel Charvat, Help Service Remote Sensing, CSSS ()

Current Status of Cross-Border Cooperation: The WBU Experience – Implementing INSPIRE in Poland, presented by Przemyslaw Malczewski, Regional Bureau of Spatial Planning, Wroclaw, Poland ( )

Session 7

Three Countries – one landscape: An environmental education project targeting local knowledge and environmental awareness, presented by Martin Modry, Liberec Region, ( )

PLAN4ALL – Towards harmonisation of Spatial Planning Data, presented by Karel Charvat of Help Service Remote Sensing Limited and Tomas Mildorf of University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic ( )

POSTERS

SDI CONFORMANCE MODEL – Schema Transformation for INSPIRE – 1Spatial ( )

The metaschool project ( )

SVG – Viewer ( )

Right side river banks of Vah in Trencin: Urban and landscape structure - Poster 1 ( )

Right side river banks of Vah in Trencin: Urban and landscape structure – Poster 2 ( )

Right side river banks of Vah in Trencin: Urban and landscape structure – Poster 3 ( )

Earthlook:CZ ( )

GEOGAME – Do you k now your region. Come and play with us! ( )

Additions and changes to Podhorsky pas ( )

Integriertes Klimaschutzprogramm Chemnitz ( )

Die Ganze Welt der Internet Domains ( )

Bridging space and time. Efforts to map cross-border dynamics in the GREEN TRIANGLE (Germany, Poland, Czech Republic) ( )

Portal for old maps ( )

HydroGIS – GIS fur hydrologische Fragestellungen – ein Lehrmodul fur die Geowissenschaften ( )