Webinar on NASA World Wind and the Europa Challenge

The ICA-OSGeo Lab Network and MundoGEO is announcing the fourth webinar of the “Open Geospatial Science & Applications” webinar series on February 13th, 2014. The webinars will be open and free to all on first come register basis. This webinar will be on NASA World Wind and also on the Europa Challenge by Patrick Hogan (NASA) and Maria Antonia Brovelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy).

More information on NASA World Wind Europa Challenge on http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/. Last year’s winning projects are at http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2013

To register for the webinar please go to https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/604781066

The schedule for the next three ICA-OSGeo Lab webinar series is:

Feb 2014: “NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology” – Patrick Hogan (NASA) and Maria Antonia Brovelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Thursday, February 13, 2014 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST

March 2014: “Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network ” – Chris Pettit (University of Melbourne, Australia), March 7th (time to be confirmed)

April 2014: “Things to do with OpenStreetMap” – Lluis Vicens (University of Girona, Spain) Date to be confirmed

Previous webinars recording will be available at both Geo For All http://www.geoforall.org/ website and MundoGeo at http://mundogeo.com/webinar/opengeoscienceandapplications/

Advisory Board of the “Geo for All” initiative

Big growth of the OSGLs which joins Geo for All initiative led to establishing Advisory Board on December 1, 2013. The ICA and OSGeo Presidents will be the co-chairs and permanent members of the Advisory Board. Others will have a 3 year term starting date of the Advisory Board being constituted (1 Dec 2013).The Advisory Board will meet once every six months by telemeeting and Advisory Board members will keep an eye on the developments and provide strategic advice to the initiative through various forums.

More on Advisory Board on ICA pages and Geo for All.