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WP4 – Training, UAVs, Delair Tech, Toulouse
What: UAV training 4 its4land staff Where: Toulouse, France When: October 10-14 2016 Who: Claudia Stocker (UT), Watse Siderius (UT), Connie S (ESRI), Placide N (INES) Why: Training of trainers. its4land staff from WP4 are getting a full week of exposure to workflows, flights planning, safety issues, ethical concerns, map production with the DelAir Tech UAVs.
its4land Interim Review – European Commission
What: its4land - European Commission Interim Review Year 1 Where: Brussels, Belgium When: October 07 2016 Who: Georges Lobo (EC), Koen Meuleman (KUL), Dubravka Sladić (Novi Sad), Rohan Bennett (UT), Markus Gerke (UT), John Horn (UT), Serene Ho (KUL), Joep Crompvoets (KUL), Carl Schultz (WWU), Tarek Zein (HL) Why: An initial meet, greet, overview, state-of-play, and review of its4land in the [...]
WP2 – Workshop on Research Instruments and Applications
What: WP2 Where: Leuven, Belgium When: Thursday 06 October (whole day) Who: Serene Ho (KUL), Joep Crompvoets (KUL), Bruno Broucker (KUL), Valerie Pattyn (Leiden), Ine Buntinx (KUL), Rohan Bennett (UT), Markus Gerke (UT), Claudia Stocker (UT), Sophie Crommelinck (UT), Carline Amsing (UT), Tarek Zein (HL), Carl Schultz (WWU) Why: Designerly thinking and critical examination of research instruments, applications, and [...]
WP4 Seminar – Fly and Create Mini-Kick Off & PhD Qualifier
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 [...]
Welcome Aboard – Michael and Serene
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. [...]
Automated and Underway
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 [...]
Sketch-to-Metric Map Alignment PhD Success
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 [...]
WP5 Seminar – Automate It Mini-Kick Off & PhD Qualifier
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 [...]
Kenya – Field Visit from WP3
Field visit to Kenya yields valuable insights for smart sketch maps solution From 25th July 2016 to 29th July 2016, Technical University of Kenya (TUK), the Kenyan partners in the its4land consortium, hosted researchers from the University of Muenster, Hansaluftbild, KU Lueven, and University of Twente as part of the project kick-off activities in Kenya. [...]
Kenya – Kick-Off Meet & Greet
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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