Up-to-date and reliable geoinformation is of paramount importance for sustainable development, taking into account the challenges posed by climate change, which societies in many countries are facing in different ways. Developments in recent years show that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent worldwide and that different regions of the world are affected differently in terms of both the type and severity of the events. For example, the Amazon region was affected by extreme drought at the end of 2023, with a significant impact on the societies living there. In contrast, the south of Brazil experienced flooding on an unprecedented scale in June 2025. The African continent suffers particularly badly from long periods of drought, which result in extreme humanitarian crises due to crop failures. On the other hand, heavy rainfall in Kenya in April 2024 lead to flooding that affected half of the country's surface area.

Even if developing countries are much more dramatically affected by the effects of climate change, industrialized societies also face the challenge of preparing for future extreme weather events, as the flood disaster in the Ahr valley or the last floods in southern Germany in June 2024 made clear.

The objective of the AGSE is therefore initially to raise participants' awareness of a global problem and to demonstrate approaches as to how the collection of geodata, its further processing, analysis and presentation can contribute to responding to the most pressing problems and challenges in different regions and how geoinformation can support the selection and implementation of preventive measures against the effects of climate change. To this end, the topics “VGI and Collaborative Cloud Mapping”, multiscale data acquisition via satellite, airborne and UAV-based remote sensing sensors will be dealt with in theory, application areas and practical exercises in the form of theme days:

Theme Day “Geoinformation Worldwide - Capture, Standards, Sources”

Theme Day “Climate Change Monitoring through Remote Sensing Imagery and Processing”

Theme Day “Geoinformation and Artificial Intelligence - current trends and applications”

Theme Day “Data sharing and Collaborative Geoinformation Portals”

The event will be complemented by a cultural evening and an excursion. The on-site training sessions provide a) a good chance that the results of the training measure will also provide direct added value for the region and b) the participants' understanding of the region's needs will be strengthened and joint project ideas implemented.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Abstracts
• Posters
• Workshops

Committees

Program Committee

• Prof. Dr. Paul Rawiel
• Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Behr
• Prof. Dr. Dietrich Schröder
• Prof. Dr. Angela Blanco-Vogt
• Dr. William Benigno Barragán-Zaque
• Msc. Edilberto Suárez-Torres

Organizing committee

• Prof. Dr. Paul Rawiel
• Dr. Anja Ernst
• Prof. Dr. Dietrich Schröder
• Prof. Dr. Frnz-Josef Behr
• Dr. William Benigno Barragán-Zaque
• Dr. Uriel Coy Verano

Venue

The conference will be held at the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas in Bogotá, Colombia

Contact

Prof. Dr. Paul Rawiel agse@hft-stuttgart.de

Dr. Anja Ernst: agse@hft-stuttgart.de

Dr. William Benigno Barragán-Zaque: wbarraganz@udistrital.edu.co