MODSIM05 is the 16th in a series of congresses organised by the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, and held every two years. The congress provides a forum for the presentation and exploration of a broad range of modelling and simulation science, and papers are invited in all areas of modelling and simulation

Presentation of methodology for authoring risk management ontologies. A forum for the exchange of state-of-the-art research results in the areas of modeling and processing of geospatial semantics, including ontology-driven GIS and geospatial semantic web.

One-day seminar at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors to be held on the theme of "Disaster Management and Mitigation - the role of geospatial interoperability". The seminar will have leading industry and academic speakers from the USA, UK and mainland Europe.

Technical Committee Meetings of the Open Geospatial Consortium, including a session of the reinstated Disaster Management Working Group, which will act as a community forum to ORCHESTRA.

UK's major conference and fair on geomatics issues.

The European Space Agency's Earth Observation Ground Segment Department and the European Commission Joint Research Centre's Institute for Environment and Sustainability organized a workshop to discuss issues related to "discovery services"and "catalogue".

Germany's major conference and fair on geomatics issues.

The Second International Workshop "Information Fusion and Geographical Information Systems" will discuss information fusion problems in the context of applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Theory of Search for Moving Objects (TSMO). It is supposed to have participants, who have expertise in such subject domains as: GIS, Information Fusion, TSMO, Computer Algebra and Expert Systems.

Demonstration pod including example of ontologies used for flood examples. During Terra future these will be participants representing the information sector in the UK and internationally

In concertation with DG INFSO’s Environment Unit (G5), ORCHESTRA will send an expert (together with WIN) to the next stakeholder meeting of the EC Flood Action Plan, which will take place in Brussels on 16/09/2005

The forthcoming conference will cover the wide scope of environmental information systems topics. It will show the state-of-the-art in research, development and application, with a special focus on the topic Networking environmental information. EnviroInfo 2005 is open to scientists, managers and decision makers from various disciplines, experts from IT industry, governmental institutions, international and intergovernmental organizations, environmental agencies and networks, specialists of theoretical and applied informatics, managers and experts from environmental technology companies, consultants, students and the concerned public.

WITFOR 2005 addressed issues critical to developing countries, such as the application of ICT in fighting HIV/Aids, poverty, access to education, environment, as well as social, ethical and legal consequences of IT.

The aim of GIM 2005 is to present innovative research and development contributions in the context of Geographic Information Management. GIM should inspire a fruitful dialogue between developers, users, and expert scientists working in this field.

6th International Symposium Computer Mapping and GIS for Coastal Zone Management: Defining and Building a Marine and Coastal Spatial Data Infrastructure. As a major event, the CoastGIS series of conferences attracts an international audience of coastal researchers, managers and practitioners who use one or more of the geospatial technologies.

The School builds on the successes of the Summer Institutes organized by the European Science Foundation's GISDATA programme and the (US) National Science Foundation's National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis in 1995-97. The School is open to post-graduate researchers in the academic, public, and private sectors selected on a competitive basis through an open call for expression of interest.

Austria's major conference and fair on geoinformatics issues

GIS PLANET is a global, independent and open event dedicated to Geographic Information. It will con-tinue the strong tradition begun by GISPLANET 98, bringing together the worldwide GIS research and applications community in a forum for discussion of GIS from a global perspective.

ISESS, the International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, was initiated in 1995 as a forum in which to present and discuss the fundamentals, progress and actual trends in this area in terms of methods, tools and state-of-the-art applications. Over the years, it has also evolved into an important networking tool for academics, environmental professionals, and other interested parties.

The basic objective of the workshop is to identify a domain of potential action. The unique issues involved in providing safety and security in a multinational, economically integrated physical and virtual environment is a challenging, but critical task at this stage in the emerging eRegions of the EU.

2nd International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. The ISCRAM2005 conference will bring together designers, developers and users of information systems that support those involved in crisis-related activities such as: Planning for the response to a crisis situation; Training for crisis, including organization of crisis exercises; Responding to a crisis situation; Evaluating the performance during and after the crisis. The conference is aimed at a wide audience, ranging from academic and industry researchers to practitioners and public authority representatives.

Presentation of ORCHESTRA progress and invitation to act as official user community forum. Technical Committee Meetings of the Open Geospatial Consortium, including a session of the reinstated disaster Management Working Group, which will act as a community forum to ORCHESTRA.

The fundamental goal of the Symposium is to tackle Disaster Management problems in their entirety

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, within the framework of its Programme on Space Applications, has been organising a series of Regional Workshops on the Use of Space Technology for Disaster Management, bringing together practitioners, space agencies that have already developed respective technology solutions and those responsible for dealing with disaster management and with space technology in developing countries.