CoastGIS 2015: 12th International Symposium for GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zone Management 22-24 April 2015 Western Cape, South Africa
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- Publicado: 03 Septiembre 2014 03 Septiembre 2014
The 12th International Symposium for GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zone Management (CoastGIS 2015) will take place in the Western Cape, South Africa, from April 22-24 2015. This event will be held back-to-back with 7th meeting of the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN).
The Symposium theme “Rich Data, Poor Data: Geospatial Creativity and Innovation for Managing Changing Coastal Systems” refers to the increasing demand on decision-makers and managers to be aware of changes in the coastal and marine environment. Not only must there be a much greater emphasis on the measuring of change, but also increasing and creative options for data poor and rich environments alike, to act on the observed changes, which may have either positive or negative societal impacts. In other words, how can CoastGIS 2015 contribute to the understanding of coastal change, and how can the powerful tools we use, as a scientific and management community; help us make better decisions, especially in data-limited environments? Can we demonstrate how the excellence, passion and creativity in the various disciplines encompassed by CoastGIS be used to improve the use of science for decision-making relating to coastal management?
Planned sessions include:
- Analysing and modelling coastal and marine processes
- Spatial information and observation systems
- Coastal risk and vulnerability
- Advances in data visualization
- Advances in geographical information technologies
- Decision-support and spatial planning
- Innovative application of geospatial technologies in coastal environments
- Coastal mapping and monitoring
- Coping with data scarcity in coastal and marine management
- Coastal and marine spatial data infrastructure (SDI)
- Application of geospatial technologies to support climate change adaptation in coastal regions
Abstract submission for the CoastGIS2015 Symposium is open and instructions on how to submit an extended abstract can be found on the website at www.coastgis2015.co.za. The abstract submission deadline is 24 October 2014. The Symposium venue is the Protea Hotel Breakwater Lodge near the Cape Town waterfront and in the shadow of icon Table Mountain. The City of Cape has many accommodation options, a vibrant inner-city social scene with numerous restaurants, bars and cafes.
The CoastGIS2015 local organising committee and international scientific committee would love to welcome you to Cape Town in April 2015. Please contact Louis Celliers (Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.) for more information.
ICAN 7: Coastal Web Atlases – Supporting Ecosystem Based Management
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- Publicado: 01 Septiembre 2014 01 Septiembre 2014
The ICAN 7 workshop will take place in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa on April 19-20, 2015 just before the CoastGIS conference. The focus this year is on how coastal web atlases can support ecosystem based management.
If you would like to present a paper on your atlas development or usage experiences in relation to the activities below, please send a title and a brief (approx. 250 word) abstract before 31 October 2014 to Ned Dwyer (Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.) or Marcia Berman (Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.) for consideration by the workshop organising committee.
Looming large and welcoming you to
Cape Town, is the iconic Table Mountain
Photo: Cape Town Tourism
Key activities at the ICAN-7 workshop will include:
- exploring the opportunities for CWAs to address the objectives of managing and protecting LMEs;
- discussing the challenges of Atlas development and usage in the African Atlas community;
- sharing knowledge and experience on approaches to data licencing and data sharing in order to make data holdings more visible;
- a session on “interoperability for dummies” which aims to demystify coastal atlas interoperability and highlight the benefits; and
- a small “workshop within a workshop” for atlas technical developers on how to become a new node in the ICAN interoperability demonstrator, using the updated cookbooks
- development of an ICAN work plan for the period 2015-2017.
- Face-to-face meeting of the ICAN Steering Group
This workshop follows on 2013’s successful workshop ICAN 6: Expanding Participation in Coastal Web Atlas Development and Use”, held at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, as well as five previous workshops held in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 and 2011.
A range of accommodation options in the Stellenbosch area are available. More information here soon.
ICAN 7 is co-organized by Ned Dwyer Eur-Ocean, Kathrin Kopke of the Coastal and Marine Research Centre, Ireland; Lucy Scott, United Nations Development Programme- Global Environment Facility, South Africa; Louis Celliers, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa; Marcia Berman, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, USA; Alejandro Iglesias Campos, UNESCO-IOC (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission). The ICAN 7 workshop is sponsored in part by IODE.
Information on reaching Stellenbosch and the venue will be posted here soon
Organizers and Sponsors ICAN 7
