2nd CfP: Geospatial Science forum 2009

Geospatial Information System is becoming a fusion of several disciplines strongly influenced by technologies. In order to address this complex, multidisciplinary milieu it is necessary that professionals from contributing disciplines come together on a common platform to discuss current issues and share their experiences and so contribute to this enormous body of knowledge that we call Geospatial Information Science.

In view of the strong need of a forum to discuss topics in Geographic Information Science in the Asia-Pacific region, GIS Development announces Geospatial Science Forum 2009 under the umbrella of Map World Forum to be organised from 12-13 February, 2009 at Hyderabad, India.

The topics to be covered include but are not restricted to:

» Data Acquisition including sensors, instruments, recording systems, intelligent systems
» Data Processing including advanced computational techniques, distributed computation like GRID computing, quality assurance and reliability
» Data modelling and representation including standardisation and interoperability
» Databases including ontology, data warehousing, indexing, distributed systems, interoperable databases
» Data Analysis including spatio-temporal analysis, spatial reasoning, cognitive models, computational geometry, statistical analysis, data mining and knowledge discovery
» Human Interaction including visualisation, haptics and other man-machine interfaces, semantics and interoperability
» Interaction with Social Systems is including Spatial Data Infrastructures, economics, law, regulatory environment, participative systems, education, social sciences, media and entertainment.

Submissions
Researchers working on any of the topics listed above are encouraged to submit papers reporting original. Papers will be selected by a program committee and the authors will be given an opportunity to present them. The conference will consist of four half day sessions. In each session there will be a maximum of four papers followed by a panel discussion to identify a research agenda for the session topic.

Proceedings published in a renowned publication, and the manuscripts will be widely distributed within the GIScience community.

Guidelines for Authors
Authors' instructions for submitting and formatting the papers of around 12 to 15 pages are available at the Springer site http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 the papers should be submitted online through the easychair website at the following link http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gsf09 .

Deadlines
Full paper submission 26 September, 2008
Notification of acceptance 24 November, 2008
Submission of Camera ready copy 01 December, 2008
Conference dates 12 to 13 February 2009

Programme Committee

Symposium Chair
Arup R Dasgupta, Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics, India

Committee Members

• Dr. Abbas Rajabifard, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Dr. David J Maguire, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), USA
• Prof. George Cho, Associate Professor (GIS and the Law) University of Canberra, Australia
• Dr. George Joseph, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India
• Prof. Harlan J. Onsrud, University of Maine, USA
• Prof. Josef Strobl, University of Salzburg, Austria
• Prof. Karsten Jacobsen, University of Hannover, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Menno-Jan Kraak, ITC, The Netherlands
• Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
• Prof. N.L.Sarda, Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai, India
• Dr. Onkar Dixt, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
• Prof. Ryosuke Shibasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
• Dr. Soumya Kanti Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
• Sumit Sen, GIS Development, India

Coordinator
Harsha Vardhan, GIS Development, India

For more information contact us
E-mail: giscience [AT] gisdevelopment.net
Web: http://giscience.gisdevelopment.net
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