11th AGILE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE

The annual conference organized by AGILE in cooperation with SIGTE was held in Girona form the 5th to the 8th of May. This year was the 11th AGILE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.

The Association Geographic Information Laboratories Europe (AGILE) was established in 1998 to promote training and research in Geographic Information Systems at the European level. It currently has almost 100 members from academic bodies all over Europe and the world.

AGILE, in collaboration with members, organizes an annual conference to demonstrate advances made in GIS and its state on a global scale. The event is open to anyone interested in GIS.

This year the conference was hosted by SIGTE-University of Girona, a member of AGILE and of its board of directors.

The conference included a preliminary day (5th of May) of workshops and three days of conferences and paper presentations. The Girona edition included the participation of Pedro Duque (the first Spanish astronaut), Burt Brassel (a distinguished prestigious geographer currently at the University of Rwanda) and Ed Parsons (Geospatial Technologist of Google).

Further Information about the conference can be found on the web http://www.agile2008.es