During the 2nd GKI Summit, WGIC’s Executive Director Barbara Ryan discussed the position of the geospatial industry in the context of the Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI).
Join WGIC at GeoIgnite 2022, Canada’s National Geospatial Conference, with this year’s theme on Climate Change. We will be organizing a workshop on Earth Observations and Climate.
Geo Week is at the intersection of geospatial + the built world, bringing together AEC Next, SPAR 3D, and the International Lidar Mapping Forum. WGIC is a supporting organization of Geo Week 2022.
This workshop brought the concept of PPP business models before the Indian geospatial leaders from both the Public and Private sector.
At the Geospatial World Forum (GWF), one of the first physical global events in one and a half years, the World Geospatial Industry Council successfully presented itself during several workshops, panel discussions, presentations and meetings.
On August 19, 2021 the World Geospatial Industry Council , in collaboration with the UN-GGIM: Private Sector Network and UN-GGIM: Academic Network present a Virtual Webinar (Microsoft Teams) on Public Private Partnerships.
GeoTechVision’s Virtual Summer Tech-Camp takes place from August 16 – 20th, 2021 and it’s on Zoom.
On August 9, 2021, Oracle joins in in buildingSMART Launch Webinar on BCF (BIM Collaboration Format) 3.0.
ITU Telecom World started out life in Geneva in 1971, with “a message to the 21st century”. In 1971 ICT was all about telecoms; voice over a fixed infrastructure, run by national operators out of government departments.
On Thursday, 29 April 2021, 9-10 AM (NY time), the offcial launch of the ARIES for SEEA Explorer took place. It’s a new open-source and user-friendly digital technology which enables standardized and customizable ecosystem accounting.
June 15th and 16th 2021, the Earth Archive Virtual Congress presented several prominent speakers from the geospatial community. WGIC’s Executive director Barbara Ryan joined in a fire-side chat.
During the EXPANDEO event, WGIC Secretariat participated in the FIRE Forum, which pinpointed current and future opportunities for Earth Observation uptake in six sectors: agriculture, energy (wind), infrastructure, marine, raw materials and urban development.
As a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions, WGIC Member Hexagon AB announced it will host a Capital Markets Day on 29 September 2021.
RIEGL will be hosting free webinars in the month of June.
On April 30, 2021 there will be a webinar dedicated to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) capabilities that WGIC member e-GEOS can deploy using COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation and a combination of SAR data from both COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation and SAOCOM, the Argentinean SAR Constellation.
Within ITU’s Digital World Awards 2021, there will be a special category for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Deadline for applications: 3 September 2021.
The official launch of WGIC’s latest report, “Geospatial AI/ML (GeoAI) Applications and Policies – A Global Perspective”, took place on April 13th, 2021, during AI for Good, an event organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Recently, The Ocean Exchange and the Marine Technology Society (MTS) teamed up to offer a joint webinar series – Engaging with the Blue Economy. The webinar series focuses on all facets of the Blue Economy with the goal of recognizing the importance of the ocean to our lives every day.
WGIC Executive Director Barbara Ryan was featured at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group on Capacity Building and Data Democracy (WGCapD).
The Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI) Summit, a virtual two-day intensive program, spawned a host of new stakeholders into the geospatial ‘ecosystem’ of location data and mapping capabilities.