Importance of Open Geospatial Science. Suchith Anand

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1 Importance of Open Geospatial Science Suchith Anand

2 Oxera 2013

3 Very few universities/educational institutions in developing/poor countries currently are able to teach Geospatial Science courses High cost of software Lack of skilled staff Lack of freely available training materials

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5 ICA- OSGeo MoU Prof. Georg Gartner (ICA President) and Arnulf Christl (OSGeo President) shake hands after signing the MoU at Intergeo 2011 in Germany (Sep 2011)

6 ICA is the world authoritative body for cartography and Geographic Information Science

7 Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)

8 Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) established in Feb 2006 OSGeo is the leader of Open Source Geospatial and high impact community OS Geo Product development statistics 2008

9 Making resources including software and data openly available offers an opportunity for knowledge to be shared widely so as to increase learning opportunities. Example Collaborating with educational initiatives like gvsig Batoví For details contact: Sergio Acosta y Lara sacosta@dntopografia.gub.uy Alvaro Anguix aanguix@gvsig.com

10 For details contact: Sergio Acosta y Lara sacosta@dntopografia.gub.uy Alvaro Anguix aanguix@gvsig.com

11 Aim s of I CA- OSGeo Labs I nitiative Establishing research and training opportunities in open source GIS Build teaching and research infrastructure worldwide Provide worldwide learning platform

12 Geo for All Education Initiative ICA-OSGeo MoU in Sep 2011 Over 75 labs established worldwide as of today Distribution ICA-OSGeo labs established in Europe Image : (6 months back) Will be establishing over 100 labs in universities worldwide by Sep 2014 North America 13 labs Europe 31 labs South America 9 labs Africa 4 labs Asia 15 labs Australia - 1 lab

13 Why having a framework for Open Geospatial Science important for the future? Strategic level Research Teaching Attracting research funding /sustainability Social Responsibility

14 Big Picture - Open GIS Geospatial is key for innovation in GIS Research Geospatial Standards (for ex. OGC spec.) Ability for showing the operation of general laws is fundamental for scientific research Open Data Maturity of open source software (for ex. OSGeo stack)

15 Government level initiatives - Key for interoperability and lower costs

16 Open Data key for innovation and transparency

17 Research importance - Increasing software quality

18 Increasing innovation Internet backbone is powered by OSS Since April 1996 Apache has been the most popular HTTP server software in use. As of May 2011 Apache was estimated to serve 63% of all websites and 66% of the million busiest "May 2011 Web Server Survey". Netcraft. May 17,

19 Reuse big enabler for Research and Teaching

20 Reuse big enabler for Research and Teaching

21 Aim 1 Establishing open Establishing open source GIS research and training opportunities

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23 Strategic Training Programs

24 Aim 2 Scale up research and teaching Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching in this theme globally (ICA-OSGeo MoU) University of Pretoria, South Africa

25 Build teaching and research infrastructure worldwide Open Source Geospatial Lab founding meeting at UoN June 2010

26 University of Southampton OSGL "applied" research and Spatial Data Infrastructure delivery of real world Open Source geospatial and data management applications for research infrastructure, government and industry, e.g.: - Channel Coastal Observatory - MEDIN UK Marine metadata portal development and dissemination of software: Web OpenLayers, Leaflet, OSM, PostGIS, MapServer Quantum (custom plugins) delivery of specialist CPD and GIS training Quantum, etc. on.ac.uk osgl@geodat a.sot on.ac.uk

27 Research topics & collaborators Current projects Activities Disaster recovery monitoring Crowd-sourcing data quality assessment Unmanned Aerial Vehicle intercropping mapping system Remote sensing data fusion Remote sensing monitoring of large-scale construction projects Contact: Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu School of Geography University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus tuongthuy.vu at nottingham.edu.my

28 Launch in October 2012 ICA-OSGeo Lab at the University of Pretoria First in Africa Jeff McKenna (OSGeo President) visited us for the launch Back: Jeff McKenna (OSGeo President), Gavin Fleming (OSGeo South Africa) Front: Prof Elri Liebenberg (Former ICA vice-resident), Dr Serena Coetzee, Prof Hannes Rautenbach

29 Centre for Geoinformation Science Research focus groups Forensic geography Dr Peter Schmitz GISc Education and Training Sanet Eksteen Open source and data for geospatial / ICA-OSGeo Lab Dr Serena Coetzee Space geodesy, earth and atmospheric observation Dr Joel Botai Spatial data infrastructures Dr Serena Coetzee

30 Education and training Undergraduate BSc Geoinformatics Students from Geology, Zoology, Geography, Spatial planning, Computer Science, Practicals and assignments in PostGIS, QGIS, SAGA, Postgraduate BSc (Hons) Geoinformatics, BSc (Hons) Computer Science Spatial databases: practicals and assignments in PostGIS Internet GIS: practicals and assignments in OpenLayers, GeoServer

31 Education and training Continued Education at UP (CE at UP) Short courses, CPD points for registered professionals Introduction to Quantum GIS Spatial databases with PostGIS The Basics of GIS with QGIS NFP Alumni Course in Nambia, Windhoek, Oct/Nov 2013 With ITC and Polytechnic of Namibia The use of social media, crowdsourcing and webmapping to enable spatial web presence for the private sector in Southern Africa

32 The Geomatics Lab of Politecnico di Milano has been active in Como Campus since '95 and is now composed of two full professors, three assistant professors, one technician, 13 PhD and PostDoc Students, many Master Students... Laboratorio di Geom atica

33 Open Geospatial Labs are being established worldwide to scale up research and teaching in this theme globally (ICA-OSGeo MoU) North Carolina State University, USA

34 Free webinars

35 Example of an excellent Initiative led by Prof. Maria Brovelli and colleagues

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37 Aim 3 - Providing Global learning platform and training opportunities

38 Geospatial I G The Research Data Alliance is supported by the European Commission, the U.S. Government and the Australian Government.

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40 Open Science 2014 sessions planned at OSGIS We look forward to welcoming you to Nottingham.

41 Building an open source, open standards, open data research framework through OpenGIS Key advantages Scalable Interoperability Low costs No proprietary lockin Benefits wider community Represents the individual content creator on the World Wide Web

42 Building Open Geospatial Science - Geo for All

43 Acknowledgements To all colleagues in the Geo for All initiative