Hungarian contribution to the GSDI-10 Conference

The Hungarian member of the GSDI Board will present a Liasion Report for the Board Meeting will be held in St. Augustine on the relation with CEOS WG Information Systems and Services as well as the GEOSS/GEO. Also the impact and potentials of the UNSDI, the Digital Earth and the International Year of the Planet Earth (IYPE) will be mentioned in the Appendix of the Report. The Conference will provide good opportunity to share experiences of the Hungarian Land Administration gained through its ICT-related development towards the Digital Land Offices with special emphasis on the capacity building for the staff members and their clients.
Some Members of HUNAGI from the Land Administration branch including the Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI, www.fomi.hu), the Budapest Land Office (BLO, www.takarnet.hu , www.foldhiv.hu), the University of West Hungary, Faculty of Geoinformatics (UWH Geoinfo, www.geo.info.hu) and the ICT Development Project of the Land Office Network at the Dept of Land Administration, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (www.fvm.hu) contributed as co-authors to the paper and its presentation in the Session on Land Administration at the GSDI-10 Conference. The paper can be downloaded from the www.gsdi.org website.
The presentation will address the issues related to the development and applications provided by the SDI-based Land Administration and Geoinformation sector.
Additional Hungarian contribution is scheduled in the GSDI-10 Session devoted to the Group of Earth Observation System of Systems, which is annotated in the program as follows:
"TS 29 Organized Session: GEO and GEOSS
Organizer: Doug Nebert (USA), Moderator: Gabor Remetey-Fulopp (Hungary)
This session will involve a combination of short presentations and panel responses by parties that have been heavily active in the Group on Earth Observations and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems. The audience will be actively engaged. Among the speakers will include Ivan Deloatch with the US Federal Geographic Data Committee, Alessandro Annoni with the European Commission Joint Research Council (EC-JRC), and Robert Thomas from Compusult who will provide a private sector perspective on the various initiatives. Moderators and respondents will include, among others, Doug Nebert of the US Federal Geographic Data Committee and Gabor Remetey-Fulopp (Hungary) who is the GSDI Association official liaison to GEO/GEOSS."