PaITuli new data

• Finnish Meteorological Institute's monthly statistics about average temperature and precipitation for years 1961-2011. The daily statistics for years 2009-2011 will also be added soon.
• From Finnish environmental administration 7 new datasets have been added: lake depth, observed flood areas, flood risk areas, flood risk likelihood zones, urban regions (YKR), valuable moraine formations, bathing waters according to EU bathing water directive.
  
• To National Land Survey's ortho images last small additions were made. Now imagery is available for almost all Finland. The biggest uncovered area is north of Muonio in Lapland. Please note, that some minor areas are available only as infrared images.

The MapInfo Professional Journal

Pitney  Bowes Software has started publishing “The MapInfo Professional” e-magazine. It is meant for all MapInfo users and provides useful tips and information from PBS's experts to the end-users. The first issue is available here and the subscription page is here.

QuantumGIS and GRASS courses 23-25.5.2012

CSC in cooperation with GISMood is organizing open source GIS courses that are particularly meant for academic users. During the first two days the focus is on QuantumGIS and on the third day on GRASS. The courses are at introductory level, so previous knowledge of QGIS or GRASS is not needed, but previous knowledge of GIS in general is an advantage. The courses will take place 23.-25.5.2012 in CSC's classroom in Espoo. The registration is open until 9.5. Additional information is available here.

Geoinformatics research day 17.4.2012

Fiuginet in collaboration with CSC and INSPIRE network organized Geoinformatics research day on 17.4.2012 in Kumpula, Helsinki. There were presentations about current GIS research projects in Finnish universities, news from National Land Survey and in the afternoon some more technical tips. The research day was a success with about 70 participants. Based on the positive feedback the goal is now to make this kind of event to a tradition.

The program is available here and all presentation slides will soon be published on Fiuginet's homepage.

One topic that came up during geoinformatics research day was heavy GIS computations. CSC provides Finnish universities also computing services on supercomputers. So far these possibilities have been used minimally for GIS related computations. The only applications have been related to glacier and climate modelling. For spatial computing likely the most suitable server is Hippu. All supercomputers have Linux as operating system, so using ArcGIS or MapInfo desktop software is not possible, because they are available only for Windows. The use of supercomputers is open and free of charge for all scientists from Finnish universities, so if you are interested, please contact Seppo Jänkälä.

Coming events

• 3.-4.5.2012 Kaupunkitutkimuksen päivät, Urban Studies Days, Helsinki
• 14-18.5.2012 12th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium, Levi
• 16.5.2012 Avoimen lähdekoodin paikkatieto-ohjelmistojen seminaari, Open source GIS seminar, Gispo and GISMood, Helsinki
• 7.6.2012 Inspire-verkoston seminaari ja vuosikokous, Seminar and annual meeting of INSPIRE network, Helsinki
• 23.-27.7.2012 Esri International User Conference, San Diego. The ArcGIS consortium agreement includes some free passes to this conference, so if you are planning to participate, contact Seppo Jänkälä from CSC.
• 5.10.2012 Laserkeilausseminaari, Laser scanning seminar, National Land Survey, Helsinki
• 6.-7.11.2012 Paikkatietomarkkinat, Helsinki.

ArcGIS

• 25.-27.4.2012 Introduction to Geoprocessing Scripts Using Python, Esri Finland, Espoo.
• 3.-4.05.2012 Managing Imagery Using ArcGIS, Esri Finland, Espoo.
• 9.-11.05.2012 ArcGIS 10 -peruskurssi, Esri Finland, Espoo.
• 15.5.2012 Avoin paikkatieto ja ArcGIS Online –kurssi, Esri Finland, Espoo.
• 23.-24.05.2012 Building Windows Phone Applications Using ArcGIS for Windows Phone, Esri Finland, Espoo.
• 29.05.2012  Avoin paikkatieto ja ArcGIS Online –kurssi, Esri Finland, Espoo.
• 6.-8.06.2012 Data Production and Editing Techniques (ArcGIS 10), Esri Finland, Espoo.
• 12.06.2012  Avoin paikkatieto ja ArcGIS Online –kurssi, Esri Finland, Espoo.
• 19.06.2012  Avoin paikkatieto ja ArcGIS Online –kurssi, Esri Finland, Espoo.
• 14.08.2012  Avoin paikkatieto ja ArcGIS Online –kurssi, Esri Finland, Espoo.
• 23.08 ja 28.08.2012 ArcGis-paikkatieto-ohjelman perusteet, Tampereen kesäyliopisto, Tampere
  
• 28.08.2012  Avoin paikkatieto ja ArcGIS Online –kurssi, Esri Finland, Espoo.
• ESRI Virtual Campus Internet-courses. There are a lot of free courses, but ArcGIS consortium members have also free access to all other courses of types Web course or Training seminar. The course codes are available from Seppo Jänkälä (CSC) or university representatives (HY: Tom Blom, Aalto: Ari Jolma and Paula Ahonen, UTU: Niina Käyhkö, Oulu: Jarmo Rusanen, Jyväskylä: Anssi Lensu, UEF: Timo Kumpula and Kari Pasanen).

• 24.-25.4.2012 MapInfo Professional 11.0 jaktokurssi: Paikkatietojen analysointi, Karttakeskus, Helsinki
• 7.-8.5.2012 MapInfo Professional 11.0 peruskurssi, Karttakeskus, Helsinki
• 22.–23.5..2012 MapInfo Professional: Perusteet haltuun, SITO, Espoo.
• 22.-23.5.2012 Mapinfon peruskurssi, Tampereen kesäyliopisto, Tampere
• 24.–25.5.2012 MapInfo Professional: Jatkokurssi, SITO, Espoo.
• 7.6. ja 12.6.2012 Mapinfon jatkokurssi, Tampereen kesäyliopisto, Tampere

• 2.-3.5.2012 Maanmittauslaitoksen laseraineiston hyödyntäminen kunnissa, TerraSolid, Espoo
• 4.5.2012 Kaupunkimallien tuottaminen ja 3D PDF:n luonti, TerraSolid, Espoo
• 21.-22.5.2012 TerraScan, TerraMatch and TerraModeler peruskoulutus, TerraSolid, Espoo
• 23.5.2012 TerraPhoto peruskoulutus, TerraSolid, Espoo
• 24.5.2012 Laserkeilauksen tilaaminen, TerraSolid, Espoo
• 18.6.2012 Mobile scanner and camera calibration, TerraSolid, Espoo
• 19.-20.6.2012 Mobile laser and image processing / Trimble MX8, TerraSolid, Espoo
• 21.6.2012 Building vectorization and wall textures, TerraSolid, Espoo

• 21.5.2012 Paikkatietomaailma tutuksi, SITO, Espoo.
• 21.5.2012 Toiminnan kehittäminen paikkatietolähtöisesti, SITO, Espoo.
• 23.-25.5.2012 QuantumGIS and GRASS, GISMood and CSC, Espoo
  
• 30.-31.5.2012 Spatiaaliset analyysit tutkimusten ja päätöksenteon tukena. Aalto Pro, Espoo.
• 1.6.2012 INSPIRE ja EUREF, SITO, Espoo.
• 5.6.2012 Tunnetko jo kunnan sähköiset rajapinnat? SITO, Espoo.
• 6.6.2012 Paikkatiedon mallintaminen (UML), SITO, Espoo.