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UNIGIS International Association @EsriUC 2021

Like in the past year, the Esri User Conference 2021 (Esri UC) is again a fully virtual experience, enabling users and students from allover the world an interactive online experience with Esri and the GIS community. Also UNIGIS International Association will be part of the Esri UC as exhibitor. So take the chance and visit UNIGIS International Association and our UNIGIS Institutions at our virtual booth during one of the leading GIS events of the year. We are looking forward to meet current UNIGIS students, alumni and all of you interested in Geoinformatics and distance learning. Our team will be …

Edusat – an educational platform for exploring satellite images

Edusat is a website aiming at teachers, researchers and the general public. It has been developed by the Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing Service (SIGTE) of the University of Girona (Spain) to facilitate the discovery of satellite images and explore the Earth’s surface. Satellite images make it possible to analyse phenomena such as forest fires, floods or the melting of glaciers, as well as other socio-environmental problems. Today, observing the Earth from space is easier than ever. Geographic Information Technologies (also called geo-ICT) allow you to know from anywhere on the planet ‘where’ and ‘why’ some phenomena occur. Remote …

Virtual kick-off workshop with new UNIGIS Salzburg professional students

As the COVID‐19 pandemic spurs all of us to keep spatial (- not social) distance, we must adapt to this new circumstances by going digital wherever possible. For a distance-learning program such as UNIGIS not a problem at all, considering that our modules were designed to be studied individually from home. Still, we traditionally held our kick-off workshops on-site in Salzburg to meet our students at least once in person. Nevertheless, yet for the second time and for the sake of safety, we decided to relocate this workshop into the online world. To overcome one of the major downsides in …

GEOBIA Virtual Summer School

  This year´s UNIGIS Summer School was planned to take place in early July, embedded in the GEOBIA 2020 event during the Salzburg GI Week, jointly organized by UNIGIS Salzburg and within the public outreach and education activities of the CopHub.AC project. However, due to the worldwide exceptional situation regarding the COVID-19 virus and severe travel restrictions, our team decided to adapt the Summer School into a remote event. Based on many years of experience in distance learning and with great support of our UNIGIS lecturer Barbara Riedler, who is also leading the CopHub.AC project, the outline of the summer …

UNIGIS at the first virtual Esri UC

      The 2020 Esri User Conference (Esri UC) is a completely virtual event designed to give users and students an interactive, online experience with Esri and the GIS community. As every year, UNIGIS International Association will be part of the Esri UC Expo. So take the chance and visit UNIGIS International Association and our UNIGIS Institutions at our virtual booth during one of the leading GIS events this year. We are looking forward to meet current UNIGIS students, alumni and all of you interested in Geoinformatics and distance learning. Our team will be available during Expo hours, beside …

First virtual UNIGIS professional workshop

The rapid change to distance education during the COVID 19 pandemic impressively showed the enormous potential of digital media to foster teaching and learning. We expect the collective experience that “distance education works” will change decision maker’s minds and lead to new formats in university education. While several university teachers faced substantial problems when trying to adapt their lectures to a new format, the change to online teaching in residential programs was not a big deal for faculty members who are involved in UNIGIS. More than 25 years of experience in distance education simply matter. While many aspects in learning …

u_Lecture webinar summer semester 2020

Starting from March, we are looking forward to an exciting roster of outstanding speakers on a range of topics covering themes of current interest for UNIGIS alumni, students, and everyone else. The open u_Lecture webinar series offers a LifeLongLearning opportunity to graduates and everyone keen to follow developments across the exciting field of Geoinformatics. See below for details on upcoming talks, and preview further speakers we keenly anticipate this term: >> Make sure you mark your calendars not to miss these unique opportunities to learn from and interact with these outstanding individuals! >> You can watch the recording of past …

Congrats to UIA Academic Excellence Prize winners 2019

Every year, the UNIGIS International Association (UIA) awards the Academic Excellence Prize to students having submitted the best MSc theses during the previous academic year, accepted for graduation at one of the UNIGIS partner universities worldwide. In this year’s competition five excellent, high-quality MSc theses were considered by the Review Panel. The panel decided to make three awards, including one winner and two joint runners-up of the Academic Excellence Prize for 2019: Cass E. Kalinski, UNIGIS USA, was awarded the first place for his Master thesis “Building Better Species Distribution Models with Machine Learning: Assessing the Role of Covariate Scale …

UNIGIS – a lively network

UNIGIS, as a worldwide network of universities, is cooperating since almost 30 years in the design and delivery of distance learning programs in Geographical Information Systems and Science. Once a year all UNIGIS Institutions meet for their General Assembly, which is organized annually by a different member institution. This year the meeting was held from November 8-9, 2019 and hosted by NOVA-IMS in Lisbon. The main purpose of this annual meeting is to coordinate, further develop and sustain the quality of the study programs offered through the different UNIGIS Institutions around the globe. They are cooperating and working together to …

Kick-off for our new GIS-professionals

Weatherise, Salzburg was presenting itself from its finest side when we welcomed our new highly enthusiastic UNIGIS Salzburg  Professional students to our introductory workshop. Yet again, the interdisciplinary nature of Geoinformatics is shown in the quite diversified fields our new students come from. It is reaching from piloting aircrafts, logistics, development assistance, robotic programming right up to archelogy. In one year, our students will learn about spatial concepts and methods, which will consequently privilege them to get most out of spatial data. Considering the heterogeneity of the student’s professional background, the learning experience will be even more interesting and insightful …