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2012 – Year of Career Advancement?!

Getting closer to the New Year means looking and planning ahead – what do I want to achieve as an individual, professionally, and in my career? For many of us this means further developing our competences and capacities, to continue our education and make sure to stay ‘ahead of the pack’! As Geoinformatics professionals, or with the ambition to establish ourselves in this rapidly growing and ‘future-proof’ discipline, this might mean to consider postgraduate studies. Not only because ‘geospatial’ is expanding as a job market, but also because there is rapid advancement and change in technologies: continuously ‘updating ourselves’ is …

UNIGIS anual network meeting in Equador

The Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador hosted the anuual UNIGIS worldwide network meeting on October 27/28. UNIGIS partners were discussing about the tighter worldwide integration of curricula, mutual recognition of credits and development of shared modules covering specialized subjects. Congratulations to Richrd Ressl and the UNIGIS Latin America team for managing a very succesfull meeting!

2011 UNIGIS Academic Excellence Awards

During the UNIGIS annual network meeting at USFQ in Quito, Ecuador, the 2011 winners of the UNIGIS Academic Excellence price recognizing top Master’s Theses were announced: Hugo MARTINS (UNIGIS Lisbon) SIGLA WEBGIS PORTAL: An Open Source Web-based GIS application for the Portuguese Bluetongue Entomological Surveillance Program. Stephanie BRAND (UNIGIS Salzburg) Roof surface classification with hyperspectral and laser scanning data – an assessment of Spectral Angle Mapper and Support Vector Machines. Peter WITT (UNIGIS UK) The development of a predictive hiking travel time model accounting for terrain variations. The jury with members from UNIGIS Krakow and Lisbon was chaired by Richard …

UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize – 2011 Awards announced

Hugo Martins from UNIGIS Lisbon has been announced as the winner of the worldwide UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prize 2011. His thesis titled ”SIGLA WEBGIS PORTAL: An Open Source Web-based GIS application for the Portuguese Bluetongue Entomological Surveillance Program” was voted by the International Review Board as the best UNIGIS thesis this year. Stephanie Brand from UNIGIS Salzburg finished a very close second in a highly competitive finish. She submitted a thesis “Roof surface classification with hyperspectral and laser scanning data. An assessment of Spectral Angle Mapper and Support Vector Machines”. In the third place is Peter Witt from UNIGIS Manchester, …

UNIGIS at National GIScience Symposium in Indonesia!

UNIGIS was invited to the 2nd ‘Simposium Nasional Sains Geinformasi 2011’ (2nd National Symposium on Geoinformation Science) organised at the National University of Indonesia i.e. Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta on 27/28 October 2011. Dr. Shahnawaz (Director UNIGIS S/E Asia) gave an extended presentation on ‘Empowering GIScience Learners through UNIGIS Online Distance Education’. Besides introducing the principles, activities, study programmes and experiences of UNIGIS, Dr. Shahnawaz emphasized that UNIGIS has the vision of ‘educating GIS-professionals worldwide’ and the mission is to integrate all the major countries into the UNIGIS network.

UNIGIS at GIS-Day in Quito

‘A dream is coming true’, says Richard Resl, Director of UNIGIS Quito as he presents the success of UNIGIS in Latin America at the GIS-Day of the Universidad de San Francisco en Quito (USFQ) in Ecuador. The programme that started off at USFQ with a couple of students in 1999 has now spread over the contintent with a new study center in Colombia and other centers to be established, e.g. in Bolivia. Currently, more than 250 active students are enrolled with UNIGIS Lationamerica. USFQ will host this year’s meeting of UNIGIS International Association (UIA) on 27. / 28. October.

The 14th edition of UNIGIS Girona Profesional Master starts succesfully

This new edition has more than 50 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 emerging needs and demands more professional environment GIS. We train professionals capable of managing, implementing and developing Geographic Information Systems to address and resolve the needs and demands of the professional world.UNIGIS Girona team will work hard in order to guarantee the success and recognition of UNIGIS training offer. UNIGIS Girona website

UNIGIS at Asia Geospatial Forum 2011!

The only international academic exhibitor was UNIGIS at the Asia Geospatial Forum ’2011 held in Jakarta, Indonesia during 17-19 October. The director of UNIGIS network in S/E Asia, Dr. Shahnawaz, received a large number of visitors and informed them about the UNIGIS programmes of online distance education in Geographical Information Science (GISc). The majority of the visitors came from several institutions, organisations and companies located in various parts of Indonesia, and from China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam etc. Many visitors expressed concern about and discussed the employment opportunities and challenges young people of the ASEAN region are going …

UNIGIS Salzburg – New Intake

Aiming to become GIS professionals after an intensive year of studying, a group of 17 professionals from a variety of application domains like archaeology or sea surveying started the UNIGIS professional program with an introductory workshop in Salzburg. As good as the weather was the overall atmosphere within the group – the UNIGIS team wishes a good start…

UNIGIS invited to INCA Conference in Chandigarh, India

UNIGIS was invited to contribute to the 31st Annual conference of the Indian National Cartographic Association (INCA) organised from 15th to 17th October, 2011 in Chandigarh, India (http://www.incaindia.org/). Dr. Shahnawaz was speaking on the “Dynamic Cartography for efficient Disaster Management”, illustrating how    highly qualified individuals are key to leveraging the potential of GIS in these (and other!) application domains. During the opening session, Prof. Josef Strobl was invited to deliver the prestigious ‘Professor S. P. Chatterjee Memorial Lecture’ which is organised once every three years. Prof. Strobl discussed concepts around  “Map Interfaces for Disaster Management” and demonstrated how GIScience …