gisws - PSA
ESA's Planetary GIS Workshop
5-7 May 2015, ESAC, Madrid, Spain
FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT - Call for Abstracts (CLOSED)
Planetary data has been growing in size, complexity and heterogeneity in the last few decades. Planetary archives host and will host in the near future datasets covering a wide range of planetary bodies, derived from multiple platforms.
Geospatial data are a well-known key for surface science, but also other disciplines and areas can benefit from the integration of geospatially registered datasets.
The ESA's Planetary GIS workshop will be held on May 5-7 2015 at the ESA's Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Madrid, Spain. During this workshop the following broad areas will be presented and discussed:
- scientific needs and use cases (existing, new, cross-disciplinary);
- existing technical solutions;
- open problems and areas suitable to improvement (particularly with respect to future PSA)
The workshop aims at targeting geospatial data, users and producers in broad sense. An informal combination of presentation, hands-on and discussion sessions is envisaged.
Angelo Pio Rossi (convener), Nicolas Manaud (convener), Stephan van Gasselt, Trent Hare, Baptiste Cecconi, Dave Heather, Santa Martinez, Jonathan McAuliffe, Isa Barbarisi, Bruno Merin, Guido De Marchi, Alba Alcol (secretary) and the PSA User Group
Workshop objectives
In line with the identified areas and topics above, the objectives of the workshop include- Evaluate state-of-art in mapping and visualization of geospatial data for planetary applications
- Create awareness on scientific use cases and technologies suitable for future development
- Assess geospatial mapping community and capacity building at european level
- Set the base for possible open, collaborative, community-driven planetary data exploitation
- Use geospatial standards, approach and tools for non-traditional applications (e.g. atmospheres, plasmas, etc.)
- Discuss and develop use cases for cross-disciplinary mapping and science
Workshop Structure
We will welcome participtants on Tuesday 5th May from 9:45 for registration. The workshop will start at 10:45 on Tuesday 5th May and end at 13:30 on Thursday 7th May.|
DAY 1 Tuesday, 5 May |
DAY 2 Wednesday, 6 May |
DAY 3 Thursday, 7 May |
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a.m. |
WS Session 1 Introduction |
WS Session 2 Hands-on |
WS Session 4 Community building |
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p.m. |
WS Session 3 Open forum |
WS Session 1: Introduction
The first session will consist of introductory presentations and demos, covering GIS basics and scientific use cases.WS Session 2: Hands-on
The second session will consist of a plenary hands-on covering a typical scientific workflow: from data discovery and access to processing and analysis.WS Session 3: Open Session
The third session will consist of a series of lightning talks (less than 5 minutes) to initiate splinter meetings organised in parallel topical tracksWS Session 4: Community building
The thrid session will be dedicated to presentations and discussions around the topic of community and knowledge building.The workshop programme is now available on the ESAC Planetary GIS Workshop 2015 Wiki
Schedule & important dates
1st announcement - call for interest: 1 December 20142nd announcement - call for abstracts and registration open: 16 January 2015
Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2015
3rd Announcement - Final program: 13 April 2015
Planetary GIS Workshop: 5 - 7 May 2015
Venue & Accommodation
The workshop will be held at ESA's Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) near Madrid.For further information on how to get to ESAC, see here.
A shuttle bus will be organised to transport the workshop participants back and forth solely from the NH Madrid Alberto Aguilera hotel to ESAC
Space Glenda courtesy Renee French / Plan9
Should you have any questions, please contact directly either Nicolas Manaud or Angelo Pio Rossi