Az 1999. november 15-i amersfoorti rendezvény résztvevői számára készült az alábbi HUNAGI tájékoztató, amely áttekintést ad a HUNAGI akkori tevékenységéről és tagjairól (a magánszféra tagjainak felvételére 2000. évtől nyílt meg a lehetőség):
INTRODUCTION OF THE
ASSOCIATION
ACTIVITIES
- HIGHLIGHTS IN 1996
"For participants of the EUROGI-EC DG JRC Workshop on Data Policy
HUNAGI
Hungarian Association for Geo-Information
A Forum for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and Institutional Linkage
in the
National, European and Global
Spatial Data Infrastructure Development
INTRODUCTION OF THE
ASSOCIATION
Date of Foundation: November
9, 1994
Date of Court
Registration: January
8, 1996 Under No. 6812
Number Of Members: 23 (as
of 04/26/1999)
Legal address:
1123
Budapest, Alkotás u. 25 V.ép. IV/30
Postal address: c/o FVM FTF 1860 Budapest, Kossuth tér
11 (at the Department of Lands and Mapping, Ministry of Agriculture and
Regional Development)
Represented Sectors: Data
providers, data brokers and the users in
the following disciplines:
Land Administration and Management, Surveying &
Mapping and Related Standards, Remote Sensing, Geodesy and Satellite
Positioning, Geography, Geographical Names, Geology, Geochemistry and Mineral
Research, Plant Health Protection, Soil Conservation Services, Geospatial
Information Strategy, Spatial Data Infrastructure, GI Products and Related
Services, GI-related Marketing, Legal Issues and Data Policy, Public-Privat
Sector Partnership, SMEs in GI Sector (represented by HUNGIS Foundation),
Technology and Know-how Transfer, AM/FM, Public Administration Informatics,
Urban Planning, Village Renewal, Regional Development, Rural Development,
Resource and Environment Monitoring, Agricultural Informatics Information
Technology and Computer Sciences, Advanced (Multimedia, Distance Learning
Based) Education and Training, Internet Supported Spatial Data Services and
Applications.
Budget
(1998): Balance
in 1997: -126k HUF. Balance in 1998: 1697k HUF. Incomes in 1998: 280k HUF membership fees, 1000k HUF OMFB
grant,, 732k HUF RAVI subcontract payment, 2913k HUF balance of the 4th
EC-GIS Workshop. Expenditures: 1764k HUF EUROGI membership fee, 92k
GISIG membership fee, 83k office investment, 73k HUF operational costs, 100k
HUF sponsorhip of the ECO-BP’98, 988k HUF mobility (incl. cost of travels
related to the EUROGI Executive Committee membership). Additional infrastructural and mobility
support had been provided by the Dept.
of Lands and Mapping, Ministry of
Agriculture and Regional Development (MARD), National Committee for Technological Development (OMFB) and HUNGIS
Foundation.
AIM AND SCOPE OF THE ASSOCIATION
The
objective of the Association is to provide representation of the Hungarian GI
community's interests in the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic
Information (EUROGI), and to build up contacts with similar national GI associations.
Moreover, HUNAGI
·
carries out actions related
to the EUROGI membership and representation of its members' interest in an
international context
·
establish and forges international links in high priority
GI issues such as education, research and development, networking, applications
and co-ordinated joint actions,
·
distributes information to
international organisations, participants of conferences, symposia and
workshops about HUNAGI's activities according to the interest of the members,
with special emphasis on the development of the Hungarian GI related
infrastructure, service and applications,
·
collects information on GI
related applications, developments and trends via European institutions and
organisations,
·
supports GI related
international events in Hungary and provides representation on conferences and
exhibitions abroad,
·
promotes and supports the
services provided by its members such as the Hungarian GIS Market Survey, or
via exhibitions, conferences, workshops and meetings,
·
maintains a column entitled
"European Connections" in the journal TÉRINFORMATIKA, and
provides regularly news in GEOMATIKA and GEODÉZIA ÉS KARTOGRÁFIA.
HUNAGI HOMEPAGE AND WEB REFERENCES
http://www.fomi.hu/hunagi
(Homepage
maintained by the Institute of Geodesy, Cartography
and
Remote Sensing FÖMI)
CONTENTS:
Introduction of the Association (H1)
Aims and Scope of the Association (H2)
Members and Membership (H3)
Classified Documents (H4)
Selected
HUNAGI documents (H41)
Selected
National GI Issues (H42)
Selected
European GI Issues (H43)
Selected
Global GI Issues (H44)
HUNAGI activities (H5)
Projects
(H511), Presentations(H512), EUROGI(H513), Workshops (H514), Conferences(H515), Cooperations (H516), Publications(H517),
Térinformatika
rovat (In Hungarian) (H52)
1995
(H521), 1996 (H522), 1997(H523),
1998(H524)
References
and links (H53)
Forthcoming
events (H54)
Ó HUNAGI, 1999
Last update: March, 1999
Webmaster: Tibor Király (FÖMI)
Editor: Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp (MARD)
Remarks, suggestions or for more information
please contact:
gabor.remetey@fvm.hu or
hunagi@hotmail.hu
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
http://www.eurogi.org
(EUROGI
Home Page)
PUBLICATIONS & INFORMATION ON
HUNAGI
Hungarian GIS Market Survey'97 A HUNAGI-HUNGIS publication edited and
published by Bonaventura Ltd by Sz.Szabó (in English, under the auspices of the
former State Secretary responsible for the European accession at the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs. Foreworded by Martin Littlejohn of DG XIII E-2 of the
European Commission.)
Facing the Challenge of the EU Accession – the emerging role of GI and
RS technologies. Proceeings of the 4th EC GIS Workshop Budapest,
June 1998
HUNAGI's Activities. In: Hungarian
GIS Sourcebook 1998, Sz.Szabó (Ed.). HUNGIS Foundation, Budapest November,
1998 (in Hungarian)
Regular column in Hungarian GI journal: "European Connections" in TÉRINFORMATIKA
published by Bonaventura Plc. Budapest. News in the Monthly “Geodézia és Kartográfia”, Budapest
MEMBERS AND POINT OF CONTACTS
Agricultural Science Faculty, University of
Agricultural Sciences at Debrecen
Dr.Miklós Herdon, representative
H-4032
Debrecen, Böszörményi út 138
voice: +36(52) 347 888, fax: +36(52) 413 385,
:: herdon@date.hu
gita Hungary
Geospatial Information & Technology Association
Dr. László Csemniczky, president
H-1111
Budapest Műegyetem rkp 3 Kmf.16, postal address: H-1615 Budapest P.O.Box 187
VOICE: +36(1)
463 1146, fax: +36 (1) 463 3209
:: gita@mail.datanet.hu www.gita.hu
Capital
Plant Health and Soil Protection Station
Dr.László Szalai representative
H-1118
Budapest, Budaörsi ut 141-145
voice: +36(1) 309-1045, fax: +36(1) 246-2942,
:: novved@bendeguz.elender.hu
College on Surveying and Land Management, Sopron
University
Prof.Dr.Béla
Márkus, representative
H-8000Székesfehérvár
Pirosalma u. 6, postal address: H-8002 Székesfehérvár Pf. 52
voice: +36(22) 315 125, (22) 348
271, fax: +36(22) 327 697,
:: mb@geo.cslm. hu
Dennis Gabor Foundation
Prof Dr.Sándor
Sélinger,
president
RO-3400
Cluj - Romania Of.P.5, C.P. 737
voice: +40 64-420-454, fax: +40 64-420-454,
:: selinger@gdf.org.soroscj.ro
Dept of Physical Geography, József Attila University
of Sciences
Prof. dr.Gábor
Mezősi, representative
H-6722
Szeged Egyetem u. 2
voice: +36(62) 454 156, fax: +36(62) 454 000,
:: laci@earth.geo.u-szeged.hu
Department of Photogrammetry, Budapest Technical
University
dr. Gábor Mélykúti, Asst. Prof.
H-1111
Budapest, Műegyetem rkp. 3
voice: +36(1) 463-1187, fax: +36(1) 463-3084,
:: gmelykuti@epito.bme.hu
Geological
Institute of Hungary
Gábor Turczi (GIS), Péter
Kardeván (RS), representatives
postal address: H-1442 Budapest P.O.Box 106
voice: +36 (1) 220 6194, 251 1768 fax: +36(1) 251 0703,
:: turczi@mafi.hu,
kardevan@ind.eunet.hu, roth@mafi.hu
GRID
Budapest
Pál Bozó, director,
GRID
Budapest, Ministry of Environment and Regional Policy
H-1016
Budapest, Fő u. 44-50
voice: +36(1) 457-3369, fax:+36(1) 201-4361,
:: gridbp@kik.ktm.hu www.gridbp.meh.hu
Hungarian Academic and Research Network Association
(HUNGARNET Association)
Miklós Nagy, representative
H-1132
Budapest Victor Hugo u. 18-22
voice: +36(1)349-7987, fax: +36(1)270-9650,
:: h11nag@ella.hu
Hungarian Geographical Society
Prof.dr. Ádám Kertész, representative
H-1118
Budapest Budaörsi út 43-45
voice/fax: +36(1)309-2686,
:: h3978ker@ella.hu, kertesza@helka.iif.hu
Hungarian Association for Settlement and Regional
Development
Miklós Vásárhelyi, representative
c/o
TÁKISZ H-7633 Pécs Szigeti u 33/a
voice: +36(72)313-711, fax: +36(72)313-048,
:: bar@pannet.itb.hu
Hungarian Society of Surveying, Mapping and Remote
Sensing
Prof.dr. Ákos Detrekői,
president
H-1027
Budapest Fő u. 68
voice: +36(1)2021456, 4631187, fax: +36(1)3561215, 4633084, :: adetrekoi@epito.bme.hu
Hungarian Space Office URL: http://gis.elte.hu/hun4.html
Dr.Előd Both, director
H-1052
Budapest Szervita tér 8
voice: +36(1)317-8717, fax: +36(1)318-7998,
:: elod.both@omfb.x400gw.itb.hu
Hungarian Urbanistical Society (pending)
Gábor Paksy, representative
H-1016
Budapest Gellérthegy u. 30-32 postal
address: H-1253
Budapest P.O.Box 20
voice: +36(1)356 8202, fax: +36(1)356 8003,
:: vati@mail.datanet.hu
HUNGIS Foundation
Dr. Rezső Berencei, managing director
H-1243
Budapest P.O.Box 718
voice: +36(1)356 6794, fax: +36(1)356 6794,
:: berencei@hungis.datanet.hu
Institute
of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI)
Pál Lévai,
representative
1373
Budapest Pf. 546
voice: +36 (30) 228 029, (1) 222 5116, fax: +36 (1) 222 5117,
:: levai@fomigate.fomi.hu
John v. Neumann Society for Computing Sciences
Miklós Havass, past-president
H-1054
Budapest Báthory u.16
voice:
+36(1)332-9349, fax : +36(1)331-8140,
:: havass@rt.szamalk.hu
Mapping Agency of the Hungarian Home Defence Forces
István Kádár, representative
postal address: H-1525 Budapest 114 P.O.Box
37
voice: +36(1) 212 2786, fax: +36(1) 212 4390
Office of the Prime Minister, Secretariat of the Under
Secretary of Informatics
Zsolt Sikolya,
representative
H-1054
Budapest Kossuth tér 6
voice: +36(1) 268 3336, fax: +36(1) 268 3322,
:: sikolya@ itb.hu
Union of the Hungarian Public Administration
Informatics
János Bodnár, president
H-4400
Nyíregyháza Kossuth t.1
voice: +36(42) 314724, fax: +36(42) 314724,
:: zoz@hotmail.com
Hungarian Federation of Agroinformatics (MAGISZ)
László Pitlik Secretary General
c/o
Agricultural University Gödöllő
Department
of Agroinformatics
H-2103
Gödöllő Pater K. u. 1,
voice: +36(28) 410-200/2015 fax: +36(28) 410-804
:: pitlik@interm.gtk.gau.hu http://interm.gau.hu/magisz
VÁTI
zsolt Barkóczy, representative.
H- 1253 Budapest POBox 20
voice: +36(1) 356 820 fax: +36(1) 356 8003
:: zsbarkoczi@vati.ktm.hu
ELECTED OFFICERS
President and Chairman of the Board
Miklós Havass
c/o
SZAMALK
H-1115
Budapest Etele u. 68,
voice: +36(1)203 0285, fax : +36(1)203 0349
:: havass@rt.szamalk.hu
Secretary General
Dr.Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp
street address: c/o Depts. of Lands and
Mapping, Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development (FVM FTF),
H-1055
Budapest Kossuth tér 11, Room 431 postal
address: c/o FVM
FTF H-1860 Budapest 55 POBox1
voice: +36(1) 301-4052 fax: +36(1) 301-4691,
:: gabor.remetey@fvm.hu,
:: hunagi@hotmail.hu
MEMBERSHIP
According
to the membership policy, members can be voluntary societies, scientific
organisations, companies, local and central governmental institutions, NGOs,
foundations, or educational institutions. All members must accept
the Statute, and must be accepted as members by the Plenary Assembly.
The annual membership fees for economic societies, data suppliers, consultancy
providers and other legal entities are 35,000 HUF (134 EURO) and
14,000 HUF (54 EURO)
respectively. Sponsoring members
are welcomed. The General Assembly also appreciates donations and
contributions, whereupon the scope of the support will be defined in an
agreement.
ACTIVITIES
- HIGHLIGHTS IN 1995
·
Elected to membership at the
EUROGI
General
Board Meeting held in The Hague. (March)
·
Intensive support
of the GIS/LIS'95 Central Europe Conference and Exhibition via
international arrangements.
·
EC DGXIII Deputy Director
General Mr.Paragon-Collada welcomes HUNAGI's aims and
activity
·
HUNAGI invited EC DGXIII to
exhibit and demonstrate some of the EU IMPACT 2 GIS prototype products
at GIS/LIS'96 (June)
·
HUNAGI active participation
at GISIG's WELL-GIS Workshop in Budapest (June)
·
HUNAGI FORUM for experts from 22 countries co-chaired by experts of EC DGXIII and
CMI (June)
·
EC DGXIII has invited HUNAGI
to the discussion of the European GI Infrastructure "GI2000"
·
EUROGI (M.Brand) - DDGI
(K.Barwinski)- HUNAGI (Havass M.) summit, hosted
by the OMFB (Bottka S.) in Budapest (September)
·
Introducing GI2000 and its
message at the 5th National GIS Conference in Szolnok
(September)
·
Support of EUROSTAT/CESD
survey in Hungary on GIS/Remote Sensing
applications in statistics (October)
·
HUNAGI participates actively
at the Advanced Education Special
Interest Committee Meeting (AESICC) held in Sopron (October)
·
As joint action of HUNAGI
and the HUNGIS Foundation, the Hungarian GIS Market Survey'95 was
published under the auspices of Mike Brand, President of EUROGI
·
3rd General Assembly of
HUNAGI devoted to the legal establishment.
Recommendation on the establishment of the National GI Infrastructure Network
(November)
·
Joint Meeting on
Copyright issues in GIS with the
Industrial Legal Protection Society (December)
ACTIVITIES
- HIGHLIGHTS IN 1996
·
Co-organiser, Conference
on
GIS
in Regional Developments hosted by the Debrecen University of
Agricultural Sciences (DATE) in Debrecen, (January)
·
Preparation of the first meeting with the delegation of Geomatics Canada involving the MoA DLM,
Geological Office, National Forestry Office, Hung. Space Office, FÖMI and
HUNGIS Foundation, as well as the Hungarian Society for Surveying, Mapping and
Remote Sensing. In Budapest. (February)
·
Participation, EUROGI's
General Board Meeting at EC DG XIII (March)
·
Active participation at the 2nd
JEC-GI in Barcelona. HUNAGI presentation: "GI Policy To Support Harmosisation with the EU in Hungary" in
the session chaired by Prof.Ian Masser
president of the European Science Foundation.
·
Organisation of the 2nd
HUNAGI Forum with active participation of EUROGI,
European Science Foundation, Know Edge, Intergraph Central Europe, Geometria,
Dutch Cadastre, DBL(USA), SNI, GISIG and others.
·
Basic support of GIS/LIS'96 Central Europe by inviting top experts such as Profs. P.Dale (President, FIG) and G.Konecny (Chairman, EARSeL/Vice
President ISPRS), B.Kok
(Vice-president, EUROGI, President RAVI), I.Masser
(President, ESF), T.Bogaerts
(President, UDMS), Ch.Chenez
(Secretary General, EUROGI), F.Hegyi
(WG Chairman, ISPRS), P.Blankenbourg,
(Representative, EC DG I Phare Operation Service), M.Konecny (Vice President, ICA), Nick Land (Ordnance Survey) J.Vazquez-Caro (World Bank) and others.
·
Support of the WELL-GIS
Workshop of the Copernicus project driven by GISIG in Budapest
·
Active participation, 2nd EC-GIS hosted by
GISIG in Genoa sponsored by EC DG III delivering lectures presented by GISIG
members FÖMI (P.Lévai), GGKI (L.Bácsatyai) and HUNAGI (R.Waters, G.Remetey-Fülöpp)
·
HUNAGI was invited to the Panel
Discussion. Recommendation for EC DGIII/JRC to host the next EC-GIS Workshop in
Budapest. (As stated in the official minutes.)
·
Invitation to the Global
Spatial Data Infrastructure Meeting hosted by the German Umbrella
Organisation for Geo-Information (DDGI) in Bonn-Königswinter. HUNAGI was
selected as one of the 80 invited
organisations representating the worldwide GI community (September)
·
Active participation, Cluj-Napoca
GIS Workshop hosted by the Dennis Gabor Foundation (October)
·
Participation, International
Conference on Sustainable Land Use DATE, Debrecen (December)
·
The Genoa based GISIG has
subcontracted HUNAGI in frame of the EC Copernicus programme in order to
contribute to the achievement of the WELL-GIS project objectives.
·
New members. The Agricultural Science Faculty
of the University of Agricultural Sciences at Debrecen as well as the the Mapping Agency of the Hungarian Home Defence
Forces applied for membership in December. The membership has been voted by
the 4th
Plenary Assembly held on December 17.
ACTIVITIES
- HIGHLIGHTS IN 1997
New membership applications. The Dennis Gabor Foundation,
the Prime Minister's Bureau,
Co-ordination Office for Informatics, the Chair of Physical Geography of the Szeged University of Sciences,
the Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and
Remote Sensing, the Geological Institute of Hungary, the Department of
Photogrammetry, Budapest Technical University, the GRID Budapest KTM as well as
the Capital Plant Health and Soil Protection Service and the Hungarian
Federation for Agroinformatics have successfully applied for membership.
·
Participation in the
preparation of the 7th Földfoto Conference
on Earth Observation organised by the Hungarian Astronautical Society at the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (March)
·
Providing session
chairmanship, active participation of the International Meeting on "Administrative
Boundary Data Service in the CEE Countries" organised jointly by OMFB, Budapest and the European
Commission DG III, XIII and DG XVI. Issuing supportive Letter of Intent for the ABDS Project Proposal.
·
Support of the
Frank-Meixner Report on Current GI Police Issues prepared
for the European Commission by the kind invitation of Prof. David Rhind,
Director General of the Ordnance survey (UK). Participation by submission of
comments and suggestions of Hungarian GI
market players.
·
Participation of the 1997
EUROGI General Board Meeting held at European Commission DGXIII.
·
Introduction of HUNAGI at
the FAO
High-level Technical Seminar devoted to "Private and Public sector Co-operation in National Land Tenure
Development" held in Bertinoro (Forli), Italy, (April)
·
Presentation entitled National GI association in a transient
country: the Hungarian case in the Session Education and Awareness at the JEC-GI
Conference held in Vienna organised by EGIS
·
Sharing HUNAGI's experiences
with participants of the GISIG General Board Meeting (in
Vienna), delivering a lecture.
·
Participation of OLLO
2000 Tempus Project Proposal Meeting with SE FFFK, University of East
London, UNIGIS, Technical University Bucarest on Know-how Transfer in Land
Management in Székesfehérvár (April)
·
Participation, EURISY Colloquium on the theme "Earth
Observation and the Environment: Benefits for Central and Eastern European
Countries" with presence of Prof. Herbert Curien former Minister
of Science and Technology, France and
Károly Lotz Minister for Transportation, Communication and Water
Management, Hungary held in Budapest (May)
·
Organisational support of
the 25th
International
Symposium on Land Use Policy for Specific Applications organised by the
European Faculty of Land Use and Development (Strasbourg) hosted by SE FFFK,
Székesfehérvár (May)
·
HUNAGI paper on "Recent developments in promotion and use of
GI in Hungary" accepted for the Session "GIS in Central and Eastern Europe" by the 3rd
EC-GIS Workshop in Leuven (June). HUNAGI officer was invited to chair a
session devoted to "Future of GIS Research and Technology
Development" as well as to take part in the panel discussion of the
closing session.
·
Data provision for the GEOWEB
project lead by Scott Conseil (Toulouse) under the INFO2000 programme
(EC DGXIII)
·
Study completed for GISIG on
"GI Networking in Hungary"
in frame of the EU Copernicus Programme
·
HUNAGI was accepted to host
the 4th EC-GIS Workshop in Budapest
(June 24-26, 1998) Preparation has been started in co-operation with the EC
Joint Research Centre, Ispra. Announcement was made at the Plenary Session of
the 3rd EC GIS Workshop held in Leuven, Belgium
·
Commissioned by the Mapping
Agency of the Hungarian Home Defence Forces, a preparatory study on the Hungarian
Topographic Programme was completed by a HUNGIS Foundation team chaired
by Prof. Ákos Detrekői, with members
representing the home defence and civil mapping agencies, the Hungarian Society
of Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing as well as the Department of
Photogrammetry, Budapest Technical University. Today, all these participating
organisations/institutions are members of HUNAGI.
·
Participating in the
international "Administrative Boundary Data Service" Project Initiative of OMFB Hungary
·
2nd HUNAGI-DDGI
Meeting at Presidential Level (DDGI President Klaus Barwinski – accompained by Géza Apagyi, Head of the Hungarian
Mapping Agency, visited Miklós Havass in
Budapest). The German Umbrella Organisation for Geo-Information is one of the
strongest National GI Associations in the World. (July)
·
Based on HUNAGI initiative,
heads of the civil and home defence mapping agencies as well as HUNGIS
Foundation and HUNAGI hold their first discussion meeting hosted by M. Havass
on the subject "Copyright and Commercialisation issues in
GIS Data, Products and Services" on 1st September. The setup of
the strategy and workplan principles was agreed, and a comprehensive listing
of relevant CERCO, EUROGI and other
documents have been recommended for analysis.
·
HUNAGI flyer was distributed
in International
Advisory Board Meeting of the EC DG I on the PHARE Project
"Computerisation of the Land Offices" chaired by Prof. Theo Bogaerts at MoA, Budapest.
·
HUNAGI member SE FFFK
participates the PRONET/CCE project on Multimedia
Computer Based On-line Training and Support Service for Professionals in
Countries of Central Europe - lead by ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands
(since June, 1997)
·
Prof. Béla Márkus and the Secretary General
of HUNAGI have been invited by the European Science Foundation to Strasbourg
between 14-17 September 1997, to actively take part in the GISDATA Final Conference
"Geographic Information Research at the Millennium" attended
by 100 selected experts (four of them from the CEE countries) and also by some
Members of the European Parliament.
·
Recommended by EUROGI
President Mike Brand, HUNAGI was selected as one of the 100 invited experts and
organisations of about 40 countries representating the worldwide GI community
at the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference for a Sustainable
Development. This will be held at the oldest US public university in
Chapel Hill, hosted by Governor Gary
K.Hunt (NC) under the auspices of Secretary Bruce Babbitt (US Department of Interior ) and EU Commissioner Martin Bangemann. The participation fee
is sponsored generously by Geometria GIS
Systems House Ltd.
·
HUNAGI reviewed regularly
the content of the Journal for Spatial Information and Decision Making entitled
GIS
(Wichmann, Karlsruhe) for the readers of the Hungarian Monthly GEOMATIKA
·
HUNAGI has updated its
records in the CORDIS database (COmmunity
Research and Development Information System of the European Commission)
·
HUNAGI members FÖMI and SE
FFFK took part in the elaboration of the European GIS-related project proposals entitled
Administrative Boundary Data Services (ABDS) for the CEE Countries as
well as Water GIS and PANEL-GIS orchestrated by OMFB,
Hungary and GISIG, Italy respectively.
·
On behalf of HUNAGI, Deputy
Head of the MH TEHI (Mapping Agency of the Home Defence Forces) participated
the GEOINFO
SLOVAKIA'97 International
Conference and Exhibition held in Bratislava, 24-26 September 1997.
·
As "Public-Private
Partnership in Spatial Data Infrastructure Development" HUNAGI was
introduced to member country delegations via leaflets at the Plenary Assembly
of MEGRIN and CERCO in Nicosia, 22-24 September, as well as at the Domestic GIS
Conference held in Szolnok, September 24-26, 1997
·
HUNAGI member HUNGIS Foundation,
took part in the elaboration of the document "GI development and use in
the Public Administration" for the Working Group for GI of the
Coordination Office of the Prime Minister's Office.
·
Promotional activity is
provided by HUNAGI on a continuous basis to call the attention of the
international GI community on the ECO-BP'98 which will be held in
Budapest, September 1-4, 1998. This mid-term Symposium and Exhibition of the
ISPRS Commission VII has the following topics: Resource and Environment
Monitoring - Local, Regional, Global
·
HUNAGI participates at the Workshop
on GIS, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 8-10 October, 1997. Topics of the
presentation: "Land consolidation and rural development - proposed model
for collaboration of land offices and municipalities".
·
HUNAGI flyer was distributed
among the participants of the Expert Meeting of the European Commission ACE
Project on the Land Market in the Central and Eastern European Countries lead
by Richard Baldwin, hosted by the
Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre in Prague, October 24-25,
1997.
·
HUNAGI flyer was distributed
in the United Nations European Economic Commission's Meeting of Officials on Land
Administration (ECE MOLA) held in Warsaw with support of the European
Commission, hosted by the Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography. (October
24-29, 1997)
·
As an action of HUNAGI, the Hungarian
GIS Market Survey'97 will be foreworded by Martin Littlejohn of the European Commission, manager of the
INFO2000 programme.
·
David Schell, President of the Open
GIS Consortium has invited one or more of HUNAGI's academic member(s)
to join the OGC and participate the first OGIS European Conference, which will
be held in Strasbourg. This message has been forwarded to the Chair of
Photogrammetry, Budapest Technical University and the Sopron University's
College on Surveying and Land Management for further actions.
·
The just established Hungarian
Federation of Agroinformatics and HUNAGI have decided to be member of
each others organisation. This administrative action is planned for the 4th
quarter 1997. HUNAGI is one of the 38 founder institution of the Federation.
·
HUNAGI activities were
presented for and discussed by the Board of Trustees, HUNGIS
Foundation (October)
·
Via EUROGI, some of HUNAGI's
members got the opportunity to express their interest to participate as users
in the ongoing or planned projects of Telematics Programmes of the European
Commission.
·
Information on HUNAGI was
distributed during the Expert Study Tour of the TEMPUS Joint
Cooperation Project S-09459-95 (OLLO - Distance Learning Programme for
the Land Offices in Hungary) lead by B.Márkus of SE FFFK to the University East London, RICS and Ordnance Survey (November 12-16, 1997).
·
EUROGI Vice President Bas Kok
asked HUNAGI on November 17, 1997 to take part in a
European survey on existing legal environment in the context of
commercialisation of GI. The invited countries are as follows: United
Kingdom, France, Germany, The Netherlands, the Nordic Countries and Hungary.
The leader of the team of national coordinators will be a member of the Legal
Advisory Board to the European Commission DG XIII. The written invitation is
underway.
·
The top US GPS manufacturer
Ashtech has formally expressed its interest to organise a Seminar on Advances in Satellite
Positioning hosted by HUNAGI early next year.
·
Initiated and arranged by
the Geological Institute of Hungary (MÁFI), a member of HUNAGI, the
International Workshop on Aerial Remote Sensing will be supported by ISPRS
Commission III (Theory and Algorithms)
and VII (Resource and Environmental
Monitoring). The date and venue: 19-20 February, 1997, Budapest, under the
auspice of J.Horváth, Under State
Secretary, Office of the Prime Minister, and J.Nyíri, President of the sponsoring organisation State Committee
for Technological Development.
·
HUNAGI held its 5th Plenary
Assembly on 25th November 1997. 8 institutions have been unanimously accepted
as member.
·
HUNAGI was invited to take
part in the elaboration of the National Spatial Data Strategy
orchestrated by the Prime Minister’s Bureau, Coordination Office for
Informatics. Primary contractor is the HUNGIS Foundation.
·
HUNAGI flyer was distributed
at the Swiss-Hungarian Know-how transfer Seminar on Cadastral Reform
hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, on December 11, 1997.
·
Attended by HUNAGI
representatives, flyer and other promotional materials were distributed at the International
Symposium of Spectral Sensing Research held in San Diego CA on December
12-19, 1997.
ACTIVITIES
- HIGHLIGHTS IN 1998
·
The Call for Opportunities
in Telematics
Programme issued by EC DGVII on GISCO dataset updates was received by
HUNAGI via EUROGI. Decision was made by
representatives of HUNAGI, FOMI and the ABDS Consortium to take part in the
competition on January 8, 1998. Due to lack of submission partner, the proposal
never reached the DG VII.
·
Summit of Presidents of the
Austrian Society of Surveying and Geo-information (A.Hochwartner), the
Hungarian Society for Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (Á.Detrekői) as
well as the Hungarian Association for Geo-Information was arranged to take place in Budapest in the offices of HUNAGI
President M.Havass on 13 January,
1998. The Austrian delegation lead by President A.Hochwartner, also paid a
visit also to L.Jójárt, Under
Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and G.Apagyi, Director General of
the Ministry's Department of Lands and Mapping, MoA as well as
academician Á.Detrekői, Rector of the
Budapest Technical University.
·
International Advisory Board
members met the modul developers for a strategic discussion on the possible
follow-on actions of the TEMPUS supported Distance learning programme
devoted to the Land Office personnel. The novel education programme is a joint
development of the University of East London,, the Leuven Catholic University,
University of Veszprem and the GI Department of College of Surveying and Land Management of the University of Forestry
at Székesfehérvár on Jan 17.
·
Exams in English after the
first 2 and a half years long UNIGIS Course at the College of
Surveying and Land Management of the
University of Forestry at Székesfehérvár were taken on 23rd January.
Twelve students have received their certificate in presence of UNIGIS President
Prof. Jim Petch (UK).
·
Representatives of GISIG
(Italy), FÖMI, the National Committee for Technological Development and HUNAGI
have discussed their work plan related to international GI project proposals and
concerted actions such as UNIPHORM, PANEL GI and WATER GIS in Budapest on 26th
January.
·
Working luncheon was
arranged for HUNAGI by the Consul of the Canadian Embassy in Budapest on 4th
February, 1998. The objective was to exchange of views on the possible ways,
how to strengthen the Canadian-Hungarian commercial and
institutional connections in GI.
·
Early February, the Institute for Systems, Informatics and
Safety of the Joint Research Centre has officially informed HUNAGI on the venue
and date of the 4th EC GIS Workshop to be hosted by HUNAGI between
June 24-26, 1998. According to agreement, all HUNAGI member representatives
(including some potential new members and GIS-VIPs) have received formal
invitation for this closed shop event of the European Commission.
·
HUNAGI flyer was distributed
at the Steering Committee Meeting of the Officials of Land
Administrations under the auspice of the United Nations European
Economic Commission hosted by the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and
Cadastre in Prague on February 14-17.
·
HUNAGI was asked to give an
introduction on recent activities on the Meeting of Curators of HUNGIS Foundation
hosted by Geometria GIS System House on February 18.
·
By request, web
editor of the White House submitted the text of Al Gore’s cybertalk on the
„Digital Earth”, a vision of a high tech heaven for the year 2020. The
text was distributed for HUNAGI members and for the GI media community for
further dissemination. The text was received also via EUROGI.
·
HUNAGI was introduced for
participants of the Preparatory Meeting of the World Bank International Conference on
Property Rights hosted by World Bank’s Hungarian Office late March. The
importance of geo-referencing (cadastre), property inventory (land
registration) and time stamping was underline on the video conference held with
the World Bank Washington based Headquarters. This promotion activity was also
mentioned in the GI2000 web discussion forum moderated by Roger Longhorn.
·
HUNAGI flyer was distributed
at the ISPRS Inter-commission Workshop on GIS, Aerial Remote Sensing and
Spatial Data Clearinghouse. The event organised by the Geological
Institute of Hungary (member of HUNAGI) was held in Budapest between 19-20
February, 1998, with support of the National Committee for Technological
Development. Based on the agreement between ISPRS Commission Presidents Prof.Toni Schenk and G.Remetey-Fülöpp, approved by the
Council, the event was registered as official inter-commission event of ISPRS.
Dr. Beáta Csathó of the Ohio State
University and dr. Erzsébet Merényi
of the University of Arizona in Tucson, both officers of the ISPRS Commission
III, as well as experts from the USGS, Finland, UK, Germany and Austria were
represented the international expert community. Sponsored by the US- Hungarian
Science Technology Joint Fund, the event was hosted by the Geological Institute
of Hungary, Hungarian Geological Survey (MÁFI). The workshop dealt with issues
related to geospatial databases, state-of-the-art of tools and methods
including photogrammetry, remote sensing, airborne geophysics, multispectral,
hyperspectral sensors and methods, geophysical and geological interpretation
methods as well as multiple sensor integration. Dr. Péter Kardeván principal project scientist has submitted an
in-depth report on the workshop to ISPRS Highlights for publication
·
HUNAGI was invited to the
Workshop devoted to On-line/off-line data services supporting regional/territorial
developments organised by the National Committee for Technological
Development in cooperation with DG III, XIII and DG XVI of the European
Commission held in Debrecen, 4th March.
·
Over 190 abstracts from
nearly 40 countries have been registered to be presented on the ECO-BP'98, the official mid-term Symposium of the Commission
VII of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing devoted
to 'Resource
and Environment Monitoring' to be held in Budapest, 1-4 September 1998.
The Symposium Director is P.Winkler
of FÖMI, under the auspice of the Hungarian Society of Surveying, Mapping and
Remote Sensing, both members of HUNAGI. The 3rd More information on the event and follow-on
actions can be accessed via http://www.hegyi.com/isprsc7
·
HUNAGI was invited to
present its activities at the Member’s and Observer’s Day of EUROGI
General Board Meeting held at EC DG XIII in Luxembourg-Gasperich, 16-17
March. As liasion officer between ISPRS and EUROGI G.Remetey held an introductory presentation also on the organisation and activities
of ISPRS.
·
HUNAGI has been elected to
be member in the Executive Committee of EUROGI for the next two years. The Executive Committee consists of Mike
Brand, President of EUROGI, Jean-Claude
Lummaux President of AFIGEO, Jarmo
Ratia, President of CERCO, Klaus
Schüller of DDGI, Antonio Fernandez
Perez de Talens, President of AM/FM-Italy, Ian Masser of AGI, Kari
Strande of NKTF and Gábor
Remetey-Fülöpp of HUNAGI. The new Executive Committee will held its first
meeting in Marne-la-Vallée, 18 May.
·
HUNAGI was invited by project manager A.Fernandez
Perez de Talens to take part in the
BEGIN „Building the European Geo-information Interoperable Network”, an
ESPRIT program co-ordinated by EUROGI.
·
HUNAGI was invited by EUROGI to
lead a
Panel Discussion at the Meeting of the ESMI „European Spatial Metadata
Infrastructure” held in Lisbon, in May. The Aim of the ESMI project is
to create an European spatial metadata infrastructure by providing mechanisms
to link spatial data users with metadata services and providers using Internet.
ESMI partners are GEODAN (co-ordinator, NL), CNIG (Portugal), EUROGI, MEGRIN,
LISITT, University of Valencia (Spain). EUROGI’s activities will be the
organisation of panel discussions on the running ESMI (involving the
secretariat of RAVI), promotion and awareness of ESMI and product marketing.
·
HUNAGI completed the study
contracted by RAVI on „Commercialisation of GI in Hungary”. The document
(written by active co-operation of many HUNAGI members) was used by Prof.Bing
of the Legal Advisory Board of EC DG XIII in a Six country survey on
Commercialisation of GI including UK, France, Germany, Norway, The Netherlands
and Hungary. The final discussion of the material was held in
Marne-la-Vallée (at Headquarters of EUROGI) on 19 May.
·
The European Commission has
accepted the project proposal PANEL-GI „Pan European Link for Geographic
Information” for support. Coordinated by GISIG of
Italy and having participants from 5 EU member states and from 5 CE countries,
the project proposal was submitted in frame of the INCO-COPERNICUS – concerted
actions. By invitation, the kick-off meeting held at the DG III in Brussels was
participated by U.Boes (DG III), G.Saio (overall coordinator, GISIG), A.Annoni (JRC SAI), M.Konecny (Masaryk University), A.Frank
(TU Vienna), Ch.Chenez (EUROGI) and G.Remetey (scientific co-ordinator,
HUNAGI).
·
The ABDS for the CEEC „Administrative
Boundary Data Services for the Central and Eastern European Countries”
INCO-COPERNICUS project proposal was favourable evaluated by the European
Commission in the 4th Framework Programme (4FP, 1994-98). The
project co-ordinated by Szabolcs Mihály,
director of FÖMI has collaborators from e.g. Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Czech
Republic, Estonia, Latvia and Hungary. In Hungary the following institutions,
companies and associations are participating already the project co-ordinated
by FÖMI: Prime Minister’s Office, Mapping Agency of Hungarian Home Defence
Forces, Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Hungarian Public Utility for
Regional Development and Town Planning as well as HUNAGI.
·
FÖMI and HUNAGI have
actively participated the preparatory R+TD discussion meeting organised by
Vice President S. Bottka and Senior Advisor Vilmos Bognár of the National
Committee for Technological Development on 20th April with project
managers having success in the 4th Framework Programme or with
INCO-COPERNICUS project proposals. The views were also highlighted and
discussed at the ESPRIT Information Day (Budapest, 8th May 1998)
devoted to the last Call for Proposals in the 4FP. The present status of the
5FP (Fifth Framework Programme) was also introduced with special emphasis on
the options for the Central and Eastern European countries. ( http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/eitcist.htm)
·
HUNAGI representative in the
Executive Committee of the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic
Information was elected as Treasurer of EUROGI.
·
Budapest hosted the 4th
EC GIS Workshop. The event was organised
and prepared by DG JRC ISIS of the European Commission in co-operation with
HUNAGI. Among EC DG III funded GIS projects, lectures were delivered by
representatives of the Open GI Consortium, EUROGI, AGILE, GISIG, GEIXS, DG III
and DG XIII. The number of participants was over 120. The Hungarian
presentations focused on ongoing large programmes such as the Information Society
Technologies, National Geospatial Data Strategy related supporting actions, the
IT development of the Land Offices, the
GIS/RS impact of challenges related to the EU accession, applications in
regional planning, standardisation, as well as exhibition reflecting the
results in mapping (DTA-50), agricultural (CROPMON) and environmental
monitoring (CORINE), land consolidation (TAMA) touch-screen and map- based
Tourist Information System. A well attended press conference was also a
highlight of the public relation actions.
·
The Global Spatial Data
Infrastructure Initiative’s Executive Committee has the following members from
Europe:
Michael Brand, President of EUROGI,
Prof.Ian Masser AGI/ITC
Jean Poulit, General Director, IGN France
·
By invitation of GSDI Executive
Committee Chair Ms. Jane S.Patterson,
Europe is represented in the Advisory
Board of the Steering Committee of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure as
follows:
K.Barwinski DDGI, Germany
A. Fernandez de Talens AM/FM Italy
H. Graeff Fraunhoffer Institute Germany
B. Kok RAVI, NL
M. Littlejohn EC
R. McLaren Know Edge, UK
O. Ostensen ISO TC 211 Norway
J. Ratia CERCO
G.Remetey-Fülöpp HUNAGI
D.Rhind UK
F. Salgé IGN France
H. Weber Germany
·
Column on “European
Connections” was published in the September Issue of Térinformatika
·
The kick-off meeting of the PANEL-GI Pan-European
project
was be held in Brno, Czech Republic on 29 June, 1998. Represented by Pál
Lévai of FÖMI, HUNAGI was introduced via its home page using Internet access.
·
Paper entitled Hungary sets its National Spatial Data
Strategy (written by Zs.Sikolya-G.Remetey)
was submitted for the OIS Newsletter Washington DC as invited paper.
· The EC document entitled “A
Strategic View of GIS Research and Technology Development for Europe” edited by Alison Munro of JRC SAI’s
Environment and Geo-Information Unit, was published recently (having also some
contributions made by G.Remetey-Fülöpp
of HUNAGI). The vision statement of the document refers Robin Waters, extracting from his
paper he contributed to the 4th European Commission GIS Workshop
hosted by HUNAGI in Budapest between 24-26 June, 1998. Robin Waters, long time senior technical advisor in different
Hungarian GI-related Phare programmes says: “GI infrastructure for Europe
should enable public and private sector users to access appropriate levels of
up to date topographic and thematic spatial information in an interoperable
environment at a reasonable cost within a single, easily understood legal
framework covering copyright and confidentality. The data collected from
synoptic systems (remote sensing) may be centralised but the data collected in
individual countries should be coordinated under the subsidiarity principle.”
·
Study trip was arranged by
HUNAGI in association with the NC-NRW-HU sistership agreement
preparation on IT co-operation. A detailed programme was compiled for Zsolt Nagy of the State Planning Office
of North Carolina including visits at MTESZ, HUNAGI, Director General of the
Department of Lands and Mapping, Ministry of Agriculture, Deputy managing
President of the National Committee for Technological Development, VÁTI GI Lab,
FÖMI Remote Sensing Centre, the Rector and the Centre of Informatics of the Budapest Technical
University, the Institute of Electronics of the Ministry of Home Defence as
well as the ISPRS Symposium held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
·
Sponsorned also by HUNAGI, the
Symposium of the ISPRS Technical Commission VII, referred also as ECO
BP’98 was held in Budapest from 1-4 September 1998 devoted to Resources
and Environmental Monitoring. The event attracted 196 registered
participants from 33 countries of 5 continents (35 only from Hungary). Moreover
62 invited Hungarian senior decision makers and additional 59 professional
visitors were attended the open day devoted to commercial exhibitions and
presentations. From the scientific point of view ECO BP’98 was a great
success. Major application areas where
novel research and technology development methodology were applied include
hyperspectral sensing, environmental risk and/or site analysis, global,
regional and local monitoring as well as assessments related to sustainable
developments. The synergetic integrated use of RS and GIS technologies was the
case in the majority of applications. Major events of the symposium include UNISPACE III
Preparatory Forum, EARSeL session, GI for All (the theme of the next ISPRS
Congress will be held in Amsterdam, July 2000). The scientific research and
application-oriented developments were presented and discussed in 26 parallel
sessions (use of remote sensing e.g. in sustainable development, global
monitoring, geotechnical applications).
·
GIS PLANET 1998 Lisbon with PANEL-GI meeting. HUNAGI was represented by Pál Lévai of FÖMI September 7-9, 1998
·
ISPRS Council and Technical
Presidents Meeting Sept 7-9, 1998 immediately
after the mid-term symposium of the ISPRS Commission IV (GIS) held in
Stuttgart, participated by G.Remetey
·
EUROGI Executive Committee
Meeting Marne-la-Vallée,
September 21, 1998
·
HUNAGI’s contribution to the
GSDI “Case study of NSDI’s in Countries in Transition – Hungary” was accepted
by the Organising Program Committee. Four invited panellists will lead the
discussion, namely the general directors of ANZLIS, FGDC, NGDF and Geomatics
Canada.
·
HUNAGI’s Column on “European Connections”: was published in the October Issue of
Térinformatika
·
ESMI presentation (Zs.Sikolya-G.Remetey) at the VIII. National
GIS Conference in Szolnok on 24 September, 1998
·
ESMI expert meeting in Budapest September 28, 1998 hosted by the Prime Minister’s Office in
co-operation with HUNAGI inviting METATÉR pilot project team experts and
members representing MÁFI, VÁTI and FÖMI as well as EUROGI, the National
Committee for Technological Development and some relevant active partners in
the private sector.
·
Questionnaire was completed
by the SG of HUNAGI for Harlan Onsrud
(Univ of Maine) for a global survey on
NSDI/ NSDS lead by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (USA).
·
MOLA Workshop on Land
Market was
officially accepted and announced by the UN ECE in early September.
·
The project concept related
to the GI segment of the Integrated Administration and Control System
was presented at the National Water and Land Protection Conference organised by the
NGO KVIK (Environmental Protection Information Centre) on September 25, 1998
·
HUNAGI was introduced by GIM,
the Journal of Geomatics published by GITC circulated worldwide.
·
3rd GIS Workshop, Cluj. October 8-9, 1998. Organised by Prof.Selinger of the Dennis
Gabor Foundation, member of HUNAGI. International participation includes
experts and company representatives such as HUNGIS Foundation, MTESZ and HUNAGI
as well as Rudas &Karig (Tourist Information Systems and GI on Internet),
Bekes(Erdas) and Landinfo(MapInfo). The event was organised third times by the
Dennis Gabor Foundation with the main objectives to make promotion for the
application of IT and IT based technologies with special emphasis on spatial
data handling and analysis.
·
Report prepared on HUNAGI’s
activities was distributed to participants of the Meeting of Curators of HUNGIS
Foundation
held in Szeged, 19 October 1998
· The Annual Space Day was held
in Budapest on October 20, 1998 in presence of Dr.Gerhard Haerendel, President of COSPAR, Director of the Max
Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik. Based on the presentation
material compiled by the Technical Commission President, Peter Winkler of FÖMI presented the results of the ISPRS Symposium
as prepared by G.Remetey, P.Winkler
and G.Büttner. The event was hosted
by the Hungarian Space Research Office (member of HUNAGI) directed by dr.Előd Both, and the Hungarian
Astronautical Society under the presidency of dr.Iván Almár. It should be mentioned, the Committee on Space
Research (COSPAR) celebrated its 40th year in 1998.
·
HUNAGI’s hard core member Zsolt Sikolya of Prime Minister’s Office
attended the 32nd ICA (International Council for Information
Technology in Government Administration) Conference at Helsinki and
delivered a lecture on the use of GIS technology in the government level
decision making process. ICA is an international association promoting and
facilitating the informal exchange of ideas, knowledge and experiences on the
management, organisational impact and use of information technology in national
governments. It is an international forum for the support of senior management
in the formulation of IT policy to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of
government administration. Mr.Sikolya
read his paper in the session „Applied Speciality Applications”. The scope of
this session was to attract the attention of the experts to the recent IT
trends having ever increasing role in the government administration.
·
GIS and Remote sensing
content in applications related to the European integration The special session of the Annual Conference of the Database Service
Providers held in Budapest on November 12, 1998 shown more high-level GI
applications having remote sensing content as follow:
§
Cross-border applications in soil science (Prof.Dr.G.Várallyay et al)
§
Administrative data boundary database service for the CEE countries
(Dr.S.Mihály)
§
CORINE land cover database for Hungary (G.Büttner)
§
GEIXS European Geological Information Exchange System and its Hungarian
module(Dr.G.Erdélyi)
§
UNDP project on the applicability of DAIS for hyperspectral survey in
Hungary (Dr.P.Kardeván et al)
§
European and Hungarian Spatial Metadata Infrastruture (Z.Sikolya –
G.Remetey-Fülöpp)
§
PARCELLA – multipurpose parcel based information system (Á.Podolcsák –
G.Remetey-Fülöpp)
§ Geospatial knowledge base
development – experiences of European projects (Dr.B.Márkus)
§
The preparation of the ISPRS
Congress in Amsterdam. The ISPRS Commission VII
having Hungarian secretariat received the opportunity to organise 7 Technical
Sessions related to the activities of the Working Groups. Moreover, a
Commission VII Session dedicated to the Congress Theme “Geoinformation for All”
was also accepted. Additional Workshops and Tutorials as well as
Inter-Commission Technical Session themes have been elaborated by the WGs and
were submitted to the Scientific Program Committee lead by Prof..Martien Molenaar of
ITC for approval.
§
3rd Conference on
the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure. Having high level supports
from top level politicians on behalf of the European Commission and the
Department of Interior (USA), as well as international organisation such as the
Statistical Division of the United Nations, the 3rd Conference on
the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure was held in Canberra between 17-19
November. Hosted by the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group, the
conference was attended by almost 100 invited experts from over 20 countries.
Paved the way by Ms.Jane S.Patterson
of North Carolina, Mike Brand of
EUROGI and Peter Holland of AUSLIG,
the event was dedicated to institutional issues related to the need for for
multi-national, multi-lateral cooperation. Among the 20 presenters was HUNAGI
Secretary General G.Remetey-Fülöpp
who delivered a lecture entitled “Case study of NSDI in countries in transition
– Hungary”. The GSDI Steering Committee under the Chairmanship of Peter Holland, Director General of
AUSLIG had already made public the findings, recommendations and resolutions.
The recommendation 1 says: “The
organisational model recommended for the GSDI in the long run is the umbrella
organisation, which brings together regional committees, national committees,
and other relevant international institutions e.g. ISO, OGC, ISCGM, ISPRS, ICA,
etc. in the context of action-oriented principles of flexibility, inclusivity
and simplicity.”
§
UN ECE MOLA Workshop on Land
Market in Budapest. Over 120 registered participants of 20
countries have attended the first workshop of the Meetings of Officials of Land
Administrations hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development
of the Republic of Hungary under the auspices of the United Nations Economic
Council for Europe. Held in Budapest November 30 and December 1998 and
co-organised by ISPRS member affiliation Hungarian Society for Surveying,
Mapping and Remote Sensing, the Workshop discussed also the technological
aspects. The use of photogrammetry, remote sensing and GIS as important tool
and data acquisition component have been outlined and demonstrated among others
especially by Dutch, Danish, Czech, Romanian and Hungarian lecturers.
·
Participation of the Information Society Technologies (IST)
Conference. Vienna. November 30- December 2, 1998. HUNAGI was
represented by Pál Lévai of FÖMI
§
Participation of the PANEL-GI
Executive Committee Meeting Vienna, November 30- December 2, 1998.
HUNAGI will be represented by Pál Lévai of FÖMI
§
European Spatial Metadata
Infrastructure – Country Panel Workshop. The
full day international meeting was attended by ESMI project leader GEODAN, RAVI/ EUROGI, MEGRIN
and OGC/TU Vienna, representatives and experts of the Hungarian Geological
Institute, Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI), as well
as National Committee for Technological
Development, Scriptum and GeoX plcs etc, all involved in the development and implementation of the
national spatial metadata service pilot called METATER. ESMI has selected three
countries (Netherlands, Portugal and Hungary) to ensure direct feedback from
the data provider, data broker and data user communities on national level.
Spatial metadata services are integrated part of the nationwide infrastructure program in all of these
countries, having the aim to deliver services to citizens electronically and to
serve citizens, both public and private segments with special needs in the
Information Society. Hosted by the Hungarian Association for Geo-information
in-co-operation with the Prime Minister’s Office in Budapest, December 2, 1998,
topics as metadata standards, tools, definition of core metadata set, keywords
and terminology have been discussed, ESMI and METATER demonstrations were
arranged. The discussions were video transmitted using wide-band Internet to
the site of the European Conference on the Information Society Infrastructure
held in Vienna at the same time. Mention should be made, the ESMI project is
part of the INFO2000 Program of the European Union, participated also by the Space Application
Institute of the Directorate General JRC of the European Commission, providing
expertise in cataloging and servicing remotely sensed data.
§
Remote Sensing for the
sustainable agriculture and rural/regional development. In the countries in transition, especially in Central and Eastern Europe
in the 90’s, the privatisation of the rural lands had serious societal
consequences. In Hungary, more than half of the total agricultural areas and
30% of the population were affected by ownership changes. The new pattern
(shape, size and accessibility) of the agricultural parcels has been
transformed in a way, which is not adequate the family farming. The Dutch
consultant company DLG and some of the background institutions of the Ministry
of Agriculture and Regional Development held a two day exchange of views and
experiences in the computer assisted integrated land consolidation. The early
results of the 4-year long German-Hungarian pilot project on land consolidation
called TAMA were also demonstrated and discussed. TAMA Project, lead by Dr.W.D.Kneib of bfb contracted by GFA in
Bonn utilized merged SPOT panchromatic and multispectral imageries for site
assessments and landscape planning in 5 pilot areas. The remote sensing and GIS
based Hungarian nationwide crop monitoring program (CROPMON) lead by G.Csornai, was also highlighted by L.Martinovich.
·
Miklós Havass, President of
HUNAGI has received a Dennis Gabor prize.
·
HUNAGI’s 6th
General Assembly was held in Budapest on December 15, 1998. Both the report on
the 1998 activities and the Workplan for 1999 were unanimously accepted.
·
Invited by HUNAGI President M.Havass, an ad hoc group including V.Bognár, Z.Sikolya and G.Remetey-Fülöpp started to investigate
the possible ways how to reach better
operational performances by involvement of HUNAGI’s member
organisations. Recommendation will be submitted for the next General Assembly.
·
HUNAGI’s Column on “European Connections”: was
published in the December Issue of Térinformatika
ACTIVITIES
- HIGHLIGHTS IN 1999 SO FAR
·
Interview with HUNAGI
officers M.Havass President, and
re-elected Secretary General by Miklós
Varga, Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian monthly Geomatika
(Geomatics) journal on January 5, 1999.
·
HUNAGI member organisation HUNGIS Foundation plays a leading
organisational role in the Aerial Survey of Hungary program initiated by the
main data service providers and supported by the National Committee of
Technological Development. The first overall professional debate of the
Feasibility Study was held in Budapest on 7th January 1999.
·
Co-organised by the Czech
Association for Geo-Information (CAGI), the annual GIS Conference was held
in Ostrava on 25-26 January, 1999.
Invited HUNAGI paper on the evolution of the Hungarian Spatial Data
Infrastructure was distributed among the participants. Due to multiple schedule
conflict, the authors (Zs.Sikolya,
G.Remetey-Fülöpp) were unable to participate the conference.
·
Active participation of the EUROGI
Executive Committee Meeting held in Marne-la-Vallée January 26, 1999.
·
HUNAGI’s Column on “European Connections”: was
published in the January Issue of Térinformatika
·
HUNAGI member Mapping
Agency of the Hungarian Home Defence Forces has celebrated its 80th
anniversary. The ceremony was attended by State President Árpád Göncz. Managing
Director of the HUNGIS Foundation dr.Rezső Berencei received a medal from the
head of state.
·
HUNAGI representatives Pál Lévai and G.Remetey-Fülöpp took part on the Steering Committee meeting of the
PANEL-GI project attended by representatives of DG XIII, EUROGI, CNIG (P), Vienna Technical
University, Masaryk University, MEGRIN, ICI (R), Sofia Technical
University and GEOBID (PL) in Prague
early March.
·
The Steering Committee of the
Administrative Boundary Database Services of the CEE countries (ABDS) project held its meeting in Prague hosted by
the Czech Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Cadaster participated by
representatives of the co-operating international and national institutions such
as MEGRIN, EUROSTAT, DG XIII, DG XVI, and many more. The project meeting, coordinated by FÖMI, was
also attended by experts of the Central and Eastern European Countries. To
ensure synergy, PANEL-GI experts were also invited.
·
Entitled “Land registration
and cadaster - a fundement also for the Information Society”, lecture was
delivered at the UN ECE MOLA Workshop hosted by the NRW Verma directed by Mr.Klaus Barwinski. The meeting was attended by over 80 experts
of more than 20 countries.
·
HUNAGI took part the Annual
General Board Meeting of the European Umbrella Organisation for Geo-Information
in Luxembourg .presenting the “burning issues in Hungary” on the Member’s Day,
March 22, 1999. As treasurer, HUNAGI representative has presented the EUROGI 1998
financial report and 1999 budget on 23rd March.
·
HUNAGI’s member College
on Surveying and Land Management, Sopron University organised the
Annual OPEN-GIS’99 in Székesfehérvár on 8-9 April, 1999, where the most
important Hungarian GI-related projects and applications were highlighted
involving the public and private sector’s representatives
·
HUNAGI representatives took
part on the Copernicus project PANEL-GI technical meeting at the
Vienna Technical University hosted by Prof.Andrew
Frank in mid April.
·
“Cadastre and Land
Registration – fundament also for the Information Society”. Paper presented at
the Fifth
Framework Programme (FP5) IST Open Day organised by OMFB, Hotel Hyatt,
Budapest on 23 April, 1999.
·
International Workshop on
Metadata Standards and Services.
organised by HUNAGI and hosted by the Prime Minister’s Office (Zsolt Sikolya). Welcomed by HUNAGI
president Miklós Havass, the
participants introduced the state of the art highlighting the status of the
following developments and projects:
·
ISO TC211/15 Metadata
·
Addendum, narrated
contributed slides: ISO TC211/15 Metadata and related STANAG developments
(prepared by Dave Danko, NIMA) and
FGDC: ISO Metadata Standard harmonisation and implementation (prepared by Doug Nebert and Rick Pearsal)
·
CEN TC287 (Sz.Mihály)
·
Metadata in OGC (Maurits van der Vlugt, TU Vienna)
·
GSDI Technical WG activities
(G.Remetey-Fülöpp)
·
ESMI Project (Marcus Wandinger, MEGRIN)
·
The MEGRIN approach: La Clef
(Marcus Wandinger)
·
The new Spanish GI exchange
standard MIGRA (prepared by Rodriguez
Pascual Antonio Federico. English summary: Maria Tóth)
·
The Spanish Metadata Project
DIGA (prepared by Rodriguez Pascual
Antonio Federico. English summary:
Maria Tóth)
·
The GIPSIE project (Maurits van der Vlugt, TU Vienna)
·
Introduction of the Hungarian
Metadata Project METATÉR of the major data providers (Tamás Prajczer)
·
FISH metadata services (Prof.Béla Márkus)
·
The Hungarian initiative on
core spatial metadata and recommendations (Sz.Mihály,
V.Bognár).
·
Fritz Rembold desk officer, Land tenure
and Rural Development of FAO Subregional Center in Budapest
visited dr.László Niklasz, acting
director general of DLM MARD. The Land tenure policy and Regional Development
are subjects of future MARD-FAO cooperations having GI content.
·
HUNAGI leaflets have been
distibuted for the participants of the Preparatory Meeting of the Conference on
Maintenance and Development of Property Rights (MDPR) hosted by the
World Bank under the chairmanship of Jaime
Vazquez-Caro in Budapest in April. Feedback from Albania was received so
far. The MDPR program is a joint 3-year action of the European Commission, UN
ECE MOLA and World Bank.
·
HUNAGI leaflets and copy of
the IST Open Day presentation were distributed on the International Conference MDPR
in Vienna, referred as the “Vienna Initiative” hosted by the Austrian
Government, organised by the World Bank, UNECE MOLA and FAO. The conference
paid attention to the topics Green paper “Access to public information” in the
session devoted to the Information Society moderated by Ola-Kristian Hoff of the European Commission (DG XIII/E2). The ABDS
Project was referred and introduced in the Hungarian presentation.
·
The ABDS and PANEL-GI
Projects were referenced in the Hungarian presentation of the HCSO-MARD
presentation delivered by K.Szép and G.Remetey-Fülöpp at the Workshop on Land use
statistics for the CEC countries hosted by EUROSTAT under the
chairmanship of Rainer Muthman in
Luxembourg on 2nd June, 1999
·
5th EC GIS
Workshop Stresa, June 26-29. With contribution paper –
among others - entitled “Modern Land registration and cadastre –
infrastructural basis for applications in agriculture, rural and regional
developments” written by L.Niklasz acting director of DLM MARD and G.Remetey-Fülöpp of HUNAGI, delivered by P.Zalaba of MARD. Distribution of leaflets on HUNAGI for the participants.
·
2nd EU Accession
Workshop in the Rural Sector. Participating the
World Bank-FAO high-level conference devoted to the Structural Change in the
Farming Sectors of Central and Eastern Europe: Lessons and Implications for EU
Accession. GI-related issues were handled and referenced in the Hungarian
presentation given by G.Remetey-Fülöpp,
with distribution of leaflets on HUNAGI for the EU candidate countries’
representatives. DG VI was represented by Mr.Angelo Carro-Castrillo, WB HQ by Csaba Csáki and Kevin Cleaver, FAO HQ by James Riddel, FAO SEUR by J.Suchman and F.Rembold. Warsaw, 26-29 June, 1999
·
Active participation on the Bi-annual
Meeting of the Hungarian Society of Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing
held in Pécs, introducing the tasks to be solved in the EU accession
preparation framework called National Programme for the Adoption of Acquis
Communautaire. HUNAGI and Land Consolidation-related leaflets were also
distributed.
·
PRONET CE Workshop was organised by the SE FFFK (Prof.B.Márkus)
for senior decision makers of the sector Agriculture and Rural Development
including forestry, soil, rural development and agri-environment hosted by the
Department of Lands and Mapping of MARD on 12 July, 1999. The subject was how
to disseminate GIS knowledge in lifelong learning basis for the civil servants.
HUNAGI viewpoint was also highlighted and leaflet was submitted to project
manager Prof.Wolfgang Kainz of ITC.
·
Taking part on the Global
Spatial Data Infrastructure Steering Committee Meeting, hosted by the St.John’s College, University of Cambridge on July
18,1999
Steering
Committee members are:
P.Holland
(Australia),D.Clarke (South Africa), Jane Patterson (USA), S.Borrero-Mutis (Columbia), M.Brand (Northern Ireland), D.Clarke
(Australia), D.Coleman (Canada)
J.Estes
(USA), Yang Kai (China), M.Kidokoro (Japan), B.Kok (Netherlands), I.Masser
(UK), R.McLaren (UK), .McLaughlin (Canada), D.McKellar (Canada), J.Moeller
(USA), G.Remetey-Fülöpp (Hungary), D.Rhind (UK), F.Salgé (France), J.Wächter
(Germany), D.Robertson (Australia)
·
Participation of the Cambridge
Conference by HUNAGI member FÖMI (Sz.Mihály),
leading the “Workshop on Training” by
HUNAGI core representative Prof.B.Márkus
on July 22, 1999
·
Participation of the UNISPACE III
Conference sessions devoted to Earth Observations in Vienna, July
22-24,1999
·
Panel-GI study tour at the
DG JRC, Ispra (t.b.c)
·
Support and active
participation of the Conference on Agricultural Informatics,
Debrecen, 26 August, 1999 hosted by DATE, member of HUNAGI
·
HUNAGI was represented at
the EUROGI Executive Committee Meeting held in Marne la Vallée on September 9,
1999
·
Panel GI Workshop on National GI
Infrastructure at the 9th National GIS Conference in Szolnok, September, 24-26, 1999. The
workshop was attended by the majority of the 340 overall registered
participants. At the Conference six ministries and other governmental agencies
were represented by Under-secretary level or higher. The Panel GI Workshop was
chaired by director Emanuele Roccatagliata
(GISIG) and Secretary General Christian
Chenez (EUROGI). The following invited papers were represented:
·
Ch.Chenez (EUROGI): The EGII
·
Zs.Sikolya (PMO): Basic elements of the Hungarian Spatial Data
Information
·
L.Niklasz: Role of the Hungarian Land Administration in
the National Spatial Data Infrastructure
·
Gyula Szabó: Role and tasks of the
Mapping Agency of the Military Mapping Agency
·
Szabolcs Mihály: FÖMI's role and tasks in
the National Programme for the adoption of the Acquis Communautaire, Chapter Agriculture
·
Tamás Palya et al: PANEL- GI projekt management
·
Béla Márkus: The role of PANEL-GI in the
knowledge transfer
·
Vilmos Bognár ABDS CEEC as one of the
base service of the Regional, cross-country infrastructure
·
Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp: GSDI from the Hungarian
perspective
·
Promotion for GeoBIT -
multimedia presentation given by the German organisers
·
The National PANEL-GI
Workshop in Romania was attended by K.Tóth of FÖMI. HUNAGI’s contribution was
introduced by Ms.Angela Ionita
·
Conference on “GIS in Higher
Education”. Topics: Panel GI Workpackage 2 promotion with Prof..B.Márkus., Budapest October 20-21
hosted by the University of Horticulture, Budapest organised by HUNAGI member
HUNGIS Foundation (R .Berencei).
·
HUNAGI President M.Havass and HUNGIS managing director R.Berencei as well as G.Apagyi of MARD took part the 4th GIS Workshop in Cluj
organised by HUNAGI member Dennis Gabor Foundation, October, 1999
·
FIG Commission 3 Conference
on Spatial Information Management organised by HUNAGI members FÖMI and SE CSLM
(Sz.Mihály and Prof.Béla Márkus) October 22-23, 1999.
·
EUROGI Executive Committee
Meeting held in Marne la Vallée October 29, 1999
·
HUNAGI leaflet was presented
and submitted at the International Symposium on Spectral Sensing
Research (ISSSR) organised by the US Army TEC GIS/Remote Sensing Center
and the ISPRS Working Group VII/1 in Las Vegas, November 1-4, 1999. TEC
Director Dr.William E. Roper and
ISPRS Commission VII President G.Remetey-Fülöpp
opened the event. The event was participated by 117 experts of 11 countries. By
recommendation, two contributions of FÖMI (member of HUNAGI) submitted by Gábor Csornai et al have been accepted for the poster exhibition and will be
included in the final Symposium document (available on CD later). The
applications highlighted the Hungarian operational
countrywide crop monitoring and yield estimation, as well as the
waterlog monitoring featuring integrated use of remote sensing and GIS.
IN
PREPARATION
·
International Workshop on
Land Consolidation and Rural Development.
Organised by MARD-BML/TAMA-FAO Budapest, December 6-7, 1999
·
ISPRS Council and Joint
C&TP Meeting in Eger, Hungary April
5-10, 2000 hosted by HUNAGI member MFTTT (Prof.Ákos
Detrekői). On April 7: State of the Art in Selected Developments and
Applications of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Lectures given by the
Officers of ISPRS. Budapest.
·
GIS and Education. International conference hosted by CSLM of the Sopron University
(member of HUNAGI) (Prof.B.Márkus).
September 7-10, 2000
RELEVANT PUBLICATION
Zsolt Sikolya - Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp: HUNGARY SETS NATIONAL SPATIAL DATA STRATEGY. In: OIS Newsletter, Office Intergovernmental
Solutions, Office of Government-wide Policy, US General Services
Administration, Washington DC. October, 1998
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Notice:
This
continuously updated leaflet is accessible for participants of major domestic
and international conferences, workshops, symposia, open days, expert meetings
and seminars related to Geo-Information in association with HUNAGI members
and/or officers.
Some
of them are as follow: EUROGI General Assembly and Executive Committee
Meetings, GSDI Conferences, events organised by European Institutions (DG JRC,
DG III, DG VI, DG XIII, EUROSTAT), GISIG Projects Expert Meetings (Well-GIS,
PANEL-GI), INFO2000 ESMI Project Expert Meetings, ISPRS events, FIG Commission
3 events, UN ECE MOLA/WPLA as well as FAO events, EC GIS Workshops, ISSSR symposia, World Bank
Workshops etc. Suggestions, comments and addendums are welcomed. (The Editor)
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Action / Project
|
Prime actor(s)
|
Status
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National Spatial
Data Strategy
|
Prime Minister’s
Office
|
Draft completed
by expert group coordinated by HUNGIS Foundation and KPMG Hungary
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National
Cadastral Program
|
Ministry of
Agriculture and Regional Development (MARD)
|
Implementation
phase
|
National Topographic
Program
|
Mapping Agency of
the Home Defence Forces
In co-operation
with DLM MARD
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Detailed
documents submitted for approval
A Phare project
proposal has been prepared by MARD called “LISARD” for supporting CAP IACS having NTP
elements.
|
Geographic
Address Register
|
Prime Minister’s
Office
|
Drafting phase by
multidisciplinary task force group
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Administrative
Boundary Database
Service
|
MARD Institute of
Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI)
|
Implementation phase, refinement in cross-border
co-operation supported by the European Commission
|
National Spatial
Data Clearinghouse and Metadata Service
|
Prime Minister’s
Office
|
METATÉR and FISH
projects
Launched in
harmony with ESMI
|
Aerial Survey of
Hungary
|
Ministry of
Agriculture and Regional Development in co-operation with Ministry of Home
Defence Forces, National Committee for Technological Development
|
Just tendered by
the Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI)
|
Multipurpose
Parcel Based Information System
|
Ministry of
Agriculture and Regional Development
|
Definition Phase
draft completed
Phare project
proposal “LISARD” for supporting CAP
IACS
|
Some key projects related to the National
Spatial Data Infrastructure in Hungary"
Az akkori beszámolóból az is kiderül, kik kapták kézhez a HUNAGI információs anyagát. Az eseményen felkért előadás is elhangzott a hazai helyzetről:
" In co-operation with DG JRC, a Workshop on Data Policy was organised and hosted by Anton Wolfkamp, Secretary General of EUROGI (former regional director of the Dutch Kadastre) in Amersfoort on 15th November 1999. For the closed-shop workshop the following experts were invited: DG XIII Unit for information dissemination and filtering (Martin Littlejohn), EUROGI (President Ian Masser), DG JRC (SAI Director J.Meyer-Roux and A.Annoni), EUROSTAT (GISCO- D.Rase), GEIXS (Richard Annells), CERCO WG1 (Laila Aslesen), Austria (AGEO-Josef Strobl), Belgium (CC- J.de Smet), United Kingdom (AGI-Chris Corbin), France (Pascal Chambon, Bertrand du Marais), Germany(DDGI-J.Waechter, BZD-F.Hoffmann), Hungary (HUNAGI-G.Remetey-Fülöpp), Ireland (IRLOGI-Krysia Rybaczuk) Italy (TCC-Luigi diBello), The Netherlands (RAVI-Bas Kok, J.Berends) and Portugal (CNIG-R.Goncalves Henriques). As invited speaker, G.Remetey delivered a lecture on the Hungarian data policy situation prepared in co-authorship with Zs.Sikolya of the Office of the Prime Minister using references provided by P.Kardevan of the Geological Institute of Hungary.
The national report highlighted the following aspects as it was requested:
· Basic facts about the country: population, area, distribution of administrative responsibilities between central, regional and local government etc.
· Who are the main providers of geographic information: eg. role played by cadastre, national mapping agency, national statistical institute etc.
· The institutional context of national geographic information policy: eg. policies relating to access and dissemination, legal protection etc
· Elements of national spatial data infrastructure: eg. mechanism for coordinating national policy, provision of core data sets, development of national metadata services etc.
· Current burning issues under discussion: eg future of national mapping agency, freedom of information legislation."
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