It is my pleasure to announce the establishment of first Open Source Geospatial
Research and Education (OSGeoREL) Laboratory in the United States at the Center
for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. The
laboratory is one of the founding members of a worldwide network developed
under the auspices of the ICA-OSGeo Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
In 2011, the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) with the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) with
a view to develop global collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and
government organisations in the field of open source GIS software and data. The
MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source
Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world to support the
development of open source geospatial software technologies, training and
expertise.
OSGeoREL at NCSU is led by Dr. Helena Mitasova and Dr. Laura Tateosian. The
laboratory has an established program in graduate education in geospatial
information science and technology using FOSS4G and extensive research in
geospatial analysis, modelling and visualization with focus on natural
resources.
Dr. Helena Mitasova is an Associate Professor at the Department of Marine,
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, OSGeo charter member since 2006, member of the
OSGeo education and conference committees and Sol Katz award recipient
http://www.osgeo.org/solkatz She has been actively involved in the GRASS
GIS development since 1991 and together with Markus Neteler she has co-authored
the first book about GRASS GIS.
Dr. Laura Tateosian is Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Earth
Observation Her research interest focus is on visualization, human visual
perception, computer graphics, geospatial sciences, non-photorealistic
rendering, and human-computer interaction.
More details of the lab at http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/
For those of you attending the Open Source Geospatial Research and Education
Symposium (OGRS 2012) http://www.ogrs2012.org/ later this month it will be
good opportunity to also hear Helena's Keynote presentation on "Building open
source geospatial education at research universities" to get more ideas on
future research activities.
Our aim is to establish 20 new research labs in the next 3 years. These new
research labs are strategic to help us accelerate research developments in
this research area for the future. If your university wishes to establish Open
Source Geospatial Lab, please contact me and i will be pleased to discuss
details.
We look forward for your active participation for building up Open Source, Open
Standards, Open Data research globally and helping share the benefits of
geospatial technologies to all.
Best wishes,
Suchith
Dr Suchith Anand
Nottingham Geospatial Institute
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University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU
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