08-26, 14:15–14:45 (Europe/Rome), Room 9
Neither the open (geo)data initiative and, needless to say, the open source for geospatial one, are the new kids on the block anymore. Crucial steps have been taken all over the world in establishing the framework of openness, collaborative development and transparency ranging from hands-on events - such as code sprints or collaborative data gathering - mapathons - to funding opportunities and legislative measures. In this context, we present a 3 years-old EU supported initiative founded on open source and open data and that has reached maturity. In our talk, we present the potential support that such initiatives have in the wider framework of environmental monitoring and reporting across Europe - Geo-harmonizer.
Geo-harmonizer stands for EU-wide automated mapping system for harmonization of Open Data based on FOSS4G and Machine Learning. The project unfolded between 2019 and 2022 and was co-financed under Grant Agreement Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom project 2018-EU-IA-0095 by the European Union.
Codrina Ilie is a technical geographer, an open source GIS power user, actively working in improving open data services development at Terrasigna. In the last 5 years, her work has been divided between open data initiative development, geodata standardization and EO data processing. In her 10 years of activity, Codrina has essentially focused on using open source GIS solutions for data management, processing andvisualization. As an advocate for foss4g, since 2010 she has been a volunteer trainer in the Romanian geospatial community,geo-spatial.org http://geo-spatial.org. Since 2013, Codrina has been a Charter Member of the OSGeo and currently servers on the OSGeo Board of Directors.