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19th Cartographic School - the second circular
On 21st - 23rd of April 2010 in Zieleniec (part of Duszniki-Zdroj city in Orlickie Mountains) will take place 19th Cartographic School:
"Main Problems of Contemporary Cartography 2010
- Digital Terrain Models in Cartography"
The conference is organized by the Department of Cartography of the University of Wroc³aw, the Cartographic Branch of the Polish Geographical Society and Marshall Office of the Lower Silesia Voivodeship.
The main subject of 19th Cartographic School are Digital Terrain Models (DTM) - their theoretical basis, making, data supplies, application in researches and practice.
The conference's program providesfour groups of topics:
- 3D as semiotic aspect of cartographic visualisation; pre-computer cartographic modelling of relief.
- Digital Terrain Models: data sources and methods of data providing; methods of DTM making; generalization of relief models by using of DTM's.
- Modelling of physical field of continuous phenomena; methods of approximation of 3D surface.
- Application of DTM's in researches and practice: cartography, geomorphometry, agriculture, climatology, etc.
Applications of participation must be sent until the 22nd of March 2010.
The second official School's circular can be viewed here.
The map of the northern part of Orlickie Mountains, including Zieleniec and Duszniki-Zdrój can be viewed here.
Contact:
Dr-Eng. Dorota Borowicz, Dr Ma³gorzata Wieczorek, Dr Waldemar Spallek,
University of Wroclaw,
Faculty of Earth Science and Environmental Management,
Department of Cartography,
pl. Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wroc³aw;
phone: 71 375 22 30, fax: 71 343 51 84,
e-mail:
borowicz@ geogr.uni.wroc.pl,
wieczorek@geogr.uni.wroc.pl,
spallek@geogr.uni.wroc.pl.
