SPECIAL SESSIONS
Call for proposals of special sessions
SS01: GIS, spatial reasoning, and spatial organization of urban and regional development
SS02: Spatial planning: methods, techniques and experiences
SS03: Smart Phone LBS and 3D Navigations
SS04: GeoInformatics in disaster risk research
SS05: Spatial Cloud Computing
SS06: Remote Sensing Data for Hydrological Applications
SS07: Spatial Intelligence
SS08: Remote Sensing and Climate Change
SS09: Health GIS
SS10: GIS Education
Call for proposals of special sessions
The Organization Committee would like to invite all interested parties to propose special sessions for Geoinformatics 2011. 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.
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)
• Short description of the session (about 150 words)
• Submit completed session proposals to cpgis2011@cpgis.org ON or BEFORE the deadline.
SS01: GIS, spatial reasoning, and spatial organization of urban and regional development
Organizer:
Wei Xu, University of Lethbridge and East China Normal University
Contact information:
wei.xu@uleth.ca
Short description:
Understanding of spatial organization and change of human activities remains a fundamental task in human geographic studies. The rise of geographic information science in the past several decades has enriched significantly the analytical approach to explore spatial forms of urban and regional development pattern and enabled us to visualize and reason the hidden structure of spatial process of urban growth and economic change. This paper session brings together human geographers to demonstrate how GIS and spatial analytical tools are applied to express and explain the observed spatial patterns and processes of urban and regional development. Session topics may include analyses of urban housing, location of high-tech industries, population dynamics, and regional industrial district.
SS02: Spatial planning: methods, techniques and experiences
Organizer:
Belinda Wu, School of Geography, University of Leeds
Qiyan Wu, School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University
Contact information:
B.Wu@Leeds.ac.uk
Short description:
It is in the nature of human beings to plan for their future. As people’s movements, interactions and behaviors will inevitably have important impacts on the society and environment that they are living in, geography poses a strong dimension in strategic planning. Computer based models have now been extensively used in modeling complex social systems, not only because they can provide valuable groundwork when it is too expensive or too difficult to experiment in reality, but also new research methods enabled by the capabilities of modern computers can radically transform human ability to reason systematically about complex social systems. Papers in this special session will demonstrate experiences from different countries in various modeling approaches and techniques, including spatial micro-simulations, cellular automata models, agent based models, remote sensing etc. in the attempt to capture the geographical variances within the studied systems to facilitate strategic planning.
SS03: Smart Phone LBS and 3D Navigations
Organizer:
Ruizhi Chen, Finnish Geodetic Institute
Zhengjun Liu, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping
Contact information:
ruizhi.chen@fgi.fi or zjliu@casm.ac.cn
Short description:
The computing power, memory size and disk storage capacity in smart phone have been improved significantly recently and reach the minimum requirements for 3D visualization. Furthermore, most smart phones now are embedded with low-cost navigation sensors such as GPS receiver, accelerometer, digital compass, gyros and barometer for locating and directing the mobile users. All these new smart phone technologies open a door for exploring new Location-Based Services such as 3D navigation. However, both 3D visualization in smart phones and locating a mobile user anytime anywhere are still challenge tasks. This session will welcome all papers addressing the challenge in the areas of smart phone positioning, 3D visualization technology in smart phone, new Location-Based Services, 3D Navigation, and location and context awareness technologies.
SS04: GeoInformatics in disaster risk research
Organizer:
Min Liu, East China Normal University
Jun Wang, East China Normal University
Contact information:
mliu@geo.ecnu.edu.cn or jwang@geo.ecnu.edu.cn
Short description:
Disaster risk research is one of the effective ways on regional implementation of risk reduction and mitigation strategies. GeoInformatics technology is an important technique for disaster risk researches. This session will discuss the GeoInformatics and application in disaster risk research. The topic focuses on five areas: disaster information acquisition and processing, disaster risk scenario simulation, disaster risk zoning and mapping, disaster emergency evacuation and emergency shelter, and disaster risk assessment tools development.
SS05: Spatial Cloud Computing
Organizer:
Chaowei Yang, George Mason University
Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contact information:
cyang3@gmu.edu or shaowen@illinois.edu
Short description:
Many geospatial scientific problems cannot be explored by single computers and solved within a single science community, but through distributed computing paradigms and models interdisciplinary efforts, such problems can be tackled effectively. The emerging of cloud computing provides a potential solution to enable the addressing of the geospatial scientific problems. This session(s) is the last of a series of sessions we planned to capture the latest development on “how cloud computing can help geospatial sciences and how geospatial sciences can help to shape cloud computing?” Other two are in a) ESIP Federation 2011 winter meeting in Washington DC where GeoCloud, cloud-enable GEOSS clearinghouse, and NASA Cloud Services were introduced. a) AAG annual meeting in April at Seattle where a workshop, two sessions, and one panel discussion are arranged with major geospatial and cloud computing practitioners planned.
Presentations with concrete results and potential literature contributions will be invited to submitted to an SCI journal special issue on "Spatial Cloud Computing".
SS06: Remote Sensing Data for Hydrological Applications
Organizer:
Hongjie Xie, University of Texas at San Antonio
Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma
Changqing Ke, Nanjing University
Contact information:
hongjie.xie@utsa.edu or yanghong@ou.edu or kecq@nju.edu.cn
Short description:
Remote sensing has become an invaluable tool for providing estimates of spatially and temporally continuous hydrological variables and processes related to the water and energy cycle. In addition to providing a basis for more accurate local, regional and global water budgeting schemes, these methods are also providing essential observations and improved estimates of many aspects of the Earth’s surface that were only theorized a few years ago. Such observations include precipitation, soil moisture, evaporation, evapotranspiration, lake and reservoir levels, terrestrial water storage, river discharge, snow pack, and improved monitoring of sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets, etc. The advancement of these technologies has led to a move from research to application-oriented studies such as advancing global water, energy, and carbon cycle sciences, agrometeorological improvements, and numerous civil and military applications. In addition, many current satellite missions are providing complimentary estimates of improved accuracy for existing remotely sensed hydrologic variables. This session will focus on papers addressing (1) the full spectrum in applying remote sensing data to any aspect of hydrologic variables, processes, and problems; (2) validation and uncertainty analysis of those remotely sensed products; (3) integration of the remote sensing data with in situ measurements; and (4) new algorithms and developments in blending different types of remote sensing data to derive new products.
SS07: Spatial Intelligence
Organizer:
Shuming Bao, University of Michigan
Kai Cao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contact information:
sbao@umich.edu or kcao@illinois.edu
Short description:
With spatial intelligence, we can provide efficient spatial and non-spatial data integration for spatial simulation, spatial predication and spatial optimization based on the foundation of spatial statistics, programming and intelligence computation, which could perform quick and accurate location analysis and spatial assessment, identify spatial patterns and trends, generate time-saving, easy-to-use, and pre-formatted reports, develop dynamic maps (demographics and business, boundaries, city locations, rivers, roads), and various applications in different disciplines etc. This session will give an introduction to some new development in spatial intelligence as well as some applied studies on environmental and social issues especially on some urban and regional studies, religious and historical studies, and demographic and business studies.
SS08: Remote Sensing and Climate Change
Organizer:
Shuanggen Jin, Shanghai Astron. Observ.-CAS/Univ. Texas-CSR
Hongjie Xie, University of Texas at San Antonio
Contact information:
sgjin@csr.utexas.edu or hongjie.xie@utsa.edu
Short description:
Global climate change is an indisputable fact with significant increase of greenhouse gases and temperature from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, which is already affecting our lives and the environment we live as well as the future generations. However, observing and modeling global climate change has larger uncertainties in the changing rate and the scale and distribution of impacts. Nowadays, the Earth observation from space provides a unique opportunity to monitor climate change. This session will present/discuss recent observing results on climate change using satellite remote sensing data, such as extreme climate events, temperature, glacier melting, agriculture, wetlands, sea level change, water cycle, forestry, fisheries, ecosystem change, human health and environments and understand interaction of Earth system. This session also welcomes submissions that combine GPS-reflectometry, SAR, LiDAR, ICESat, GRACE, GPS Radio Occultation, Scatterometry and Altimetry data for monitoring, comparing and calibration.
SS09: Health GIS
Organizer:
Xun Shi, Dartmouth College
Contact information:
Xun.Shi@Dartmouth.edu
Short 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.
SS10: GIS Education
Organizer:
Pinde Fu, Esri
Chaowei Yang, George Mason University
Shixiong Hu, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
Contact information:
pfu@esri.com
Short description:
Geospatial information science and technology have been rapidly advancing. On one hand, GIS education needs to be updated with the latest advancements in GI Science and technology; on the other hand, GIS education is ready to be extended from geography to other disciplines. This session is to focus on strategies, experiences, and ideas for expanding and updating GIS education with recent advancements in GIScience & Technology. Topics will include, but not limited to, a) developing courses such as Web GIS, mobile GIS, and cloud GIS, b) incorporating advanced GI science in GIS education, c) expanding GIS education to broader disciplines, such as business, computer science, health care, criminal justice, and journalism, d) Web-based distance learning, job market demands for GIS, online GIS teaching resources, and more.
