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The Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic, CENIA and EFITA would like to invite you for the

Galileo and other Space Initiatives for Agriculture

which is organised within the frame of EFITA/WCCA 2011 (see www.efita2011.cz).

Workshop is organised by EFITA under auspices of the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic and CENIA.

Co-organised by the University of West Bohemia, Help Service Remote Sensing Ltd.  and the Czech Centre for Science and Society

Contact persons:Tomas Mildorf, mildorf(at)centrum.cz

Date:  Tuesday 12^th July 2011 15:30 – 19:00

Venue:           Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
classroom E255
            Kamýcká 129
            165 21  Prague 6 – Suchdol
            Czech Republic

CCSS launched new debian repository containing mainly GIS packages. http://debian.ccss.cz

This is the 4th newsletter for the 5th ECPLF conference, 8th ECPA conference and 8th EFITA/WCCA conferences that will be held from 11th to 14th July 2011 at the campus site of the Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague in the Czech Republic.

 In past years in world an extensive research and development work is being done to ensure information technology use in agriculture; long range wireless sensor network (WSN) creation for specific agricultural use. Existing WSN solutions are in experimental development phase; their implementations is not possible without the specific WSN technology developers’ assistance and they have a short working range (ability to guarantee communication between sensors only at a range of several tens of meters); therefore their implementation in large area is very expensive. Realistic WSN implementation is unthinkable without specific WSN technology that includes physical nodes, sensors, operating system, application programming environment, competence centre support. The paper describes new long distance RFID based technology implementation - VLIT NODE

Important message - For teachers of basic and secondary (high schools) schools  is participation free of charge

(Knowledge af English and German language and  knowledge of Geographic Information System is reccomended)

IGN, CCSS and University of West Bohemia  are organizing this professional event, following their long-time education and research activities to achieve better SDI/GDI awareness and closer cooperation in EUROPEAN BORDER REGIONS to adapt to the EU Strategy of “Europe 2020” and the Action Plan “Digital Europe 2020”. The EU Directives on re-using of Public Sector Information (PSI) and development of Infrastructures for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) are strategic opportunities and challenges for more than 200 EUROPEAN BORDER REGIONS.

Therefore, you are welcome to participate at this GI2011-X-border-SDI/GDI Symposium to be held as the “11th Sächsisches GIS-Forum” at May 23rd in BAD SCHANDAU (SAX) & “1st Bohemia # Saxonia GIS-Forum” at May 24th in DECIN (CZE). Both these GI2011 events should inform on the progress of EU-Directives PSI for re-using public sector information, as well as on INSPIRE about interoperability of X-border Data, Services & Applications, especially in EUROPEAN BORDER REGIONS.

The GI2011-X-border-SDI/GDI Symposium is presenting existing and still yet developing cross-border SDI/GDI Geoportal solutions to demonstrate the transformation, harmonization and integration processes of independent WebGIS-Portals into more complex SDI/GDI Frameworks.

Draft agenda for GI2011 was published. You can nof registered fro event

THE COLOGNE DECLARATION is alive document, which will be again discussed during Prague EFITA/WCCA conference. We would like ask you about active contribution. See full text on Slideshare.

The EU-funded projects FutureFarm, agriXchange and CAPIGI-network which joined together in GeoFARMatics 2010 in Cologne, Germany, from 24th-26th November 2010, recognised that agri-food and rural ICT must be an essential part of the European Digital Agenda for 2020. The process of building the Rural Knowledge Society started by the Valencia declaration helps to reduce the digital divide between rural and urban communities in Europe. However, new changes in the global food supply, growing demands on food quality and quantity, energy demands and environmental aspects introduce new demands on future knowledge management. The objective of future knowledge management should be to enable the agri-food and rural communities to react adequately to these changes. For this reason, knowledge management has to become part of the agri-food and rural production system. This requires a clear vision, which has to be based on discussions with farmers, experts, politicians and other stakeholders.

The 3rd newsletter for the 5th ECPLF conference, 8th ECPA conference and 8th EFITA/WCCA conferences that will be held from 11th to 14th July 2011 at the campus site of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague in the Czech Republic was published.

Purpose of the workshop

The purpose of workshop is to stimulate active discussion about utilisation of new space technologies in Agriculture. Active participation on workshop is welcomed. In case you are interested in actively participating, please contact Karel Charvat.