Bio
Reichardt is President and Chief Executive Officer for the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), a not-for-profit international industry standards consortium. OGC advances a range of proven programs to develop, test and globally release publicly available open standards that enable the seamless discovery, sharing, integration and application information in a location context across networks, systems, enterprises, organizations and jurisdictions. Mr. Reichardt has overall responsibility for Consortium operations, overseeing the development and promotion of OGC standards for worldwide use, and working to ensure that OGC programs foster member success. He works with other standards development organizations and professional associations to establish alliance agreements to assure that OGC standards and other standards work together seamlessly in support of local to global needs. Mr. Reichardt joined the Consortium in November 2000 as Executive Director of Marketing and Public Sector Programs; became the President of OGC and a member of the Board of Directors in September, 2004; and was appointed President and CEO in January 2008.

Bio
Jurgen Wahlen works since 1994 as an Image Analyst and Geomatics Specialist in the Operations Division of the European Union Satellite Centre. Prior to this, he worked for the Germany Military in the Intelligence Branch. Jurgen holds a Master of Science (Geographical Information Science) from the University of London.

Abstract
Geospatial Intelligence Support to Decision Makers (some technical considerations).
The European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC) is an Agency of the Council of the European Union. The mission of the EUSC is to support the decision-making process of the European Union in the context of the CFSP, in particular of the ESDP, including European Union crisis management operations, by providing, as appropriate, material resulting from the analysis of satellite imagery and collateral data. Providing timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence, considering standards and paying attention to interoperability, is of high importance for the EUSC. In recent years, civilian missions and military operations have shown that the exchange of geospatial information is crucial for success. Geospatial information is often derived from open source data prepared for a particular purpose. The difficulty of sharing, understanding and analysing this data is a hurdle for success. Therefore, a continuous development of new ideas to improve geospatial data production and to facilitate data exchange and data understanding is essential for the support of operational activities in a multinational users and systems environment. The EUSC is currently working on a new geospatial data production model. The structure of this model is based on the Multinational Geospatial Co-operation Program (MGCP), which is a widely accepted and used standard by the international geo-community. This new model will enable a better interoperability and understanding of the EUSC produced vector data. The main challenge is to incorporate the EUSC specific needs of applying image analysis at the scale of half a meter pixel size, providing sufficient detail to distinguish the status among features belonging to the same feature group. The scale and detail of these features is not yet considered by the MGCP data model. For this reason, the EUSC suggests new feature models based on DFDD (DGIWG Feature Data Dictionary) standards. In parallel, a new way of symbolizing and representing these new features had to be created. This presentation outlines technical issues towards a new way of geospatial data production and representation for civilian and defence related applications supported by the EUSC.

Olivier Cottray works at the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining as Information Services Coordinator. He is in charge of coordinating the Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA) technical support team and for liaison with the wider humanitarian and development community. Prior to joining GICHD, Olivier worked for the NGO iMMAP and for the UN Joint Logistics Centre as Operations Manager and GIS Coordination and Development Officer respectively. At the UNJLC he headed the development of transportation and logistics Information Management standards. He started working in humanitarian GIS in 2002 when he helped found the NGO MapAction, a rapid response organization that provides immediate IM/GIS support during the first few weeks following a crisis. He has set up and run emergency GIS cells in a number of countries including Pakistan, Lebanon, Colombia, Haiti, Sudan, DRC and Ethiopia. Olivier has lectured in operational applications of GIS at a number of universities and co-authored two chapters of Dr. Firoz Verjee's ‘GIS Tutorial for Humanitarian Assistance’ (ESRI Press 2010). Olivier completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography and Economics at the London School of Economics in 1998, then a Masters degree in GIS and Remote Sensing at the University of Cambridge in 1999. After graduating, he worked as geographic data analyst and aerial photographer for the British Antarctic Survey for three years before joining the humanitarian community.

Abstract
Development of a Mine Action SDI
This talk will focus on current work currently being undertaken to develop a Humanitarian Mine Action Spatial Data Infrastructure. The objective of this initiative is twofold: 1. Improve vertical integration of Mine Action data from field data collection to high-level reporting. Currently, the main Mine Action Information Management System (IMSMA) is very effective at collecting and storing data on Mine Action activities. Improvements are sought in making this information more easily consumable by operational and strategic decision-makers 2. Improve horizontal integration of Mine Action data with the wider humanitarian community. More efficient data exchange between the communities will allow Mine Action operators to better prioritise their actions based on humanitarian and development needs. Conversely, humanitarian operators require up-to-date information on anti-personnel mine hazards in order to better plan and target their activities. The presentation will first review the current status of Mine Action Information Management. It will move on to reviewing the current trends towards better vertical integration within the Mine Action community and horizontal integration with the wider humanitarian community. The talk will then examine the various technical options under consideration, with a focus on the Mine Action XML format (maXML) and the Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) prototyped by OCHA.

Peter is responsible for all aspects of product management, including product marketing, licensing, research, engineering, cartography and supply. He joined Ordnance Survey in November 2006 and has more than 20 years’ experience in product management and business development. Peter has worked in both the public and private sectors in GIS, location-based services (LBS) and mobile technology. His previous roles include Head of GIS at the City of Amsterdam, and senior product and technical management roles at Geodan, Autodesk® and Intergraph®. Peter is a director of PointX Ltd, the joint venture of Ordnance Survey and Landmark Information Group®.

Abstract
Be Interoperable Beyond Geospatial
Over the past decade Ordnance Survey has heavily invested into the development and implementation of geospatial standards across its product portfolio and production systems. While at the beginning of this journey geographic information was largely utilised by geospatial professionals, we have seen an increasing uptake of digital location information in mainstream information technology and by consumers. This presentation highlights the challenges this changed landscape presents and discusses how the geospatial community needs to harness and relate to information standards that are developed outside of the traditional geospatial information domain. Examples are the availability of new analytical techniques and processing power to exploit very large data holdings (big data). Location-enabling any kind of large data holdings offers a tremendous opportunity to the industry alongside new information management approaches such as Linked data, which is capable of creating additional value by interconnecting data. Concerning more visual technologies the rise of 3D in consumer technology is mirrored by 3D geospatial which, in turn, is heavily influenced by an expectation of enhanced user experience, in-situ information mash-ups in augmented reality as well as the dynamics of real-time computer gaming.

Prof. Kolbe is director of the Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation Science and chair of ‘Methods of Geoinformation Technology’ at Berlin University of Technology. He studied computer science from 1988 to 1993 and received his PhD in 1999 on the automatic extraction of buildings from aerial images. His main research interests lie in the fields of virtual 3D city, landscape, and building information modelling; 3D GIS; spatial data infrastructures; Web GIS; information theory; and object recognition. Prof. Kolbe has conducted numerous research projects in the fields of 3D city modelling, 3D geovisualization, and interpretation of spatial models. He is author and co-author of more than 75 scientific publications and international standards. Prof. Kolbe is initiator and one of the principal developers of the CityGML standard in the Open Geospatial Consortium (www.citygml.org). Since 2008, he is co-chair of a big European science network with 22 participating member states (EU COST Action TU 0801 on ‘Semantic enrichment of 3D city models for sustainable urban development’). Moreover, Prof. Kolbe is vice president of the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Geoinformation (DGPF).

Abstract
3D Interoperable City Models for Urban Information Fusion
Smart Cities and similar initiatives propagate a systemic view on cities, their structures, their citizens, and the utilization of resources by the latter. In order to support planning, decision making, and control of the system of a city, detailed information about the urban fabric are required. Virtual 3D city models decompose the urban space into its elements like buildings, infrastructure, vegetation, and water bodies. These elements can be understood as an inventory of urban assets which are represented both spatially by 3D geometries and semantically by thematic classifications, relations, and attributes. But only if the models are structured in a well-defined interoperable way, municipal development tasks in different domains like environmental planning, architectural planning, traffic planning, and strategic energy planning can utilize the same core data and make mutual use of it. The talk shows how the OGC standard CityGML facilitates this approach and how diverse applications like energy assessment, environmental simulations, and others make use of 3D city models and 3D GIS become an integration platform for detailed urban information. Examples for applications developed and implemented by municipalities or local governments in the EU or Germany will be given, among them are the Energy Atlas Berlin (incl. solar potential analyses, estimation of energetic rehabilitation states of buildings), noise dispersion simulation, micro climate simulation, and the simulation of failures of interdependent critical infrastructures. Attention will be given to cost reductions by demonstrating the reuse of models and tools for the diverse tasks.

Martin studied both Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Salzburg, Austria and the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, holding two master degrees. Previously, he was working as an engineer at Sony DADC. Martin is the chair of the OGC ARML 2.0 Standards Working Group, consisting of more than 40 international companies. Additionally, he is Wikitude’s representative in the W3C.

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3D in Mobile Augmented Reality
3D on mobile devices in inherently different from 3D on desktop PCs. 3D plays an important role in Mobile Augmented Reality applications, however, most of the 3D models available are not useful to mobile AR, mostly due to size, complexity, many different data formats and structures. In my talk, I analyze what the current hurdles and challenges for applying Augmented Reality applications to existing 3D models.