The Geoinformatics conference series was initiated by the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS) in 1992. This annual international conference has provided a unique forum for exchanging ideas and knowledge on geo-information sciences between GIS professionals worldwide. The 18th International Conference on Geoinformatics (Geoinformatics 2010) will be held on June 18-20, 2010 at Beijing, China. The conference is co-organized by Peking University, Capital Normal University, and the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS), and co-sponsored by the Geographical Society of China. The Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Science of Peking University is the local organizer of the conference.

The conference theme is “GIScience in Change.” It will provide an unprecedented opportunity for professionals and students from remote sensing, Geoinformation science, and related disciplines to discover cutting-edge geoinformatics technology and applications, while at the same time exchanging their ideas, research results, professional experiences, and future visions in the fields of geographic information science, remote sensing, and their applications.

The conference will include plenary, special, oral, and poster sessions. Please consider submitting your abstracts and papers to the sessions most suitable for exchanging your ideas and research with similar researchers.

The Organization Committee would like to invite all interested parties to propose special sessions for Geoinformatics 2010. Special session Chairs can propose full sessions (10 papers) or half sessions (5 papers). The Session chairs are responsible for inviting the papers and ensuring these papers are submitted via the normal conference referee process. If a Special Session lacks enough papers to complete the time allotment, additional papers can be selected from the general paper submissions.

Conference Theme: “GIScience in Change”

Conference Topics

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

• New trends of technologies and research in GIS community
• Geospatial data sharing and interoperability
• Geospatial web services and service quality
• Geospatial Grid computing
• Web 2.0 & GIS
• Geospatial Web portal
• Geographical information retrieval
• Digital gazetteer
• Geo-ontology
• Spatial cognition
• Spatial uncertainty and data quality
• Multi-dimensional (2D, 3D, and 4D) spatial data modeling and data quality
• Spatio-temporal data model
• Spatial workflow and spatial decision support
• Location based services (LBS)
• Wireless and mobile GIS solutions
• Automated object extraction and database updates from imagery
• Processing and application of high-resolution imagery
• Integration of RS, GIS and GPS (3S)
• LIDAR technology and related application
• Cartographic Theory and Applications
• Geospatial computation
• Spatial Decision Support Systems
• Statistics and application models of spatial data
• Representation and Visualization of Geospatial Data
• Acquisition and Processing of Remotely Sensed Data
• Satellite Positioning Technology and Location based service
• Virtual Globes and their application to scientific research and daily life
• Urban GIS and its applications
• Theories and Algorithms in GIS
• Government and public GIS
• Land Use / Land Cover Change
• GIS for Environment and Health
• Climate Changes and Global Environment
• Geospatial education, such as virtual globes-based virtual education

Special Sessions

Professionals are welcome to organize special sessions. The special session proposal should include the following information:

• Session chair(s) names, affiliations
• Contact information (email address, phone, fax)
• Session title
• Full or half (10 or 5 papers)
• List of potential contributors to be invited (if available)
• Short description of the session (about 150 words)

Submit completed session proposals to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with subject “special session”.

Please refer to “Special Sessions” at the conference Web site for details on organizing your special sessions.

Abstracts and Papers

Participants are invited to submit original, unpublished research contributions or experience reports not concurrently submitted elsewhere. All abstracts must be 300-500 words long and written in English. They will be refereed for quality, originality, and relevance by the program committee. The first call is for an extended abstract. Authors of the accepted abstracts will be invited to submit full papers to be published in an EI-indexed conference proceeding. Some selected papers will be published in special issues of SCI-indexed journals.

Please submit abstracts online at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geoinformatics2010. Abstracts must include title, a uthors (Firstname Surname), indicating the presenter by underlining their name and providing author's contact details: affiliations, department, full address (street, city, state/province, and country), telephone, fax, and Email.

Special programs for participating students

CPGIS will organize student paper competition. The top quality papers will be selected as CPGIS GeoInformatics' 2010 Best Student Paper to receive plaque and cash award, and will be invited to submit a revised version to a special journal issue.