GISD Portal

• June 2-7, Nairobi, Kenya
  http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/workshop/degradedlands/index.html
  VITRI (Univ. of Helsinki), IUFRO-SPDC and ETFRN In view of the overlapping objectives of both the GFIS Africa synthesis initiative on rehabilitation of degraded lands in sub-Saharan Africa, and the workshop on Trees, Agroforestry and Climate Change in Dryland Africa (TACCDA), efforts are being combined for these two initiatives to be conducted together for a greater impact in the sub-region. VITRI, IUFRO-SPDC and ETFRN Coordinating Unit will integrate these activities, pooling resources to organize an E-discussion (17 March - 25 April) and a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya 2 - 7 June, 2003. ICRAF and KEFRI have kindly agreed to co-host the workshop in Kenya. The final TACCDA workshop is planned as a side event to the Tropical Savanna Conference, 15 - 20 September 2003 in Edinburgh, hosted by IIED, the main organiser [ http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/bblza/sav2003/ ]. ETFRN will be providing the web and E- discussion platform for TACCDA and the GFIS-Africa project of IUFRO-SPDC. See for more information also the letter to participants from Atse Yapi, IUFRO-SPDC Deputy Coordinator for Africa & FORNESSA Secretary: http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/workshop/degradedlands/documents/letterintroduction.doc
  (English)
  http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/workshop/degradedlands/documents/letterintroductionfr.doc
  (French)
  The IUFRO-SPDC commissioned three background papers for the purpose of the e-discussion. These background papers can be downloaded from this website. http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/workshop/degradedlands/documents.html

• June 5-6, Pretoria, South Africa
  Expert Meeting for Southern African Countries SAC/CSIR is hosting an Expert Meeting on "Low to Medium Resolution Satellite Sensors and Disaster Monitoring" on the 5th and 6th of June in Pretoria, South Africa. It will be a closed meeting bringing together representatives from 25 institutions that are developing or are interested in developing projects in the area of space technology and disaster management. If your institution is interested in participating please get in touch with Helena Bosman hfbosman@csir.co.za or David Stevens david.stevens@unvienna.org.

• June 5-7, Ghent University, Ghent - Belgium
  http://www.geogra.uah.es/EARSeL/Workshop ghent.htm
  Joint International Workshop of EARSeL Special Interest Group on Forest Fires and the GOFC/GOLD-Fire Program Innovative Concepts and Methods in Fire Danger Estimation The basic activity of the Forest Fire Special Interest Group (FFSIG) is to establish personal contacts among researchers interested in the application of remote sensing and GIS technologies to forest fire research. One of the goals of the GOFC/GOLD - Fire program is to improve communication between satellite data providers, researchers and data users. Within this context, this workshop will serve as a forum for discussion and for sharing ideas and technical experience in this field of research. Special emphasis will be devoted to new analysis techniques to improve the physical interpretation of remote sensing images, and to the integration of different sensors.

• June 6-7, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mum/.
  The first MapServer Users Meeting. Mapserver was one of the first Internet-based image and mapserving engines developed for a project called FORNET. FORNET was funded by NASA in the late 1980's to the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. It was designed to serve forest inventory/compartment polygons overlayed on Landsat Images with supporting scanned aerial photographs. The software package is free. See: http://www.ra.dnr.state.mn.us/.

• June 14-20, Marrakech, Morocoo
  http://www.iaia.org/ IAIA '03 Conference: Impact Assessment and Capacity Building

• June 15-17, Antananarivo, Madagascar
  http://www.scgis.org
  Asa Soa Ara Jeografika Madagascar (MSCAR) Organizer: MSCAR; Theme: Environment Conservation/GIS

• June 23-25, Nairobi, Kenya
  http://www.atpsnet.org
  Progress Workshop on "Strengthening ICT Policy in Africa: Governance, Equity & Institutional Issues

* Dates and events are subject to change