My official statement of purpose as a Visiting Scientist. You may find an amusing contrast between this and what I actually ended up doing; as described in my final report (Copyright © 1998 Philip Sargent) as a Visiting Scientist.If the entire final report is not available on this website, you can read the final report summary. Apart from the work I did, living and paying tax in Ispra is also documented here.
I had planned to manage and to work on a research project in classification and segmentation. This did not happen because neither the software nor hardware was made available in time.
To establish at Ispra a permanent centre of expertise in object-oriented (OO) GIS technologies based around an in-house developed and maintained OO-GIS research application based on a commercial OO-GIS product.
The research application itself was to be on image segmentation/classification using methods whose behaviour would be different depending on the previous land classification. Paul Smits is now continuing with various aspects of this.
I have written these papers and notes while I have been here:
In addition, I have been chairman of the "Feature Identity and Relationships" Working Group of the OGC. Our Working Group has a website and an email archive - unfortunately only open to those who know an appropriate username and password. The email archive contains many more contributions that I made to the work of the consortium in addition to those listed above.
I prepared and presented 5 seminars. Hyperlinks go to the entire presentation, including full speaker's notes.
I also attended (and once organised) several meetings of the Sector I was attached to (for the latter three-quarters of my stay) to do with determining GIS architectures and applications for the Unit and for various client organisations of the Unit. I attended a two-day workshop on "GIS and Humanitarian Demining" held at the SAI and attended seminars on environmental planning and materials-design at other institutes of the JRC.
The Object-Oriented GIS technology seminar is a complete, 4-hour introductory course. I only presented the basic material in the seminar. I should give a further seminar on this subject.
The Spatio-Temporal GIS seminar is a statement of progress as of June 1998. This is currently being updated because some references were incomplete and some reported work unclear.
All my mission reports since arriving at the JRC (1st December 1997) are on-line.
Here they are:
| Interop'97 (Santa Barbara) | December 1997 |
| OGC TC (San Rafael) | December 1997 |
| OGC TC (Munchen) | February 1998 |
| AGILE 1st. (Enschede) | April 23-25th 1998 |
| OGC TC (Nashua, NH) | June 15-19th 1998 |
| OGC TC (Vienna) + GIPSIE | October 5-9th 1998 |
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