J. Julio Zancajo & Teresa Mostaza

The Management of Archaeological Sites: Archaeologica, a GIS tool for integration and visualization of informationCompany: Universidad de Salamanca
Country: Spain
Bio: Julio is a Phd Engineer in Geodesy and Cartography and a professor of the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). The research activity is developed about the structuration of Spatial DataBases, applied to management of the Heritage

Abstract: With the emergence of new spatial data collection systems (3D Laser Scanner, UAV's, ...) have improved the techniques of spatial documentation of Archaeological Sites. However, it also has complicated of managing information, integrating it into spatial databases and viewing it.
The purpose of this study is to show Archaeologica software that it being developed using the MapWindow OCX to manage the information generated in the Archaeological Sites, knowing that this information will be of two types:
* Firstly, purely archaeological information, related to the information provided by the Site - structures, pottery, coins.
* Secondly, spatial information, this including the spatial absolute position of the Site, the relative position of the elements discovered inside, as well as the dimensions and geometries of the Site itself and the objects discovered.
The objective is to allow non-experts in GIS management of information generated in this scope, whether spatial or not, and displaying it together with another cartographics documents, as for example Ortophotographies.

Dr. Philippe Puig

ERA's MapWindow based Cultural Heritage GIS in Northern AustraliaCompany: RioTinto/ERA
Country: Australia
Bio: After completing a Master's degree in applied Geology in France, Philippe Puig moved to Australia where he first worked as a geophysicist on a railway line project. After completing a graduate diploma in education in Darwin, Philippe taught in secondary schools in Darwin and in Gunbalanya Aboriginal community school, near World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park. In Darwin University, Philippe later completed a graduate diploma in Spatial Information.
Recently, Philippe obtained a PhD from Darwin University. His dissertation was on the role of fuzzy logic in GIS modelling. For the past 13 years Philippe worked on applications of GIS to natural resources management in the Northern Territory. Philippe's focus was first on introducing GIS to Northern Territory Fisheries to improve the management of the Timor Reef fishery. Lately he worked on a variety of GIS projects in relation with Ranger Mine, located in the middle of Kakadu National Park.
Philippe is now working for RioTinto's Ranger mine where he created in 2009 a Cultural Heritage GIS in MapWindow. Now, relying mainly on open source GIS software (QGIS, SAGA, Landserf), Philippe is responsible for the GIS design and geomorphomtetric/hydrological study of Ranger Mine post mining rehabilitated landform.

Abstract: Ranger Uranium Mine (RUM), located in World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park, is on Aboriginal Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Energy Resources of Australia (ERA), a business unit of RioTinto, has responsibly operated RUM for 30 years under intense scrutiny from Australian and international regulators. In this context, GIS plays a crucial role in protecting RUM's environment and thus contributes to RioTinto's ongoing effort to improve its environmental stewardship.
ERA's Cultural Heritage GIS (CHGIS), built on MapWindow in 2009, is readily accessible to all ERA staff and Aboriginal Traditional Owners (TOs). CHGIS enables ERA to implement an efficient ground disturbance permit system which protects all Heritage sites on the RUM mining lease. CHGIS has received the support of all monitoring authorities. Weed control, a legal obligation of ERA, is greatly facilitated by the CHGIS.
The success of the CHGIS, has changed the suspicious attitude of ERA towards GIS freeware. This year, additional GIS freeware used in the analysis and modelling of the post mining rehabilitated landform has been officially praised by ERA's management.
CHGIS simplicity and affordability enable ERA to involve more effectively TOs in the protection of their cultural heritage on ERA's leases.

Siebe Bosch

Building hydrological simulation modelsCompany: Hydroconsult
Country: The Netherlands
Abstract: The field of water management has a long history of using simulation models. These models are being used to simulate physical processes that involve the transport of water and solutes on the land's surface, through the subsoil and in channels and rivers. However, ever since computer simulation models first emerged, the size and level of detail of model schematizations have been limited by the available computational power.
An important consequence of these limitations is that for different purposes, different model schematizations need to be built; even when dealing with just one geographical region. Having to build and maintain multiple schematizations for one and the same region is an enormous waste of time and effort; especially since they are all based on the same geographical dataset in GIS.
Hydroconsult and TopX Geo-ICT have therefore jointly developed a MapWindow GIS plugin that lets the user automatically construct multiple simulation models, of various sizes and levels of detail, based on a single dataset in GIS. In this stage, the plugin has specifically been developed to build schematizations in the SOBEK simulation software by Deltares. Other types of simulation models are in the pipeline.

Joachim Van der Auwera

Introducing the Geomajas Open Source framework for building spatial web applicationsCompany: Geosparc
Country: Belgium
Bio: Joachim Van der Auwera is a software consultant with a strong focus on building quality software with lots of reusability and which is highly maintainable. He has been using Java for more than 10 years. In this period he was involved in both architecture and development of enterprise applications. He has a lot of experience with open source projects and is part of the three-headed dragon leading the development and architecture of the Geomajas GIS spatial data and web mapping framework. His achievements in the project include the security architecture, plug-in mechanism, API contract, documentation system etc. He has more than 10 years Java experience, mostly for enterprise projects.

Abstract: Geomajas is a highly secure and very performant framework for building spatial applications which are accessed through the web browser. It does not require browser plugins, making it very suitable for large enterprises and government.
The framework has a tight integration between the application back-end and front-end allow high performance and strong security. It can integrate with many data sources.
Development is in one language (Java). This makes it easier to build your team as one technology is sufficient and gives you a large pool of potential developers (Java).
The framework is modular. There are more than 20 plug-ins offering various enhancements to the core. There are also some additional libraries which can easily be reused in other environments.
The presentation will introduce all aspects of the framework.

Joachim Van der Auwera

Ktunaxa RMS, open source GIS for a first nationCompany: Geosparc
Country: Belgium
Bio: Joachim Van der Auwera is a software consultant with a strong focus on building quality software with lots of reusability and which is highly maintainable. He has been using Java for more than 10 years. In this period he was involved in both architecture and development of enterprise applications. He has a lot of experience with open source projects and is part of the three-headed dragon leading the development and architecture of the Geomajas GIS spatial data and web mapping framework. His achievements in the project include the security architecture, plug-in mechanism, API contract, documentation system etc. He has more than 10 years Java experience, mostly for enterprise projects.

Abstract: The Ktunaxa RMS is an open source web GIS application which does referral management for the Ktunaxa Nation Council. When someone want to do a project on the territory of the Ktunaxa people, a referral will need to be evaluated using this system. This analysis is guided using the application, evaluating the Ktunaxa values. This involves mostly spatial aspects.
The presentation demonstrates the application and how it was built. The application uses many open source projects, including Geomajas, Hibernate Spatial, Activiti, Alfresco. The presentation focusses on the spatial aspects and integration (but the other integrations will also be mentioned).

Russell Stephenson

Extreme Humanities: Understand how your data is related to itself and everything elseCompany: Idaho State University SOCNET Project
Country: United States
Bio: Russell Stephenson is a PhD student in Engineering Applied Science at Idaho State University, with emphasis in CS/GIS/SNA. He has bachelor of science degrees in physics and chemistry. Russell has worked as a programmer for twenty years, working in mostly technical industries. As an RA in the SOCNET project he is concentrating on the development of a novel interface to improve the researcher experience entering, managing, and visualizing data. He is also developing a new type of database server that is based on a revolutionary data structure know as Intentionally Linked Entities (ILE)

Abstract: After spending months or years gathering data from archives. Many researchers find it difficult and annoying to have to then create database schemas and then laboriously add data to a database.
I will demonstrate a new application that provides a rich interface for the collection and analysis of data in most formats. The application allows the user to select text from source documents, add it to a database in a simple drag and drop manner, marking identical strings throughout the document and creating an active link into the database.
Once data is added it can be analyzed by viewing it as a graph or if an entity is geocoded with the embedded DotSpatial GIS window. This program allows the user to manage documents and databases, link documents to your data, visualize it by selecting a document, marked text within a document, or selecting a feature on a map.
Link primary sources, secondary sources, GIS data and other supporting data. Users can import and export data of other applications such as Social Network Analysis (SNA) for a flexible analysis experience. This application which is based on the revolutionary database design of Intentionally Linked Entities (ILE), handles complex data and complex ideas.

Jirí Kadlec

Getting Free Meteorological and Hydrological Data from your Area using HydroDesktopCompany: Idaho State University
Country: United States
Bio: Jirí Kadlec received his M.S in Cartography and Geoinformatics at Charles University Prague, Czechia in 2007. He is the chief developer of the HydroDesktop and DotSpatial open source software projects, currently studying as a Ph.D candidate at the Idaho State University. The goal of Jirí Ph.D thesis at ISU is expanding the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information system to the whole world, starting with Czech Republic as a case study. This will enable hydrologists to access free climate and water data from their river basin of interest anywhere in the world. Jirí is also interested in software architecture and design patterns, hydrology and environmental issues.

Abstract: The Hydrologic Information System (HIS) is a growing network of agencies, universities and researchers that provide their hydrological and climate observations free of charge in a standard format. HydroDesktop is a free, open source GIS tool for hydrologists. It is built as a set of extensions using the DotSpatial software components. With HydroDesktop, users can search for hydrological and climate observations in their area of interest and explore the time series data using interactive map, graph and table views. This hands-on tutorial will demonstrate how to create a detailed precipitation map for any selected time period and any river basin in North America or Europe by using the HydroDesktop watershed delineation, search, download, data aggregation and interpolation tools

Barbara Stephenson

A MapWindow GIS Manual for the Social SciencesCompany: Idaho State University
Country: United States
Bio: Barbara Stephenson received her doctorate in Early Modern European History from Rutgers University in 2000. Her research focuses on patronage and social networks in France during the period 1515-1547, the reign on François I. Her book, The Power and Patronage of Marguerite de Navarre, established that contrary to earlier assessments of her role in her brother’s realm, Marguerite held and exercised a tremendous amount of both political and personal power. Currently, Barb is working on the Parlement of Bordeaux, to determine whether the ennoblement that accompanied the purchase of court positions disrupted a social hierarchy based on status and prestige. The records of the parlement, which was a royal court with oversight over the region of Guyenne, are complete enough to also indicate the extent of the court’s jurisdictional territory, which is currently assumed, but not defined. By identifying all of the towns with which the court interacted in judicial matters, it is possible to generate a map that would reveal the actual extent of the court’s reach for this period. As the post-doctoral researcher on the SOCNET project, Barb has headed the writing a training manual for MapWindow designed for use by historians and other social science and humanities scholars. This manual is designed to teach working scholars who may have little computer expertise or technical knowledge the basic tools available in MapWindow that are important for conducting Historically-Integrated GIS. That manual will be available for testing by early June.

Abstract: As more historians and other social scientists realize the potential of GIS and other softwares for use in Digital Humanities, they run into a serious roadblock: the steep learning curve that accompanies these programs. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that many of these scholars, while practiced in using computers for word processing and email, are computer-illiterate when it comes to programming. Combine the lack of computer skills with the demands of a full-time teaching position that has high publishing expectations, and the result is that many historians and social scientists turn away from using programs like MapWindow because they do not have the time to teach themselves how to use the program effectively. We have written a manual designed to teach busy professors how to use MapWindow for historical and other social science research purposes in the course of a single semester, by reading one chapter per week and completing an associated exercise. We have identified those aspects of the program most likely to be used for historical research and designed exercises to teach those features, avoiding tech-heavy explanations while still conveying the essentials of the software.

Matthew Klein

Introducing DotSpatial - an Open Source .NET GIS FrameworkCompany: Idaho State University
Country: United States
Bio: Matthew Klein is a software engineer who has contributed to the DotSpatial project and improved its compatibility with its predecessor, MapWindow.

Abstract: DotSpatial is a free, open source, set of libraries developed on the Microsoft .NET framework which provides projection, visualization, and extensibility features. DotSpatial allows rapid development and deployment of C# and VB.NET based spatial data, analysis, and mapping applications. DotSpatial has been downloaded over 25000 times since the project started in April 2010, has 74 team members. This presentation will provide an introduction to the DotSpatial project including, goals, target users, project status and project roadmap. Additionally, a few representative software application built on DotSpatial will be presented.

Ingo Weinzierl

Data mining in big databases with geo reference and easy web publishing and sharing of maps, diagrams and models with DIVE4ElementsCompany: Intevation GmbH
Country: Germany
Bio: Ingo Weinzierl is a software engineer who has received his B.Sc. at University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück. He is employed at Intevation GmbH, a Free Software company placed in Osnabrück and has developed Open Source Software in Java and Python during the last years.

Abstract: Data mining in big databases with geo reference and web publishing of the calculations, the results, the comparison and the intersection of complex data in the form of tables, charts and maps based on big databases with complex modeling requires in the most situations a huge amount of both technical and IT expertise.
With DIVE4elements you can do these kind of calculations easy in a browser. You can publish and share the results with others easily through open interfaces and formats. It is also very simple to integrate the results into other processes, calculations as well as into other applications.
DIVE4Elements offers a structured access to complex data in big databases and provides an infrastructure that meets the requirements of well-scaling of modern data management in a web-enabled world.
The presentation introduces the core concepts of DIVE4Elements and their practical application with examples from the water management and oceanography.

Ingo Weinzierl

MXD2Map: Publish, share and explore ArcGIS MXD maps with open source. Free your MXD maps!Company: Intevation GmbH
Country: Germany
Bio: Ingo Weinzierl is a software engineer who has received his B.Sc. at University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück. He is employed at Intevation GmbH, a Free Software company placed in Osnabrück and has developed Open Source Software in Java and Python during the last years.

Abstract: ESRI's ArcGIS is for many companies and institutions the geographic information system (GIS) for creating maps and visualizing their data. Maps created and saved within the main component of ArcGIS (ArcMap) will be stored in so called MXD files on the hard drive.
Before MXD2Map started: publishing ArcGIS MXD maps was not possible without the use of another component of ArcGIS called ArcIMS (Arc Internet Map Server). When you created your maps with ArcGIS your maps will have fallen into the ArcGIS Trap; they will be unusable in the Free World.
MXD2Map automates as much as possible for you to publish and share ESRI ArcGIS MXD with the use of the open source project MapServer and frees your MXD maps! With MXD2Map you can escape the ArcGIS trap and publish and share your MXD maps OGC standard compliant with no licensing costs.
MXD2map is Free Software (an Open Source project) published under the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL).

Sarah E. Hinman

GIS in Historical Resources Management: Progress and Examples from Idaho State UniversityCompany: Idaho State University
Country: United States
Abstract: This paper seeks to highlight the scholarship from Idaho State University to illustrate how GIS is bringing new dimensions to historical resources management and public history through the use of GIS. For example, the textual record of women’s imprint on the landscape of the North American West is faint, particularly that of working class women, thus often limiting our knowledge of a substantial demographic group. Yet, all women had an influence on the development of the urban landscape in places like Helena, Montana. GIS-based landscape reconstructions provide an alternative and visual means of exploring how women of all backgrounds exerted social power and impacted the urban environment in late 19th century. By using non-textual sources in combination with city records we are able to place women in the landscape despite their silence in more traditional sources. This example of exploring how women influence the urban development in the past is just one way in which GIS is assisting in the generation of new historical scholarship. The projects conducted by the graduate students and faculty in the HRM program at ISU include street paving during the Great Depression, urban morphology in mining towns, property loss calculations, and explorations.

Paul den Dulk

BruTile tiling libraryCompany: Geodan
Country: The Netherlands
Abstract: BruTile is a C# open source library to access tile services. BruTile has few dependencies, is platform independant and has a limited scope. It is intended for reuse by other more sophisticated libraries. Currently it is used by ArcBruTile, SharpMap, DotSpatial and Mapsui.
BruTile can be compiled for .net 3.5, Silverlight 4 and WP7. We intent keep it platform independent and support WinRT as well.
There are a number of specific tile serves which are very popular like OSM, Google and Bing. BruTile supports those through pre-defined tile sources. This is what is used most of the time.
More interesting it is also possible to consume tile services that are served through one of the exisitng tile services specifications, like: TMS, WMS-C, WMTS and ArcGIS Tiled Dynamic Layers. BruTile can be used to generate a client for these through the service description. BruTile supports TMS, WMS-C. Work on ArcGIS Dynamic Layers and WMTS is in progress.
The talk will explain how tile services work and how those tile services can be consumed with BruTile.

Rui Daniel Pina

inp.PINS – a link between GIS and Storm Water Management ModelCompany: University of Coimbra; AC, Águas de Coimbra, E.E.M
Country: Portugal
Bio: Consultant, design engineer, construction supervisor, applied scientific-researcher and lecturer in Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment.
Currently works as an Hydraulic Engineer at 'Águas de Coimbra' water and sewerage company and as a Lecturer at the University of Coimbra. Enthusiastic with geospacial open source projects and author of inp.PINS - a software to link hydraulic and hydrological modelling with GIS.

Abstract: inp.PINS is an application developed to automatically link Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Storm Water Management Model (SWMM).
SWMM is a public domain software, developed by the US-EPA, widely used for planning, analysis and design of drainage systems. As it is based on physical models, GIS with all the complex functions and modules available is extremely useful to characterize the SWMM base input model, and it is also a powerful tool to store, access, manipulate and visualize the SWMM inputs and results.
inp.PINS has been applied for floodplain mapping (delineation of flood hazard maps) and reveals to be an efficient way to link GIS with SWMM. The interoperability achieved is very effective for the analysis required, since the process leads to an excellent characterization of the catchment and all model inputs, and a better analysis of the modelling results, taking advantage of both GIS and SWMM capabilities at the same time.
inp.PINS is based on MapWinGIS.ocx and is now driven by the community needs – the open source community is able to improve the capabilities, and also to make it even more flexible and this communication intends to present and discuss future developments on this project.
Authors: R. D. Pina, N. E. Simões, J. A. Sá Marques and J. O. Sousa.

Werner Sprung

MapWindow based optimization of sewer maintenanceCompany: Ingenieurbüro Sprung
Country: Austria
Bio: Graz University of Technology: graduate as civil engineer
ILF Innsbruck: Tunnelling and structural analysis
Back to my family I worked in the City of Graz Sewer Department
Now I am working in the Holding Graz Services – Water management: Sewer modelling and GIS
And also I am an engineering consultant.

Abstract: Sewer maintenance extends the life of sewers. To optimize the maintenance intervals and to get information about location, amount and kind of sedimentation and to create work reports a GIS application was created. The challenge was to create a very simple but also powerful application with good performance.
Now the maintenance teams write monitored data into their work reports. The data are GIS based and can be analyzed. An optimization tool releases the next maintenance of single sewers in the sewer system.
The data are also used in our hydraulic models. The knowledge about the dynamic change of sedimentations in combined sewer systems is essential for a hydraulic rehabilitation of high quality. Sewer maintenance reduces the river pollution by reducing the first flush effects in a combined sewer system.
MapWindow based applications help to optimize sewer maintenance and they help to reduce the pollution of our rivers.

Werner Sprung

Identify Failure Clusters in water distribution and sewer systems by a GIS based applicationCompany: Ingenieurbüro Sprung
Country: Austria
Bio: Graz University of Technology: graduate as civil engineer
ILF Innsbruck: Tunnelling and structural analysis
Back to my family I worked in the City of Graz Sewer Department
Now I am working in the Holding Graz Services – Water management: Sewer modelling and GIS
And also I am an engineering consultant.

Abstract: As a very small partner of the Institute of Urban Water Management and Landscape Water Engineering in Graz, Austria, the Ingenieurbüro Sprung developed a GIS based application to identify failure clusters in water distribution and sewer systems. The aim is to find spatio-temporal patterns.
VB.NET and the MapWinGIS.ocx are used to build the application. The data are available in several shape files. The failures are represented as points. The data are analyzed and also raster files are made out of the points for further analysis by the application.

Peter Löfås

SharpMap as an essential component in application for road damage surveingCompany: Triona AB
Country: Sweden
Bio: Peter Lofas is Senior Software Architect and GIS-consultant at Triona AB in Sweden. The main focus is desktop and web applications related to GIS and especially Road Infrastructure.

Abstract: This presentation will demonstrate a real world system used for field survey of road damages in Sweden.
SharpMap is used throughout the whole system. From desktop applications where the sharpmap mapbox component is used to a website using OpenLayers displays data together with sharpmap as a WMS server.
Presentation will also demonstrate the benefits of using SharpMap as a simple WMS-backend in your web application including talks about securing data / wms-services where users have access to different parts of the data.

Frank Braunschweig

MOHID Studio: An open source based graphical user interface for water modelsCompany: Action Modulers
Country: Portugal
Bio: Frank Braunschweig, Civil Engineer and Master in numerical modeling of water resources, has a large experience in modeling surface water bodies and watersheds, resulting from his long activities as researcher at the Technical University of Lisbon and consultant in the private sector.
He has a large experience regarding software development for environmental modeling, including coastal areas and reservoirs (MOHID Water), watersheds (MOHID Land) and rivers (MOHID River), GIS based graphical user interfaces (MOHID Studio) and operational systems.

Abstract: Results from physically based distributed numerical models are difficult to represent with classical GIS systems for several reasons: (i) the time dimension is generally poorly addressed, (ii) data exchange with Fortran based numerical engines is difficult and (iii) quantity of data to represent can be very large.
MOHID Studio overcome the difficulties mentioned above by using, among other open source libraries, an OpenGL extended version of SharpMap (map visualization), dotSpatial (coordinate transformation), HDF (data storage), NHiberante Spatial (data base access) and OpenMI (inter model data exchange).
Examples using MOHID Studio to represent data from the MOHID Water Modelling System (physical and biogeochemical processes in watersheds, soils and surface water bodies) and SWMM (Storm Water Management Model) will be shown.
The presentation will focus on the data exchange between the numerical models and graphical user interface and the OpenGL enabled version of SharpMap.

Nikoletta Mecser

Comparison of spatial surface-interpolation techniques for the estimation of their vertical accuracy based on an Hungarian sample areaCompany: University of Debrecen
Country: Hungary
Bio: Nikoletta is a PhD student at the Department of Phisical Geography and Geoinformatics, University of Debrecen, Hungary. Her field of research is a morphological investigation of flat and hill areas in Hungary with remotely sensed databases from the aspect of their applicability.

Abstract: At the present time a substantial number of open- and non-open source GIS softwares and built-in interpolation methods are available, although their reliability can be relatively different.
To perform such an evaluation, we investigated an area of approximately 5500 m2 on the Great Hungarian Plane. Altogether 578 points were surveyed with a high-precise LASER beam – based total station. The techniques used for the interpolation of point height data include: inverse distance weighting (IDW) and ordinary kriging, prepared in HydroDesktop 1.4 and ESRI ArcGIS 9.3, as well.
Our goal was to examine and compare the different types of interpolation surfaces and to rank the gained surfaces based on their accuracy. The reference was an airborn LiDAR surface.
Our examination shows that in such cases (e.g. kriging) interpolation can be different in the two softwares, and there is only an inconsiderable difference between IDW techniques in both softwares, based on RMS error. In addition, the results represent that the data are significantly scattered at the lower value of evaluation in every case of interpolation methods. The reason for this phenomenon could be explained by the presence of wooded vegetation.

Anita Karika

Comparative analysis between different database on Hungarian areasCompany: University of Debrecen
Country: Hungary
Abstract: The aim of my research was that I determined the deviation between SRTM model and DEM from EOTR. I would like to compare this two models, how much the difference between these on flat lands and that the municipality boundaries are demonstrable on these areas. My sample areas are on a flat lands on Hungary, 8 sample settlements. This is important in Hungary, that the data and software can be easy reach (and maybe free). At the university we try find the cheap and easy solutions. But sometimes it is necessary to involve outer help. So in this case. In this research we used not open source software. But we are finding open source solutions. We made TIN model from EOTR contour lines. But it was important for as to get a GRID model. Secondly we made polygons from aerial photos. The polygons could be divided into 3 main types (municipality boundaries, arable lands and settlements). We made the subtraction of the EOTR model from SRTM. We used the IDRISI’s statistic. The next step was analysis of corrected elevation data with average differences of arable lands. I am finding these steps in open source softwares.

Boglárka Balázs

Hydrological investigation on the Carpathian Basin using HydroDesktopCompany: University of Debrecen
Country: Hungary
Abstract: Free open source GIS applications are playing more and more role in the scientific researches, consequently in the field of hydrology as well. The development of different hydrological tools enables us to make comprehensive hydrological analysis using whether the own observation data or the database of the Hydrologic Information System.
We made our investigation on the Carpathian Basin, choose a region close to the River Tisza and used the HydroDesktop tool to analyse the change of the groundwater level between 1989 and 2008. We have created a groundwater level map for each year and detailed graphs to present how the hydrological situation changed in the last 20 years. For analysing our data with HydroDesktop a special data converter application had to be formed. We demonstrate the results and the arising questions.

Oscar Fonts

ICOS Carbon Data PortalCompany: geomati.co
Country: Spain
Bio: Oscar is a Telecommunications Engineer and Master in Intelligent Systems, he has a 10 year background as geospatial developer. Specialized in web mapping applications, he developed key web services in the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia, where he became an Open Source enthusiast.

Abstract: The mission of the ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) European Infrastructure is to provide measurements of greenhouse long-term emissions which should allow to study the current and future behaviour of the global carbon cycle.
In this context, geomati.co has developed a web application with a download and search engine that integrates the measurements performed on the ecological, oceanic and atmospheric areas, that so far managed their data separately.
The portal can be searched by multiple geographic areas, by time range, by free text or by a subset of magnitudes, preview data, and add the desired datasets to a "basket" of downloads.
At the time of downloading a data collection, an universal identifier is assigned that will reference it in any publications and will make possible to repeat the download in the future (so published experiments are reproducible).
The portal is based on open formats commonly used in the scientific community, such as NetCDF for the data and the CSW standard ISO profile. It assembles several existing free software components such as Thredds Data Server, GeoNetwork Open Source and GeoExt, and its code and documentation will be published under a free license to enable reuse on other projects.

Fernando González Cortes

Collaborative geoprocessing with GGLCompany: geomati.co
Country: Spain
Bio: Fernando González graduated as a Computer Engineer at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. He worked in IVER TI in Valencia, after which he moved to Albacete to work on the remote sensing and GIS section in the Regional Development Institute. After that he became research engineer at the National Institute for Research in Science and Technology of the City (IRSTV) in Nantes, France. During these years he has collaborated, among other projects, at the core of gvSIG 1.x, OrbisGIS and recently in the development of GGL2, a geoprocessing specific language. He currently works as a freelance and collaborates with the geomati.co freelance network.

Abstract: GGL is a programming language designed specifically to solve geoprocessing problems by means of scripts. It is simpler and more powerful than general purpose languages since it hides most of the complexities of software development and, at the same time, provides the user with specific constructions to process rasters, join tables, etc.
One key advantage of GGL is that scripts can be reused from other scripts very easily so that each problem has to be solved just once, thus building an incremental base of geoprocessing knowledge. This geoprocessing knowledge can be applied in a wide variety of scenarios by using the command line GGL interpreter directly or through the APIs, which are useful to embed GGL geoprocesses in applications.
As geoprocesses are scripts collaboration is quite easy. People can send geoprocesses in mails, make corrections, teach, give technical support, etc. And where there is collaboration there is a community of users. The greater the community is, the more probable is that someone has already solved your geoprocessing problem or a similar one that can be adapted with few changes.
By its simplicity and collaborative nature, GGL brings the advantages of open source development to the geoprocessing users.

Carlos Andres Osorio-Murillo

Implementation of an Inverse modeling technique using DotSpatialCompany: Idaho State University
Country: United States
Bio: Carlos completed his B.Sc. degree in Topographic Engineering at the Universidad del Valle (Colombia) in 2001, and his M.Sc. degree in Geospatial Technologies from three European Universities (Erasmus Mundus Program) in 2011. Currently, he is a PhD student in the Engineering and Applied Sciences Program at Idaho State University (USA). He was the GIS Analyst of the Colombian Sugarcane Research Center CENICAÑA and worked as a professor at the Universidad del Valle, where he taught some courses, including Data Models for GIS, Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, and Digital Elevation Models. Now, at the graduate level he mainly combines Geostatistics and Computer Science in the development of hydrological models in the Geospatial Software Lab.

Abstract: The inverse modeling techniques are used in different applications for obtaining more information about a target variable. The target variable evaluation can be improved using the relationship between the variable and other data sources, which can add more information for the uncertainly estimation. This project implements the method of anchored distribution (MAD) technique that improves the parameter estimation in an inverse modeling. This technique is implemented in HydroDesktop using the DotSpatial framework that provide an extensible architecture for the creation of plugins, and can integrate external applications for example R Statistical. Using the capabilities of HydroDesktop for acquiring Hydrologic data is ideal for evaluating the MAD plugin. The hydrologic data used in the evaluation of this application are: head pressure as a target variable and Log conductivity as secondary information which are called by MAD technique variables Type-A and Type-B respectively. The plugin is designed for support a general approach of MAD technique. The MAD GUI interacts with all capabilities of DotSpatial for managing geographic data and it is integrated with R Statistical for generation of conditional fields and forward modeling.

Gennadii Donchyts

Use of SharpMap and NetTopologySuite in integrated environmental modeling applicationsCompany: Deltares
Country: The Netherlands
Abstract: In this presentation we will show how SharpMap and NetTopologySuite open source geospatial libraries help to setup complex environmental models.
Several examples will be presented showing how the use of these open-source geospatial libraries simplifies the process of model setup from the end user and developer perspectives.
The first example focuses on 1D river flow model. The second example is based on 2D coastal morphological model XBeach.

Daniel P. Ames

State of the Projects: A Brief Update on the Project Progress and Plans for MapWindow and FriendsCompany: Idaho State University
Country: United States
Bio: Dan Ames is an Associate Professor in Geosciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Idaho State University where he is director of the Geospatial Software Lab at the Center for Advanced Energy Studies. Dr. Ames has over 10 years of open source GIS software development and project management experience starting with the MapWindow project and including numerous additional libraries, desktop applications, and custom GIS software tools in the water, environment, and energy sectors.

Abstract: The MapWindow project began 10 years ago as a simple ActiveX control with limited functionality. Since then, the MapWinGIS ActiveX control has matured into a stable, highly functional programming tool that sits at the center of the MapWindow 4 universe. Additionally recent years have witnessed the release of the DotSpatial C# libraries and their accompanying MapWindow 6 wrapper application. This presentation will attempt to summarize the current status of these projects, including level of activity, usage, downloads, and documentation as well as plans for the immediate and long term future.

Herman Assink

Fast deegree based INSPIRE services for Dutch provincesCompany: IDgis
Country: The Netherlands
Bio: Herman is director of IDgis. IDgis developes and advises on GIS-software for companies, governmental and non-profit organisations. Besides easy to use general GIS applications IDgis offers tailor made solutions.
IDgis is strongly committed to open standards and open source software (OSS). All solutions provided by IDgis comply to ISO and OGC standards. Herman is a member of the project management committe of the deegree project which developes OGC- compliant geo-services.

Abstract: Dutch GIS software developer IDgis delivered INSPIRE View Service and Download Service for the the joint Dutch Provinces using degree. The View and Download Service meets the Quality of Services requirements with flying colors.
Excellent performance
The performance of the View Service (WMS) is excellent. If 20 users simultaneously address the service, the response time is less than a second. The stunning performance is realised due to the streaming technology in deegree and clever generalisation of geometries.
Central, expandable environment
The services solution of IDgis & lat/lon consists of one central services environment for all Dutch provinces. A pre-load validation tool is developed to give the provinces the opportunity to validate their data in advance. Every night the Harvester checks for new data by consulting the metadata in the central Catalogue Service and downloads from the WFS services of each province. The Validator checks if the data are according the requirements. If so the Loader stores the data in the data base. Finally the data will be served through the INSPIRE View Service (WMS) and Download Service (WFS). The scalability of the solution in combination with the high performance makes the services suitable for expansion.

Paul van Genuchten

Workshop: Getting started with GeoNetwork-OpenSourceCompany: GeoCat bv
Country: The Netherlands
Bio: Paul van Genuchten has been active in the spatial industry for over 10 years in development, project management and consultancy. Currently he is a software engineer at GeoCat bv. in Bennekom, the Netherlands. GeoCat has founded and is a main contributor of the Geonetwork-opensource.org project, a metadata catalogue used by 16 out of 24 national governments in europe alone. Geocat acts as a consultant, developer and maintainer of open source SDI software for her customers around the world. To facilitate this proces a ArcGIS Desktop Extension has been developed, GeoCat Bridge, to instantly publish spatial data, metadata and context to Open Source Spatial Geo Stacks like Open Geo Suite, GeoNetwork, PostGIS and Mapserver.

Abstract: The workshop will focus on the implementation of a GeoNetwork opensource based catalog to serve and access geospatial data in a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).
A local catalog will be installed and configured. Harvesting of spatial data resources from remote servers will be configured and geospatial web map services will be set up using the embedded GeoServer and configured for access through the catalog web interface.
Participants will create INSPIRE compliant metadata and learn how to develop and use custom metadata templates based on the ISO19115/19119 metadata standards. Participants will learn to use the various different interfaces that GeoNetwork offers, such as the GUI Web Interface and the OGC CSW/ISO interface.
Integration of proprietary and open source software will be demonstrated. For that, GeoCat Bridge will be used to create metadata and map services in GeoNetwork opensource and GeoServer directly from ESRI ArcGIS Desktop software.
Attention will also be given to other import and export functionality of the catalog that allow integration of the publishing process in existing workflows.

Danny van Hooren

TatukGIS Editor : The octopus with GIS Data.Company: TatukGIS Benelux
Country: The Netherlands
Bio: Danny graduated in 1995 as a bachelor of engineering on the Hogeschool Heerlen in Technical Computer Science. In 1996 he started at one of the bigger GIS companies in The Netherlands with Smallworld until 2008. In 2008 he started his own GIS Company: SmallToGo and focussed on TatukGIS products.

Abstract: The presentation will shortly tell something about TatukGIS.
Secondly some highlights of the TatukGIS Editor.
Migrating data, styling and scripting.

Nagesh Kolagani

Ease-of-use and Effectiveness of Participatory GIS in Empowering Rural Communities: Case study of a South Indian VillageCompany: IIT Madras
Country: India
Bio: Nagesh is working as a Research Assistant: Conceptualization, development & deployment of PP-GIS product for use by village workers in natural resource management.

Abstract: In rural South India, over the years, there has been a steady increase in ground water crises. To resolve these crises, participatory water management by increasing community involvement is essential. Participatory GIS can empower rural communities for such a role by facilitating better visualization and easier understanding. Towards this goal, as part of a Government of India funded a project, open source Quantum GIS software was simplified for use by village people. It was demonstrated in an upland village of South India and was evaluated for its ease-of-use in terms of how easily people could use it for producing and using maps and for its effectiveness in creating easier understanding and better decisions.

Nagesh Kolagani

Workshop: Community mapping and empowerment: A hands-on workshop with actual village data and simplified villageQGIS softwareCompany: IIT Madras
Country: India
Bio: Nagesh is working as a Research Assistant: Conceptualization, development & deployment of PP-GIS product for use by village workers in natural resource management.

Abstract: Goal is to give participants an understanding of what the map requirements of village communities are and how to meet them
Participants will be given actual data (spatial GPS data and non-spatial attribute data) of various village features. They will use our simplified 'villageQGIS' software, prepare maps and then try to generate various views that might interest a village audience and make them visualize and participate better.
Depending on time and interest, they can also compare how the same thing can be done using other software

Marc Elgin M. Delgado

Engaging local participation in mapping mountainous tropical landscapes with Open Source GIS: A case study using MapWindow to build a community-based Land Resource Information System in Claveria, the PhilippinesCompany: Department of Geography, Cartography and GIS Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Country: Philippines
Bio: Marc is a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Biology (major in Ecology) from the University of the Philippines in Los Baños and his Master’s degree in Human Ecology from the VUB.
In the Philippines, he has worked as a Researcher on various projects related to the use of simulation models and geographic information systems in agriculture and forestry studies. His research interests include the use of information technologies in enhancing local participation for community-based natural resource management. For his PhD research, he is developing a land resource information system for an agricultural community in the Philippines to assist farmers in the selection of appropriate agroforestry systems in order to help them meet their livelihood objectives.

Abstract: Participatory-GIS (PGIS) is the involvement of local stakeholders in generating, analyzing and communicating spatial information for improved natural resource management. In this paper, we present our collaboration with the local government of Claveria, Mindanao, in the Philippines, to build a community-based Land Resource Information System for this mountainous tropical landscape. The project is guided by the main principles of PGIS (community participation, local ownership, sustainability). Spatial data gathering was implemented using participatory methods while GIS-based activities were accomplished using MapWindow GIS (ver 4.7). We will describe the various MapWindow tools used in the different stages of the project and examine their capability to produce the required results. In order to better visualize the outputs of MapWindow and promote local geospatial learning, we collaborated with the local planners in constructing a stand-alone relief model called P3DM! (Participatory 3D Map, 1: 20000 scale). The P3DM was integrated with the outputs of MapWindow to produce the following maps: village boundaries, land cover, community services, local place names of natural features, and critical watersheds. We conclude that integrating PGIS projects with MapWindow enhances local resource planning, promotes geospatial learning as well as ensures genuine local custodianship and ownership.

Bhaskar Reddy Pulsani

Fuzzy Logic Analysis using GeoMediaCompany: Magicution IT Technologies
Country: India
Bio: Reddy is a Software Engineer, graduated as a Masters Student in Geoinformatics at the University of Applied Sciences, HFT, Stuttgart. As a student, he has assisted professor in tutoring students through different GIS projects and has also undertaken assistantship for teaching VB.Net for Master's Students of Geoinformatics. His master's thesis was in the field of fuzzy logic automation on Geomedia Professional. After successfully completing it, he continued it further and developed some Vector and Raster plugins (VnRPToolkit) on the open-source software MapWindow GIS.
Currently, he's working as a Software Engineer in Magicution IT Technologies, Hyderabad, India. His job responsibilities include, development of WebPages with Multi-Tier Architecture using ASP.NET and MSSQL Server.

Abstract: Site selection process is a screening technique, used to select appropriate sites for dumping waste. Screening is done by considering the restrictions that have to be met when selecting a site. Two Screening methodologies i.e. Boolean and Fuzzy were used for delineating dumping zones. Boolean defines a two valued logic with sharp delineation of boundaries where as fuzzy provides a smooth transition between the boundaries to handle the concept of vagueness.
Implementation of membership functions for Fuzzy Logic analysis requires a lot of steps for manual process. As most of the process is generic for different layers, the analysis procedure was automated by customizing the application. Therefore, for site selection, a manual and automated fuzzy logic analysis was performed by making use of GeoMedia.

Bhaskar Reddy Pulsani

Workshop: Fuzzy Logic Analysis using MapWindowCompany: Magicution IT Technologies
Country: India
Bio: Reddy is a Software Engineer, graduated as a Masters Student in Geoinformatics at the University of Applied Sciences, HFT, Stuttgart. As a student, he has assisted professor in tutoring students through different GIS projects and has also undertaken assistantship for teaching VB.Net for Master's Students of Geoinformatics. His master's thesis was in the field of fuzzy logic automation on Geomedia Professional. After successfully completing it, he continued it further and developed some Vector and Raster plugins (VnRPToolkit) on the open-source software MapWindow GIS.
Currently, he's working as a Software Engineer in Magicution IT Technologies, Hyderabad, India. His job responsibilities include, development of WebPages with Multi-Tier Architecture using ASP.NET and MSSQL Server.

Abstract: Site selection process is a screening technique, used to select appropriate sites for dumping waste. Screening is done by considering the restrictions that have to be met when selecting a site. Two Screening methodologies i.e. Boolean and Fuzzy were used for delineating dumping zones. Boolean defines a two valued logic with sharp delineation of boundaries where as fuzzy provides a smooth transition between the boundaries to handle the concept of vagueness.
This workshop assesses fuzzy logic information content to find landfill zones for dumping waste using MapWindow. It follows three stage analysis processes. After identifying the landfill siting constraints, the first stage is initiated by formulating the membership functions. After identifying the variables, the second stage is to perform the manual fuzzy logic analysis. The final stage involves demonstration of a user-friendly generic tool that automates manual fuzzy process.

Walter Collischonn

Coupling the MGB-IPH hydrological model with MapWindow GIS platformCompany: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
Country: Brazil
Abstract: Large-scale hydrological models are useful tools for integrated environmental and water resources management. An essential requirement for the use of these models is the detailed physiographic description of the river basin, which is normally obtained through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS can also be helpful during the pre and post processing of data, and model results visualization. Therefore, integration of models with GIS is expected to improve the user friendliness of those models. This paper presents the development of an interface based on MapWindow for the MGB-IPH model, which is one of the most used large-scale hydrological models in Brazil. The designed tool was successfully tested for the modeling of different Brazilian river basins varying in size from 3000 square kilometers to more than 6 million thousand kilometers, and the applications showed that a high degree of integration between the GIS and the hydrologic model was obtained!
Also, useful tools were created for directly handling data provided by the Brazilian National Water Agency. Highlights of the tests and applications are presented. In general, it can be said that the MapWindow GIS platform became the way that an user interacts with the MGB-IPH model.

Fernando Mainardi Fan

Design of a water quality modeling tool coupled with MapWindow GIS platformCompany: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
Country: Brazil
Bio: Environmental Engineer graduated from Rio Grande do Sul Federal University (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS), in southern Brazil, is currently a Water Resources and Environmental Sanitation Masters Degree student at UFRGS Institute of Hydraulic Research (Instituto de Pesquisas Hidráulicas - IPH), where he also works developing projects with the professor Dr. Walter Collischonn. He has academic and professional experience working with geographic information systems (GIS), water resources studies, hydrological simulation, and water quality studies and modeling. Currently focuses his research to develop systems integrating GIS and models, as well as the development, improvement and use of the models themselves.

Abstract: Water quality of rivers is strongly affected by continuous or accidental releases of substances associated to human activity in a watershed. Mathematical models of river water quality are widely used to assess this kind of impacts. However, most of these models are not integrated with GIS tools. We present the design of a water quality modeling tool integrated to MapWindow, that allows the simulation of water quality disturbances, caused by pollutant releases in river networks. Pollutant spread is represented by analytical solutions to the one-dimensional advection-dispersion equation. The model was developed as a plugin for MapWindow GIS® platform and aims at being simple to use. All steps of data entry, calculations, results visualization and post processing are performed interactively through the GIS interface, mostly directly on the map. We believe the model can be used for prediction and assessment of scenarios, control of impacts caused by discharges, and water resources protection. We expect that the coupling with MapWindow enhances the user understanding of the model results.

Arne Schilling

OpenStreetMap in 3D - current developmentsCompany: WIGeoGIS
Country: Germany
Bio: Arne Schilling studied Geography at the University of Heidelberg and developed a strong interest in topics about 3D GIS and virtual city models. He was involved in several research projects dealing with Virtual Reality, CAD, mobile maps, 3D databases, culture heritage, landscape visualization, 3D outdoor and indoor routing, terrain modeling, and 3D web technologies. Currently he is working at WIGeoGIS in Munich. Prior to this, he was a research fellow at the University of Heidelberg, Fraunhofer Institute for applied research in Visual Computing, the INI-GraphicsNet, and the University of Bonn. Within the Open Geospatial Consortium, he helped develop and harmonize standards for 3D web portrayal.

Abstract: The concept of Volunteered Geographic Information has been successfully applied to creating a world wide street map. Recently OpenStreetMap has developed from a pure visual map to a content rich data base containing all sorts of geospatial information, which allows for creating domain specific applications. How to extend the OpenStreetMap schema and how to capture and store 3D information is still being discussed. This presentation provides an overview of the current developments and describes the osm-3d.org research project in more detail.
Capturing information that can be used to reconstruct 3D shapes from building footprints is difficult without professional equipment, but solutions exist. Another question is how to store and edit 3D models in the OpenStreetMap data base in a consistent manner. This depends on the level of detail. Simple height measurements can be stored using the existing tools and tagging schema, while complex and very detailed models will require a separate storage solution. The osm-3d.org platform demonstrates how to create a virtual globe based on freely available geo data and which information can be extracted from OpenStreetMap.

Felix Obermaier

Workshop: Introduction SharpMapCompany: Ingenieurgruppe IVV GmbH & Co. KG
Country: Germany
Abstract: SharpMap is an easy-to-use mapping library for use in web and desktop applications. It provides access to many types of GIS data, enables spatial querying of that data, and renders beautiful maps. The engine is written in C# and based on the .Net 4.0 framework.
The scope of the workshop is to convey an impression of SharpMap's architecture. In its course you will learn about how to
- setup a map, using vector- and/or rasterlayers,
- make use of the broad range of data providers available for SharpMap
- presenting the map using either Windows.Forms (or Web technologies)
- enhance SharpMap with custom data providers or layers.
The workshop is intended for beginner/medium experienced users. Coding will be done in C#

Hettiarachchige Kavinda Gunasekara

Modelling Of Rain Triggered Landslide Using Sinmap Tools For Mapwindow: A Case Study In Rathnapura Area, Sri LankaCompany: Geoinformatics Center, Asian Institute of Technology
Country: Thailand
Bio: Kavinda is working as a Senior Research Associate in Geoinformatics Center of Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. His current responsibilities are project implementation, training and research in the area of Geoinformatics and its applications in 16 countries of the South, South-East and Central Asian countries.

Abstract: Landslide is one of the most destructive and very common natural hazards in mountainous terrain in Rathnapura, Sri Lanka. This study attempted to simulate the rain-triggered slope instability phenomena in this area by deterministic GIS based, hydrology coupled infinite slope stability model, namely the SINMAP model which was executed in MapWindow GIS software package. Results of SINMAP initial run were compared with landslide inventory map and found that 90% of landslide locations fall in the unstable zone. Reclassified model results were compared with National Building Research Organization (NBRO) hazard zonation map. SINMAP model predicts 90% of the known landslide initiation points within the very high hazard and high hazard zones whilst, NBRO's method indicate 80% of them within the same instability regions. Above results indicate that the SINMAP model can be utilized as a tool for identification of landslide hazard zones in this area. Having established the SINMAP model for the area, several recharge scenarios were modeled to arrive at a threshold rainfall leading to full saturation and placing the area under worst conditions with regard to slope instability. It is identified as 75mm per day rainfall and it is in close correspondence with the reported rainfall threshold.