XIII International Exhibition and Scientific Congress OPEN-SOURCE GEOSPATIAL SOLUTIONS FOR PUBLIC BENEFITS. 19–21 April, 2017. Novosibirsk, Russia.

XIII International Exhibition and Scientific Congress OPEN-SOURCE GEOSPATIAL SOLUTIONS FOR PUBLIC BENEFITS was held on 19–21 April, 2017 in Novosibirsk Expocenter organized by The Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies（SSUGT）. As a part of the event, on April 20, the 8th International conference “Early warning and crises management in the Big Data era” was organized by CEW&CM. Conference started commission chairman M. Konecny by keynote speech “The role of geoinformatics and cartography in disaster risk reduction (based on the Sendai Framework)”. Next 14 papers, all interesting ones, like Development of warning and rapid response system elements for the city of Novosibirsk from authors A. Dubrovsky, V. Nikitin, O. Malygina, SSUGT, Novosibirsk, Russia and Real-time emergency situation monitoring based on remote sensing data from D. Zavyalova, O. Novikova, Siberian Centre “SRC “Planeta”, Novosibirsk, Russia and others. Conference was attended by almost 100 participants, many of them students and doctorands. Strong support was devoted to the event by deputy presiddent of SSUGT Igor Musichin, prof. D. V. Lisickij, Director of the Research Institute for Strategic Development, and associate professor S.Jankelevich, head of cartographic department.

From left to right: Gottfried Konecny, former president of ISPRS, Germany; Igor Musichin, deputy president of SSUGT, Novosibirsk, Russiaa；Günther Schmitt, former DVW Vice-President; Milan Konecny, former President of ICA, Commission EW&CM Chairman; Volker Schwieger， FIG，Commission 5 Chairman