2006

12 Jan 2006	Colloquium: ‘Visualization of landscape change in computerized 3D environments.’
	by Wobbe Witte (Netherlands) more
13 Jan 2006	Graduation: Spatial data quality: from description to application
	Spatial data quality: from description to applicationFriday 13 January 2006 at 16.00, Pepijn van Oort will defend his PhD-thesis, entitled: "Spatial data quality: from description to... more
22 Feb 2006	Colloquium: Spatial estimation of Digital Surface Model generation errors via digital photogrammetry
	By: Itay Bar-On: Abstract: The research provides insights to a new photogrammetric approach that deals with the quality of Digital Surface Model (DSM) generation, spatially. With the use of Leica... more
	Colloquium: Developing a usability framework for comparing web mapping interfaces
	By: Lei Cui: Abstract:Usability has become an important issue for interface design. However, there are few specific studies on measuring the usability of Web mapping interfaces. This thesis report... more
1 Mar 2006	Colloquium: Modelling land-use changes in southeastern Spain using a Markovian approach
	By: Maria Piquer Abstract: Land-use changes are altering natural ecosystems at really high rates in the southeast of Spain. Biodiversity is lost, natural resources depleted and ecosystem services... more
	Colloquium: Organisation and development of GIS centres
	By: Watse Castelein Abstract: This thesis elaborates on GIS as a shared service centre (SCC) activity. This has been done by exploring the general theory of a SSC and taking into account the... more
8 Mar 2006	Colloquium: Location-based 3D visualization services
	By: Han Zhou Abstract In this thesis project a client-server solution for a location-based 3D visualization application that offers 3D scenes information based on the position and orientation,... more
	Colloquium: Spatio-temporal modeling of land cover using Markov theory
	By: Wieke Heldens Abstract Several types of land cover models have been developed for different purposes in research, planning and policy making. An often used type of a land cover model is a... more
	Colloquium: Validation of land use change models - A case study on the Environment Explorer
	By: Jasper van Vliet Abstract Land use and land cover change models are tools to analyze, simulate or predict the dynamics in land use and land cover. They are widely used in planning and policy... more
15 Mar 2006	Colloquium: Possibilities and Limitations of Artificial Neural Networks for Sub-Pixel Mapping of Land Cover
	By: Demeke Nigussie Alemu Abstract Up-to-date and reliable land cover information is vital for many decision-making processes. Though the developments of satellite remote sensing greatly improved... more
	Colloquium: Estimation of leaf area index using optical field instruments and imaging spectroscopy
	By: Alemu Gonsamo Gosa Abstract: Leaf area index (LAI) is an important vegetation structural variable for the quantitative analysis of biophysical processes in the terrestrial ecosystem. In... more
27 Mar 2006	Colloquium: Spatio-temporal identification of Quercus suber forest with high and medium resolution imagery
	By Javier Chico Summary: Habitat mapping has been done comprehensively conform European Habitat directives and creates Natura 2000 ecological networks. However, habitat conservation requires... more
10 Apr 2006	Colloquium: Geomarketing, GIS & Marketing, the New Combination of Knowledge
	By Marc Verschuren: Geomarketing is a combination of GIS and marketing, and can be defined as ‘a tool based on GIS that broadens and strengthens marketing activities and supporting management... more
	Colloquium: Assessment of European cultural- historic landscapes in the scope of EURURALIS project
	By Anna Strojek: Assessment of European cultural- historic landscapes in the scope of EURURALIS project Abstract: Cultural historic landscapes are the result of human activities. They... more
25 Apr 2006	Colloquium: 3D visualisation methods for geo-data changes A quantitative semi-experimental study on the comparison of 3D visualisation techniques
	By: Harm Luisman Abstract: Maps have been used for ages and have become a fundamental part of our society. With the appearance of electronic maps and Geo Information Sciences (GIS) their... more
26 Apr 2006	Colloquium: Detailing of the Corine Land Cover database
	By: Catherine Teerhuis Abstract: The study deals with the detailing and updating of the Corine (CoOrdination of Information on the Environment) Land Cover database for the Netherlands, which is... more
	Colloquium: Crop area estimations from temporal unmixing: a case study using MERIS with artificial neural networks
	By: Ernesto Bastidas Obando Abstract: The need for regular information on crop area distribution in European landscapes makes of MERIS a good candidate for temporal monitoring of agricultural... more
	Colloquium: Automating lineage in GIS modeling
	By: Michal Smolkowski Abstract: The research has an investigative character. Its main objective is to prove the hypothesis that “Lineage is more than data about data”. Thesis brings in new... more
	Colloquium: Fuzziness in spatial planning data
	By: Arie Duindam  more
2 May 2006	Colloquium: Estimation of the spatial frequency distribution of biomass in river floodplains: A case study using field and Imaging Spectroscopy data in Millingerwaard
	By: Lola Suarez Barranco Abstract: River floodplains are heterogeneous areas with high biodiversity and natural value. Nevertheless, they are restrained by the river management. Biomass... more
17 May 2006	Colloquium: Assessment of Geo-information requirements – A case study with stakeholders of Appel-Zuid, a private land property
	By Annemarieke de Bruin Abstract: In the 1980’s and 1990’s GIS matured as a technology (Clarke, 1999). Geo-information technology made large impacts on our society. Many organizations benefit... more
	Colloquium: Relating Alpine Treeline Position to Mountain Topography
	By Johan Ruijten Abstract: The alpine treeline is the altitudinal transition zone from montane forest to low alpine vegetation. It is an intensively studied landscape boundary but there still... more
	Colloquium: Retrieving Leaf Area Index of a Mature Norway Spruce Forest Stand from Airborne Hyperspectral Image by Inversion of the DART Model
	By Abebe Ali Abstract: Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a key canopy descriptor that is used to determine foliage cover, and predict photosynthesis and evapotranspiration and is an input to many... more
	Seminar: Automated Predictive Ecological Mapping in a Canadian Forest Region
	PE&RC seminar: Automated Predictive Ecological Mapping in a Canadian Forest RegionBy: Bob MacMillan, LandMapper Environmental Solutions Inc., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada... more
29 May 2006 2 Jun 2006	Symposium: 26th EARSel Symposium
	NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES IN REMOTE SENSING Presentations are encouraged related to all fields of remote sensing applications and especially to those listed below, since sessions will be... more
6 Jun 2006	Graduation: Comparing land use planning approaches in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
	Tuesday 6 June 2006 at 13.30, Nguyen Hieu Trung will defend his PhD-thesis, entitled: "Comparing land use planning approaches in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam".Short abstractThis study applies and... more
7 Jun 2006	Colloquium: Water Improvement Measures Prototype; New functionality INTWIS to select goals and measures for the Water Frame Directive
	By Marco Wagemakers Abstract: INTWIS is a state-of-the-art information system that is used by a large number of water boards in The Netherlands. It provides the water manager with a database for... more
	Colloquium: Usability of 3D geo-visualization in participatory spatial planning; Spatial orientation in 3D geo-visualization
	By: Malgorzata Milosz Abstract: This MSc thesis is a part of the PSPE project (Participatory Spatial Planning in Europe), which focuses on improving the spatial information exchange in... more
	Colloquium: Development of Geographical Information Science in the International Journal of GIS
	By: Katarina Belobradova Abstract: IJGIS has been published continuously since 1987. The founding editors were J. Terry Coppock (Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh) and K. Eric... more
14 Jun 2006	Colloquium: Regional Net Primary Production (NPP) Derivation Using Imaging Spectroscopy for Vegetation Modelling
	By Uchenna Aduaka Abstract: Monitoring terrestrial net primary production (NPP) is relevant for understanding the carbon cycle and evaluating effects of interannual climate variation on food and... more
	Colloquium: Long-term phenology changes over the Eurasian continent using the HANTS algorithm
	By Diana Torres Abstract: Nowadays, Climate Change is a subject that is being extensively studied, not only the average surface temperature has changed, increasing over the 20th century by about... more
15 Jun 2006	Lecture: Structuring ontologies: A calculus for taxonomies based on distinctions
	By Andrew U. Frank, from the Research Group Geoinformation at the Technical University of Vienna Abstract I have suggested a treatment of ontology by tiers which capture different kinds of... more
22 Jun 2006	Workshop: GIN themamiddag “Change Detection”
	The GIN section remote sensing organises a workshop on remote sensing change detection at Alterra (Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, Wageningen) on Thursday 22 June, start 13:30, room “Lumen 1”. Attention will... more
3 Jul 2006	Colloquium: Characterization of ecosystem functioning in Almeria province, Spain
	By Ana Belén Ruiz Sánchez Abstract:Almeria province is a heterogeneous area with high biodiversity and nature value that is under severe human pressure. Land use change constitutes one of the main... more
4 Jul 2006	Colloquium: Relationships between Leaf Area Index, fAPAR and Spectral Vegetation Indices derived from MERIS across Netherlands
	By Ioakeim PardalisAbstract: Leaf area index (LAI) and the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (fAPAR) are both important vegetation structural variable for the quantitative... more
31 Jul 2006 4 Aug 2006	Symposium: 2006 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium & 27th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing
	The IGARSS 2006 conference theme, “Remote Sensing – A Natural Global Partnership”The theme reflects the increasing... more
29 Aug 2006	Colloquium: Landscape indicators derived from Landsat-TM data: A case study in Brazil
	By Silvia Weel Abstract: Human pressures on earth’s ecosystems, through the continued exploitation of natural resources and induced changes in the landscape composition, results in the... more
	Colloquium: National Spatial Data Infrastructures as Complex Adaptive Systems. The First Step into Assessment Framework'
	By Lukasz Grus Abstract: After two decades of intensive worldwide development of (National) Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) initiatives it is increasingly important to assess the... more
11 Sep 2006 12 Sep 2006	Workshop: Knowledge Discovery for Sustainable Mobility
	IntroductionWe know very little about how human behaviour can affect sustainability, the environment, and the scenic quality, as we see in processes such as urban sprawl, intensive outdoor... more
14 Sep 2006 15 Sep 2006	Workshop: Spatial Data Methods for Environmental and Ecological Processes
	OrganizationThe Workshop will be organized in plenary sessions with general interestcontributions and invited speakers, parallel sessions of specific interestand a poster session. List of topics... more
22 Sep 2006	Workshop: Supporting the “actor-factor” in spatial planning
	During the last decades, planners have become aware that spatial planning increasingly requires the involvement of several actors. The term sustainable planning has been coined to denote the... more
	Graduation: Exploring the use of Multi-Agent Systems for Interactive Multi-Actor Spatial Planning
	Friday 22 September 2006 at 16.00, Arend Ligtenberg will defend his PhD-thesis, entitled: Exploring the use of Multi-Agent Systems for Interactive Multi-Actor Spatial Planning .The same day a... more
25 Sep 2006 29 Jun 2006	Course: METIER research school on remote sensing and the atmosphere
	The school is organized by the JRC in Ispra and aims at PhD students and beginning Post-Docs from various disciplines. Course topics include:- Sensing atmospheric trace gases and aerosol in the... more
28 Sep 2006 30 Sep 2006	Workshop: 2nd Workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group on Land Use & Land Cover
	Scope & Topic Land use and land cover have been one of the first and main products from remote sensing data. Its dynamics are strongly influenced by socio-economic factors and political decisions,... more
10 Oct 2006	Lecture: “Broccoli and Desire: Markets and Moralities in the Maya Highlands”
	On the occasion of the PhD defense of Jacob van Etten, a CERES seminar is organized. Dr. Edward F. Fisher (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies) will give a... more
11 Oct 2006	Graduation: Seeds, Hands and Lands
	Graduation of Jacob van Etten on a thesis: Seeds, Hands and Lands; Maize.genetic resources of highland Guatemala on space and time. more
	Lecture: "Hybridity in the Social-Ecological Dynamics of Andean Potato Biodiversity”
	On the occasion of the PhD defense of Jacob van Etten, a CERES seminar is organized. Professor Karl Zimmerer (University of Wisconsin Madison) will give a lecture:"Hybridity in the Social-Ecological... more
13 Oct 2006	Graduation: Physical based approaches in remote sensing, Scaling from leaf to ecosystem
	Friday 13 October 2006 at 16.00, Zbynek Malenovsky will defend his PhD-thesis, entitled: Physical based approaches in remote sensing, Scaling from leaf to ecosystem.The same day an Internatonal... more
6 Dec 2006	Graduation: Interrelated modelling of land use and habitat for the design of an ecological corridor. A case study in the Yungas, Argentina
	Wednesday 6 December 2006 at 16.00, Daniel Somma will defend his PhD-thesis, entitled: Interrelated modelling of land use and habitat for the design of an ecological corridor. A case study in the... more
7 Dec 2006	Lecture: Malaria Risk Mapping in West Kenya
	Symposium on the application of Geographical Information Systems in the study of vector borne tropical diseases By Dr. Willem Takken: Variations in Malaria Transmission and Dr.ir. Ron van Lammeren:... more
	Lecture: Forest structure from remote sensing
	Dr. Genevieve Patenaude and Dr. Iain Woodhouse will give a presentation entitled: "Forest structure from remote sensing: carbon modelling and operationalisation in the UK" more
19 Dec 2006	Presentation: Web-based Opensource GIS
	By Till Adams from "Terrestris" in Germany  more
	Colloquium: Validation of an Object Based & Contextual Post Classification for Soil Iron Determination by Means of Hyperspectral DAIS 7915 DATA
	By Edmond Muller ABSTRACT The development of more advanced satellite instruments demands for new processing strategies. Conventional processing methods do not yield the result that one would... more
	Colloquium: Spatio-temporal data visualization
	By: Philipp GartnerAbstract Geographical Information Systems are widely used tools for analysing, processing and visualizing of geodata. The new medium of the World Wide Web (WWW) provides a big... more