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This month, the 20th annual intake of UNIGIS MSc students have started their coursework towards this highly regarded professional qualification in Geoinformatics and GIScience.  In early 1994, the first committed group of dedicated Masters students [...]

The South African Council for Professional and Technical Surveyors (PLATO) has accredited the UNIGIS professional and MSc courses as complying with their requirements for registration. The Professional and Technical Surveyors Act 40/1984 requires PLATO to [...]

From Oct 24-28, more than 30 representatives from UNIGIS partner universities and study centres worldwide met in Salzburg, Austria for their annual coordination conference. Three full days were dedicated, respectively, to advancing best practice in [...]

In order to deepen the recently established cooperation between UNIGIS in Latin America and the University ICESI, Colombia (http://www.icesi.edu.co), both organizations jointly organized a well-attended GI-symposium at the ICESI campus in Cali. Nearly 200 attendees [...]

This 15th UNIGIS Girona edition has more than 40 new students who become part of the worldwide UNIGIS community. Year after year, the number of registration notes the success of our Programme, adapted to the [...]

Alexander Willberg has finished the German-language UNIGIS MSc study programme at the University of Salzburg with an excellent Master Thesis on hyperspectral remote sensing for land use change detection. With his graduation Mr Willberg not [...]

Event announcement - LiDAR Intensive Programme This short intensive programme on the state of the art in LiDAR science, methods and technologies is organized and hosted by the University of Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics – [...]

Professor Josef Strobl has been awarded an honorary doctorate (doctor honoris causa) by the University West Hungary, Faculty of Geoinformatics for his significant contributions to education, research and networking on geoinformation science and technology. His [...]

Nepal secured its location on the map of the UNIGIS International network  last week after UNIGIS@Kathmandu welcomed its first batch of 10 students. An orientation workshop was jointly conducted by Dr. Shahnawaz (Director S/E Asia, [...]

  Over the last two months, UNIGIS put considerable effort in expanding its activities in Colombia. Our team from the study center in Cali exhibited at the technology fair ’Geomatica Andina 2012’ which took place [...]

The UNIGIS International Asscociation is at the annual ESRI User Conference. This year more than 15,000 GI professionals from around the world turn San Diego to a global GIS hotspot. An excellent opportunity not just [...]

Claudia Schenk received the UNIGIS Master Thesis Award 2012 for the best thesis at UNIGIS Salzburg. In her MSc research she modelled the historic city of Potsdam in a 3D visualisation for exploration and analysis. [...]

Stephanie Brand (UNIGIS Salzburg) and Peter Witt (UNIGIS Manchester) presented their Master Theses at the GI_Forum conference in Salzburg. For their outstanding work the two graduates received the UNIGIS International Academic Excellence Prize 2011 from [...]

Congratulations to UNIGIS MSc student Roland Graf for winning the 2nd place in the Master Thesis Competition of the Austrian Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information (AGEO)! Roland Graf combined in his excellent thesis the support [...]

Today the biggest conference on geoinformatics in Switzerland came to a successful end. UNIGIS was part of the first time "GEOSummit" which is the successor of the formerly GIS/SIT. The bianual conference and exhibition aims [...]

The UNIGIS International Association is pleased to announce this year's 'UNIGIS International Academic Excellence Prize' competition. The UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize, launched in 2007/08, is awarded on an annual basis to a student, from one [...]