{{ :ygeo:ygeo_affiche_noir_corr.jpg?direct&500|}}**The yGeo team is an initiative from professors concerned by research and education at EC+G and COMEM+ departements (HEIG-VD / University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, in Yverdon-les-Bains). They want to put together skills and knowledge to enable the fusion of GIS and Media technologies.**

Contacts:
  * Pr. ERTZ Olivier - http://contacts.heig-vd.ch/oez
  * Pr. INGENSAND Jens - http://contacts.heig-vd.ch/jid

====== Projects and publications ======
**(... in october) Session about Citizen science and user generated geospatial content** (proposal [[https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2230v1|DOI: https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2230v1]])
[[http://2016.ogrs-community.org/|OGRS 2016 Open Source Geospatial Research & Education Symposium]], [[https://peerj.com/collections/35-open-source-geospatial-research-and-education-symposium-2016/|OGRS 2016 PeerJ Collection]]

**(... in september) Implementation of tiled vector services: a case study**
[[http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/sdw16/|GIScience 2016, Workshop on Spatial Data on the Web]]

**Session biodiversité : projets BioMon, BioSentier, BioPocket**
LSSR 2016, Journée des Laboratoires SIG de Suisse romande

**Tuilage vecteur: Pourquoi est-il plus difficile de créer un standard tel que le WMTS ?**
GeoSummit 2016, Expo et congrès de la géoinformation

**Workshop on Citizen science & VGI**
GeoSummit 2016, Expo et congrès de la géoinformation

**How to recruit and motivate users to utilize VGI systems?** ([[https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/7Lpm5wxI4SwRXug|short paper]], [[https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/8wo4padao5TnwXh|slides]], [[https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/OkP8lFGcPMeI2Ln|screencast UrbanGene]], [[https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/Rn2tQ2v3M6JdjbQ|screencast Signalez-nous]], [[http://urbangene.heig-vd.ch/|webapp UrbanGene]])
AGILE 2016, Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe

**A 3D georeferencer and viewer to relate landscape pictures with VGI** ([[https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/Les3iiHr2CSMbuT|slides]], [[https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/LihWilxZY4diruh|screencast]])
AGILE 2016, Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe
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Motivating Citizens to Take Action for Biodiversity Conservation using Geospatial Systems**
AGILE 2015, Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe

**The Urbangene project - Experience from a crowdsourced mapping campaign**
GISTAM 2015, International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management