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Conference Theme:

"Bridging the Gap Between Spatial Information Technology and Geoscience Research"


Conference Topics:

The conference will focus on, but not limit to, the following cutting-edge topics:

  1. Geo-spatial fundamentals, theories and algorithms in GIS
    • New trends in GIS technologies and research
    • Spatiotemporal data structures and algorithms
    • Systems architectures and middleware for GIS
    • Standardization of geo-spatial data and geo-processing services
    • Geo-spatial data processing and management mechanisms
    • Spatiotemporal data quality and uncertainty
    • Spatiotemporal modeling
    • Spatial ontology and cognition
    • Computational geometry for GIS problems
    • Automated mapping and map generalization
  2. Geo-spatial data mining and knowledge discovery and geographical process modeling
    • Spatial-temporal analysis and modeling methods
    • Geo-spatial and spatiotemporal data mining algorithms
    • Spatio-temporal data reasoning
    • Spatial statistics and data mining
    • Visual spatial data mining
    • Spatial decision support systems
    • Spatial data warehouse and spatial OLAP
    • Modeling and analysis of digital elevation/shape
    • Modeling uncertainty in geo-spatial information
    • Virtual modeling of large geographic areas
    • Time-geography modeling
    • Spatial query processing and optimization
  3. Geo-spatial Web services, WebGIS and geographical grid computation
    • Standards and geo-spatial metadata
    • Geographical web search engines and information retrieval
    • Geo-spatial interoperability and data integration
    • Geo-spatial sharing and dissemination
    • Geo-spatial web service and WebGIS architecture
    • Geo-spatial web resource monitoring, scheduling, allocation and control
    • Geo-spatial web service discovery, matching and composition/aggregation
    • Ontology or agent techniques for web service
    • Geo-spatial web services and service quality
    • Workflow-based web service orchestration and organization
    • Geographical grid computational environment
    • Distributed, parallel, and collaborative geo-processing
    • Geographical data grid, information grid and knowledge grid and service grid
    • Geo-spatial semantic web and ontology-based knowledge base
    • Geo-spatial sensor web
    • Grid resource management, reservation, scheduling, and load balancing
    • Grid-based knowledge discovery and decision servicee
    • Grid-based geographical problem-solving environment
    • Geo-spatial web portal and grid portal
    • Cloud computing for geo-spatial processing
    • Wireless and mobile GIS
    • Mobile service and mobile grid
    • Location-based services (LBS)
    • Location privacy, data sharing and security
    • Geo-Cyber Infrastructure and Spatial data infrastructure
  4. Geo-spatial simulation and visualization, and virtual geographical environment
    • 2D and 3D information acquisitions, processing, modeling and visualization
    • Representation and visualization of geospatial data
    • Distributed simulations and sensor webs
    • Simulation modeling of dynamic geo-processes
    • Exploratory spatial data analysis
    • Geo-visualization and geo-visual analytics
    • 3D nature scene modeling and rendering with high complexity and large scale
    • Distributed/Collaborative interactive simulation
    • Visualization of geospatial uncertainty
    • Digital Earth and virtual geographic environment
    • Distributed, parallel, and GPU algorithms for GIS
    • Human-computer interaction and visualization
  5. Remote Sensing and Earth Observation System
    • Earth observation sensor networks and applications
    • Acquisition and processing of remotely sensed data
    • Calibration and validation of remotely sensed data
    • Data mining across sensors
    • Intelligent sensors/sensor fusion and assimilation
    • Sensor information management systems
    • Spatiotemporal sensor data mining
    • Remote sensing image processing and pattern recognition
    • Automated object extraction and database updates from imagery
    • Processing and application of high-resolution and hyper-spectral imagery
    • Radar remote sensing (SAR, InSAR, PolSAR)
    • LIDAR technology for generating digital elevation models and 3D modeling
  6. Domain applications of integrated Geographical information technology ( GIS, Remote sensing and GPS,etc)
    • Application in natural resource investigation and management
    • Application in land use and land cover management
    • Application in agricultural operation and management
    • Application in coastal and Wetlands management
    • Application in urban and built Environment
    • Application in traffic and transportation management
    • Government and public GIS
    • Application in climate change and the global environment
    • GIS for the environment, ecology and health monitoring and governance
    • Environmental criminology and crime simulation
    • Application in geology and hydrogeology
    • Application in hazard simulation and assessment, risk management and disaster response

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