LLL Course – “SDI in agriculture”

Lifelong learning course in the area of SDI in agriculture was held from 17. to 19. june 2019. at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad. Three day course organized by Geoinformatics Laboratory was lead by assistant professor PhD Aleksandra Radulovic as one of the teachers in the area of spatial data infrastructure at the Geodesy and Geoinformatics study programme. 11 participants from different organizations (including Administration for agricultural land from Belgrade, Public Company Urbanism of Vojvodina, Al Dahra, Faculty of Agriculture Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences Novi Sad) took part in this course.

The course consisted from theoretical and practical segments. Theoretical segment covered the following subjects: Introduction to Spatial Data Infrastructure, aims and basic elements; Term and standardization in the area of spatial data and metadata; Geoportal, geoportal architecture and specifications; Modeling of data in domain of agriculture – INSPIRE and LPIS; User applications – geoportals – in agriculture. Practical segment covered following: analysis of spatial phenomena types; developing a three-layer architecture, creating portrayal and data services; analysis of existing metadata and describing services using metadata; creating and analysis of user application for registration of agricultural parcels and other applications based on JavaScript spatial libraries.

Participants were presented with Erasmus+ project BestSDI, as well as the book “Spatial Data Infrastructure and Geoportals” written by Miro Govedarica, Dubravka Sladic and Aleksandra Radulovic.

At the end of the course, head of Geoinformatics Laboratory, professor PhD Miro Govedarica congratulated participants for successfully taken course and gave them the certificates of attendance. The course was concluded with a group photo at the Faculty.