Video editing help needed

 Dear ASPRS student members,

The ASPRS Student Advisory Council (SAC) is looking for help with editing the video footage taken during the last GeoLeague Challenge. If you are interested, please contact Kim Tilley using the folloing e-mail address: kimt (at) asprs (dot) org.

Ivan

Free DMCii Satellite Imagery - Deadline extended

Dear ASPRS Student Members,

The deadline for the free DMCii satellite imagery offer was extended to April 30, 2013. Remember that you have to sign up for free ISPRS Student Consortium membership first.

See our previous post here: http://asprssignature.blogspot.ca/2013/02/free-satellite-imagery-from-dmcii.html


Ivan

ISPRS SC Newsletter Vol. 6: No. 4 - March 2013

Hello ASPRS student members,

Feel free to view: http://www.isprs-sc.org/newsletters/read/6/4 or download http://www.isprs-sc.org/material/isprs_sc_vol6_no4.pdf the latest issue of the ISPRS Student Consortium newsletter.

Ivan

ASPRS - Remote Sensing Application Division - Monthly Teleconference - 29 April 2013

Remote Sensing Application Division
Monthly Teleconference
29 April 2013 from 4:15 - 5:15 pm EDT.

The ASPRS Remote Sensing Application Division respectfully requests your participation in the newly-established monthly teleconference. Scheduled for the last Monday of the month, we will begin meeting 29 April from 4:15-5:15 EDT.

Final Agenda:
1) Call to order / Introductions (4:15-4:25)
2) RSAD operating procedures (4:25 – 4:30)
3) 2013 Fall Conference Special Sessions and Hot Topics (4:30-4:40)
4) RSAD Climate Change Committee report (4:40-4:50)
5) RSAD Academic Engagement Committee report (4:50-5:00)
6) Open discussion (5:00-5:15)

Final agenda is posted on the RSAD Web page http://www.asprs.org/RSAD-Division.html

Phone bridge information:
USA Toll Free Number : (877) 885-1087
Participant Passcode: 4711626812

Mark your calendar and I look forward to hearing your input!

Thanks. POC and host Dave Szymanski, Director RSAD
Szymanski_David@bah.com
703-472-4216

ESA training course on Remote Sensing applications for the study and observation of archaeological sites

Announcement from EARSeL Secretariat:

We are happy to announce the ESA training course on Remote Sensing applications for the study and observation of archaeological sites, 3 - 5 June 2013 in Matera, Italy

The course will be held in the framework of the 4th EARSeL Workshop on "Advances in Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management".

Registrations must be submitted online before May 10, 2013.

For details please visit http://isprs-sc.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1d15152c7ac07acf40e1c5423&id=6a1cbeec27&e=550a1158e9

Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers for further information.

Next in the ASPRS Webinar Series -- Registration Deadline April 26th

Upcoming Workshops in the ASPRS Webinar Series:
Check out the list of webinars we have lined up for you this year. _____________________________________________

Looking Above the Terrain Model: Lidar for Vegetation Assessment
Registration Deadline: April 26, 2013
Webinar date: April 30
Price: ASPRS members = $200, Nonmembers = $350, ASPRS Student Members = $100
The webinar is 4 hours total, offered in two 2-hour segments.
Tuesday, April 30 – 11:00 am - 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Eastern Time
(You must attend BOTH segments to qualify for CEUs)

Assessing the Accuracy of GIS Information Created from Remotely Sensed Data: Principles and Practices
Registration Deadline: May 14, 2013
Webinar date: May 16
Price: ASPRS members = $200, Nonmembers = $350, ASPRS Student Members = $100

Object-Based Image Analysis
Registration Deadline: May 31, 2013
Webinar date: June 4
Price: ASPRS members = $200, Nonmembers = $350, ASPRS Student Members = $100
_____________________________________________

For complete information on these Webinar Workshops, go to http://www.asprs.org/Webinar-Series/Webinars-Offered.html.
The online Registration forms for these workshops are available immediately.
Don’t wait; sign up today.
If you have any problems with the registration, please contact the Meeting Registrar at registrar@asprs.org

NOTE: ASPRS Webinars are intended for the sole use and benefit of those registered to take the Workshop. That means that Each Person who attends a Webinar is required to register. Attending a webinar without registering is an ethical violation.

ASPRS Sustaining Member companies who have multiple employees who want to take the webinar at the same time should contact Kim Tilley at kimt@asprs.org for information on quantity discounts.

Sign up for ASPRS Webinars Today

Upcoming Workshops in the ASPRS Webinar Series:
Check out the list of webinars we have lined up for you this year.
_____________________________________________

JUST ADDED
Lidar for Terrain and Vegetation Mapping
Register by Monday, April 15, 2013 for the next in our series of webinars
Webinar dates: April 18 & 19
Price: ASPRS members = $300, Nonmembers = $450, ASPRS Student Members = $150
The webinar is 8 hours total, offered in two 4-hour segments.
Thursday, April 18 – 12:00 Noon - 2:00 pm and 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Eastern Time
Friday, April 19 – 12:00 Noon - 2:00 pm and 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Eastern Time
(You must attend ALL segments to qualify for CEUs)

Looking Above the Terrain Model: Lidar for Vegetation Assessment
Registration Deadline: April 26, 2013
Webinar date: April 30
Price: ASPRS members = $200, Nonmembers = $350, ASPRS Student Members = $100

Assessing the Accuracy of GIS Information Created from Remotely Sensed Data: Principles and Practices
Registration Deadline: May 14, 2013
Webinar date: May 16
Price: ASPRS members = $200, Nonmembers = $350, ASPRS Student Members = $100

Object-Based Image Analysis
Registration Deadline: May 31, 2013
Webinar date: June 4
Price: ASPRS members = $200, Nonmembers = $350, ASPRS Student Members = $100
_____________________________________________

For complete information on these Webinar Workshops, go to
http://www.asprs.org/Webinar-Series/Webinars-Offered.html.

The online Registration forms for these workshops are available immediately. Don’t wait; sign up today. If you have any problems with the registration, please contact the Meeting Registrar at registrar (at) asprs (dot) org.

NOTE: ASPRS Webinars are intended for the sole use and benefit of those registered to take the Workshop. That means that Each Person who attends a Webinar is required to register. Attending a webinar without registering is an ethical violation.

ASPRS Sustaining Member companies who have multiple employees who want to take the webinar at the same time should contact Kim Tilley at kimt (at) asprs (dot) org for information on quantity discounts.

ASPRS/CaGIS/GLIS Free On-line Seminar

FREE ON-LINE SEMINAR
3D Indoor Modeling for Navigation
Sponsored by ASPRS, CaGIS and GLIS

Date & Time: May 3, 2013 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST

The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) GIS Division in partnership with the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) and the Geographic and Land Information Society (GLIS) would like to invite our members to attend our second seminar in a series for 2013.

Abstract: Indoor space differs significantly from outdoor. The indoor movement is complicated by existence of corridors, stairs, doors, elevators, etc. Therefore the models (geometric, topological, cellular, etc.) developed for outdoor navigation are not readily appropriate for indoor use. This seminar will elaborate on the most prominent 3D indoor models, CityGML and IFC, the options to extract 3D networks from such models considering a specific locomotion mode and will present some approaches for path finding and guidance considering dynamic and static obstacles. The recent developments within IndoorGML (a new OGC standard for exchange of indoor network models) will be discussed as well.

About the Speaker: Dr. Sisi Zlatanova is an associate professor and the leader of the theme group ‘Geo-information for Crisis Response’ at the GIS Technology section, OTB research Institute for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She is the chair of the ISPRS WG IV/7 3D indoor modeling and navigation (2012-2016), a member of the OGC drafting team IndoorGML and a member of the SC of IRDR (2011-2014). Her research interests are in 3D geo-information: modeling, structuring, analysis and visualization. Since several years her focus is on 3D indoor modeling and path computation.

On-line Registration:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3942869937630108928

NOTE: Registration is limited to the first 95 people who sign up and log in to the seminar.

Questions, Contact: David Alvarez, PCM, GISP
GIS Division Director (ASPRS)
davidalvarez76 (at) gmail (dot) com

UNAVCO Terrestrial Laser Scanning Internship

UNAVCO is offering a paid internship for summer 2013 to focus on the development of community support resources for the UNAVCO Geodetic Imaging (Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) - a.k.a., ground-based LiDAR) program. Specifically, the intern will work with the UNAVCO Education and Community Engagement (ECE) and TLS groups to develop online resources such as documentation, written and video tutorials, short course training modules, and other content focused on the collection and processing of TLS data. The framework and presentation of the new TLS content will be used as a model for other UNAVCO curriculum materials and outreach information.

Skills developed will include familiarity in TLS data products, metadata, and software. The intern will also learn about developing, publishing and maintaining web-based content and other instructional media. The intern will work in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of UNAVCO field engineers, data engineers, software developers, and educational and community engagement specialists. There may also be the opportunity to collect and process TLS data in the field, and to interact with UNAVCO’s diverse TLS scientific community.

Additional information and application for the TLS ECE position can be found here: https://unavco-openhire.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobInfo&version=1&jobid=51. The application closes 5:00 p.m. (MDT) on Friday. April 12, 2013

This Education and Community Engagement Internship at UNAVCO is one of several positions currently listed that include Field Engineering, HR, and accounting- details via UNAVCO’s career portal: https://unavcocareers.silkroad.com/.

 

Call for Abstracts - CaGIS ASPRS 2013 Specialty Conference

CaGIS/ASPRS 2013 Specialty Conference
October 27 - 31, 2013 * San Antonio, Texas USA
Click HERE to Submit Your Abstracts Online

The conference theme:
Imaging and Mapping for Disaster Management:
From the Individual to the Global Community

asks the critical emergency preparedness questions:

Where did the event occur?
Where are people in relation to the event?
How fast/far/in what direction is the event moving?
Where and by what route can people (and animals, supplies, relief workers, and aid) come into or leave the area of an event?

The critical component necessary to answer all of these questions is accurate, current geospatial information. And that’s why we need YOU!

Relevant Topic Areas for Abstracts:
This conference will explore the wide range of tools, technology, and applications employed to prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies of local, national, and global scales.

• Humanitarian GIS/volunteered geographic information/citizen science/social media
• The role of commercial, licensed imagery and data in emergency response
• GIS preparedness from a community, national, and international perspective (city/county government; national (DHS, NGA); Red Cross, OSM, Tsunami Warning System, Global Seismic Network)
• Emergency Response applications/examples – what works, what doesn't
• The role of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in emergency response.
• The role of sensor networks in emergency detection and response (GEOSS)
• Is there still a role for a paper map? What maps are people using in the field in emergency response situations?
• Coordinate systems and emergency response: where am I?
• Visual analytic solutions for preparing and responding to emergencies

For a complete list of the relevant topic and categories, please visit the Conference Web Site here.

Please submit your abstract from a system that has Internet Explorer 5.5 and above or Netscape Navigator 5.X and above. If you are trying with a compatible browser and the browser takes a long time to load without going to the next stage, please close your browser and start a new submission.

CaGIS/ASPRS 2013 Specialty Conference
Imaging and Mapping for Disaster Management: From the Individual to the Global Community
October 27 - 31, 2013 * San Antonio, Texas USA
SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT TODAY.
Submission Deadline: May 7, 2013

USGIF Scholarship Announcement

The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is excited to announce the opening of our 2013 Scholarship Program. USGIF is dedicated to assisting promising students interested in geospatial sciences with scholarship awards to further the advancement of the geospatial intelligence tradecraft.

With your help, we can make our 2013 Program the most successful yet. Please pass along this information to your contacts and/or students and download our 2013 Scholarship Program flyer.

• Students studying geospatial intelligence or any related field are encouraged to submit their applications by the April 19, 2013 deadline.
• Graduating high school seniors, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students can download applications at http://usgif.org/education/scholarships.
• Scholarship recipients are chosen based on their academic and professional excellence in a field related to the geospatial intelligence tradecraft.

Last year the Foundation awarded $104,000 to 25 recipients and plans to award at least $100,000 for the 2013 program. High school recipients are awarded $2,000 per scholarship and all others are awarded $5,000 each. Since 2004, USGIF has awarded $584,000 in scholarship funding to promising students in the geospatial intelligence field.

Students studying in fields such as geography, political science, physics, computer science, engineering, biology, anthropology, sociology or any field in the natural and social sciences are encouraged to apply. Through the USGIF Scholarship Program, the Foundation strives to communicate to students the breadth and power of GEOINT in serving national, global and human security interests.

The USGIF Scholarship Program endeavors to support students with innovative ideas for problem-solving with Geospatial Science and Technology. Please share information about this scholarship program with your students.

For more information on the USGIF Scholarship Program or to download applications, please visit: http://usgif.org/education/scholarships

Deadline to apply: April 19, 2013

Thank you for your assistance.

Sincerely,
Dr. R. Maxwell Baber Director of Academic Programs

The OGC's Student APP Challenge

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Map App challenge is open to any university student at the undergraduate or graduate level who is enrolled part or full time as of July 15, 2013. Submissions to the challenge are by individual only. Submitters must be 18 years or older at the time of submission. If you have any interest, please visit http://isprs-sc.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1d15152c7ac07acf40e1c5423&id=ef706a3602&e=550a1158e9

Crowd-Sourcing the National Map: Using Volunteers for Enhanced Data Collection

Please see the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) news item at http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article_pf.asp?ID=3545  for information about of the National Map effort to explore crowd-sourced or volunteered geographic information for updates for selected building and structures. This effort is now expanding to 18 states, including Michigan and Ohio.

Crowd-Sourcing the Nation: Using Volunteers for Enhanced Data Collection
This program, known as The National Map Corps, focuses on encouraging citizens to collect data relating to structures by both adding new features and/or correcting existing data within The National Map database.

http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/crowd-sourcing-the-nation-using-volunteers-for-enhanced-data-collectio/320586

http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2013/apr/02/news3.html

http://blog.gisuser.com/2013/04/02/national-map-corps-to-help-build-the-national-map/

http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/29521/2/

http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=1176055

http://bit.ly/ZZj2Gq

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article_pf.asp?ID=3545

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3545

The USGS is expanding the involvement of volunteers to enhance data collection about structures for The National Map.

This program, known as The National Map Corps, focuses on encouraging citizens to collect data relating to structures by both adding new features and/or correcting existing data within The National Map database. These structures can include schools, hospitals, post offices, police stations and other important public places.

Collaborative pilot projects in Colorado were recently used to test the concept of crowd-sourcing.
While some familiarity with the area that a volunteer chooses is helpful, one doesn’t have to live near a particular place to contribute. The tools on TNMC website, along with ancillary information available on the Internet, are generally sufficient to edit a distant area.

Becoming a volunteer for TNMC is easy; go to http://nationalmap.gov/TheNationalMapCorps/index.html  to learn more and to sign up as a volunteer.

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NM structure features
https://my.usgs.gov/confluence/download/attachments/155025503/Structure_Def_table.pdf

NM corps pilot projects
http://nationalmap.gov/TheNationalMapCorps/pilot.html

NM corps tools / states available to edit,
https://my.usgs.gov/confluence/display/nationalmapcorps/

User Guide for Contributing Structure Data to the National Map
Version 1.9 (last updated March 28, 2013)
http://navigator.er.usgs.gov/help/vgistructures_userguide.html

Quick Reference Guide for Editing Structures

http://navigator.er.usgs.gov/help/WebHelp/Summary/Summary_of_Contributing_Structures_Data_to_The_National_Map.htm

http://navigator.er.usgs.gov/help/WebHelp/Draft_VGI_QuickReferenceGuide_v2.pdf

David Alvarez

Interested in the work of the ASPRS Lidar Division? Let us know

Dear ASPRS Member,

We, the Lidar Division, are trying to ensure that we reach all ASPRS members who are interested in Lidar activities. Could you please send an email with your contact information indicating your interest in our two main committees to:

Airborne Lidar –
Karl Heidemann (Airborne Lidar Committee Chair)
kheidemann@usgs.gov

Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) -
Srini Dharmapuri (MLS Chair)
sdharmapuri@mbakercorp.com

You can indicate an interest in either or both. Your contact information will be added to our committee mailing lists.

Thanks very much,
ASPRS Lidar Division

GISCUP 2013

CFP: GISCUP 2013, co-located with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013 - CALL FOR CONTEST PARTICIPATION

February 08, 2013 -- ACM SIGSPATIAL is organizing an algorithm contest with winners to be announced at the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference in November 2013 ( http://dmlab.cs.umn.edu/GISCUP2013). The contest will be about geo-fencing, which represents a virtual perimeter for a real-world geographic area. Geo-fencing is used widely in location-based services, e.g., location-based advertisements (which send the targeted ads to the users when they are close to the shopping mall) and child location services (which notify parents when a child leaves a designated area).

For the contest, each team will be given access to a large amount of point locations and spatial polygons along with some spatial predicates. We want to find every (point, polygon) pair in the dataset that satisfies the spatial predicate. The submitted programs will be evaluated by the contest organizers on multiple datasets and will be ranked quantitatively based on their correctness and speed.

The first place team will receive US$ 500. Second place will receive US$ 400. Third place will receive US$ 300. In addition to the prizes, the top three teams will be invited to submit a four page paper for a contest paper session to be held at the 2013 ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference. These papers will be subject to review and acceptance by the contest organizers, but it is expected that each of the top three teams will have their paper in the conference proceedings, a ten-minute presentation in the contest session, and a poster presentation in the conference's regular poster session. At least one team member of each winning team must register for the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference.

Submissions are due August 1st, 2013 at 17:00 PST. See http://dmlab.cs.umn.edu/GISCUP2013 for more details, including detailed problem definition and sample data set for testing.

Contest Chairs
Siva Ravada
Oracle Corporation
siva.ravada@oracle.com

Mohamed Ali
Microsoft Corporation
mali@microsoft.com

Contest Masters:
Jie Bao
University of Minnesota
baojie@cs.umn.edu

Mohamed Sarwat
University of Minnesota
sarwat@cs.umn.edu

ASPRS Northern California Region - Call for Presentations

ASPRS Northern California Region
Call for Presentations

 The Northern California Region of ASPRS is hosting a technical session on Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at California State University, Monterey Bay. We would like to highlight technical presentations from several of the students within our region. Each presentation will be 30 minutes long. If you would like to participate, send a brief abstract of your presentation to: ASPRS (dot) NorCal (at) gmail (dot) com.


The deadline is April 6, 2013.

Thanks,

Lorraine B. Amenda, PLS, CP
ASPRS, National Director
Lorraine (dot) Amenda (at) towill (dot) com

The ISPRS Foundation Travel Grants to attend Hannover Workshop

The ISPRS Foundation Travel Grants to attend Hannover Workshop

The ISPRS Foundation will offer 3 travel grants for the amount of $US1300 each for qualified persons to participate in the ISPRS Hannover Workshop 'High-Resolution Earth Imaging for Geospatial Information' at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany from May 21–24, 2013 http://www.ipi.uni-hannover.de/hannover2013.html . As part of the support the local organizers have waived the registration fee. Interested persons should complete the application form (http://www.isprs.org/foundation/DOC/TIF_Hannover_Travel_Grant_Applicationform2013.docx) and return it to The ISPRS Foundation Operations Officer at j (dot) trinder (at) unsw (dot) edu (dot) au by 8 April 2013. Late applications will not be considered.

Preference will be given to students from developing countries, who are studying topics covered by the workshop and are otherwise unable to finance their travel to this event.