AU GIS Seminar Program
The annual GIS seminar will be held at Aarhus University on Thursday, November 12, 2013, 9:30 am to 4 pm. Location: The Lakeside Auditoriums, Eduard Biermann Auditorium 1252-204. You can sign up for the event here: https://auws.au.dk/GIS2013. Students are very welcome (but remember to sign up).
Program:
9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Welcome to the seminar
10.15 Five talks on GIS
- News from the GIS committee I, AU GIS Committee
- An alternative to viewsheds: skyline analysis, Quentin Bourgeois, Culture and Society
- Psychedelic geography/ Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping used for mapping multi-functionality, Chris Kjeldsen, Agroecology
- Examples on GIS application in climate adaption and river basin management, Kristian Vestergaard, AU School of Engineering
- Managing crop disease data on a global scale, Jens Grønbech Hansen, Agroecology
12.00 Lunch
12.45 Five talks on GIS
- News from the GIS committee II, AU GIS Committee
- Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Vehicles Using Eco-Routes, Bin Yang, Computer Science
- Luften på din vej – Serving air pollution data at doorstep level,
- Thomas Becker, Environmental Science
- From measuring tape and angle mirror to GIS and auto steering in the field trial work, Søren Sommer, Agroecology
- Simplified method to map boulder reefs with multibeam data, Cordula Göke, Bioscience
14.30 Coffee and competition
14.45 Three talks on GIS
- Inventory of hedgerows 1990 to 2008 – area, biomass and carbon sequestration related to the Kyoto Protocol, Bernd Münier, Environmental Science
- Are drones the new Holy Grail for precision agriculture or just a mutation of the 90th yield mapping failures? Rasmus Nyholm Jørgensen, Engineering
- Get your hands on a drone – how to use drones for the environment: surveillance, recognizing crops using image analysis etc., Geoff Groom, Peter Borgen Sørensen, Bioscience, René Larsen, Agroecology
15.30 Wrap up and announcing the winner
16.00 End of seminar
The seminar is free - with sandwich included -if you sign up here: https://auws.au.dk/GIS2013.