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Sensor Web Workshop – a successful exchange of ideas

November 26, 2013 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Sensor Web Tagged With: INSPIRE, REST, Sensor Web, Sensor Web Client, SOS

Last week, Sensor Web enthusiasts met in Münster for a successful 2 day Sensor Web Workshop. Participants shared their versitile implementations of various 52°North’s components, such as SOS and Sensor Web Client.

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Graduate School for Geoinformatics – SS 2014

October 1, 2013 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Communities Tagged With: cognitive navigation, geoinformatics, geostatistics, graduate shool, ifgi, mobile devices, spatial tempoal data, trajectories

The Institute for Geoinformatics has just sent out the new call for applications for the Graduate School for Geoinformatics for summer semester 2014. The call is for

applications with “open topics”, not accompanying the scholarships and
applications for three specific topics funded by the DAAD. The DAAD also fund 2 full PhD scholarships for non-Germans.

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52°North software on OSGeo Live 7.0

September 3, 2013 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Communities, Geoprocessing, Sensor Web Tagged With: osgeo-live, Sensor Observation Service, SOS, WPS

OSGeo-Live 7.0 has been released! For this release, geospatial applications have been updated to their latest stable release. OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux (version 12.04 LTS). OSGeo-Live is pre-configured with a wide variety of robust open source geospatial software. All applications can be trialled without installing anything on your computer, simply by booting the computer from a DVD or USB drive, or running in a Virtual Machine environment. Each featured package is accompanied by both a publication quality one page descriptive summary and a short tutorial on how to get started using it. more >

Three new Journal Articles on Sensor Plug & Play

June 14, 2013 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Semantics, Sensor Web Tagged With: Sensor Integration, Sensor Interface Descriptors, Sensor Plug & Play, Sensor Web, SOS, WPS

I’m happy to announce that we got three new articles accepted for publication:

Diaz, L., A. Bröring, D. McInerney, G. Liberta & T. Foerster (2013, accepted): Publishing Sensor Observations into Geospatial Information Infrastructures: A Use Case in Fire Danger Assessment. Environmental Modelling & Software. [paper]

In this article, an approach is presented to improve the registration of sensors and the publication of their observations via the Web Processing Service (WPS) and the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) interface. Therefore, those services are combined with our Sensor Interface Descriptor (SID) concept. The approach is evaluated by applying the developed approach to the example of integrating in-situ weather observations into the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) for assessing fire danger in Spain.

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