Seminar Series 2010
You are invited to attend the Department of Geomatics
Research Seminar Series. Seminars provide a forum for academics, research staff,
students and visitors
to present their research. The seminar is public. Seminars with
presentations by
visiting researchers are held jointly with SSSI Victoria and credited by
1 CPD for SSSI members.
Seminars are generally held on Wednesdays at 4:30pm (unless
stated
otherwise), in Engineering Block C, 4th floor, Theatre C1. Every last Wednesday of the month we offer an afternoon
tea before the seminar, at 4pm in the Geomatics staff meeting room.
Contact Dr Stephan Winter (winter@unimelb.edu.au) for more information on the seminar.
Date |
Venue |
Speaker |
Title |
| Wednesday, 7 April 2010 | C1 | Prof Georg Gartner Vienna University of Technology |
Joint Seminar with SSSI Victoria, Spatial Information and Cartography Commission (1 CPD) Applications of LBS: About setting up pedestrian navigation services Cartography is seen by many as facing a change of paradigms currently, triggered by technological challenges. As a result of innovative available technologies like the Internet, Multimedia and telecommunication infrastructure it becomes considerable, that cartographic communication processes can be realized which deliver user-tailored information to a specific user everywhere (“ubiquitous”) and anytime. The part of scientific cartography analyzing such conceptions is called “ubiquitous cartography”. This paper reviews a selected set of applications, especially location based services (LBS) and within LBS especially pedestrian navigation services. The review illustrates the enormous diversity of fundamental questions which are appearing when trying to support pedestrian wayfinding and the extent to which they are becoming pervasive. By discussing the main decisive aspects for navigation services, namely positioning, modelling and presentation aspects, various results of projects in the domain of LBS and pedestrian navigation support at the Vienna University of Technology are discussed and the “road map” on tackling open research questions is presented. Georg Gartner is Full Professor at the Research Group in Cartography at the Vienna University of Technology. He holds graduate qualifications in geography and cartography from the University of Vienna and received his Ph.D. and his Habilitation from the Vienna University of Technology. He was awarded a Fulbright grant to the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1997 and a research visiting fellowship to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2000, to South China Normal University in 2006 and to the University of Nottingham in 2009. He serves as Vice-President of the International Cartographic Association. He is Dean for Academic Affairs for Geodesy and Geoinformation at Vienna University of Technology. He is responsible organizer of the International Symposia on Location Based Services & TeleCartography and Editor of the Book Series “Lecture Notes on Geoinformation and Cartography” by Springer and Editor of the Journal on LBS by Taylor & Francis. |
| Wednesday, 10 February 2010 | tba. | Dr. Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki, Dept. of Geoinformatic Eng., Inha University, South Korea | An Ontology- Driven Personalized Navigation System This seminar will cover a new generation of intelligent navigation system using various technologies such as: Context-awareness, User modelling, Personalization, Multi- criteria decision making and Analytical Network Process (ANP). |
| Wednesday, 3 February 2010 | Harold White Theatre, Arts Centre | Sheelan Vaez Dept of Geomatics | Building a Seamless SDI for Land and Marine Environments (PhD completion) Current SDI design is focused on access to land or marine related datasets, with most SDI initiatives stopping at either the land-ward or marine-ward boundary of the coastline, institutionally and/or spatially. This research designs, develops and tests a seamless SDI model using a case study methodology covering the land and marine environment. The model facilitates greater access to more interoperable spatial information enabling a more integrated approach to sustainable management of the coastal zone. |