COMPASS09 - GEOMATICS CONFERENCE, DUBLIN, 25 JUNE

WITH INSPIRE MASTER CLASS, 26 JUNE 

COMPASS09, to be held in Dublin on 25 June, is a key event in the Irish GIS calendar.

COMPASS09 includes many presentations that we hope will be of interest to you and all colleagues who work with geospatial data in a number of thematic areas - both those involved in GIS and data management and those end users outside the technical area.

Please visit the links below for full details, conference flyer and to register, and see the agenda outline below. This is a free event (pre-registration required) and is being held in the Alexander Hotel in Dublin city centre, readily accessible from Dublin airport and by public transport, including trains to Dublin and DART. 

An applications strand includes presentations from environmental, planning, transportation, flooding, forestry, biodiversity, and other sectors. In addition there is a technology strand, and exhibits and clinics with Ordnance Survey of Ireland, the National Biodiversity Data Centre, Magellan GPS, Cadcorp, ERDAS, and Compass. We are running our exhibits as "clinics" to allow attendees to sit down and discuss in full any particular interests or requirements.   

Also of potential interest are the EU INSPIRE Directive Master Classes we conduct - including one the day after COMPASS09 on  26 June - see the link below for details of this event.  These Master Classes are also held across the UK, on request. The focus is on practical considerations in how to meet the requirements of the Directive, which was to be adopted as national law by all EU Member States on 15 May 2009. 

AGENDA - COMPAS'09 - 25 June 2009

• Watermaps - the River Basin Management Plans mapping system - Tony McNally, NS2 Project.
• The Local Authority Self Service Pre-Planning System and associated planning management tools - Rick Love, Mayo County Council.
• BiodiversityIreland species mapping systems & its uses in planning - Liam Lysaght, National Biodiversity Data Centre.
• PRISM.ie marine forecasting system - integrated modelling & Web mapping - Brendan Dollard, Enterprise Ireland. (Brendan will also talk about support from EI for the development of new products or services.)

Land Asset Survey & Information Systems

• Land & Asset Survey Solutions - Case studies from transport, planning, industry & ecology. Gearóid Ó Riain, Compass Informatics.
• The Green Belt Forestry Survey & Mapping System - Real return on investment - John Ó Reilly, Green Belt Limited.
• Advances in asset inventory - integrating spatial video and LIDAR. Infoterra/ Compass Informatics.

Data analysis and modelling in Neighbourhood & Regional Planning

• Local services accessibility modelling for better local planning - Ciará¡n Staunton, Claire McIntyre, Fingal County Council.
• Journey time modelling for the Dublin area - Peter Cranny, Dublin Transportation Office.

Data analysis and modelling in Environmental Regulation & Management

• The Compass hydrology GIS toolkit & its applications in fisheries, water quality, and hydrometrics. Seth Girvin, Compass Informatics.
• Assimilative Capacity Modelling for Wastewater Discharge Licensing - the EPA Web-ACM System - Gavin Smith, EPA.
• Spatial Data Analysis for National Flood Estimation & Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment - John Martin, Office of Public Works.
• Unregulated Landfill & Extractive Facilities Risk Assessment - the EPA Landfill WebGIS - Fiona Ó Rourke, EPA.

TECHNOLOGY STRAND

• Cadcorp - Integrated Desktop & Web GIS
• ERDAS Imagery & Data Delivery Solutions
• Behind the scenes of ESRI ArcGIS Server
• Open Source Software Options for INSPIRE
• GPS Solutions for Mobile GIS

EXHIBITS

• Compass Clinic on Geomatics
• OSi Digital Data Clinic
• Magellan GPS
• Cadcorp GIS
• ERDAS Imagery Solutions
• Spatial video, LIDAR, imagery & thermal imagery from Infoterra & Compass
• National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland - operated by Compass Informatics on behalf of the Heritage Council.

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