Open Source GIS/EO Apps Conference

GIS/EO applications with
open source platform
Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp (HUNAGI, Budapest)
Maria Antonia Brovelli (PoliMI Como)
Patrick Hogan (NASA Ames, Moffet Field))
Peter Baumann (Jacobs University, Bremen)
Raffaele de Amicis (GraphiTech, Trento)
Conference on Defense Geospatial Intelligence
Stream F: Big Data and Analytics January 21-23, 2014 London
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Stimulating the use of a high-end open
platform for EO apps developments: the NASA
WWEC
¡ The value of OSS and Open Data, the role of NGOs
¡ NASA World Wind
¡ WWEC – a Challenge tailored for European SMEs
and university teams. Brainstorming in Como 2012
¡ WWEC 2013 - Goals achieved (8 award winners)
¡ WWEC 2014 - The way ahead (INSPIRE and
FOSS4G-E)
GIS/EO applications with open source platform
Content
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The value of VGI, OSS and Open Data in the
GeoInt context
VGI, user engagement, crowdsourcing, empowering
citizens
¡ Citizens as data sources in a mobile connectivity
environment
¡ Citizens as sensors, sensor platforms or data collectors eg. drones
¡ Five EU projects introduced at the GEO-X last week in this subject
¡ Products eg. OpenStreetMaps or in Hungary: www.turistautak.hu
¡ Open source (FOSS4G) as enabler to involve
¡ the citizens (social networks, apps on mobile and desktop)
¡ professionals in academia, NGOs and SMEs but governments in
data gathering, analysis, visualization and publishing/reporting
¡ Jacqueline McGlade’s recent announcement at the UNEP Live
Session: an initiative to establish citation index not only on the
authors but also on those, who gathered the data.
¡ Open Gov’tal Data Policy, Re-use of PSI
VGI, OSS, OD
relevance
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The value of VGI, OSS and Open Data in
the GeoInt context
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The central idea is our need to have
open access to a common platform (i.e., World Wind) and
open access to the basic data (imagery, elevation and location [i.e., OSM]
- World Wind again, via any WMS server)
so that by empowering also the citizens our communities (local government,
SMEs and academia) can build the necessary intelligence part.

The role of NGOs in the GeoInt context – the
case of HUNAGI
¡ Flashback and looking forward
¡ Features, mission goals and pillars of activities
¡ Members
¡ The horizontal links
¡ HUNAGI in the international arena
¡ The emerging FOSS4G community in Hungary
The relevance of
NGOs
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The European GI landscape from HUNAGI
perspective
INFO 2000, GI 2000, i2010, Digital Agenda Horizon 2020
R+D FRAMEWORKS, R+Innovation
eContent, ICT PSP
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INSPIRE 15 May 2007
Implementation
LAPSI, LAPSI 2.0
Plan4All
PSI and re-use
DE 2020
Vision!
CentropeMap and INSPIRE Workshop
Sensor
Web
Technology
Challenge
Social
Networks
hosted by CEIT Alanova and PGO in Schwechat, 29 October 2013
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ISO TC 211
OGC
GS1
EC projects
GISIG
NGOs
Technical regulations and standards
Open Data
Policy
Programmes
GINIE
eTEMII
ESDINet
EUROGI
GMES/COPERNICUS, ESA, GEO 2025
HUNAGI
GSDI L&SE
UNSDI
ISDE
BigData
FOSS4G
Initiatives:
as WWEC
1995 2020
CEN TC 87
EULocationFramework
Cloud
Services
Internet
of things
Flashback and looking forward

case of HUNAGI
¡ Non-profit, interdisciplinary, umbrella civil, non-governmental
organisation established in 1994
¡ Upgrade in 2002
Acknowledged as Public Benefit Civil Organisation
Features
¡ Members from Government, Academia, NGOs, Private
Sector (since 2000) and Individual experts (since 2013)
¡ Members: 60 institutions and organisations (2013)
Listed at http://hunagi8.blogspot.com/
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case of HUNAGI
¡ To promote and facilitate the availability, access
and usability of EO/GI and related services
¡ To raise awareness, disseminate information
related to INSPIRE, PSI, standards, open source,
best practices, innovative solutions and
opportunities
¡ To facilitate links, cooperation, collaboration
domestic, cross-border and international level
¡ To provide support on enhanced visibility of
capacity, capabilities and achievements of
HUNAGI members in the international EO/GI arena
Special emphasis is given to the establishment of
horizontal networking among disciplines and sectors
and support of SMEs
Mission goals
and pillars of
activities
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case of HUNAGI
MoHDF
Geo-information Service
The horizontal
links
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Gov’t
Hungarian Space
Research
Council, Ministry of
National Development
Ministry of Rural
Development,
Department
of Land Administration
and Geo-information
Hungarian Met
Service

HUNAGI’s international links in EO/GI
GSDI (GEO, CEOS WGISS), EUROGI, ISDE, UNGIWG,
WWEC (NASA, PoliMi-Como, Jacobs Uni, GraphiTech)
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HUNAGI’s international links in EO/GI
¡ Bridging International links with EU GI actors
Since GIS/LIS 1993-1996
¡ Joining EUROGI activities in 1994
Membership in 1996, ExCom seat between 1998-2010
¡ Joining GSDI activities in 1996
Participation all of the World Conferences, GSDI6 in
Budapest, Seats in Advisory Board, Board of Directors
since 1998-2011, Active in Legal & SocioEcon
Committee and Consultancy
¡ Joining ISDE activities in 2003 Seat in ExCom
¡ Liaisonship between GSDI and CEOS WGISS
since 2006
¡ GSDI delegate in GEO since 2007
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HUNAGI activities – National Conferences
¡ 1st HUNAGI Conference on Open data, open
source and related services (2010)
¡ 2nd HUNAGI Conference on Digital Spatial
Planning - an action for the EU Plan4all project
(2011)
¡ 3rd HUNAGI Conference on Mobil GIS, VGI, GIS in
logistics, access of spatial data (2012)
¡ 4th HUNAGI Conference devoted to SMEs and
INSPIRE (SMESPIRE project) - EO/GI and the
livable environment (European outlook, Urban
and EO apps (2013)
Recently hosted: CEOS WGISS Workshop (2012),
European Location Framework Project 1st Workshop
(2013), 1st ESA-EUROGI Copernicus MPP Country
Survey and Workshop (2013) EUROGI Extra
Members’ Day (2013)
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case of HUNAGI
Dr. Zoltán Siki (BUTE) summarized the present stage of FOSS4G at EUROGI’s Members
Day hosted by HUNAGI on Dec 13, 2013 (siki@agt.bme.hu):
FOSS4G are used by Government, Private sector and Academia (incl. University of
West Hungary, Faculty of Geoinformatics, ICA-OSGeoLab, University of Pécs,
University of Szeged, University of Debrecen, Eötvös Lóránd University, BUTE,
Faculty of Civil Engineering)
NGOs in Hungary supporting GIS/FOSS4G activities
¡ HUNAGI (hunagi.hu), umbrella organization,
¡ Casscadoss Foundation (casscadoss.hu)
¡ OSGeo Hungarian Interest Group (unofficial)
¡ LinkedIn Group (started February 2013)
¡ Workshops (2013 February and November)
¡ Presentations at conferences
¡ Collection of Hungarian tutorials
Developer and Applications
QGIS, GDAL developer – Tamás Szekeres
OKIR (VM) (MapServer) Environment protection
VinGIS (FÖMI) (MapServer) Vineyard register
KIRA (KKK) (GeoServer) Transport IS
Local municipalities, Mapserver, GeoServer, OpenLayers, QGIS
¡ OSGeo Hungarian Chapter in the future...
The emerging
FOSS4G
community
in Hungary
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Participants of the 2014 FOSS4G
Conference hosted by BUTE, Budapest
University of Technology and Economics
Department of Geodesy and Surveying
Map: Open source adopted in Europe (2009)
Source: http://www.openlogic.com/wazi/bid/188004/

World Wind is virtual globe
technology:
• Provides the platform for
spatial data as open
source
• Build any functionality you
need
• Freely available with
open source licence
(NOSA), no distribution
limitation
• Adheres to international
data standards, WMS
OGC-compliant
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The road lead to the WWEC 2013
¡ Cooperation of NASA, Politechnico di
Milano at Como, GraphiTech,
HUNAGI
¡ The WWEC Preparatory Brainstorming.
Hosted by PoliMi at Como, Sept 2012.
Participants from EU and beyond
¡ Announcement of the Call for
Opportunity February 2013
¡ Deadline for submission of proposals
was 30 May, 2013
.
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What Is the Europe Challenge?
2013 was the first year for the Europe Challenge! This annual
event will inspire and challenge Europe's best and brightest for
geospatial solutions that serve the European and International
community. And do this in ways that address the real needs of
local, regional, national or international interests.
There were two ways to win. Either as a university team project or
as a professional team project.
University Team Project (text of the Call)
Build an application that serves the INSPIRE Directive and uses
NASA's open source virtual globe technology, World Wind. To do
this you must establish a team of three to five students, from a
single university, with any mix of undergraduate, graduate and
PhD students. Each team must have a mentor. The mentor can
be a professor, an associate or assistant professor, or an official
lecturer at the same university as the team. Together decide,
design and build a geospatial application that serves local,
regional, national or international interests guided by the INSPIRE
Directive,
Professional Team Project (text of the Call)
Small businesses can compete in the professional category with
the same criteria as above only there is no limit on team
members or any mentor requirement. This is a great opportunity
to showcase your company’s talents, while providing premier
value to the European community.

Selected awareness actions- fostering the user
communities after the Design Workshop
“Application of open source software in public
administration” Madrid, January 2013 (by Polimi-Como)
ISPRS Conference "The Role of Geomatics in
Hydrogeological Risk” Padua, February, 2013 (by
Polimi-Como)
UNGIWG Plenary, Istanbul, February, 2013
European Space Exhibition Budapest April, 2013 VD
European Data Forum Dublin April, 2013 VD
FOSS4G-CEE Bucharest June, 2013 (by Polimi-Como)
Presentations,
Visual Display
(VD)
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Core Team: P.Hogan NASA, Prof.M.Brovelli Polimi-Como
Raffaele de Amicis GraphiTech, G.Remetey HUNAGI

WWEC 2013 Highlights
¡ WWEC Demonstration and
Evaluation Workshop Palazzo Coppini .
in
Firenze,
June, 2013
¡ WWEC for INSPIRE Workshops
at the INSPIRE Conference
June, 2013
¡ Award Ceremony in the
INSPIRE Closing Plenary
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Award Winner WW Europa Challenge Project Teams
2013
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/?q=projects
.
Universities SME professionals
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University, Politecnico di Milano
Maria Brovelli,
Giorgio Zamboni,
Rodi Jolak,
Marco Minghini,
Michele Bianchi,
Andrés Fernando Quiñones Valencia,
University, Muenster
Thomas Bartoschek,
Alber Sánchez,
Matthias Pfeil,
Jim Jones
University, Padua
Francesco Pirotti,
Marco Piragnolo,
Livia Piermattei,
Arianna Gazzetta
University, Wuhan
Peng Yue,
Mingda Zhang,
Lei Hu,
Chongxin Guo,
Liangcun Jiang
IGOSoftware.es
Manuel de la Calle,
Fernando Pulido Galán,
Miguel Salguero Granado,
Oliver Koehler,
EMXSYS.com &
PauCostaFoundation.org
Marc Castellnou,
Bruce Schubert,
Doug Campbell,
XLab.si
Gregor Berginc,
Luka Mulej,
Vito Čuček,
Marjan Šterk,
Marko Praprotnik,
Jaka Močnik,
Graphitech.it
Raffaele de Amicis,
Alberto Debiasi,
Federico Prandi,
Stefano Piffer,
Daniele Magliocchetti,

Result of the WWEC 2013:
awarded entries submitted by students
and SMEs
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Submitted by:
University of
Padua
3D Visualization of Air-quality Dynamics
• Show a bird’s-eye 3D view of air-quality
data acquired at time intervals from
multiple sensors
• Sensors are connected with a Triangular
Irregular Network (TIN) to cover the area of
interest.
• Data are represented geometrically and
colorized to easily recognize high-to-low
values.
• Areas affected by a potential risk for health
are quickly recognizable. Users can adjust
data-acquisition times. For further details:
www.cirgeo.unipd.it/nasaww
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and SMEs
Submitted by:
Graphitech.com
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Urban Traffic Visual Analytics Simulator
The goal is to develop a highly interactive
visual analytics system helping urban
planners, decision makers and traffic analysts
by simulating the urban scenario related to
the urban viability.
Users interact directly via the visualized 3D
context using graphical metaphors
This ensures intuitive understanding and
enables easy adjustment to any simulated
scenario.
Details:
www.interactivesystem.collaborate.org
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!

Result of the WWEC 2013: awarded
entries submitted by students and SMEs
Submitted by:
XLAB.com
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Real-Time Geospatial Renderer by Gaea+
Extends the World Wind Java core with features
crucial for advanced real-time rendering of
geospatial information
Optimized Render-to-Texture capabilities enable
visualization of large vector datasets.
A shader has been built directly into the render-loop,
enabling custom-oriented visual effects, deferred
rendering and flexible support for WFS and GML.
It allows to build mission-critical emergency
response systems with special features (e.g.
management capability of distributed massive
datasets or photo-realistic presentation of the area
of interest) Effective tool to support spatial planners
by data visualization and manipulation. Details:
www.gaeaplus.eu/worldwind-challenge
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Submitted by:
EMXSYS.com
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Simulation Tool to Predict Wildfire Behavior
This tool displays the potential movement of
wildfire through the terrain via a particle system.
The Wildfire Management Tool (WMT) introduces a
new way to analyze and predict wildfire behavior.
Instead of a static display, WMT animates the
paths that fire will take through the terrain.
A high density or concentration of paths called
‘fire highway.’
As the situation changes, WMT identifies new fire
highways as well as areas where fire highways
can be intercepted to stop the fire spread. Areas
that are ‘slow fire’ paths are good for safe access
and present windows of opportunity for control of
fast moving fire highways. Details:
www.emxsys.com
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and SMEs
Submitted by:
Glob3.org
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Multidimensional Viewer for Large Datasets
Multidimensional Viewer allows users to present
3D information from different data sources.
Large datasets of scalar or vector information,
coming from point cloud data, can be
optimally displayed as 3D information in real
time, e.g., LiDAR point clouds, laser scanner
point clouds, weather data from High
Resolution Limited Area Model (HIRLAM).
For further details:
http://EuropaChallenge.glob3.org
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Submitted by:
Politecnico di
Milano,
Como Campus
PoliCrowd – A Social World Wind Platform
PoliCrowd is a 3D participatory application
allowing users to populate their geospatial
information as represented on the virtual
globe.
Registered users can upload Points Of Interest
(POIs) through their mobile devices and
participatively interact with POIs on the
globe, adding textual and multimedia
content (e.g., images, audios & videos).
Users can also add WMS layers to populate a
catalogue of geographic content useful for
scenario customization. Different projects
can also be created, saved and shared to
promote community participation.
For further details:
http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd
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Going forward in 2014
Scientific Committee
with NASA, Polimi-Como, Jakobs Univ, JRC, FAO, HUNAGI,
EuroGeo, GraphiTech, ICES Foundation, FOSS4G Europe 2014,
UN, Digital-Earth.eu, Trilogis (newly invited: EUROGI, Esri)
Related awareness actions by HUNAGI - informing the
international communities
¡ CEOS WGISS 36 Frascati - 16-19 September, 2013
¡ GEOSS Vision and Architecture Meeting Frascati
20 September 2013
¡ Agricultural Informatics 2013 Debrecen, November 2013
¡ ESA-EUROGI Copernicus MPP, Budapest, December 2013
¡ GEO Plenary and Ministerial Summit, Geneva Jan 2014
¡ GDI 2014 London – 21-23 January, 2014
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(Applications should contain a 3-min video as well) For
graduate students single member team is also allowed.
SMEs category – efforts lead by Raffaele de Amicis
Workshop and Award Ceremony at INSPIRE 2014 Conference in
Aalborg, Denmark 16-20 June, 2013
Deadline 15 April 2014 (details with SMEsPIRE project are still
under discussion – further details will be soon available at
www.smespire.eu)
University teams category – efforts lead by Prof. Maria Antonia
Brovelli (Director of WWEC 2014)
Workshop and Award Ceremony at FOSS4G Europe
Conference in Bremen 15-17 July, 2013 supported
by Peter Baumann of Jacobs Univ Deadline 31 May 2014
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R.di Amicis talks on WWEC at the
EU-ICT Conference, Fall, 2013

4 tracks planned by SMEsPIRE foreseen for the INSPIRE Conf
(NASA WW, Best practice, Opensource, Commercial for INSPIRE)
Ad 1 Some topics in NASA WW for INSPIRE (still under discussion)
¡ Advanced Graphical three dimensional visualization of INSPIRE compliant Atmospheric
conditions both static and dynamic over time. From simple spatial forms (isolines, grids, etc.) to
live effects visualisation.
¡ Procedural Object rendering from INSPIRE compliant imageries (i.e. WMS layers): visualization of
three dimensional objects over specific areas of the terrain, based on an analysis of image data
and geometries taken from remote image datasets: e.g. trees on forest area, ships on the seas,
buildings on residential/commercial/industrial areas.
¡ Interactive visualisation of INSPIRE natural risk zones, like areas prone to flooding, earthquake,
eruptions, landslides and avalanches with graphical and mathematical simulations of these
phenomena.
¡ Interactive visualisation of INSPIRE compliant urban furniture such as water underground
pipelines with detail visualization and editing.
¡ Advanced fire spread simulation based on INSPIRE compliant digital earth elevation models,
terrain type and weather conditions.
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By the kind permission of
Giacomo Martinaro

In line with the FOSS4G activities and synergy
with Open Data Policies
¡ WWEC at GEO-X Plenary and Ministeriai Summit
displayed at the USGEO, ICES Found, European Commission and Esri booths.
WWEC leaflets with Dr.Michael Freilicht of NASA Earth Sciences Division, Bob Bishop of ICES and
At the organized Speakers’s corner of the European Commission at GEO-X
Esri’s Geoportal Server http://geoportal.sourceforge.net/ is an open source product
that is free and does not require ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Server licensing. It enables discovery
and use of geospatial resources including datasets, rasters, and Web services.
SourceForge provides the world's largest selection of Open source sw for GI apps. Esri consider
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the support of World Wind Europa Challenge (recent talks in Geneva last week)

Conclusions
¡ NASA WWEC: an opportunity for SMEs and Students teams
¡ Call for to develop INSPIRE compliant apps, incl. defense
and security meeting the special requirements
¡ Apps in Climate Change impact assessments
¡ Bring EO/GI/SDI stakeholders together
¡ Analysis and visualisation capability
of EO and any geo-referenced aux. data
¡ Use of open data policy based EO data
¡ Incl. Landsat, Copernicus/Sentinel data
¡ SPOT Image data of the last 27 years
excl. for commercial use
¡ WW works equally in FOSS4G and
proprietary software environment as well
.
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Some references
WWEC 2014
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it
Copernicus MPP Hungary
presentations
http://copernicuswsbudapest.blogspot.com
Readings:
http://goworldwind.org/demos

http://hunagi8.blogspot.com/
Thank you for your attention !
Contact: gabor.remetey@gmail.com
or hunagi@hunagi.hu
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