The workshop has been organized by the FAO Environment and Natural Resources Service (SDRN) and WFP Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) Unit to promote communication among all the staff (users, developers and managers) involved in the GeoNetwork project coming from different UN Agencies such as FAO, WFP, UNEP, WHO, OCHA and UNHCR, as well as strategic partners including CGIAR, FEWSNET, GMES, ESA, FGDC and Dutch and Czech national partners.

The core of the workshop consisted of two days of dedicated sessions on: 1) assessment of achieved results from current GeoNetwork nodes; 2) presentations by new partners; 3) establishment of a steering committee; 4) discussion of new GeoNetwork requirements, work plan formulation with a common strategy for new implementations and developments for the coming year.

Within the framework of the workshop has been organized a one-day hands-on technical session based on the use, installation and customization of GeoNetwork version 2, three technical, one-day sessions introducing the software MapServer, GeoServer and uDig, and, in parallel, a joint ESA-FAO-JRC workshop to discuss issues related to "catalogue/discovery standardization".

Organization

Workshop Date

April 24-28, 2006

Workshop Place

FAO Headquarters - Rome, Italy

Program

Main Session - Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 April

- Re-launch of FAO GeoNetwork and WFP-VAM: Presentation by Jeroen Ticheler

- Partner Presentations

Presentation by Paola De Salvo (WFP-VAM)
Presentation by Sean Khan (UNEP)
Presentation by Robert Zomer (CGIAR-CSI)
Presentation by Jelle Hielkema (FAO_UNGIWG)
Presentation by Michelle L. Anthony (FGDC)
Presentation by Suha Ulgen (OCHA)
Presentation by François-Xavier Prunayre (Eau France)
Presentation by Craig von Hagen (SWALIM)

- Work plan

Demonstration Sessions (Tuesday afternoon 25 April)

- Introduction to uDig: Presentation by Justin Deoliveira
- Introduction to GeoServer: Presentation by Justin Deoliveira
- Introduction to MapServer: Presentation by Paolo Cavallini

Technical Sessions

- GeoNetwork training (Monday 24 April and Tuesday morning 25 April)

- uDig hands-on (Wednesday 26 April)

Introduction to the course: Objectives and Prerequisites and Agenda by Justin Deoliveira
uDig installation and introduction: Tutorial and Data (size 16 MB) presented by Justin Deoliveira
Downloading uDig software (size 162 MB)
Using the Style Editor: Tutorial presented by by Justin Deoliveira
Editing with GeoServer
GeoServer installation and Editing: Tutorial presented by Justin Deoliveira
Downloading GeoServer software (size 102 MB)
Eclipse SDK Setup
Downloading Eclipse software (size 167 MB)
WMS/SLD PutStyle Plug-In: Tutorial presented by Justin Deoliveira
Distance Tool: Tutorial and Data (size 6KB) presented by Justin Deoliveira

- GeoServer hands-on (Thursday 27 and Friday 28 April)

Introduction to the course: Objectives and Prerequisites and Agenda by Justin Deoliveira
GeoServer installation: Tutorial and Data (size 508 KB) presented by Justin Deoliveira
Downloading GeoServer software (size 102 MB)
Publishing a simple dataset: Tutorial presented by Justin Deoliveira
PostGIS Installation: Tutorial presented by Justin Deoliveira
Publishing data with PostGIS: Tutorial presented by Justin Deoliveira
Working with Tiger data: Tutorial and Archive (size 63 MB) presented by Justin Deoliveira

- MapServer Hands-on (Thursday 27 and Friday 28 April)

Introduction to the course: Presentation by Paolo Cavallini
MapServer installation: Software and Data (missing!) (size 59 MB) presented by Paolo Cavallini

ESA-FAO-JRC catalog/discovery/standardization workshop - Thursday 27 and Friday 28 April

The European Space Agency's Earth Observation Ground Segment Department, the United Nations' FAO Environment and Natural Resources Services, the European Commission Joint Research Centre's Institute for Environment and Sustainability Institute organized a workshop to discuss issues related to "catalogue/discovery standardization" on the 27th and 28th April 2006.

The first of the two days was hosted by FAO, arranged to discuss the wider areas of interoperability. The second day of the workshop was a more focused session concentrating on the core HMA interfaces with the goal of allowing HMA project partners to conclude on the result of the first day of the workshop, and to review and refine the HMA schemas and protocols.

Further information are published on the ESA website

Participants

List of Participants and their Contact Details