OpenDragon Project News
This page will keep you up-to-date on the latest activities,
accomplishments, and initiatives of the OpenDragon Project.
For detailed information on the status of OpenDragon software
releases, please visit the software status page.
Last updated: 28 February 2007
OpenDragon 5.10 Released
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OpenDragon Version 5.10 was officially
released on Feburary 27, 2007. Highlights of
this release include automated image import,
georeferenced vector support, and range of
new raster modelling operations including
slope and aspect calculation, buffering, and
conditional layer combinations.
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OpenDragon Featured at International Conferences
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- The OpenDragon Project will have a booth at
the exhibition of the American Association of
Geographers annual meeting in San Francisco,
CA, USA, from April 17-20, 2007. For more
information, visit
http://www.aag.org.
- Dr. Sally Goldin presented a paper entitled
"OpenDragon: A Platform for Teaching Geoinformatics
Software Development" at the 27th Asian Conference
on Remote Sensing in Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia,
October 9-13, 2006.
The paper focused on how OpenDragon and the
Programmer's Toolkit can be used by students
learning doing thesis or project research, or
working in courses on geoinformatics programming.
- The ISPRS Commission VII Mid-Term Symposium
held in Enschede, The Netherlands,
from 8-11 May, 2006, included
a special session entitled
"OpenDragon: Free Geoinformatics Software
for Education in Developing Countries".
This session included
demonstrations of the software and
discussions of how to expand its distribution
to other regions. Dr. Sally Goldin, assistant
director of the OpenDragon project, also spoke
speak in one of the symposium's
plenary sessions.
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Towson University GIS Conference
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Kurt Rudahl, director of the OpenDragon Project,
presented a paper on the project and its goals
during the 20th Towson University GIS Conference,
which took place
March 20-21, 2006 in Towson, Maryland, USA.
This conference
has a major focus on geoinformatics education and
is one of the
longest running and best attended
regional GIS conferences in America.
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OpenDragon 5.8 Released
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OpenDragon Version 5.8 was released on March 6, 2006.
This version provides more automatic image conversion, enhanced image metadata,
and a variety of functional improvements.
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University Geoinformatics Center Discussed
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On March 6, 2006, members of the OpenDragon Project participated in a meeting
with other members of the KMUTT community to discuss whether there was a need for
and interest in some kind of cross-departmental center to house geoinformatics
engineering research and projects. You can find the slides from Kurt Rudahl's
presentation about the OpenDragon Project here.
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National Conference on Mapping and Geoinformatics 2005
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The OpenDragon Project was invited to participate in
the exhibition associated with the Thailand National
Conference on Mapping and Geoinformatics, December 14-16, 2005. More than 500 attendees had the opportunity to learn about the
project.
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OpenDragon in Vietnam
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From November 7-11, 2005, the OpenDragon team attended the 26th Asian
Conference on Remote Sensing, in Hanoi, Vietnam. We met many members of the
Vietnam geoinformatics community, including the Deputy
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Prof. DrSc. Dang Hung
Vo, who was a keynote speaker at the conference. We were particularly
interested in informing people about the Vietnamese translation of
Dragon, which will be included in Dragon 5.8.
For more information about the Asian Conference on Remote Sensing,
visit http://www.aars-acrs.org. The complete proceedings from ACRS
2005 as well as the 2004 conference, which was held in Chiang Mai,
Thailand, are available here |
Pilot High School Program
On September 1-2, 2005, twenty first year students from Mahidol
Wittayanusorn School outside Bangkok came to KMUTT in a pilot program
on remote sensing for drought assessment, using OpenDragon. Project
personnel led laboratory sessions to familiarize the students with
OpenDragon use and capabilities. Experts in remote sensing
technology, water resources, and meteorology joined to provide
students with the necessary background for them to undertake
independent study projects. The students returned to KMUTT three weeks
later to present their results. In general, students were enthusiastic
about the activity, and had no serious difficulties applying
OpenDragon in their work.
MapAsia 2005
OpenDragon project personnel presented two papers in the session on
Geoinformatics Education at the MapAsia 2005
conference, which was held in Jakarta from August 22-25, 2005. Kurt
Rudahl discussed the OpenDragon Project goals and why OpenDragon is
appropriate for education. Sally Goldin described our innovative
course on computer programming for geographers that was developed
for Chiang Mai University in mid-2005.
For more information about the MapAsia conferences, visit
http://www.gisdevelopment.net
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