Program
FOSS4G Europe 2015
General track
Academic track
Opendata track
Water track
Positioning track
Library track
8:00 AM
Registration
9:00 AM
Welcome and logistics info: Maria Antonia BROVELLI (Conference chair)
9:10 AM
Alessandro ANNONI
'Sharing: Why, What and How?'
9:40 AM
Georg GARTNER
'Modern Cartography And The Role Of FOSS4G’
10:10 AM
Welcome speech: Giovanni AZZONE (Rector of Politecnico di Milano)
10:20 AM
Mapping Parties presentation
10:40 AM
Coffee break
11:10 AM
Sharing software for INSPIRE implementation, use and reuseslides
Robin S. SMITH, Michael LUTZ and Leda BARGIOTTI
11:35 AM
How Open Source and INSPIRE can be used as a tactical weapon for economical growth in Europeslides
Dirk Frigne, Torsten Friebe and Giacomo Martirano
12:00 AM
Distribution of OSGeo software in the INSPIRE ecosystem
Sebastian Goerke and Torsten Friebe
12:25 AM
Poster session
- Ice: Lightweight, efficient rendering for remote sensing images poster
Julien Michel and Gabriele Facciolo
- Satellite Snow Cover Products Evaluation and Validation Platform Developed Entirely with FLOSS Software
Vasile Crăciunescu, Anișoara Irimescu, Gheorghe Stăncălie and Simona Catană
- Classifier to map the burned areas in the Canary Islands with MODIS data
Jose R. Garcia-Lazaro, Jose A. Moreno-Ruiz, Manuel Arbelo, Pedro A. Hernandez-Leal and Alfonso Alonso-Benito
- LiDAR data as a tool for forest fuel classification
Alfonso Alonso-Benito, Alejandro Lorenzo-Gil, Manuel Arbelo, Pedro A. Hernandez-Leal, Jose R. Garcia-Lazaro and Jose A. Moreno-Ruiz
- Development of Environmental Impact Assessment Tools Using Mobile Devices for Location-Based Servicesposter
Seungwoo Son and Jeongho Yoon
- Improving public health delivery in Northern Nigeria using open source technologiesposter
Dami Sonoiki and Kazeem Owolabi
12:50 AM
Lunch break
2:00 PM
Managing the Flemish Functional Cycle Network: a FOSS4G solutionslides
Karel Dieussaert and Jan Pelckmans
2:25 PM
BruGIS, a webGIS for Brussels Urban Planning. Past, present and futureslides
Grégoire Vandenschrick and Laurence Micha
3:15 PM
Integrating FOSS4G into an enterprise system for labour managementslides
Daniel Urdă and Florin Iosub
3:40 PM
Web services at the State Office for Spatial Information and Land Development, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Alexander Schmidt and Andreas Schmidt
4:05 PM
Coffee break
4:30 PM
Mapping Parties
8:30 PM
Ice breaker party
12:00 AM
ZOO-Project 1.5.0: news about the Open WPS Platform
Gérald Fenoy, Nicolas Bozon and Venkatesh Raghavan
12:25 AM
Poster session
- Landslide risk forecasting based on Unique Conditions Units
Marco Cibrario, Andrea Giuseppe Stralla, Valentina Marin, Paola Salmona and Gerardo Brancucci
- Fire and ice - 3D visualisation of seismic activity during the 2014-2015 Bárðarbunga volcanic eruption
Tryggvi Hjörvar
- Assessing social vulnerability to earthquake hazard: from statistical to spatial analysis
Ivan Frigerio, Daniele Strigaro, Matteo Mattavelli, Silvia Mugnano and Mattia De Amicis
- WebGL technology for three-dimensional geological data visualization using three.js JavaScript libraryposter
Cesare Comina, Andrea Filipello, Giuseppe Mandrone, Luciano Masciocco and Daniele Strigaro
- QGIS Graphical Modeler on topographic beach surveysposter
Lucas Terres de Lima, Cristina Bernardes and Paulo Baptista
- 3D Application for Animal Trackingposter
Joan Sala and Laia Romero
12:50 AM
Lunch break
2:00 PM
deegree webservices – essential open source for INSPIRE
Sebastian Goerke and Torsten Friebe
2:25 PM
SHOGun as WPS-Client: Orchestrating Geodata-Services, Users and Geo-Applications
Till Adams
3:15 PM
Managing Web GIS maps using the Geomajas Deskmanager
Oliver May
3:40 PM
QGIS Server Python Plugins
Alessandro Pasotti
4:05 PM
Coffee break
4:30 PM
Mapping Parties
8:30 PM
Ice breaker party
11:10 AM
Evaluation of wind, solar and hydro energy potential using GRASS
Giulia Garegnani, Pietro Zambelli, Gianluca Grilli and Daniele Vettorato
11:35 AM
FOSS4G-based energy management system for planning virtual power plants at the municipal scale
Luis Ramirez Camargo, Roland Zink and Wolfgang Dorner
12:00 AM
A new open source DSS for assessment and planning of renewable energy: r.green
Giulia Garegnani, Francesco Geri, Pietro Zambelli, Gianluca Grilli, Sandro Sacchelli, Alessandro Paletto, Giorgio Curetti et al.
12:25 AM
Poster session
- Open Web Services: new tools for Medievalist Historians to manage and share their research work
Daniela Carrion, Federica Migliaccio, Guido Minini and Cynthia Zambrano
- Alpinescapes: making the Alpine fringes visible trough OpenData and Crowdsourced Cartography
Michele Ferretti, Daniele Villa and Paolo Tagliolato
- Improving environmental monitoring against the risk from uncontrolled abandonment of waste containing asbestos. The DroMEP projectposter
Carmine Massarelli, Maria Rita Muolo, Vito Felice Uricchio, Nicola Dongiovanni and Ruggero Palumbo
- Open Data integration in context of Smart-Communities: a company's perspective
Consuelo Marini, Roberto Metelli and Francesco Pirotti
- Drought Monitoring and Early Warning System based Geospatial Data for Integrated Water Resources Management in Syria
Hussain Saleh, Georges Allaert and Philippe De Maeyer
- MyGEOSS Innovative Apps in the environmental and social domains
Massimo Craglia, Elena Roglia and Lorena Hernandez Quiros
- GRASS GIS processing to detect thermal anomalies with TABI sensor
Carmine Massarelli, Raffaella Matarrese, Vito Felice Uricchio and Michele Vurro
12:50 AM
Lunch break
2:00 PM
Promoting slow tourism through FOSS4G Web Mapping: an Italian-Swiss case studyslides
Milan Antonovic, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Mirko Cardoso, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Marco Minghini and Giorgio Zamboni
2:25 PM
GIS of Traditional Folk Culture
Jiri Kozel, Pavel Bohumel, Petr Kovacs and Andrea Kynova
3:15 PM
Teaching R as a GIS: problems, solutions and lessons learnedslides
Robin Lovelace and Rachel Oldroyd
3:40 PM
Land cover validation gameslides
Maria Antonia Brovelli, Irene Celino, Monia Elisa Molinari and Vijaycharan Venkatachalam
4:05 PM
Coffee break
4:30 PM
Mapping Parties
8:30 PM
Ice breaker party
11:10 AM
Sharing geodata through university libraries: the case of Politecnico di Milanoslides
Ilaria Muratori and Marcella Samakovlija
11:35 AM
Acquisition of audiovisual Scientific Technical Information from OSGeo by TIB Hannover: A work in progress report
Peter Löwe, Margret Plank and Paloma Marín-Arraiza
12:00 AM
Translating urban history, research and sources, into interactive digital librariesslides
Rosa Tamborrino and Fulvio Rinaudo
12:25 AM
An open-HGIS project for the city of Parma: database structure and map registrationslides
Nazarena Bruno, Giorgia Bianchi, Andrea Zerbi and Riccardo Roncella
12:50 AM
Lunch break
2:25 PM
Microservices and Geo - yeah it's that good
Steven Pousty
2:50 PM
Sunlumo – open source spatial data management platform
Dražen Odobašić.
4:05 PM
Coffee break
4:30 PM
Mapping Parties
8:30 PM
Ice breaker party
2:00 PM
Patrick HOGAN
'FOSS4G: How We Facilitate Solutions and Increase Value for Life. Can We Do Better?’
2:30 PM
Ki Joune LI
'Exploring Indoor Space – From Macro-Space to Mini-Space’
3:00 PM
Surprise session
3:10 PM
Jun CHEN
'GlobeLand30: 30-m resolution open access Earth Land- Cover Map'
3:40 PM
Coffee break
10:15 AM
Poster session
- School on the Cloud – implementing Cloud-based FOSS4G technologies in education to support digital citizenship developmentposterslides
Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Panos Papoutsis, Karl Donert, Luc Zwartjes, Kostis Koutsopoulos and Sofie De Cupere
- How to get your entire university excited about (open) spatial data and tools:The untold story of a tiny geo-technology startup at the University of Groningenposter
Leon van der Meulen and Govert Schoof
- Geo-SEE Institute activities for using FOSS through the Quantum GIS training coursesposter
Bashkim Idrizi and Radife Neziri
- What is this new Rust language and why should a GIS developer care about it?poster
Alex Morega
- Smart City Platform - An OGC based decision support platform for Smart City Planning to stimulate Open Data in Urban areasposter
Matteo De Stefano, Luís de Sousa, Ulrich Leopold, Christian Braun and Rui Martins
- Management and publication of geospatial public data using GFOSS: the case study of Vicenza municipalityposter
Roberto Marzocchi, Roberta Fagandini, Lorenzo Beggiato, Eugenio Berti, Rosario Ardini, Marcello Missagia and Tiziano Cosso
10:40 AM
Coffee break
11:10 AM
Earning Your Support Instead of Buying it: A How-to Guide to Open Source Assistanceslides
Ian Turton
11:35 AM
GIS.lab – news from development of technology for rapid deployment of complete geospatial infrastructure with supercow featuresslides
Ivan Minčík
12:00 AM
Using Free and Open Source Solutions in Geospatial Science Educationslides
Vaclav Petras, Anna Petrasova, Keren Cepero Perez, Markus Neteler, Luca Delucchi, Martin Landa and Helena Mitasova
12:25 AM
NASA World Wind Visualization Technology for Spatial Data
Patrick Hogan, Tom Gaskins and David Collins
12:50 AM
Lunch break
4:10 PM
NASA World Wind Europa Challenge
Challenge finalists
7:15 PM
Social dinner
9:25 AM
Intelligent SDIs with MapMint 2.0
Nicolas Bozon, Gérald Fenoy and Venkatesh Raghavan
10:15 AM
Poster session
- mapmap.js: A High-Level Client-Side API for Interactive Thematic Mapsposter
Florian Ledermann
- A RESTful API for linking geodata
Francesco Bartoli
- PyWPS 4 - The new Python implementation of the Web Processing Standard 1.0 and 2.0poster
Luís de Sousa, Calin Ciociu and Ulrich Leopold
- Real-time projection visualisation with Indicatrix Mapper QGIS Pluginposter
Ervin Wirth and Péter Kun
- ODK for public transportposter
Laura Carcano, Barbara Li Gregni and Annarita Polacchini
- OPENGIS.ch Qfield - A native user interface for mobile touch devicesposter
Marco Bernasocchi and Matthias Kuhn
10:40 AM
Coffee break
11:35 PM
vOL3 - OpenLayers 3 for Vaadin 7
Martin Stypinski
12:00 PM
3D virtual representation of drones' flights through Cesium.js and Oculus Rift
Matteo Di Paolantonio, César González, Manuel José Latorre and Félix Pedrera
12:25 PM
GeoGigTools: OpenLayers plugin for versioned geodata
Francesco Bartoli
12:50 PM
Lunch break
4:10 PM
An Overview of OpenSensorHub for Sensor Webs and IoT
Mike Botts and Alex Robin
4:35 PM
istSOS: latest developments and first steps into the OSGeo incubation process
Massimiliano Cannata, Milan P. Antonovic, Mirko Cardoso and Priska Pietra
5:00 PM
From mobile weather sensors to open weather data communities
Julien Le Glaunec, Jérome Freyre, Daniel Rappo and Olivier Ertz
5:25 PM
Sensor Widgets: Configurable graphical components for your SOS data
Oscar Fonts and Martí Pericay
7:15 PM
Social dinner
9:00 AM
The integration of land change modeling framework FUTURES into GRASS GIS 7slides
Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, Douglas A. Shoemaker, Monica A. Dorning and Ross K. Meentemeyer
9:25 AM
Semiautomatic generation and analysis of 3d urban models supporting energetic policiesslides
Filiberto Chiabrando, Chiara Danna, Andrea Lingua, Francesca Noardo and Anna Osello
9:50 AM
Towards a decision support system for environmental emergencies management in poor settlements in the Kathmandu Valley (Nepal)slides
Marta Giambelli, Alfonso Vitti and Marco Bezzi
10:15 AM
LIMEWISE: A deterministic line-based interpolation methodology for a realistic multimodal accessibility representationslides
Patrick Palmier
10:40 AM
Coffee break
11:10 PM
Reproducible computing with Tzar and Dockerslides
Lucy Bastin, Javier Martinez-Lopez, Ascelin Gordon, Bill Langford and River Satya
11:35 PM
Vector tiles for the Swiss Federal Geoportalslides
Jens Ingensand, Marion Nappez, Cédric Moullet, Loïc Gasser and Sarah Composto
12:00 PM
Operation-based revision control for geospatial data setsslides
Máté Cserép and Roberto Giachetta
12:25 PM
GIS-based multivariate statistical analysis for landslide susceptibility zoning: a first validation on different areas of Liguria region (Italy)slides
Roberto Marzocchi, Agnese Rovegno, Bianca Federici, Rossella Bovolenta and Riccardo Berardi
12:50 PM
Lunch break
4:10 PM
Push it through the wire!
Jachym Cepicky
4:35 PM
Processing, serving and rendering huge point clouds on Mobile devices and Web pages
Manuel de La Calle Alonso and Diego Gómez-Deck
5:50 PM
Spatial tools for LiDAR based watershed management and forestry analysisslides
Silvia Franceschi, Andrea Antonello, Giustino Tonon and Francesco Comiti
7:15 PM
Social dinner
9:00 AM
Software Defined Receivers in GNSS scientific applications: variometric approach to exploit GNSS-SDR phase observations
Mara Branzanti, Javier Arribas, Carles Fernandez and Mattia Crespi
9:50 AM
Contextual processing for pedestrian tracking in GPS-denied environmentsslides
Enrico de Marinis, Fabio Andreucci, Fabrizio Pucci and Michele Uliana
10:15 AM
Poster session
- Cohesive Routing Service for Indoor and Outdoor Navigationposter
Tao Feng, Joran Jessurun and Theo Arentze
- Privacy in positioning - a reviewposter
Scott Cadzow
- Geodetic monitoring experiment by low-cost GNSS receivers and goGPS positioning engineposter
Stefano Caldera, Eugenio Realini and Daisuke Yoshida
- Indoor location and sensor technology to improve quality of life and independency of elderly people
Leonardo Plotegher and Giuseppe Conti
- Local monitoring by low cost devices and free and open sources softwareposter
Ludovico Biagi, Florin Catalin Grec, Maria Grazia Visconti and Marco Negretti
- Applying Archaeological and Forensic Science methods and experience to outdoor and indoor mapping
Alexander Cadzow and Scott Cadzow
10:40 AM
Coffee break
11:10 PM
i-locate - Indoor/outdoor LOCation and Asset management Through open gEodata
Stefano Piffer, Nicola Dorigatti and Giuseppe Conti
11:35 PM
GuideMe: an outdoor/indoor navigation app based on the i-locate open toolkitslides
Daniele Miorandi, Erinda Jaupaj, Carlo Caprini, Andrea Zito, Rossana Bartolacelli, Iacopo Carreras, Angelos Anagnostopoulos et al.
12:00 PM
A Novel, User-Friendly Indoor Mapping Approach for OpenStreetMapslides
Thomas Graichen, Sven Quinger, Ulrich Heinkel and Marek Strassenburg-Kleciak
12:25 PM
The first online portal for authoring of indoor mapping data and indoor graphs as IndoorGML standard
Catalin Popa, Lucian Brancovean and Pietro Elisei
12:50 PM
Lunch break
4:10 PM
The MEP project: Map for Easy Paths
Ludovico Biagi, Sara Comai, Raffaella Mangiarotti, Matteo Matteucci, Marco Negretti, Secil Ugur Yavuz and Maria Grazia Visconti
4:35 PM
Network real-time kinematic GNSS positioning with tablets: the new frontier of the open source positioning and mapping
Paolo Dabove and Ambrogio Maria Manzino
5:00 PM
Open source web tool for tracking in a low cost mobile mapping systemslides
Francesca Fissore, Andrea Masiero, Marco Piragnolo, Alberto Guarnieri, Antonio Vettore and Francesco Pirotti
5:25 PM
Geotagging Software for media content based on EGNOS/GPS Location Based Service (LBS)
Angelos Anagnostopoulos, Anastasios Trypitsidis, Marc Bonazountas, Despina Kallidromitou and Nikolaos K. Papadakis
7:15 PM
Social dinner
4:35 PM
Jeff McKENNA
'Looking Ahead: Open Geospatial and the OSGeo Foundation'
5:00 PM
Mapping Parties results
5:20 PM
Nasa World Wind Europa Challenge award
5:35 PM
GeoForAll Educator award
5:50 PM
Sanghee SHIN
'Towards FOSS4G Seoul'
6:00 PM
Closing talk
9:00 AM
S2P: a new open-source stereo pipeline for satellite images
Julien Michel, Carlo De Franchis, Enric Meinhardt-Llopis and Gabriele Facciolo
9:25 AM
An open source framework for processing daily satellite images (AVHRR) over last 28 years
Sajid Pareeth, Luca Delucchi, Markus Metz, Nico Salmaso and Markus Neteler
10:15 AM
DATE OSSIM Plugin: a new open source tool for digital automatic terrain extractionslides
Martina Di Rita, Andrea Nascetti and Mattia Crespi
10:40 AM
Coffee break
11:10 AM
Managing MetOc and Remote Sensing data with GeoServerslides
Simone Giannecchini and Andrea Aime
11:35 AM
MapboxGL + Protobuf + d3.js = liquid fast massively scalable interactive web map & data visualization!slides
Ben Wyss
12:50 AM
Lunch break
2:25 PM
Detection of potential updates of authoritative spatial databases by fusion of Volunteered Geographical Information from different sources
Stefan Ivanovic, Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond, Sébastien Mustière and Thomas Devogele
2:50 PM
Publication of wind and wave monitoring and forecasting geospatial data using GFOSS: the "Wind, Ports, and Sea” projectslides
Roberta Fagandini, Roberto Marzocchi, Tiziano Cosso, Massimiliano Burlando, Patrizia De Gaetano, Marina Pizzo, Maria Pia Repetto and Giovanni Solari
3:15 PM
GeoSmartCity: Open geo-data for innovative services and user applications towards Smart Citiesslides
Lluís Vicens, Josep Sitjar, Gemma Boix, Piergiorgio Cipriano and Roderic Molina
4:05 PM
Coffee break
9:00 AM
The r.inund.fluv tool for flood-prone areas evaluation in GRASS GIS: application to the terminal reach of Magra Riverslides
Ilaria Ferrando, Bianca Federici, Domenico Sguerso and Roberto Marzocchi
9:25 AM
Disaster Risk Managment: Urban Flooding and heatstressslides
Leon van der Meulen, Mark Verlaat and Floris Boogaard
9:50 AM
SITGAP2, a decision support system for floods management based on open source and open standards
Massimiliano Cannata and Milan Antonovic
10:15 AM
FloodRisk: a QGIS plugin for flood consequences estimationslides
Leonardo Mancusi, Raffaele Albano and Aurelia Sole
10:40 AM
Coffee break
11:10 AM
Cloud computing application for water resources based on open source software and open standards – a prototypeslides
Blagoj Delipetrev and Dimitri Solomatine
11:35 AM
FOSS approach to Integrated Water Resource Management: the case study of Red-Thai Binh rivers systemslides
Carolina Arias Muñoz, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Simone Corti, Marco Micotti, Enrico Weber and Rodolfo Soncini Sessa
12:00 AM
ADO: a prototype of African Drought Observatory for drought monitoring and forecastingslides
Luana Valentini, Paulo Barbosa and Diego Magni
12:25 AM
Looking through the changes: an analysis of the buried watercourses of Comoslides
Maria Antonia Brovelli, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Marco Minghini and Daniele Oxoli
12:50 AM
Lunch break
2:00 PM
RUSLE model application with GRASS GIS: Rio Centonara catchmentslides
Elena Mezzini, Livia Vittori Antisari, Francesca Ventura and Federico Magnani
2:25 PM
Definition of hydrogeological tectonic blocks into Guarani/Serra Geral Integrated Aquifer System using QGIS
Leônidas Luiz Volcato Descovi Filho, Arthur Schmidt Nanni and Luiz Fernando Scheibe
2:50 PM
Information richness and reach in hydrological web applications
Arjen Vrielink
3:15 PM
Flow analysis using sUAS and lidar dataslides
Helena Mitasova, Justyna Jeziorska, Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras and Thomas Zajkowski.
3:40 PM
Geographic information for the management of flood risk insuranceslides
Franco Guzzetti, Alice Pasquinelli and Paolo Viskanic
4:05 PM
Coffee break
9:00 AM
Development of the open cadastre of protected areas in Ukraineslides
Daria Svidzinska, Oleksij Vasyliuk, Oleg Seliverstov, Daria Shyriaieva, Anton Biatov, Dmytro Diadin, Alevtyna Ponomarova et al.
9:50 AM
Towards Open Big Geospatial Data for geodata.gov.gr
Angelos Tzotsos, Michail Alexakis, Spiros Athanasiou and Yiannis Kouvaras
10:15 AM
How is Prague opening geospatial data
Jachym Cepicky and Martin Landa
10:40 AM
Coffee break
11:10 AM
A FOSS4G-based procedure to compare OpenStreetMap and authoritative road network datasetsslides
Maria Antonia Brovelli, Marco Minghini, Monia Elisa Molinari, Peter Mooney and Gabriele Prestifilippo
11:35 AM
Open Community Data & Official Public Data in flood risk management: a comparison based on InaSAFEslides
Riccardo Pasi, Cristian Consonni and Maurizio Napolitano
12:00 AM
Meteorological and Aviation Weather Open Data implementation utilising Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standardsslides
Roope Tervo, Mikko Visa, Tero Koivunen, Jukka A. Pakarinen and Tarja Riihisaari
12:25 AM
Fentrol.hu – The digital aerial photo archiveslides
Péter Braunmüller, Krisztián Takács and Csaba Sandor
12:50 AM
Lunch break
2:25 PM
IMAGO.gIS: an open solution to improve the fruition of public administration dataslides
Oscar Campolmi, Gianluca Giori and Michele Beretta
2:50 PM
A Data Scientist Exploration in the World of Heterogeneous Open Geospatial Dataslides
Gloria Re Calegari and Irene Celino
3:15 PM
Finding spatial open data via web: a SWOT analysis
Marco Piragnolo, Francesca Fissore, Alberto Guarnieri, Antonio Vettore and Francesco Pirotti
3:40 PM
Towards a Virtual Hub for a wider Open Data community
Mattia Previtali, Luigi Barazzetti, Raffaella Brumana and Branka Cuca
4:05 PM
Coffee break
9:50 AM
Project-Based Learning Using FOSS4G for a Global Earthquake Forecast System
Ron Fortunato and Levi Purdy
10:15 AM
ERSAF's audiovisual heritage of historical land use data for EXPO 2015slides
Marco Cicala, Franco Guzzetti, Marco Stevan and Paolo Viskanic
10:40 AM
Coffee break
The FOSS4G-Europe program is resulting from a selection process managed by dedicated committees, according to precedent call for papers.
