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Kevin MooneySecretary-GeneralJune 2010

European Spatial Data Research – www.eurosdr.net

Research and Production

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National Mapping and

Cadastre Agencies

Universities and Research

Institutes+


ProductionResearchTwo Delegates from Each

EuroSDR Members


Research and Dissemination Cycle

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Scientific Meetings

Rolling Research

Plan

Research Proposals

Projects, Workshops, Taskforces

Reports

Mapping Agencies together with Research Institutes

Official Publications and EduServ Courses


Current (2010) EuroSDR Projects

• NewPLATFORMS• EuroDAC2

• Medium Format Cameras• Radiometric Aspects of Digital Photogrammetric

Images• Mobile Mapping• Integration of Laser Scanning and

Photogrammetry• Unregistered Buildings Update

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Current (2010) EuroSDR Projects

• ALS Radiometric Calibration• Virtual Globes• Generalisation• A Persistent Testbed for Geo Web Services• INSPIRE Atlas of Implementation Methods• Network for GI service testing• Benchmarking of image matching processes for

DTM computation• Change detection in LU/LC Geodatabases

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The EduServ Model

• Distance Elearning courses– Four per year– Moodle Platform (DIT)– Each course: Two-weeks Duration– 15 Hours online per week to be expected– Usually about 30 participants each year

• Pre-Course Seminar (two-day)– Meet other Students– Background presentations– Introduction to Courses– Familiarisation with Platform

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Pre-course Seminar Hosted by:

2002: Denmark2004: Hungary2005: Ireland2006: Netherlands2007: Czech Republic2008: Germany2009: Norway2010: Belgium2011: France

Sustainable programme for almost 10 years


EduServ – Source Organisations

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41%

31%

18%10%


EduServ – Participant Countries

• EuroSDR– Austria Belgium

Croatia Cyprus Denmark Finland Germany Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom

• Other European– Albania Bulgaria

Czech Republic Greece Hungary Latvia Poland Turkey

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• International– Angola Ecuador

Ethiopia India Kenya Nigeria Oman South Korea Sri Lanka Taiwan


EduServ Courses so far

• Integrated Sensor Orientation (Leibniz University of Hannover)

• Automatic Orientation of Aerial Images on Databases (Aalborg University)

• Laserscanning and Airborne Interferometric SAR (ITC, Enschede)

• Digital Cameras and Sensors (Ohio State University)

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• Co-ordinate Reference Systems and Transformations (Dublin Institute of Technology)

• Positional Accuracy Improvements in GI Databases (Ordnance Survey GB; TU-Berlin; Dublin Institute of Technology)

• Quality of Geospatial Data and Related Statistical Concepts (ITC, Enschede)

• Quality Control of DTMs (Aalborg University)

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• Mapping with SAR (Technical University Berlin)

• Laserscanning for 3D city models (Finnish Geodetic Institute)

• Geometric performance of digital airborne cameras (Institute for Photogrammetry (ifp), Stuttgart University)

• CityGML (Technical University Berlin and University of Gävle)

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• Schema matching, mapping and transformation for INSPIRE (University of Gävle)

• Laserscanning for Tree extraction (Finnish Geodetic Institute)

• Assessment of the quality of Digital Terrain Models (Aalborg University and Charles University in Prague)

• The INSPIRE Directive and its Implementing Rules. How to understand and apply them? (K.U.Leuven)

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EduServ – Fees and PaymentsMust be ‘Zero Sum’

• Course Fees for Participants– One or two courses

• € 600

– Three or four course• € 700

– Three or more participants from same organisation• Capped at € 2,100

• Stipend for Course Teachers• € 2,500 per course

• Any Surplus distributed as scholarships in following EduServ

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Quality Control

• Feedback Questionnaire following Seminar– Reaction positive– Prefer to focus on course(s) being followed

• Feedback Questionnaire (online) following each course– Reaction positive– Faster reaction from teachers requested– Finding time to complete is the biggest issue

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EuroSDR Education Service

• Inter Commission WG on Education Services concentrates solely on EduServ courses– Capacity building not addressed; Outreach not

addressed– Possible scope for collaboration with related

organisations• Conflict of roles versus Universities not

significant– Many mapping agencies do not have access to local

CPD

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• Courses are not validated for external credits such as ECTS– Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

• EduServ is not good at marketing itself and so can be vulnerable– Potential participants don’t know courses exist

• Attendance at pre-course seminar is recommended– Buddy system available

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• Course participation is difficult to fit to production pressure cycles– Drop out not significant but is a factor

• Life after EduServ courses is being addressed– Archiving of courses for future (limited?) access

• EduServ courses aim to– transfer results of EuroSDR research activities to

production• EduServ works because

– EuroSDR’s mapping agencies and education institutes both support it.19


EduServ pre-course SeminarNorway 2009

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Publications 2002 - 2009

• Integrated Sensor Orientation• Topographic Mapping from High Resolution Space Sensors• Workshop on Next Generation Spatial Database• OEEPE/ISPRS Joint Workshop on Spatial Data Quality Management• From OEEPE to EuroSDR: 50 years of European Spatial Data

Research and beyond• Workshop 'Visualisation and Rendering‘• Workshops: "NMCA's and the Internet II" - Electronic Delivery and

Feature Serving; Ontologies & Schema Translation Services; Positional Accuracy Improvement

• Workshop: ”PAI2: Achieving Geometric Interoperability of Spatial Data”; ”Next Generation 3D City Models”; “Feature/Object Data Models”

• Evaluation of Building Extraction Report• Change Detection• Information for Mapping from Airborne SAR and Optical

Imagery

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Publications 2002 - 2009

• Automated Extraction, Refinement, and Update of Road Databases from Imagery and Other Data

• Checking and Improving of Digital Terrain Models• Reliability of Direct Georeferencing• Workshop: ”Land and Marine Information Integration”• Tree Extraction• CityGML Project

EuroSDR/EuroGeographics workshop 'Production Partnership Management’

• ISPRS / Institut de Geomàtica / EuroSDR 'International Calibration and Orientation Workshop EuroCOW 2008‘

• ISPRS / EuroSDR Workshop 'Geosensor Networks‘• Digital Camera Calibration• Detection of Unregistered Buildings for Updating 2D Databases• NEWPLATFORMS - Unconventional Platforms (Unmanned Aircraft

Systems) for Remote Sensing

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