GI for Humanitarian Assistance in Europe

EUROGI Members Meeting, 1 April 2016

Date: 1 April 2016, 10:00 – 17:00 hrs
Location: Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 21a
ICT-Building, ground level, Seminar room 1, 6020 Innsbruck / Austria

Geographic Information for Humanitarian Assistance in Europe

1. WELCOME BY THE EUROGI PRESIDENT Henning Sten Hansen (10:00 – 10:15)

2. WELCOME BY THE AGEO Vice-President Gerda Schennach (10:15 – 10:20)

3. INTRODUCTION TO THE THEME OF THE WORKSHOP Simon Vrecar, EUROGI (10:20 – 10:30)

4. DRAWING THE BIG PICTURE – INTEGRATION OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Josef Strobl, University of Salzburg (10:30 – 11:00)

5. THE EUROPEAN EARTH OBSERVATION PROGRAMME COPERNICUS – AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE Thomas Geist, FFG-Austrian Research Promotion Agency (11:00 – 11:30)

6. MONITORING POPULATION DYNAMICS AND NATURAL RESOURCES FOR HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS: EO4HumEn – AN AUSTRIAN COPERNICUS SERVICE Stefan Lang/Petra Fuereder, ZGIS Salzburg (11:30 – 12:00)

7. MANAGING MIGRATION FLOWS WITH GIS Guenther Pichler, Esri (12:00 – 12:30)

Lunch (12:30 – 13:30)

8. HEXAGON’S SMART M.App® – A M.App FOR EVERYONE AND A CHANGE OF PARADIGM FOR THE INDUSTRY Johann Jessenk, Hexagon Geospatial (13:30 – 13:50)

9. OGD POLICY OF VIENNA FOR SPEEDING UP NATIONAL SOLUTIONS Wolfgang Jörg, City of Vienna (13:50 – 14:10)

10. COUNTRY REPORTS I EUROGI members (14:10 – 15:00) (available for EUROGI members only )

Coffee (15:00 – 15:30)

11. COUNTRY REPORTS II EUROGI members (15:30 – 16:00) (available for EUROGI members only )

12. BEST PRACTICE OF CROSS-BORDER CO-ORDINATION FOR GI IN THE REGION Bernd Noggler, Managing Director, Leitstelle Tirol (16:00 – 16:20)

13. HOW CAN THE COMMUNITY OF EUROPEAN MAPPING AUTHORITIES SUPPORT? Wernher Hoffmann, President of BEV (16:20 – 16:30)

14. GENERAL DISCUSSION (16:30 – 16:50)

15. CLOSURE (16:50 – 17:00)