Welcome to GeoDay Raseborg 2025

The wonderful world of spatial information

THANK YOU!

The GeoDay was a success!

We had 33 participants online and 32 on site in the morning session, 19 in our students seminar and 45 in our hands-on session! Additionally to our presenters notably from GISPO, LUKE, SYKE, NLS, Novia UAS and even Royal Danish Academy, we had visitors from Nylands Svenska Lantbrukssällskap, Raseborg Energi, Raseborg Stad and students from Hangö and Ekenäs gymnasium (with teachers Axel Holmberg and Johanna von Frenckell). Also a big thank you to Västra Nyland museum and Lena Dahlberg for lending us the old maps of Ekenäs

Gallery

Morning session

Liisa Pesonen Ruslan Gunko Anders Hermund Henrik Saari Hangö students Iiro Törmä Attendance Faris Alsuhail Lena Hallin Pihlatie

Students seminar

Senuri Senuri Chanika Chanika and Chamika Chamika Chamika Attendance Fredrik Fredrik

Hands-on

Hands-on Hands-on with Ekenäs gymnasium students Hands-on with Romi Rancken Hands-on - Survey123 results Ostrobothnia students SCM students

Practicalities

20.11.2025
Novia University of Applied Sciences on campus Raseborg (car parking on site or via VR Karjaa-Tammisaari with 7.42 - 16.07 trains)

Come for the program, stay for the people (also the event is free and coffee included!)

Spatial data are now collected by anyone, from anywhere, in real time, shared to the world via social media and cloud services and used almost instantaneously by anybody else. This creates a plethora of opportunities such as virtual reality and the building of digital twins designing an entire space from the comfort of your chair, or automation of tasks with artificial intelligence deciding where and when to seed your oat field in the spring. But it also brings challenges linked to privacy and ethical guidelines, as we now can be anywhere and see everything through others that share anything, all the time - what can be trusted? In August 2025, Tim Walz, Governor for the State of Minnesota, USA mentioned during a plenary session about effective governance - “You (decision-makers) are creating change in a massive way” – “We have got to get the literacy on geographic and GIS out to the broader public so that we can make sure that that (effective governance) happens.” Spreading awareness of the power held by spatial data is our responsibility and it concerns all of us in order to be resilient partners in the not-so-far future.

This event is part of a global initiative (ESRI GIS DAY) for spatial literacy.

Learn about the numerous spatial data applications and geographic information system (GIS) during the hybrid GeoDay organized by Novia spatial competence centre.

Preliminary program

8.30 - Start of the day

08:45 - 12:00 Guest talks in English

Welcoming address by Marianne Fred, Head of Research in bioeconomy
Introduction of the Spatial Competence Centre by Aurelie Noel, Geospatial systems team leader

09:00 - 10:20 Spatial data in environment and construction engineering

9:00 - Smart farming and AgriHubi with Liisa Pesonen - LUKE (on site)
9:15 - Tech-forestry with Romi Rancken - Novia UAS (on site)
9:30 - Enhancing understanding: the role of spatial data as a tool in bridging environment and society with Ruslan Gunko - Novia UAS (on site)
9:45 - Building information modelling (BIM) with Anders Hermund - Royal Danish Academy (online)
10:00 - Built environment information system (Ryhti) with Henrik Saari - SYKE (online)

10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break

10:45 - 12:00 Spatial data in seafaring, art, consulting, education, national security

10:45 - 3D briefing tool for seafaring with Iiro Törmä - Novia UAS (online)
11:00 - Augmented reality with Tobias Björkskog - Novia UAS - Korsholmar AR (online)
11:15 - Consulting with Emil Ehnström - GISPO (online)
11:30 - Location Innovation Hub with Faris Alsuhail - National Land Survey - LIH (on site)
11:45 - Spatial data production and information services of National Land Survey of Finland (NLS-FI) with Lena Hallin-Pihlatie - National Land Survey (online)

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break

(NOT INCLUDED but great places near-by: Villa Smakhus, Rastachef or Cafferie)

13:00 - 14:00 Geospatial systems students seminar in English

13:00 - Aurelie Noel - Opening talk - Geospatial systems team leader and presentation of the SCC
13:10 - Senuri Ambagalage - Environmental monitoring with bird surveys - Bachelor student in Sustainable Coastal Management
13:25 - Andreas Otterbeck - GPS tracking of Caspian terns - Researcher (online)
13:35 - Marine Spatial Planning - Group of bachelor students in Sustainable Coastal Management
13:45 - Fredrik Björkvall - VLOS drone app - Engineer student in Surveying technologies

14:00 - 15:30 Hands-on activities and demos in English and Swedish

Poster presentations about spatial data in use in our programs
How to pilot a drone - UAV, USV
How to track animals - bird tracker and audiomoths
How to collect data - geocaching and wayfinding with two individual ARCGIS for personal use licences as prize (value 100$)
Exhibition of old maps from Ekenäs

In a time of accelerated changes, “geography needs to be promoted for sustainability” (Fu, 2020) and resilience – we know it, now you will too.

Registration

Please register using this link to book your spot on site and/or receive the Teams link to the talks

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Organizers

Questions or inquiries: Aurelie Noel at scc@novia.fi organizers