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Engage with leading GISc professionals: Spring 2015 u_Lectures

The spring term comes with an exciting series of u_Lectures by leading GI-Experts around the globe. Join in for webinars on the following topics: „Design is Human“ Daniel Huffman Proprietor somethingaboutmaps.com Tue 31. March, 2015, 6pm (CEST) register here „Augmented Reality ML (ARML 2.0): An Introduction“ Martin Lechner CTO at Wikitude and Chair of the international ARML 2.0 Standards Working Group Tue. 28. April, 2015, 6pm (CEST) register here „Spatial Simulation: Exploring Pattern and Process“ David O’Sullivan Assoc. Prof. at the University of California, Berkeley Tue 12. May, 6pm (CEST) register here

UNIGIS Convocation in Kathmandu!

UNIGIS@Kathmandu celebrated March 2, 2015 as a big day by organising  the ‘UNIGIS Graduation Ceremony and GIS Forum’ at the Kathmandu Forestry College (KAFCOL), which is a UNIGIS Salzburg Study Centre in Nepal. Irrespective of cold rainy weather and traffic blockades in the city, more than 100 prominent delegates gathered to congratulate the graduating students and applauded their achievements. B. K Acharya (Left) receiving degree KAFCOL serves as a UNIGIS Study Centre in Nepal since 2012, offering UNIGIS programmes in collaboration with the Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Austria. Nine students had joined the MSc programme in the …

MSc Thesis – A Winner!

At the ‘Münchner GI-Runde 2015’ annual conference and awards in Munich – a leading geospatial venue for the German language community – UNIGIS graduates over the years have built a strong reputation for excellence and innovative ideas. This was continued by Christoph Schlacher (Graz), winning this year’s top price among master theses with the research he had submitted for his UNIGIS MSc: “Die Vorläufige Bewertung des Hochwasserrisikos – Alternative Ermittlung der Betroffenen in Überflutungsflächen mittels räumlicher Disaggregation” (~ ‘assessment of flood risk – determining population within flood zones through spatial disaggregation’). Congratulations Mr. Schlacher to this outstanding success and recognition …

UNIGIS in a prominent role at IGF’2015 in Hyderabad

Visitors at UNIGIS Booth The UNIGIS@India team led by Dr. Shahnawaz (Director, UNIGIS S/E Asia) had a wide presence and a prominent role in this year’s India Geospatial Forum held from 10th to 12th February, 2015 at the International Convention Centre, Hyderabad. The UNIGIS booth in the exhibit area was among the most visited ones receiving prominent academics, geospatial professionals and students. Dr. Shahnawaz also coordinated a 2 day ‘Youth Forum’ on 11/12th February focussing on Geospatial capacity building. More than 100 young students and entrepreneurs, eminent academics, prominent industry leaders and successful professionals adorned the forum and shared their rich …

Meet UNIGIS at IGF’2015 in Hyderabad!

UNIGIS is coordinating the ‘Geospatial’ capacity building sessions as a ‘Youth Forum’ at the India Geospatial Forum’ 2015 organised at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre from 10th to 12th February. The sessions focus on generating a significant impetus to building capacity of teachers, strengthening and stimulate the youth community to become successful entrepreneurs, and on providing students a platform for sharing their research with the wider Geospatial communities. The event will also provide a platform for a ‘UNIGIS Students & Alumni Meet’ and the UNIGIS Team will be available for any discussions and information sharing at ‘Booth No. 13 C’. in the exhibit …

UNIGIS Professional Intro-Workshop: Space as Common Denominator

There is probably rarely any domain that does not work spatially, either implicitly or explicitly. Need a proof for this hypothesis? Visit a UNIGIS Professional introductory workshop such as the one that took place last weekend in Salzburg. We welcomed students from Germany, Switzerland and Austria who all want to enhance their geospatial knowledge and skills in order to gain benefits in their respective domains and take the next step in their career. Once again it was fascinating to witness the key role of spatial information in very different application contexts. From facility planning to archeology, from urban development to …

Upcoming: UNIGIS online u_Lecture January 27th: A Joint presentation of MSc research by Heidi El-Hosaini and Emma Lewison, UNIGIS uk

The seminar comprises two short presentations by recent MSc graduates of the UNIGIS programme in the UK.  Join us for this webinar on Jan 27, 2015 at 5:00 PM GMT. Register now!  Heidi El-Hosaini, Freelance GIS Consultant Locating and positioning solar panels in a 3D city model – a case study of Newcastle, UK The recent advent of high quality, realistic 3D city models is creating new possibilities for 3D visualisations and analyses to be realised. These models present considerable potential to support urban planning processes and their range of applications is rapidly expanding. The analysis of solar irradiance and …

Advancing UNIGIS Latin America

The past months marked an intensive period of outreach activities carried out by the UNIGIS program established at the University San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) and several partner universities in Latin America. For the first time, the annual UNIGIS-symposium ForoMundoUNIGIS was not only held at USFQ, Ecuador and ICESI, Cali but also at our new partner sites at University Belgrano (UB), Argentina, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brasil and the National University Federico Villareal (UNFV), Perú. These events were addressed especially to the growing community of UNIGIS students and alumni in these countries aiming at giving them …

UNIGIS at Asia Geospatial Forum’ 2014 Jakarta

UNIGIS was invited to contribute to the Asia Geospatial Forum 2014 (AGF) held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 25th to 27th November, 2014 and to conduct the ‘GeoCapacity Forum’ – bringing together academia, industry, organisations and students on a common education-oriented platform for face-to-face interaction. The AGF is one of the biggest regional conferences focussed on Geospatial themes in S/E Asia and has been organised in a different country every year since 2003. UNIGIS has been entrusted with a prominent role of conducting Geospatial Capacity Building sessions at the event since 2005. Dr. Shahnawaz (Director, UNIGIS S/E Asia) represented UNIGIS and gave the lead …

Winners of the UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize

The UNIGIS International Association (UIA) is honoured to announce the winners of its 2014 Academic Excellence Prize: This award, initiated in 2008, is presented to the student, or students, nominated by their UNIGIS sites for submitting the best MSc thesis (or paper) during the academic year. This year the competition was very tight with nine excellent high quality MSc theses being considered by the review panel. In the end the panel decided to make four awards. The winner of the Academic Excellence Prize for 2014 was Heidi El Hosaini (UNIGIS UK), the first runner up was Trang Minh VoPham (USC) …