1- 2009 Programme
2 – Hosts
3 – Participants
4 – Sponsors
Friday, 30th October 2009
12:00 – 13:30: Registration
14:00 – 14:30: Opening | Introduction
14:30 – 16:00: Session 1 | Guest Speakers
Session Chair: Paulo Guilherme Molin
1) Industry – Future of Remote Sensing and Imagery for Geography, Earth and Environmental Studies – Prof. Dr. Mario Caetano, Grupo de Deteccao Remota(Remote Sensing Unit), Instituto Geografico Potugues / Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação | Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
2) Industry – Future of GIS for Geography, Earth and Environmental Studies – Mr. Rui Santos – Consultant and GeoMentor, ESRI Portugal
16:00 – 17:00: Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:30: Session 2 | Student Presentations
Session Chair: Malumbo Chipofya
17:00 – 17:15: Elena Kmetova, MESPOM – Case study on the application of a prototype GPS/GSM transmitter for studying the behaviour of an Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca, Savigny, 1809)
17:15 – 17:30: Christine Lam, University of Southern California – Comparison of the performance of flow-routing algorithms used in GIS-based hydrologic analysis
17:30 – 17:45: Maisa Fonseca, EURmed – Cultural Identity and Heritage in the City of Sao Carlos, Brazil
17:45 – 18:00: Stephanie Duce, GEOTECH – Towards on Ontology for Reef Islands – The Vision and the Challenges
20:30 | Symposium Dinner @ Restaurant Cenoura do Rio
Saturday, 31st October 2009
10:00 – 11:30: Session 3 | Guest Speaker Speakers
Session Chair: Stephanie Duce
1) Academic – Geospatial Technologies: Changes and Constants – Prof. Dr. Werner Kuhn – Director, Institut für Geoinformatik | Universität Münster
2) Academic – The GIS Profession: Is there one? – Prof. Dr. Marco Painho – Director, Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação | Universidade Nova de Lisboa
11:30 – 12:00: Coffee Break
12:00 – 12:20: – Erasmus Mundus Student and Alumni Association (EMA) – Mr. Chunyu Liang, EMA President
12:20 – 13:00: Session 4 | Student Presentations
Session Chair: Gagan Thimmaiah
12:20 – 12:35: Tanwan Topoklang, SUFONAMA – A snapshot of brown bear (Ursus arctos) food habitat in northern Greece: The persistence and viability of abandoned orchards
12:35 – 12:50: Julio Preciado, GEOTECH – Landslide risk assessment using GIS: a use case of a Mexican Region
12:50 – 13:05: Chunyu Liang, Erasmus Mundus Student & Alumni Association – Clean Development Mechanism (CDM): current status and development trends (presentation available from author upon request, email: president@em-a.eu)
13:20 – 14:30: Lunch
14:30 – 15:30: Session 5 | Student Presentations
14:30 – 14:45: Kaori Otsu, University of British Columbia – Trade-off analysis of accuracy and spatial resolution in strategic forest planning models
14:45 – 15:00: Alaba Bulowade, GEOTECH – The Effect of Curve Number on Sediment Load in a Gauged Catchment
15:00 – 15:15: Yazdan Soltanpour, IMRD – Tectonic assessment of Alborz and Zagros mountains employing shear sand box modeling
15:30 – 17:30: Skill Building Sessions:
15:30 – 16:30: Academic Writing – Prof. Dr. Werner Kuhn – Director, Institut für Geoinformatik | Universität Münster
16:30 – 17:30: Principles of Electronic Map Making – Christine Lam, University of Southern California.
17:30 – 18:00: Coffee Break
18:00 – 19:40: Interactive Networking and the Future of Geomundus Workshop
19:40 | Closing Ceremony
21:00: Lisbon by Night!
Sunday, 1st November 2009
11:30 – 13:30: Lisbon City Tour
Kaori Otsu, University of British Columbia – Trade-off analysis of accuracy and spatial resolution in strategic forest planning models
The International Masters Program (Master of Science, M.Sc.) in Geospatial Technologies is a cooperation of Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU ), Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi ), Universitat Jaume I (UJI ), Castellón, Dept. Information Systems (Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos) , Spain, and, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL ), Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação (ISEGI ), Lisboa, Portugal.
The three-semester Masters program will enrol up to 32 students per year. Students will attend the first semester in Lisbon or Castellón, the second semester in Münster. The third semester (Master thesis) can be performed at each of the three partner universities. Read more…
Apart from the guest speakers, presentations at the symposium will be by current and former students of the following EM programs:
AGRIS MUNDUS – Sustainable Development in Agriculture Masters Course
EMMEP – Erasmus Mundus Minerals and Environmental Programme
EURO-AQUAE – Euro Hydro-Informatics and Water Management
EJMWCM – European Joint Master in Water and Coastal Management
GEM – Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and management
IMMSSET – International Master in Materials and Sensors Systems for Environmental Technologies
IMRD – International Master of Science in Rural Development
MEEES – Master’s in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology
GEOTECH– Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies
MESPOM – Master of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management
SUTROFOR – Sustainable Tropical Forestry Erasmus Mundus Masters Course
SUFONAMA – Sustainable Forest and Nature Management
MScEF – Master of Science in European Forestry
To know more about the European Commission’s Erasmus Mundus programme, please click here.
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