What: its4land MT5 Where: Online (participants from Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Rwanda, and Ethiopia) When: 15 September 2016 Who: its4land MT members Why: Project management, research permits, ethics approvals, WP3,4 and 5 kick-offs, publications, and more.
What: Fly and Create (Mini-Kick Off & PhD Qualifier) Where: Enschede, Netherlands When: September 07 2016 Who: Claudia Stoecker (UT), Francesco Nex (UT), Rohan Bennett (UT), George Vosselman (UT) Why: 'Fly and Create' - Work Package 4 - officially started booking hours on August 01. Claudia Stoecker, a key researcher in the package, has been with its4land [...]
What: Tool Interface Workshop 2.0 for WP3, WP4, WP5, and WP6 (including WP2) Where: Munster, Germany When: September 05 2016 Who: Angela Schwering (WWU), Malumbo Chipofya (WWU), Carl Schulz (WWU), Claudia Stocker (UT), Rohan Bennett (UT), Christian Timm (HL), Tarek Zein (HL), Frederick Mueller (HL), Serene Ho (KUL). Why: As part of a regular meeting pattern, we're getting [...]
Over June and July, its4land welcome two new staff members: Dr. Michael Yang (UT) and Dr. Serene Ho (KUL). Both will play key roles in the project. Serene takes the lead role in designing, coordinating and executing the complex 'Get Needs' Work Package 2 with Prof. Joep Crompvoets, Bruno Brouckner, Ine Buntinx, and Valerie Pattyn. [...]
Work Package 05 'Automate It' officially got underway on August 01 2016. The package is hosted by ITC with PhD researcher Sophie Crommelinck playing a key role in reviewing, assessing, designing, and testing new approaches for (semi-automatically). In good news for the work package, Sophie has already completed her PhD qualifier meaning she is now [...]
its4land researcher, Malumbo Chaka Chipofya, from the Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of Muenster successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on 15th July 2016. Malumbo's dissertation, titled "Sketch-to-metric map alignment by qualitative spatial constraint matching", addresses computational challenges of automatically grounding objects depicted in sketch maps within a base map. The work tackles two aspects [...]
What: Automate It (Mini-Kick Off & PhD Qualifier) Where: Enschede, Netherlands When: September 01 2016 Who: Sophie Crommelinck (UT), Michael Yang (UT), Rohan Bennett (UT), George Vosselman (UT) Why: 'Automate It' officially started booking hours on August 01. Key researcher, Sophie Crommelinck, has been with its4land since February 01 - mainly working on WP2 - now in the first month [...]
What: its4land MT4 Where: TUK, Nairobi, Kenya + Online When: Monday 05 August 2016, 10:00 - 12:00 Who: its4land MT members Why: Research Permits, Ethics, WP2 field data collection plan
What: its4land kick-off meet and greet event with Kenyan end-users and beneficiaries Where: Narok and Kisumu, Kenya When: July 2016 (TBC) Who: Gordon and Robert Wayumba (Technical University of Kenya), Joep Crompvoets (KU Lueven) and Monica Lengoiboni (University of Twente), and its4land stakeholders Why: Network and stakeholder building, case sensitisation, reconnaissance, and fieldwork planning for 'Get Needs'
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