Accepted Session Proposals

1. Issues in GIS and Remote Sensing Research: Women Faculty’s Views

Co-chairs

Bing Xu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Xiuping Jia, School of EIT, UNSW@ADFA, Australia, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Description

The first Women Faculty Forum was held during the Geoinformatics’07 conference. A panel consisting of women scholars with a wide background was formed to exchange ideas and concerns with the audience. The session was well received. As a result, the Supporting Women in GIS Committee has been set up in CPGIS. This committee wishes to submit this special session proposal for Geoinformatics’10. The session will include the presentations that address both technical and social challenges faced by women scientists. Male colleagues will be invited to speak on the partnership to the session. Understanding of research questions in GIS and Remote Sensing will be shared, together with personal research experiences and contributions. A good discussion time will be scheduled for this session.

2. Spatial Intelligence and Learning

Co-chairs

Shuming Bao, the University of Michigan, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Bin Li, Central Michigan University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Description

With spatial intelligence, we can provide efficient data integration for spatial and non-spatial data, perform quick and accurate location analysis and spatial assessment, Identify spatial patterns and trends, generate time-saving, easy-to-use, and pre-formatted reports as well as customized reports, develop dynamic maps (demographics and business, boundaries, city locations, rivers, roads), and various applications in different disciplinarians. This session will give an introduction to some new development in spatial intelligence as well as some applied studies in urban and regional studies, religious and historical studies, and demographic and business studies.

3. For More Safety Life: Emergency Guidance Services and Location Privacy

Co-chairs

Jianghua Zheng, College of Resources & Environment Science, Xinjiang University, China, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Masatoshi Arikawa, Centre for Spatial Information Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Description

Navigation services is one of the most important applications of Location based services (LBS), which is a promising and fast developing field in Geoinformatics. Traditional vehicle navigation has made great commercial success. Nowadays, pedestrian navigation has also obtained great concern. However, emergency guidance services have not been given enough attention from both academic and application aspects, though LBS was originally put forward for emergencies. And location privacy is also an important topic of LBS. This special session also wants to discuss location privacy under emergencies. It will focus on various guidance services under different types of emergencies and location privacy problem under emergencies. We hope this section/workshop will push LBS research and application towards more safety life of the public.

Website

http://www.its-lbs.org

http://itslbs2009.brinkster.net/egslp2010/

4. GIS in Health Studies

Chair

Xun Shi, Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, USA, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Description

This session invites presentations on all health-related GIS and spatial analysis topics, in both application and methodological aspects. Specific topics may include, but not limited to, the use of GIS and spatial analysis in environmental health, public health, communicable disease, evaluation of healthcare/service disparity, and health policy and system reform.

5. Advances in Lidar Applications

Chair

Tzee-Kiu Edwin Chow, Department of Geography at the Texas State University – San Marcos, USA, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Description

Lidar typically captures high level of topographic details represented by a mass cloud of x-, y-, and z-points at fine resolutions. The 3-dimensional lidar point clouds contain rich geographic information that can be useful for a variety of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications. The multiple-returned highly-accurate lidar data collected at fine resolution opens up new arenas for research in GIScience and applications. The purpose of this session is to introduce practical and theoretical issues dealing with lidar applications. Potential topics may include feature extraction, accuracy assessment, data fusion, hydrologic modeling, fire behavior prediction, erosion monitoring, biomass characterization, population estimation, etc.

6. Cutting-edge Techniques in Distributed Geographic Information Processing

Co-chairs

Bin Chen, Peking University, Beijing, China, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Zhou Huang, Peking University, Beijing, China, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Description

Over recent years distributed computing technologies have been greatly developed, thus benefit the way that geospatial information is collected, analyzed and integrated. Both the research community and industry community are being involved in this technology revolution. Many concepts in the field of distributed computing, e.g. Peer-to-Peer Computing, Grid Computing, Pervasive Computing, and Cloud Computing, are gradually coming true. These technologies enable information sharing and cooperative work in Internet environment. As the combination of information technology and geographic science, GIS is also confronted with opportunities and challenges brought by distributed computing technologies. It makes good sense to incorporate the novel distributed computing technologies to achieve next generation GIS. This session will include the presentations that address technical challenges faced by the combination of cutting-edge distributed computing technologies and GIS. Colleagues who are involved in distributed geographic information processing will be invited to speak in the session. A discussion time will be scheduled as well.