Friday 10th June 2011
09.30 Coffee (Old Library)
10.00 Welcome (Room 2.13)
Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
10.10 Session: Research - New Horizons
Chair: William Mackaness (University of Edinburgh)
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for Soil Moisture Monitoring
Brian Barrett (University of Edinburgh)
New approaches for new challenges - independent GIS in 2011 and beyond
Seth Finegan (Informed Solutions)
11.10 Coffee
11.30 Session: Address Gazetteers
Chair: Panagiotis Terzis (University of Edinburgh)
The National Address Gazetteer: Meeting INSPIRE
Martin Chapple (Darlington Borough Council)
GeoPlace : Geo-spatial web tools enabling the Address Gazetteer Hub
Suneet Kamath (GeoPlace, London)
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Session: Mobile GIS
Chair: Catherine Schroder (University of Edinburgh)
Smarter LBS with today's mobile technology
Joseph Leigh (Nokia, Berlin)
FieldMove: Bringing mobile GIS to the paper and pencil world of geological mapping
Steven Clelland (Midland Valley Exploration, Glasgow)
15.00 Tea
15.30 Session: Local Services
Chair: Neil Stuart (University of Edinburgh)
Exploring Vandalism in the Local Neighbourhood
Ellie Bates (University of Edinburgh)
GIS as a service - a hosted GIS platform from Forth Valley GIS
Ian Feeney (Forth Valley GIS, Stirling)
16.30 Reflections on 25 Years of the Edinburgh GIS Programme and GIS in Scotland
Robin Mclaren (Knowedge)
Debate: How can the GIS Industry in Scotland take over the world?
Chair: Robin Mclaren (Knowedge)
Open Forum
17.30 Close
FRIDAY EVENING: From 6.00pm Pear Tree (opp. Appleton Tower)
7.30pm Restaurant (Ti Amo, South Bridge)
c.10.30pm Brass Monkey (Drummond Street)
SATURDAY EVENT: From 3.00pm 'til v.late BBQ at Bruce's House (Tel: 667 0184 if weather poor)
26 Cameron March (by Cameron Toll Shopping Centre)
Bring Meat (if you want to) and Booze. Sausages, salads, rolls and other basics provided.