Thanks for the summary Rajan, wow, it seems like a great event! I must
not miss the next one :)
Ravi has some pics online already here:
https://plus.google.com/114935751871526846208/posts/63ihtrdBCf3
Doug: Rajan wrote that "they will soon be choosing an appropriate
OSLicence for this product"
Congratulations to the OSGeo-India chapter for another very successful
FOSS4G event!!!!
-jeff
On 2015-06-12 9:33 AM, K S Rajan wrote:
Suchith,
Thanks for sending in the note on the Conference.
All,
I am just back to Hyderabad after successfully holding the *FOSS4G-India
2015* at IIRS Dehradun [1] with the help of all the co-organisers. We
had a very enthusiastic group of about 110+ participants covering
researchers, academicians, students, software developers, companies, and
Govt functionaries (National and State bodies).
There were 2 Workshops- one on Becoming QGIS Power User by Ujaval
Gandhi; and the other on Geospatial Data Processing using R by Kamal
Pandey and AK Jha. About 48 papers and 3 talks on - Use of OSM for
Crisis Mapping; Use of Open Standards and Open Source in SDIs (and the
National Roadmap); and on Geo for All initiative were presented. All the
full papers, presentations and also Photos will be uploaded in a week's
time onto the conference website [1].
The panel discussions towards the end had some wonderful ideas on
building Synergy across various organizations by leveraging their
strength, More focus on Capacity Building initiatives, Use and adoption
of FOSS4G in GeoSpatial Curriculum, develop and implement focused
solutions for Common users like Linemen (utilities management) to City
Mayors, focused efforts on tweaking/improvisation/development of FOSS4G
tools aimed at specific verticals like Social forestry, legacy data
support, etc.
Would like to mention here that IIRS has developed a tool called Trivim-
A free and open source Software for 3D Street Model Generation [2], [3]
and it was showcased during the event. GPS enabled Photos captured from
mobile phones and consumer grade cameras can be used to generate the
Street view. Pls do try it out and share your comments with poonam at
iirs dot gov dot in. They will soon be choosing an appropriate OSLicence
for this product.
-Rajan
OSGeo-India
[1] http://foss4gindia.in/
[2] https://shivareddyiirs.github.io/Trivim1.0_precompiled/
[3] http://shivareddyiirs.github.io/Trivim1.0/
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*From: *"Doug Newcomb" <doug_newc...@fws.gov>
*To: *"Suchith Anand" <suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>
*Cc: *"discuss" <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>,
ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
*Sent: *Friday, June 12, 2015 5:20:15 PM
*Subject: *Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] “Open Source Geospatial Tools
in Climate Change Research and Natural Resource Management” and
ISPRS Summer Schools
Will the presentations be available online?
Doug
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Suchith Anand
<suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk
<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
The Second National Conference on Free and Open Source Software
for Geospatial (FOSS4G-India 2015) with focus on “Open Source
Geospatial Tools in Climate Change Research and Natural Resource
Management” was held earlier this week at June 9-10, 2015 at
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun. Dr K.S. Rajan
(IIIT Hyderabad) gave the Plenary presentation on "Geo for All:
an international network towards open geospatial research and
education" . It is excellent to see the growth in number of
universities in India who are now doing research and teaching in
GIS using FOSS4G. I understand from Rajan that the conference
was a great success with 12 sessions ranging from Climatic
Studies to Village GIS. Program details at
http://foss4gindia.in/Technical%20Program%20Schedule_June9-10_2015.pdf
Conference details at http://foss4gindia.in/
Next month, IIRS (July 6-10, 2015) will also host the ISPRS
Summer School at Dehradun on following 3 themes
i) Online Sharing of Geospatial Data, Algorithm and Model
(offered by ISPRS WG VI/1 ; Huayi Wu, State Key Laboratory of
Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing,
Wuhan University, China);
ii) Open Source GIS (offered by ISPRS WG VI/2 ; Dr. Sameer
Saran, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space
Research Orgamisation (ISRO), Dept. of Space, Govt. of India,
Dehradun ); and
iii) Research and Teaching methodologies for Master and PhD
students (offered by ISPRS WG VI/4 : Igor Musikhin, Siberian
State Academy of Geodesy, Russia ).
I understand that there has been great response for all these
courses which shows the demand and need. Details of Summer
School at http://www.iirs.gov.in/isprs-summerschool/index.html
I remember when i was student in India, there was very few
opportunities for learning GIS as very few universities had GIS
programs . So i am really pleased that now more universities and
academics are empowered and starting GIS courses and more
students are getting opportunities to learn geospatial science.
My thanks to Rajan and colleagues who have been working
tirelessly for providing more learning opportunities for students.
Best wishes,
Suchith
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