October 2003
Posted October 28, 2003GIS Day 2003
GIS day 2003 is on November 19th. The GISC will host a campus event from 12:00 - 4:00 that will be followed by a community event from 4:00 - 8:00. Details of all events will be announced shortly.
We would like to invite 5-6 student researchers to present their use of GIS in their research. Our aim is to get a group of speakers from a wide variety of disciplines to show how Geographic Information Systems are applied in campus research. These talks would take place in Wurster Hall from 12:00 noon until approximately 2:00 pm.
The first time slot will reserved for a faculty keynote speaker (TBA).
We encourage all graduate students interested in making a 15 minute presentation for this event to send a brief abstract to the GISC at gisc@gisc.berkeley.edu by November 5th. 4 or 5 presenters will then be selected and notified. All abstracts not chosen may then be submitted to us as white papers an will be published on our website. If you are not available to make a presentation, but would like to submit a white paper for publication, please feel free to do so.
After 2:00 pm, the GISC will host an open house with a small poster and multimedia exhibit, demonstrating current GIS work at the GIS Center. Students and researchers who would like to demonstrate their work are welcome to do so during this time slot as well, but in a more informal setting.
- GISC
ESRI GIS Solutions EXPO in Pleasanton
October 27, 2003
Crowne Plaza Pleasanton
11950 Dublin Canyon Rd.
Pleasanton, CA 94588
Phone: 925-847-6000
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Registration
Register to attend the ESRI GIS Solutions EXPO in Pleasanton.
ESRI is pleased to welcome our software users and friends to the ESRI GIS Solutions EXPO in Pleasanton. We are looking forward to speaking with you about your current and planned projects, as well as showing you what's new in ArcGIS software.
For more information on the EXPO please visit the ESRI GIS Solutions EXPO detail page, or call the California Regional Office at 909-793-2853.
For upcoming seminars and user group meetings in your area, please visit http://www.esri.com/seminars.
Geo-Intel 2003, October 14-17, 2003
Geo-Intel 2003
October 14-17, 2003
New Orleans, LA
Join the leaders in Geospatial intelligence - government and industry -- to share views on the direction in which imagery, mapping, and related technologies are heading. The goal of Geo-Intel is to create an environment of cooperation and open discussion among government, military, and the private sector and to encourage the advancement of the Geospatial Intelligence and geospatial information technologies for use in defense and intelligence programs, as well as homeland security initiatives. This ground breaking program will address both policy and integration issues that will affect geospatial technologies and their capabilities on a global scale.
Featured speakers include:
* Charlie Allen, ADCI, Collection
* Lt. Gen. Edward Anderson, USA, Deputy Commander, USNORTHCOM
* Honorable Steve Cambone, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, DoD,
Invited
* Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper, Jr., USAF, (Ret.), Director, NIMA
* Honorable Porter Goss, Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence (HPSCI)
* Rich Haver, Vice President for Intelligence Strategy, Northrop Grumman Mission
Systems
* Senator J. Robert Kerrey, President, New School University
* Mark Lowenthal ADCI, Analysis and Production
* General Joseph W. Ralston, USAF (Ret.), Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group, former
Commander, U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO, and
Vice Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff * Honorable Tom Ridge, Secretary, DHS,
Invited
Plus, see exhibits from 44 leading suppliers and manufacturers of Geospatial systems and services including NIMA's Operations Center of the Future combining visualization and understanding of Geospatial-Intelligence with advanced technologies to make actionable information intuitively accessible to decision-makers. (Demonstrations by NIMA's Geospatial Intelligence Advancement Testbed (GIAT) will be Oct. 15-16th.)
Visit http://www.geointel.org/ for a complete event schedule, panel topics and descriptions, and to register. This is going to be a fantastic symposium with all the right players. Look forward to seeing you there. Please forward this email to other industry colleagues who would benefit from participation.
International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling: Call for Papers
International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, 2004
23rd to 25th August 2004
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
First Announcement and Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Any researcher interested in presenting a paper at the 11th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling is invited to submit a full text paper. Papers can be in any area of Geographical Information Science, which is to say in the theoretical areas which address the working of and work with Geographical Information Systems. Papers might be related to a large range of topics, of which the following list gives a flavour, but is not prescriptive, including:
* Uncertainty in spatial information: How it is conceptualised, Described,
Modelled, and Propagated.
* User interfaces: Usability testing, Interface design, and Visual lanaguages.
* Scale issues of geographical information: Problems with scale, Exploiting
scale, Multiscale analysis and description.
* Databases: Extending Geographical database structures, Data Models, Data
fusion, Data base description and ontology, Interoperability.
* Dissemination of Geographical Data: Spatial Data Infrastructures, Web Access,
Watermarking
* Visualisation: New and traditional approaches to visualisation and mapping,
Generalisation, Symbolisation,
* Terrain and surface modelling: Interpolation, Modelling, Analysing, and
Extracting Features
* Spatial Modelling: The use of spatial data in urban, regional, transport and
environmental modelling
* Remote Sensing: The conversion of RS data to information, Novel algorithms, and
Integration and Fusion of data.
* Spatial Cognition: Human understanding of space, Models of space, Wayfinding,
* Social issues of GIScience theory and GISystem use
* Critical evaluations of the use of GISystems in applications
* Social, Economic, Legal and Policy issues of Geodata and GISystems use
Papers relating to topics which are not mentioned in this list will be especially welcome.
All papers will be subject to full review by the International Programme Committee, and, if accepted, published in the conference proceedings.
Papers should be written in English (the official language of the conference) and prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors which can be found with this call and other information at (www.geog.le.ac.uk/sdh2004/).
Full papers should be emailed to sdh2004@le.ac.uk on or before 3rd January 2003.
Timetable
Call for Papers 15th September 2003 Submission of Full Text Papers 3rd January 2004 Notification of Acceptance and Revisions 14th March 2004 Submission of Final Manuscript 16th May 2004) Conference 23rd August 2004
Further details
For further information email: sdh2004@le.ac.uk Information will be available on the web at: www.geog.le.ac.uk/sdh2004
Timing and the IGC The Conference is to be held the week after the International Geographical Congress which will be held in Glasgow, Scotland in 2004. More information can be found at:
* http://www.iguglasgow2004.org
* http://www.rgs.org
* http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/-rsgs/
* http://www.geog.nau.edu/igust/Glasgow2004.html
Location The Conference will be held at the University of Leicester in the English Midlands. Accommodation will be in a mixture of University Halls of Residence and Hotels.
The SDH Series The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH) is the premier international research forum for Geographic Information Science. It commenced in 1984, in Zurich, Switzerland, organized by the International Geographical Union Commission on Geographical Data Sensing and Processing which was later succeed by the Commission on Geographic Information Systems, Study Group on Geographical Information Science and then the Commission on Geographical Information Science (http://www.hku.hk/cupem/igugisc/ ). The conference is run biannually and has been held in the following locations:
1st - Zurich, 1984 2nd - Seattle, 1986 3rd - Sydney, 1988 4th - Zurich, 1990 5th - Charleston, 1992 6th - Edinburgh, 1994 7th - Delft, 1996 8th - Vancouver, 1998 9th
- Beijing, 2000 10th - Ottawa, 2002 (jointly organized with ISPRS)
Since the first meeting, every other event has been held as a satellite meeting to the International Geographical Congress which in 2004 will be held in Glasgow, Scotland (www.rgs.org/ www.iguglasgow2004.org ).
This is a refereed conference with the accepted papers published in the conference proceedings. The Edinburgh and Delft proceedings had been published as post-conference publications by Taylor and Francis in the Advances in GIS series and the Ottawa conference has been published by Springer-Verlag as Advances in Spatial Data Handling. Many important seminal papers and novel ideas have been originated from this conference series.
2003 Ontario GeoSpatial IT Conference Wednesday, October 29, 2003
2003 Ontario GeoSpatial IT Conference Wednesday, October 29, 2003
The 2003 Ontario GeoSpatial IT Conference Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Register now! Added Exhibitors! More Speakers! New Pricing!
For the premier GIS event of the year at Mississauga Living Arts Centre on October 29th http://www.livingarts.on.ca/map.htm
ADDING VALUE TO YOUR BUSINESS is the conference theme. Key presenters this year will cover a broad range of subjects from their areas of expertise.
Keynote:
* Nancy Lerner, EMA Inc., Houston, TX: Gold Paper winner at GITA International
Conference 3/03 in San Antonio. "ROI, NPV, Payback How to Measure the Added
Value"
Sponsors:
* DMTI Spatial,
* ESRI Canada,
* Intergraph,
* JD Barnes,
* PCI Geomatics,
* Telus Geomatics,
* Teranet
Additional/invited exhibitors:
* Marmak, Rolta International,
* GeoSmart,
* GE Smallworld,
* DT Canada,
* MapInfo
Educational Sessions presented by:
* City of Niagara Falls;
* City of Kingston;
* Ontario Parcel Alliance;
* MNR/LIO; Telus Geomatics;
* ESRI Canada;
* Hydro One;
* Wirebury Communications
Admission is FREE to GITA Members Non members C$25.00 (US$15.00) Payment can be on Visa in US funds when you e-register or in Canadian funds at the door in cash or by cheque payable to GITA Ontario Chapter.
Join GITA and save on this and many more events at www.gita.org .
Come and see the exhibits. Come and hear the presentations. See and hear what adds value. This is the premier fall educational and networking event for Geospatial IT Professionals.
REGISTER ONLINE RIGHT NOW AT https://www.gita.org/chapters/ontario/reg_form.html
Send your inquiries to Wayne Crann wcrann@sympatico.ca or Greg Duffy at g.j.duffy@sympatico.ca For Exhibitor information, contact Andy Mackie at andy.mackie@teranet.ca
7th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science: CALL FOR PAPERS
7th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science
AGILE 2004: GI in the European Research Area Herakleion,
Crete, Greece
April 29th - May 1st 2004
http://agile2004.iacm.forth.gr/
CALL FOR PAPERS
On behalf of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories, it is a pleasure to invite you to participate in the 7th AGILE Conference on GI Science to be held in Herakleion, Crete, Greece, from April 29th until May 1st 2004.
The scientific programme committee will evaluate long abstracts, each of which shall include a full description of the research undertaken and concrete results. Full papers will be published on the AGILE web site and a CD-ROM (with ISBN) to be distributed at the conference. Optionally authors may submit abstracts for AGILE publication and then full papers to selected academic journals (normal peer reviewing rules apply) which have expressed interest in supporting AGILE special issues".
Conference Themes
Contributions will be considered on all GI-related research themes, however the programme committee especially requests high quality submissions on the following conference themes, many coming from the AGILE research agenda:
* Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI)
* GI Policy and Society, e-Government
* Spatial aspects of Disaster/Risk Management
* Natural Resource Management and Monitoring
* Dynamic Modelling of Environmental and Social Processes
* Semantic Interoperability
* Geo-Semantic Web technologies with emphasis on research, educational, and
industry domains Interoperable Geo-spatial Technology
* Spatial Data Usability Decision Support Systems (DSS)
* Location Based Services (LBS) Visualisation of Spatio-temporal Information
* GI Education
Conference streams will be organized under the guidance of the AGILE Working Groups, according to the topics of the papers accepted. For a description of the Working Groups see http://www.agile-online.org/
Papers
Long abstracts (2000 to 3000 words) should describe the nature and relevance of the problem, the research undertaken, and concrete results if any. Reviews, tutorials and conference reports are not encouraged, but may be admitted if quality is high and topic is especially strategic. Abstracts should approximate the format of the model found at http://agile2004.iacm.forth.gr/ (Agile2004-modelAbst.pdf).
Final papers should strive for scientific journal quality, including full references and proper English language usage, and shall have a maximum extension of 11 pages, following the template and format details to be provided.
Overly general abstracts, and those which are of poor quality, will be rejected. (In 2003 approximately 50% of abstracts submitted were accepted for oral
presentation.)
Posters
A limited number of scientific posters will be displayed at the 2004 conference. Poster presentations are expected to be of the same high quality as presented papers, however their format will normally be of a more graphic nature. Thus, posters also must be submitted as long abstracts, with relevant graphics included.
Submissions
Long abstracts should be sent in MS-Word or RTF format (please Zip files of more than 1MB), via e-mail to Fred Toppen using the following link: f.toppen@geog.uu.nl subject=Agile2004abstract before December 1st 2003.
Review process
Each abstract will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub committee and result in one of the following final decisions: accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this decision will take place early February 2004.
At the conference, prizes will be awarded to the best paper and poster, courtesy of a corporate AGILE affiliate member.
Deadlines
Reception of long abstracts: before 01 December 2003 Acceptance/Conditional acceptance/Rejection notification: 04 February 2004 Reception* of full papers and revised abstracts: before 01 March 2004 7th AGILE Conference: April 29 - May 01 2004 * Assuming author wishes to publish on the AGILE CD-ROM
The programme committee reserves the right to reject full papers for publication if format guidelines are not adhered to (the programme committee will not re-edit papers), and if the registration fee has not been paid by April 1st . Proof of payment should be added to the final paper or sent to Fred Toppen (fax INT-31- 30-2540604).
Scientific Programme Committee
* Fred Toppen, Chair, University of Utrecht (NL)
* Lars Bernard, European Joint Research Centre (IT)
* Michael Gould, University Jaume I", Castelln (ES)
* Max Craglia, University of Sheffield (UK) Eleftheria Karnavou, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki (GR)
* Marinos Kavouras, National Technical University of Athens (GR)
* Bela Markus, University of West Hungary (HU) Anders stman, Univ. Lulea (SE)
* Henk Ottens, Universaity of Utrecht (NL) Marco Painho, ISEGI Universidade
Nova de Lisboa (PT)
* Poulicos Prastacos, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (GR)
* Hardy Pundt, University of Applied Sciences Harz, Wernigerode (DE)
* Wolfgang Reinhardt, UniBw Mnchen (DE)
* Mauro Salvemini, Universita di Roma La Sapienza (IT)
* Juan Suarez, Forest Research (UK)
* Franco Vico, Universita di Torino (IT) Monica Wachowicz, Wageningen
University (NL)
* Uta Wehn de Montalvo, TNO (NL)
Local Organisation Committee
* Poulicos Prastacos, Chair, FORTH *
* Apostolos Arvanitis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
* Nektarios Chrysoulakis, FORTH *
* Manolis Diamandakis, FORTH *
* Eleftheria Karnavou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
* Marinos Kavouras, National Technical University of Athens
* Dimitris Kotzinos, FORTH *
* Kostis Koutsopoulos, National Technical University of Athens
* Panayiotis Lolonis, Hellenic Cadastre S.A.
* Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens
* Vassilis Pappas, University of Patras
* Nikos Polydorides, University of Patras
* Nikos Soulakellis, University of the Aegean
* Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopion University of Athens
*Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Pre-conference workshops
The conference organizers will promote and if possible support the organization of pre-conference workshops, preferably in co-operation with AGILE Working Groups. At this moment, the AGILE Working Group on Interoperability intends to organize such a pre-conference workshop. The theme will be 'Interoperability & SDI-hands on experiences'. The workshop will be organized in conjunction with OGC-E and should group 'best practice' presentations, practical SDI & interoperability experiences and new developments in the GI-Interoperability-arena. Other Working Groups will presumably follow.
Conference venue and registration
The Conference will take place at the Athina Palace Hotel (http://www.iberostar-athinapalace.com ). This hotel is located 15 km west of Herakleion. An attractive fee, including conference and accommodation, will be negotiated and communicated as soon as possible. Up to date information will be available on the conference web site. Also, a registration form will be made available later this Fall.
Additional information
Additional information can be found at the official conference web site http://agile2004.iacm.forth.gr/ or at the AGILE web site at http://www.agile-online.org . (Please check it from time to time, for conference
updates.)
