Z_GIS has won second place at this year’s Copernicus Masters „Best service challenge“ with its service „DS|Placed - Downstream Service: Displaced Population“, see some examples in this >>> map booklet <<<
Andreas Papp, Edith Rogenhofer and Petra Füreder attended the XVI Humanitarian Congress in Berlin from 10 - 11 October 2014.
The EO4HumEn project was disseminated by a poster and the new flyer.
Stefan Lang, Petra Füreder, Andreas Braun and Volker Hochschild attended the third common workshop of the DGPF and DGfG "Vom Potential zur Lösung" in Berlin from 09 - 10 October 2014.
The EO4HumEn project was well presented with 3 talks:
Stefan Lang held a keynote about operational remote sensing services (Operationelle Fernerkundungsdienste – Nutzen aktuelle Lösungen wirklich das gesamte Potential?)
Petra Füreder gave a talk about experiences and challenges of the long-term collaboration with MSF ( "Maßgeschneiderte Informationsprodukte im humanitären Einsatz. Erfahrungen und Herausforderungen in der langjährigen Zusammenarbeit mit Ärzte ohne Grenzen.") and Andreas Braun talked about Radar remote sensing supporting humanitarian operations – Challenges & outlooks.
Stefan Lang, Andreas Papp and Petra Füreder attended the GeOnG 2014 conference in Chàmbery, France from 22 - 23 September 2014. Stefan Lang gave a talk about "GIS and satellite remote sensing for humanitarian operations support" withiin the roundtable 3: "Satellite imagery: it's for you too!".
Presentation of Stefan Lang at the IGARSS 2014, Quebec, Canada under the session "Urban Remote Sensing": Monitoring dynamics in ephemeral settlements - the case of transforming refugee and IDP camps
Presentation of Petra Füreder at the GEOBIA 2014 conference, Thessaloniki, Greece: Object-based dwelling extraction in refugee/IDP camps – challenges in an operational mode
