[news.announce.conferences] Geo '89 - Symposium on geographical info systems

ec@shapetc (Enrico Chiarucci) (12/13/88)

			  	  GEO '89

			      a symposium on

		     GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

				   for

			   COMMAND AND CONTROL

			     will be held at

			  SHAPE TECHNICAL CENTRE
			The Hague, The Netherlands

				  from

			 3rd to 6th October, 1989


The symposium will provide a forum for the assessment and discussion of :


* requirements for and types of geographical data for NATO command,
  control, communications and information (C3I) systems,

* current trends in the automated handling of geographical data for
  NATO C3I.


Topics will include :

* NATO and national approaches to geographical information systems,

* national geographical data bases,

* standardization of geographical data,

* applications of geographical data bases in C3I projects,

* methods for processing, storing, retrieving, and displaying
  geographical information,

* geographical information system software and hardware.


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		Geo '89 TUTORIAL

		2nd October 1989


  A tutorial on raster and vector maps, and object-oriented
  geographical data bases for symposium participants will be
  held at SHAPE Technical Centre on 2nd October 1989.
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		  TRADE SHOW

In connection with the symposium, a trade show is being organized
by STC and Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
(AFCEA) (Europe), at which software and hardware of relevance to
the symposium theme will be displayed and demonstrated.


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	     FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

  contact :
	G. Oudega,
	Symposium Chairman
	SHAPE Technical Centre,
	PO BOX 174,
	2501 CD - The Hague,
	The Netherlands.

	Telephone : + 31 70 14 22 52, telex : 31 472 shtec nl,
	Fax : + 31 70 14 21 11, Arpanet oudega@issun3.stc.nl,
	Uucp : ...mcvax!shapetc!oudega