A few Impressions of the ESTGIS conference of the Estonian Society for Geoinformatics

On the ‎29. ‎September ‎2017  geographers and GIS specialists of the Estonian Landboard, Estonian GIS companies, and Estonian Universities - especially from University of Tartu Department of Geography and environmental Technologies, Tartu University of Life Sciences and Tallinn Technical University - joined at the annual gathering of the Estonian Society of Geoinformatics (EstGIS). Our Head of Chair of Geoinformatics at Dept. of Geography, Tartu, Prof Tönu Oja, is also the chairman of the boards of EstGIS.

The conference took place in the Vooremaa district North of Tartu.

The 2-day conference took place in a small village north of Tartu in small family-run holiday park. Embedded in idyllic country-side the place had accommodation, sauna of course, and a large conferencing room.

"Think Spatially" says the big flyer outside, welcoming the guests. 

Beautifully embedded in the landscape.

I presented about the work on a paper which was originating from my PhD, because I just arrived here, on making environmental research articles discoverable with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) catalogue services. The paper would eventually be finalised and published on MDPI International Journal of Geo-Information together with a colleague from the Department of Geography where I just had started:  "Enhancing Location-Related Hydrogeological Knowledge" (https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/7/4/132), on geo-referencing hydrological and hydrogeological journal articles and making them discoverable spatially through  OGC Catalogue Service for Web (CSW).

The conference talks were mixed in English and Estonian. There were a few international guests and a few students, but mainly local (Estonian) GIS practitioners.

More details about the article: https://allixender.blogspot.com/2018/04/making-environmental-research-articles.html