Apr5
2013 Conference Announced
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After last year's conference's resounding success, the Pacific Islands GIS/RS conference committee is pleased to announce that this year's conference will be held on the 25th - 29th November, 2013.
The venue is yet to be finalized.
The 2013 Conference theme is "Connecting the Pacific with Maps".
More details will soon be made available on the conference website.
Feb13
A Resounding Success
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“Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing is one of the fastest developing technologies no matter whether you are a provider, and developer or a user. And here in the region and for the benefit of Pacific island countries and territories we are all striving to stay at the ‘cutting edge of the technology.’ In this regard the theme of this Conference focusing on mapping Pacific resources is very timely”, said Dr. Russell Howorth, Director, SOPAC Division of SPC, in the opening keynote at the Pacific GIS/RS User Conference held at Suva last week.
The growing impact of GIS and Remote Sensing was very much evident by the record number of attendees and presentations at the conference. Around 300 participants, from the around the Pacific Region convened for the three and half days of presentations, workshops and discussions.
Dec6
Keynote Address - Dr Russell Howorth
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Distinguished Guests, and Colleagues,
It is with much pleasure as Director of the SOPAC Division of the SPC that I present to you this morning the Keynote Address for this Conference, the largest of its kind in the region and which was set up to showcase new tools and concepts for improved data collection, capabilities and analysis in GIS and Remote Sensing. At the same time I would like to acknowledge Dr Jimmie Rodgers the Director General of the SPC who is unable to be here today and he gives his apologies.
Firstly, however it would be remiss of me if I did not take this opportunity to welcome all of you here this morning to the Opening of this Conference, and in particular I extend a welcome to all representatives of island governments and administrations, donor partner representatives, representatives of CROP organisations, educationalists, scientists and technologists from other stakeholder groups including NGOs. In particular I would like to highlight the many representatives from the private sector, including satellite data providers, image resellers, software and hardware companies. We have gathered here in the room a genuine mix of providers, developers and users.
Secondly, I would like to acknowledge that I have been privileged to address this conference over recent years and in that context I would like to acknowledge that having something different to say has never been difficult. GIS and Remote Sensing is one of the fastest developing technologies no matter whether you are a provider, and developer or a user.
Nov27
Live Streaming
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The conference is streamed live at http://www.sopac.org/live
Due to bandwidth limitations, only audio and slides are broadcasted.
Please email sachindra@sopac.org in case of connectivity issues.
Nov26
Since the inception of Pacific GIS/RS User Conference in 1999, this annual event has attracted a lot of participants from as far as the Americas to the sunny islands most of us call home. Each year the range of GIS/RS technologies presented cover an array of applications including the management of resources of the small island Pacific nations. This years theme is Mapping Pacific Resources.
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