Nordic webinar on student’s projects | Geoforum
A Nordic webinar on student’s projects in relation to geodata is to be held on May 7th 2023.
Due to different time zones the webinar starts in Iceland at 12:00 PM (GMT), in Sweden, Denmark and Norway at 2:00 PM (GMT+1, summertime), and in Finland at 3:00 PM (GMT+2, summertime).
GI Norden arranges the free webinar with speakers from the Nordic countries.
Hear more about what students in the Nordic countries specialise in and what the hot topics of Today are. Good examples of the society of the future will be given.
Preliminary program
02.00 (GMT+1): Welcome to the GI Norden webinar.
02.05 – 03.50: A program on student’s projects in relation to geodata is being elaborated
02.05: Visualizing flood disasters of the Global South. Ohto Nygren, University of Turku, Finland
By automating a global geospatial data set analysis I will be visualizing flood disasters in the cities of the Global South. Flooding is the most devastating natural hazard affecting tens of millions of people yearly and causing billions of USD dollars in damages globally. The people most affected by flooding globally are those with a high level of everyday vulnerability and limited resources for flood protection and recovery. Geospatial data from the Global South is severely lacking, and geospatial proficiency needs to be improved at a local level so that geospatial data and data analysis can be efficiently utilized in disaster risk reduction schemes and urban planning in the Global South.
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02.25: On extracting weather information along a travel route for spatio-temporal weather maps. Johannes Karstein Midtbø, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
This thesis explore spatio-temporal maps for extracting information about the weather along a route. Easy comparison of weather information if there is a change in space, in addition to time, is a challenging task. To address this problem, a spatio-temporal map was created in the geomatics specialization project in the fall of 2022. This new approach shows the weather at the presumed arrival time at intermediate points along the route. This facilitated the necessity to compare this new map with more classical weather maps and tables.
02.45: Estimating the GIS potential of Local Water Retention solutions for roof runoff. Mads Peter Hornstrup Hansen and Louis Tonn-Petersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
With the more frequent and stronger cloudburst due to climate change, cities become more vulnerable and less resilient to these events. This can cause pressure on the sewage system, thus making it less functional in some areas. Urbanized areas pose a bigger risk due to the potential runoff of water as it can, generally, not retain it with the predominant asphalt paved surfaces. Cities such as Copenhagen have been researching methods to reduce the impact of such events on the city. Copenhagen has had very big economical damage with the summer cloudburst of 2011 and 2014. By segmenting and classifying roof faces of building polygons, we urge to delimit and analyze the areas near the roof face. Thereby, many parameters may be estimated and used to uncover the potential for establishing Local Water Retention solutions.
03.05: To be announced. NN, Iceland
More information on the presentation is being elaborated…
03.25: On the possibilities of Open Geodata. Marcus Svennefalk and Simon Thalin, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
In our masters thesis we have conducted a survey to identify suitable respondents for in-depth studies interviews. In brief, our study focused on business models based on open data. We have explored how value creation, delivery and capture look like in open geodata, i.e. how organizations look at revenue streams, as well as its potential for sustainable development and innovation.
03.45: Discussion
04.00: Webinar ends
Host and moderator of the webinar
Host and moderator of the webinar: Birgitte Wang Schumacher, GeoForum Norge
Q&A manager of the webinar: Miika Kostamo, GeoForum Finland
Registration
All members of one of the Nordic geofora (GeoForum Finland, Geoforum Sverige, GeoForum Norge, LISA Iceland, or Geoforum Danmark) will be granted access for free upon registration. For this webinar the board of GI Norden has decided also to grant a free access for non-members upon registration.
The webinar takes place in the Livehouse (a Danish webinar platform). A link for sign-up and subsequent participation will be sent to registered participants in the morning at the day of the webinar.
