Bucharest, 11-12 December 2007
Romanian Academy - "Ion Heliade Radulescu" Hall
The Romanian Space Agency together with the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ICIA), the National Meteorology Administration (ANM) and Market Watch Magazine as Media Partner, held on 11 December to 12 December 2007 a conference on "Technologies for strengthening the national spatial data infrastructure."
The conference program on 11 December 11 2007:
10.00 Opening
Marius-Ioan PISO - ROSA President, representatives of ANM, ANCPI, ICIA
10.15 - 11.00 Session I. SDI development - European and global policy initiatives
10.15 - 10.35 "European and international programs that support the development of spatial data infrastructures" Angela Ionita, Ion Nedelcu
10.35 - 10.45 "New opportunities for pan-European cooperation in the EU Framework Programme 7" Viorel Vulturescu - National Authority for Scientific Research Advisor, National Contact Point (NCP) FP7 - Environment Coordinator NCP
10.45 - 11.00 "Actions and technologies for the development of spatial data infrastructures", Ion Nedelcu - the Romanian Space Agency
11.00 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 13.00 Session II. SDI development - tools, projects and examples of good practice
11.00 - 11.20 "Development directions in GIS", Cristian Vasile - ESRI Romania
11.20 - 11.40 "Geospatial data and activities for monitoring the romanian coastal zone" Stefan Constantinescu - University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography
11.40 - 12.00 "National Spatial Data Infrastructure - Virtual infrastructure for specific needs," Marius Popovici Ienculescu - Intergraph Computer Services
12.00 - 12.20 "ESDI-NET + network project to promote cross-border dialogue and exchange of experiences on best practices for spatial data infrastructure in Europe", Angela Ionita - Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
12.20 - 12.40 "geo-spatial.org Initiative - a Romanian portal opened to increase performance in the geospatial domain" Vasile Craciunescu - The National Meteorology Administration
13.00 - 14.30 Break
14.30 - 16.00 Panel: Needs and solutions to accelerate the process of strengthening national spatial data infrastructure
(Angela Ioniţă - ICIA, Petre Dragomir - ANCPI, Gheorghe Stăncălie - ANM, Ion Nedelcu - ROSA)
16.00 - 16.30 Discussions and conclusions
The strengthening of the national spatial data infrastructure raises complex issues and involves a variety of actors, service providers or consumers of spatial data. In this session participants will express their opinion on matters of building or strengthening the national spatial data infrastructure.
Free and open source geospatial solutions - workshop
10.00 - 11.00 Storage solutions and data services - PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Geoserver. Moderator Ion Nedelcu - Romanian Space Agency
PostGIS adds functionality for handling spatial data in PostgreSQL Server. PostGIS respects OGC specifications "Simple Features Specification for SQL" [http://www.postgis.org]
GeoServer is an Open Source server for publishing geospatial web data, using open standards. GeoServer supports WFS-T (Web Feature Server - Transactional) and WMS (Web Map Server) and OGC protocols for publishing data in JPEG, PNG, SVG, KML / KMZ, GML, PDF, Shapefile, etc. [http: // geoserver. org]
11.00 - 12.00 Desktop applications for visualization and data analysis - QuantumusGIS, uDig. moderator - Basil Craciunescu - The National Meteorology Administration
QuantumGIS is an open source GIS that runs on Linux, Unix, MacOS and Windows and can access data stored in databases or files, raster or vector [http://www.qgis.org]
uGig is a geospatial application development environment developed specifically for compliance with standards and specifications promoted by OGC Web Map Server and especially Web Feature Server [http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Home]
14.00 - 15.00 Development tools for desktop and web GIS applications - MapWindow, OpenLayers. Moderators: Sorin Andrei - Romanian Space Agency, Vasile Craciunescu - The National Meteorology Administration
Development tools for desktop and web GIS applications - MapWindow, OpenLayers. Moderators: Sorin Andrei - Romanian Space Agency, Vasile Craciunescu - The National Meteorology Administration
MapWindow oferă o serie de biblioteci de dezvoltare a aplicaţiilor GIS ce oferă funcţii pentru manipularea, analiza şi vizualizarea datelor geospaţiale şi atributelor asociate, accesibile în formate GIS standardizate [http://www.mapwindow.com]