Wednesday, November, 12.

Introduction to the Summit and Welcome Addresses

Manfred Ehlers (GfGI, Summit Director)

GUO Huadong (ISDE, Secretary general)

Jann Jakobs (Lord Mayor of Potsdam)

Keynote Session (coordinated by desert.net): Desertification: the Role of Policy, Geoinformation, Earth Observation and Modelling
Moderation: Joachim Wächter (Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany)

Gabriel del Barrio (Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas, Spanish National Research Council CSIC, Almeria, Spain):
“Assessment and monitoring of desertification: a geomatic approach”

Mark Mulligan (King’s College London, Department of Geography, UK):
“Geobrowser based simulation models for land degradation policy support”

Joachim Hill (Remote Sensing Department, University of Trier, Germany):
“Dryland degradation and desertification: satellite-based assessment and monitoring concepts for a global problem”

Global Change
Moderation: Friedrich-Wilhelm Gerstengarbe (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany)

Keynote Mojib Latif (IFM-Geomar, University of Kiel, Germany):
“The climate of the 20th and 21st century”

Keynote Detlef Stammer (Center for Marine and Climate Research, University of Hamburg, Germany):
“Ocean reanalyses: status and their use for improving climate forecast.”

V.F. Krapivin; F.A. Mkrtchyan (Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia):
„An adaptive remote sensing technology fort the nature-society system biocomplexity assessment”

P.A. Propastin (Department of Geography, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany; Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Image Analysis, Kazakh Academy of Science, Almaty, Kazakhstan); M. Kappas (Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Image Analysis, Kazakh Academy of Science, Almaty, Kazakhstan):
“Linkages between the current climate change, the political change in Kazakhstan and trends in the photosynthetic activity of vegetation”

Xue Y. (State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing, China; Department of Computing, London Metropolitan University, London. UK); Wan W. (State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China); Wang Y.; Li Y.; Guang J.; Ai J.; Bai L. (State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China):
“High Performance Geocomputation for Digital Earth – A Case Study of Aerosol Retrieval from Remotely Sensed Data”

H.M. Füssel (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany):
“Climate, geography and macroeconomics: A reanalysis of the G-Econ database“

Earth Observation and Modelling
Moderation: Lothar Koppers (Anhalt University - Dept. 3 - Architecture, Facility Management and Geoinformation, Germany)

Keynote Siegfried Schubert (Global Modeling & Assimilation Office, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA):
“NASA's Modern Era Retrospective-Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA): Early Results and Future Directions”

Salihou; Y. Loya (ISIG - Institut Supérieur d`Informatique et de Gestion Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso); B. Somé; L. Somé (LANIBIO – Université de Ouagadougou, Burkino Faso); M. Daniel; J.Sequeira (LSIS - ESIL, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France):
“Remote Sensing and modeling contribution to ecosystem control in Burkina Faso”

T. Peisker; D. Spengler; K.Segl; S. Itzerott; H. Kaufmann (Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany):
„Artificial 3D crop field for the simulation of hyperspectral reflectance data”

C. Stasch, A. C. Walkowski, S. Jirka (Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Germany):
“A Geosensor Network Architecture for Disaster Management based on Open Standards”

A. Roff (Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia); D. Sivertsen (NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change, Parramatta, Australia) G. R. Taylor; M. Day; A. L. Mitchell (Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia):
“Beyond land-cover mapping: Semi-automated delineation of vegetation pattern using segmentation”

Postersession
Moderation: Kai Behncke (Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, University of Osnabrück, Germany)

Icebreaker Party

Thursday, November, 13.

Simulation and Modelling
Moderation: Joachim Hill (Remote Sensing Department, Fac. of Geography/Geosciences Trier University, Germany)

Keynote Michael Goodchild (National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA):
“Simulation, modelling and digital earth: status and prospects”

T. Blaschke; M. Biberacher; S. Gadocha; D. Zocher; M. Mittlböck; E. Hauslauer; I. Schardinger (Research Studio iSPACE, Salzburg, Austria); J.Strobl (Z_GIS, Centre for Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, Austria):
“Virtual Power Plants: Spatial energy models in times of climate change”

V.F. Krapivin; F.A. Mkrtchyan (Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia):
„GIMS - Technology for the operative environmental diagnostics”

E. Ivits; M. Cherlet, G. Buchanan (DG JRC, Italy), D. Chamberlain (BTO, England):
Remote sensing derived phenological indicators to explain European farmland bird distribution pattern”

R. J. Corner (Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information, Australia); M. Marinelli (Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Australia):
“Modelling the effects of data uncertainty on agricultural and environmental models under global change conditions”

Earth observation
Moderation: David Wortley (The Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, UK)

Keynote GUO Huadong (Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences):
“ABCC Program: Global Change Study Using Space Technology”

C. Aubrecht; M. Köstl; K. Steinnocher (Austrian Research Centers GmbH, Vienna, Austria):
“Functional object grouping – An advanced method for integrated spatial and space related data mining”

D. Tiede (Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), University of Salzburg, Austria); S. Lang (Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), University of Salzburg, Austria; Institute of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Berlin):
“Rapid dwelling extraction from VHSR satellite imagery in refugee camps and dissemination of conditioned information via virtual globes”

P. Milenov; D. Kapnias; W. Devos (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Agriculture Unit, GeoCAP team):
“Best Practice and Quality Checking of Ortho Imagery – toward a common approach”

G. Schaab; P. Dammann; F. N. Muchori; N. Ojha; H. Zimmer (Faculty of Geomatics, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences);
„Biodiversity monitoring and forest management involving geospatial data in Kakamega Forest (Kenya): Tools tailored to the users’ needs.”

S. Hese; C. Schmullius (Department of Earth Observation, Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany):
“Strategies for object-oriented thermokarst lake change analysis in Siberia using very high resolution multitemporal satellite data”

Spatial Data infrastructure
Moderation: Manfred Ehlers (Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, University of Osnabrück, Germany)

Keynote Dietmar Grünreich (Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodes, Frankfurt am Main, Germany):
”The Role of Policy for Spatial Data Infrastructures“

Keynote Alessandro Annoni (Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy):
“Regional and Global spatial data infrastructures: a key to assess and monitor environmental changes”

Moderation: Lothar Koppers (Anhalt University - Dept. 3 - Architecture, Facility Management and Geoinformation, Germany)

E. Gennai (ESRI Europe):
”Interoperability and Spatial data Infrastructures: from data collection to actionable information”

C. Graul; A. Zipf (University of Bonn, Germany):
“Putting Biogeographic Research on the Spatial Web: Towards Interoperable Analysis Tools for Global Change Based on the Web Processing Service (WPS)”

U. Boes (URSIT Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria); R. Pavlova (Technical University Sofia, Bulgaria):
”Spatial Data Infrastructures by 2020 – where do they go?”

D. Doktor (Imperial College, Department of Biology, UK); F. W. Badeck (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany); A. Bondeau (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany); D. Koslowsky (Free University of Berlin, Department of Meteorology, Berlin, Germany):
“On the comparison of point and area-wide observations of vegetation”

Visualisation
Moderation: Michael Goodchild (National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

D. Wortley (Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, UK):
“Integrating Physical and Virtual Worlds for Sustainable Development”

P. Paar (Lenné3D LLC, Berlin); K. Appleton (School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich); M. Clasen (Zuse Institute Berlin, Dept. of Visualization and Data Analysis); M.Gensel (Zuse Institute Berlin, Dept. of Visualization and Data Analysis); S. Jude (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, Norwich); A. Lovett (School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich):
"Interactive Visual Simulation of Coastal Landscape Change”

 
Program Sanssouci Castle

Social Evening Event (Dinner) & Poster Awards

Friday, November, 14.

Simulation and Modelling
Moderation: Kai Behncke (Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, University of Osnabrück, Germany)

Keynote LI Deren (State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China):
“Role of Geospatial Technology in Wenchuan Earthquake”

J. LeLievre (Department of Sustainability and Environment, Melbourne, Australia); A. Kealy (Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia):
“Homogenous positioning using CORS networks in a Digital Earth“

N. de Lange; C. Plass (Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, University of Osnabrück, Germany):
“WebGIS with Google Earth and Google Maps“

T. Häring; V. Hochschild (Department of Geography, University of Tübingen, Germany); M. de Paly; C. Henneges (Department of Informatics, University of Tübingen, Germany):
“Modelling Tsunami Vulnerability – The development of a Tsunami Inundation Model with Machine Learning tools“

D. Lincke; C. Ionescu; N. Botta (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany):
"A generic library for earth system modelling based on monadic systems“

D. Vassilaki; C. Ioannidis (School of Rural and Surveying Engineering; National Technical University of Athens, Greece); A. Stamos (School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece):
“Geospatial Data Integration using Automatic Global Matching of Free-Form Curves”

Three best poster presentations

Urbanisation
Moderation: Jochen Schiewe (HafenCity University Hamburg, Department Geomatics, Germany)

O. Gruebner; B. Jakimow; K. Janson; T. Lakes; P. Hostert (Humboldt University, Department of Geography, Berlin, Germany):
“Linking ecological, economic, and social data in a health data model to analyse complex dynamics in informal settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh“

G. Zeug; S. Eckert (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Support to External Security Unit, Ispra, Italy) T. Kukuk; U.,Steiner (GAF AG, Munich, Germany); D. Ehrlich (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Support to External Security Unit, Ispra, Italy):
“Monitoring urban city growth and its impact on the environment: the case study of Sana’a, Yemen”

T. Lakes (Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Geography); S. Lautenbach (Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Geography; Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH):
“Modelling urban land use systems under transition – from socialist to postsocialist dynamics in urban areas”

M. Moeller, E. Schöpfer (Austrian Academy of Science, GIScience, Salzburg, Austria; University of Bamberg, Institute of Geography, Bamberg, Germany):
“Metropolitan Growth Mapped from Space Images”

Urbanisation & Visualisation
Moderation: Peter Woodgate (Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, Australia)

T. Nocke; T. Sterzel (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research); M. Böttinger (German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ); M. Wrobel (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research):
“Visualization of Climate and Climate Change Data: An Overview”

J.-P. Aurambout; C. Pettit (Department of Primary Industries, Victoria, Australia):
"Digital Globes: gates to the digital earth”

J. Schiewe; A. Krek; I. Peters; H. Sternberg; K.-P. Traub (Hafen City University Hamburg, Germany):
„Developing and evaluating tools for Urban Research”

C. Neumann (University of Potsdam) :
“Linkage of climate variables from AVHRR raster data to the heterogeneous layout of sub-catchments in the Ebro Basin”

M. Gaál (Corvinus University of Budapest):
“Expected changes in climatic conditions of maize growing – Hungarian case study”

Resumee & Panel Discussion

Software presentation:

J. Klawitter ; P. Dekker; P. Meisen (Global Energy Network Institute) J. Graham (San Diego State University Visualisation Center):
„The GENI Initiative Visualization”

W. H. Mayer (PROGIS Software GmbH, Villach, Austria):
“Planning and valuation of ecological performances with the holistic and integrated agro-environment software-technology AGROffice”

Poster Presentations:

Dingui Z., Jianping F. (Institute of Computing Technology; Shenzen Institute of Advanced Technology; Chinese Academy of Sciences):
“PSDC: Parallel Simulation of Digital City”

B. Hope; C. Kamrowski; (Department of Lands, NSW, Australia); D. Tien (Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia):
“Refined Geo-referenced Image and Imagery Metadata Standards for SDI Implementation”

Jiang H.; Wang Q.; Wang X. (Key Laboratory of Spatial Data Mining & Information Sharing of Ministry of Education, Fuzhou University; Spatial Information Research Center of Fujian Province, Fuzhou University, Fujian, China):
“Simulation and Spatial-Temporal Analysis of forest net primary productivity in Fujian Province”

Jiang Y.; Siwen B. (Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Information Sciences, Institute of Remote Sensing Application, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China):
“Dynamic Object-oriented Model and the applications for the Digital Earth”

Lian J. (Key Lab of 3D Information Acquisition and Application, MOE, School of Resource and Environmental Science, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China); Li X., Gong H. (Key Lab of Resources Environment and GIS, Beijing, China):
“Research and Development of GIS Project Based on XML”

Hui, L.; Jinsong C. (Institute of space and earth information science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong):
“Monitoring Sugarcane Growth using ENVISAT ASAR Data”

V. M. Korchinsky; V.I. Voloshyn (Dniprocosmos State Company, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine):
“The Novel Method for Improvement of Information Density in Satelllite-Acquired Multi-spectral Images”

Liu S., Wen G., Cao W., Feng S., Fan J. (Shenzen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzen; Institute of Computing Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing):
“The Feasibility Analysis and Evaluation in Water TransferProject and Environment Change”

Pang L., Li G. and Yan Y. (CEODE/CAS, Graduate School of CAS):
“Research on parallel buffer analysis based on Grided based HPC): ”Research on parallel buffer analysis based on Grided based HPC”

M. A. Popov; S. A. Stankevich; A. I. Sakhatsky, A. A. Kozlova (Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, Kiev, Ukraine):
“Multispectral Imagery Normalized Difference Indexes for Land Cover Classification”

Qui D.; Cui C. (College of earth sciences, Daqing Petroluem Institute, China); Liu W. (Sinopec Exploration & Production Research Institute, Beijing, China):
“New Computer Graphics Technologies for Digital Earth Visualization” 

M. Rybansky (Department of Military geography and meteorology, University of Defence in Brno) :
”Critical Transport Factors using Roads and Terrain during Crisis Situations and Natural Disasters”

A. Sharifi; M.A. Rajabi (Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Teheran); N. F. Moghaddam (Department of Geosciensces, University of Shahid Beheshti, Teheran):
“Evaluation of Thermal Islands Logical Relation with Lineament Density Changes in Pre and Post-earthquake Satellite Images”

S. Shumilov, J. Laubach; A. Rogmann (Department of Computer Science III, University of Bonn):
“GLOWA Volta GeoPortal - an active geodata repository and communication system”

V. Starovoitov: (United Institute of Informatics Problems, Minsk, Belarus):
“Multispectral image pre-processing for interactive satellite image classification”

A. Tarariko (Institute of Agroecology of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine); A. Syrotenko (Institute of Agroecology of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine); V. Grekov (Centre of Soil Fertility State Enterprise at the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine):
“Net of Agrarian Testing Polygons in System of Remote Monitoring of Agrarian Resources in Ukraine”