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Geoinformatics Showcase
The Geoinformatics Showcase Scope and Objectives
Global climate change and shrinking resources have heightened our awareness of how much we depend on the dynamic and complex systems of the Earth's environment. Managing existing resources and unearthing new ones while maintaining a sustainable environment require an enhanced level of cooperation and an optimised use of our growing geo-databases, growing faster than we can read and index them.
The emerging field of Geoinformatics enables us to take advantage of the unprecedented amount of digital geodata and computing power available through electronic networks. Geoinformatics exploits the enormous potential of the World Wide Web and grid computing to organise the research community and link computing and data resources to allow users to turn observational and computational geodata into knowledge.
Geoinformatics facilitates collaborative multi-disciplinary research and increases our capacity to understand the Earth as a dynamic and complex system in which natural resources can be managed in a sustainable way.
A Geoinformatics Showcase, to be held on 31 October, 2-5 pm at the University of Sydney will review ongoing Geoinformatics research and address the following issues:
• Meshing Australian and international eScience ? How do Australian needs mesh with a global effort to address planetary-scale problems that can only be resolved through cross-disciplinary e-science for sharing data, concepts and design?
• Building individual excellence into national teams ? How are individual research efforts transformed into a nationwide effort, and how can they be linked to international centres of excellence and e-science programs
• Connecting earth simulation and observations ? How are observations connected to earth system simulation software and visualisation/multimedia tools?
• Linking industry, academics, and end-users ? How do we provide a link between researchers, end users, industry and the broader community for facilitating the development of research plans, the absorption of international and national know-how, and the dissemination of new discoveries made by individual researchers or research groups?
The Geoinformatics Showcase Program
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The Geoinformatics Showcase Presentations
Geoinformatics Showcase, Associate Professor Dietmar Müller, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
GMT: The Generic Mapping Tools, Professor Paul Wessel, Visiting Professor, University of Hawaii
Computational Earth Science in ACcESS, Professor Hans Mülhaus, University of Queensland
Data Inference in Geo-informatics, Dr Malcolm Sambridge, Australian National University
Simulation and High Performance Computing in Geodynamics, Associate Professor Louis Moresi, Monash University
The Relevance of Global Processes on Mining, Professor Peter Hatherly, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
Fusion of Geological, Geophysical and Mine Planning Data, Dr Suresh Kumar, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney
Geodynamic Modeling on an XGrid Cluster, Dr Patrice Rey, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
Spatial Modeling of Landscape and Environmental Change, Dr Eleanor Bruce, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
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