Geoinformatics Engineering

3rd Workshop of Humanitarian Collaborative Mapping
2019-03-22 16:15 - 19:15 (Europe/Rome) | Politecnico di Milano – Room S1.5
IMPORTANT: New date: 22th of March at 4.15pm, room S1.5!
IMPORTANT. Due to the general strike, the event has been postponed: the new date and room will be communicated as soon as possible.

Dear students,
The activities of the course “Humanitarian Collaborative Mapping”, organized with PoliMappers, start again at the beginning of March! The next workshop will be held together with Resilient GAP, a students’ association at Politecnico di Milano which is working on environmental issues. In particular, during the workshop, the problem of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest will be discussed, with a remote connection with Geomatica UdeA, a YouthMappers chapter in Colombia based at the University of Antioquia. Researchers working on this issue will tell us about the relevant main problems and challenges.
Later we will map land use on OSM through iD editor. Be prepared, Resilient GAP’s members might need your help!
The workshop will take place on 8th march, from 4:15pm to 7:15pm in room S1.5

GIE-Works, the Geoinformatics Engineer works! Meetings with technicians, researchers and managers on Geoinformatics opportunities and jobs
2019-03-29 12:45 - 13:45
Dear students, we are glad to announce that the first Meeting of GIEWorks will be held in March, 29th, from 12:45 to 13:45 in Room S1.3. We will meet Dr. Eng. Simone Dalmasso, from JRC, and Dr. Massimo Zotti, from Planetek Italia.
Simone Dalmasso will give the speech From zero to Geoinformatics, the story of a new and beautiful profession.
Simone Dalmasso works at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) as technical coordinator of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service – Rapid Mapping, which provides geospatial information in support of emergency management activities immediately following a disaster at a global scale. Simone Dalmasso has a Ph.D. in Geomatics with focus on Geospatial Open Source Software development and he’s been very active in contributing to international projects in that field. Thanks to that and the university studies in remote sensing and geospatial information management he was appointed in the current role in 2016.
Massimo Zotti will give the speech titled Present and Future of Earth Observation.
Massimo Zotti is the head of the Strategic Business Unit “Government & Security” of Planetek Italia s.r.l., he is responsible for the marketing of application solutions and services for public entities and Defence at national and international level. Massimo Zotti is a passionate promoter of issues related to Geo-ICT and Earth observation. In 20 years of professional experience, he gained a good expertise in Geography, Geomatics, Remote Sensing, client-server and web oriented architectures, geospatial standards for data interoperability and open policies, notably in Earth observation
The meeting will be chaired by Ludovico Biagi, head of the MSc in Geoinformatics Engineering.

4th Workshop of Humanitarian Collaborative Mapping
2019-04-05 16:15 - 19:15 | Politecnico di Milano – Room S 1.5, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano, Italia
Dear students, a new event of Humanitarian Collaborative Mapping is planned for April 5th, from 4.15pm to 7.15pm in room S1.5. The event is framed within the European Night of Geography.The event will involve mapping buildings and villages in Senegal to produce risk maps related to schistosomiasis, a water-based epidemic disease, affecting the region of Saint-Louis. During the event the usage of JOSM will be explained, especially for OSM editing with the “Buildings Tool” plugin.

For the mapping activity participants must come with a laptop and a mouse; moreover they need to install JOSM (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Installation) and the Building Tools plugin (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/BuildingsTools) before the event. For any problem in the installation write an email to polimappers@gmail.com

Living Planet Symposium preparatory meeting @ Friday, 12th of April at 2:15pm in room CI.1
2019-04-12 14:15 - 15:45
For all the LPS volunteers, a first preparatory meeting is called the next Friday, 12th of April at 2:15pm in room CI.1.
The schedule of the meeting is
14.15
Prof. Lamberto Duò, Delegate of the Dean for Education and Counselling, Welcome and presentation of Passion in Action
14.30
Prof. Ludovico Biagi, Chair of the MSc in Geoinformatics Engineering, presentation of the Living Planet Symposium
14.45
Dr. Eng. Tommaso Parrinello, European Space Agency, technical presentation of the activity of volunteers at the Living Planet Symposium

5th meeting of the "Humanitarian Collaborative Mapping" course, May 10th at 2:15pm, room S1.5
2019-05-10 14:15 - 17:15 | Politecnico di Milano – Room S 1.5, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano, Italia
Dear student,
The next meeting of the “Humanitarian Collaborative Mapping” course will be May 10th from 14:15 to 17:15, room S1.5 building 3.
We are honoured to announce that the event will be held together with the United Nations. During the event, we will have the possibility to have a remote connection with Mr. Kyoung-Soo Eom, who is the Chief of Geospatial Information Section, in the Department of Field Support at the United Nations. Mr. Eom will talk about the usage of geographic information systems in peace-keeping missions and the importance of volunteer mappers. Furthermore, Mr. Alessandro Palmas will join the event. He is a consultant in the United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC). During the event, he will explain his work for a UN mission in Somalia and map with us on the task related to this mission.
Everyone is welcome to this meeting. Please remember to take with you a laptop and a mouse to do the mapping activity.

Living Planet Symposium and related Passion in Action
2019-05-13 08:00 - 2019-05-17 17:00 | Milano Congressi, Viale Eginardo 7, Milano
The European Space Agency (ESA) Living Planet Symposium will be held in Milano, from 13th to 17th May 2019.

The Symposium focuses on how Earth Observation contributes to science and society and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional Earth Observation landscape.

Clearly, an active participation to this event is of great educational impact for students in Engineering, especially for those studying new technologies for the environment, with a particular focus on Earth Observation data management and analysis.
The Living Planet Action is planned in strict cooperation between Politecnico di Milano and the Organizing Committee of Living Planet Symposium.

Participants to Living Planet Action will be involved in the Symposium for its whole duration. They will actively participate to the Symposium organization and management, as Symposium Volunteers, for two days and a half. In the remaining days of the Symposium they will have the opportunity to freely attend the scientific sessions. Both activities will be certified by Politecnico di Milano into a Diploma Supplement.
More information on LPS website
https://lps19.esa.int/NikalWebsitePortal/living-planet-symposium-2019/lps19
and Passion in Action webpage (find LPS in it)
https://www.polimi.it/en/programmes/innovative-teaching/

GIE-Works, the Geoinformatics Engineer works! Meetings with technicians, researchers and managers on Geoinformatics opportunities and jobs
2019-06-07 00:45 - 13:45 | Politecnico di Milano, Leonardo Campus, Room N1.2
Dear students, we are glad to announce that the second Meeting of GIEWorks will be held in June, 7th, from 12:45 to 13:45 in Campus Leonardo, Room N1.2. We will meet Dr. Eng. Diego Gonzales Ferreiro, from United Nations Global Service Centre, and Dr. Marco Mozzon, from HxGN Smartnet, Hexagon Geosystems.
Diego Gonzales Ferreiro will give the speech Geospatial Support in the UN.
Diego Gonzalez Ferreiro is currently the Acting Chief of the Data and Visualization Unit at the United Nations Global service Centre (UNGSC) based in Brindisi, Italy. He manages a team of GIS professionals delivering geospatial services and products to end users at United Nations Peacekeeping and Political missions. For the last ten years, he has worked as a GIS Officer in various UN missions, such as Somalia, Kenya and DR Congo. Previously he worked in a environmental consultancy in Madrid, Spain, where he studied. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and a Masters degree in Geodesy and Cartography.
Marco Mozzon will give the speech titled From the past to the future, being flexible worth.
Marco’s journey in precision surveying world with GPS (GNSS) and positioning services started more than eighteen years ago after many other working experience and a degree in Geology. During this exciting journey he learned and put into practices about informatics, IT, developing solutions as product and project manager, industrial processes and commercial matters oriented to customer satisfaction. He has been responsible for many projects and solutions in Geodesy, Surveying and Industry segment. From 2012 he is the commercial and technical responsible for the development and distribution of the wider RTK service in the world (HxGN SmartNet, EMEA branch) with the role of Product Manager.

Seminar: OpenStreetMap (OSM)
2019-09-24 14:15 - 15:15 | Politecnico di Milano – Campus Leonardo -Room B
The seminar is an introduction to the vast world of OpenStreetMap (OSM). It presents the data model of the OSM database and how to selectively download the data. Besides, it gives information on how to become an OSM contributor and an overview of OSM mapping techniques. The seminar also gives some practical ways to get various insights about how the database evolved in time and the community, to name a few.
Please bring your laptop and register before to OSM (https://www.openstreetmap.org).
The speaker:
Candan Eylül Kilsedar is a research fellow at Politecnico di Milano, specialized in geo big data web visualization. She has worked with OSM data in recent years, regarding novel ways to visualize the data and populating the database for humanitarian purposes through organizing the students of PoliMi under a group called PoliMappers. She had been the President of PoliMappers and currently she is one of the two faculty advisors.

Seminar: Advanced Visualizations with QGIS 3
2019-10-22 14:15 - 17:00 | Campus Leonardo, Room D2.5
QGIS provides a wide range of capabilities for exploratory data analysis and data-driven maps. This workshop covers QGIS map design capabilities. The core content covers:
• Setting up a project
• Using dynamic visual attributes
• Going beyond maps (diagrams)
• Designing print maps & reports
… and – if time allows – we’ll look into:
• Extra #1: towards the third dimension
• Extra #2: animations, geometry generators, and all the rest
Please bring your laptop with QGIS installed on it.

The speaker:
Anita Graser is a spatial data scientist, open source GIS advocate, and author.
Her research focuses on the analysis of movement data.
She’s co-author of QGIS Map Design and other books about QGIS.
For further information, check out her blog at https://anitagraser.com/about/

Seminar: Geospatial Information Services in Support of United Nations Field Operations
2019-11-05 15:15 - 17:15 | Campus Leonardo, Room C
The United Nations has been using GIS software for the past two decades to enhance the operational capacity of its operations in the field missions and the UNHQ. Whether it is a Peacekeeping, Special Political Mission or the Field Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, GIS plays an integral role in consuming and procession a vast amount of information and presenting it in an easy visual format that enhances the analysis and monitoring of the situation during the conflicts, awareness, planning and decision making processes.
The seminar will introduce the practical application of GIS and remote sensing for the United Nations field operations.
The speaker
Timur Obukhov is in-charge of Geo-analytics in the United Nations Headquarter. He has 19 years of experience in the United Nation’s demining, humanitarian and peacekeeping operations. Timur is currently a student of PhD Programme at the Sapienza University in Rome under the supervision of Prof. Brovelli.

Seminar. Geospatial interoperability in the European Union: the INSPIRE Directive
2019-11-11 00:15 - 15:15 | Campus Leonardo, Room NU.1
Entered into force in 2007, the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) aims to create a pan-European Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) to support the European Union environmental policies. INSPIRE is the largest effort ever undertaken to create an SDI and is currently seen as a worldwide reference model for similar interoperability initiatives. The infrastructure makes available resources (metadata, data sets and services) from more than 7000 data providers from the 28 EU Member States and the 4 EFTA (European Free Trade Association) countries. The seminar will introduce the INSPIRE legal, organizational and technical framework, describing the role and the current initiatives of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) for the technical coordination of INSPIRE. This will be followed by a practical, hands-on session focused on the search, retrieval, validation and use of INSPIRE data using available web and GIS software applications.
Participants are expected to have basic experience in GIS and to be familiar with geospatial data formats (including XML/GML) and OGC standards. Participants are required to bring their own laptop with the following software installed: a browser, the QGIS desktop GIS software, and a text editor (e.g. Notepad++ for Windows users).
The speaker
Marco Minghini took a PhD at Politecnico di Milano and is currently working as Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission – Joint Research Center. He is a GIS/SDI expert and an open source/open data advocate and user.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-minghini/

Seminar. How to access, use and share the Copernicus Emergency Management Service data with GeoNode
2019-11-13 11:15 - 14:15 | Campus Leonardo, Room C
– The Copernicus Emergency Management Service
– How to access Copernicus data, download and use them in QGIS
– GeoNode introduction and data publishing
– The modern technologies, Vector Tiles with a demo
Participants are required to bring their own laptop with the following software installed: a browser, the QGIS desktop GIS software, and a text editor (e.g. Notepad++ for Windows users).
The speakers
Simone Dalmasso works at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) as technical coordinator of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service – Rapid Mapping, which provides geospatial information in support of emergency management activities immediately following a disaster at a global scale. Simone has a Ph.D. in Geomatics with focus on Geospatial Open Source Software development and he’s a core developer of GeoNode. https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonedalmasso/?originalSubdomain=it
Simone Balbo holds a Master’s degree in Territorial and Environmental Engineering (Politecnico di Torino, 2008) and a PhD in Environmental Protection and Management (Politecnico di Torino, 2012). He is specialized in the domain of geoinformatics with particular focus on applications related to emergency management: GIS map production, geospatial data processing, satellite remotely sensed data analysis and web mapping development.Currently he acts as coordinator of ITHACA production site for the Copernicus Emergency Management Service – Rapid Mapping module and as tool developer in the same service.He also works on: i) GeoNode (geonode.org) based projects as developer (examples are www.masdap.mw and haitidata.org) since 2012; ii) the Copernicus In-Situ component (www.insitu.copernicus.eu) as consultant to the European Environment Agency on geospatial reference data since 2016.

Webinar: Introduction to OpenStreetMap and YouthMappers with PoliMappers
2020-09-29 16:15 - 17:00
OpenStreetMap is a free and editable map of the whole world that is being built by volunteers and released with an open-content license. The OpenStreetMap (OSM) project was born in 2004 to encourage the development and distribution of free geospatial data for anybody to edit, use, and share.
YouthMappers is a worldwide international network of 219 university-student-led chapters. It organizes, collaborates, and implements mapping activities that respond to actual development needs around the globe – creating and using geospatial data and information that is made publicly available through open platforms.
PoliMappers is a group of students of Politecnico di Milano whose main goal is to promote mapping. Established in 2016, PoliMappers is the 1st Chapter in Europe of YouthMappers.
The speakers
Chiara Ponti is the President and one of the founding members of PoliMappers. She is enrolled in the MSc in Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and is currently working on her thesis about satellite data processing for mean dynamic ocean topography models.
Federica Gaspari is the Communication and Social Media Responsible and one of the founding members of PoliMappers. She is currently completing her MSc in Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano with a thesis about the use of geolocated social media posts for the analysis of natural disasters impacts.
The virtual room to join
https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/meet/maria.brovelli

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Webinar: Humanitarian work in OpenStreetMap: from YouthMappers to the United Nations
2020-09-29 17:15 - 18:00
Unite Maps is a mapping initiative that aims to assist UN peacekeeping missions in their field endeavors, such as peace and security, navigation and logistics, by providing its peacekeepers with topographic maps that will help them in their tactical and operational activities.
Unite Maps crowdsources topographic data on OSM with a thriving community of mappers, the UN Mappers, ranging from UN personnel on the field (GIS groups, UN offices, military and police) to academia (high schools and universities), from local communities and NGOs to any remote volunteer in the world.
The speaker
Michael Montani graduated in Geoinformatics Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. He is a Senior GIS Consultant at United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC). He is Crowdsourcing Manager for the UN Mappers activities. Formerly, he has been Co-founder and President of PoliMappers and YouthMappers Research Fellow, modelling an endemic disease in Senegal with collaborative mapping and AI.
The virtual room to join
https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/meet/maria.brovelli
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Webinar: Geographic Information Systems applied to health and healthcare related data: Health- Geomatics
2020-10-06 16:15 - 18:00
Geographic Information Systems are a key asset in processing georeferenced data, whose collection and availability increased exponentially during the last decade, and is still rapidly growing, taking advantage of ICT technologies (especially with smartphones). The field of health and healthcare was not inert to this development: in particular, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are taking advantage of this technology, collecting georeferenced records of both emergency calls and interventions with ambulance dispatches. In Lombardy region, the provider of EMS, namely Azienda Regionale Emergenza Urgenza (AREU), has started building this kind of databases in 2015, and is currently collaborating with Politecnico di Milano to carry on scientific research. In this seminar, an overview of the main projects conducted in this context in the last three years will be presented, focusing on both the technological aspects and the potential application.
The speaker
Lorenzo Gianquintieri is a PhD candidate at Politecnico di Milano, with an interdepartmental scholarship between DEIB (Information, Electronics and Bioengineering dpt.) and DICA (Dpt. of Civil and Environmental Engineering), focused on research in the newly born field of Health-Geomatics, by applying Geomatics techniques and technologies to health and health-care related data, with specific target on Emergency Medical Services.
The virtual room to join
https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/meet/maria.brovelli

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