5 Nov 2014 (Wednesday)

Venue: Room 303, Fok Ying Tung Remote Sensing Science Building, CUHK

09:00 - 12 :30

Pre-conference Workshop:
Hands-on Workshop on Spatial BigData with Hadoop
Mr. Mansour Raad
BigData Advocate, Senior Software Architect, ESRI

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12:30 - 13:30

Visit of Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change
(Address: 8/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK)

6 Nov 2014 (Thursday)

Venue: Room 303, Fok Ying Tung Remote Sensing Science Building, CUHK

Opening Ceremony
(chaired by Prof. Hui Lin)

09:00 - 09:20

Welcome Remarks
Prof. Tung Fung - Associate Vice-President, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Welcome Remarks
Prof. John P. Wilson - USC University of Southern California

09:20 - 10:10

Keynote Address
Structurally Dynamic Models – A New Promising Model Type
Prof. Sven Erik Jørgensen - Environmental Chemistry, University of Copenhagen

10:10 - 10:40

Group Photo Taking and Tea Break

Keynote Addresses (1)
(chaired by Prof. Milan Konecny)

10:40 - 11:30

Keynote Address
Smart Cities and Virtual Geographic Environments
Prof. Michael Batty - Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)
University College London

11:30 - 12:20

Keynote Address
Development and Implementation of a Global-to-Urban Climate Model Suite
Prof. Huang-Hsiung Hsu - Laboratory for Climate Change Research (LCCR), Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica

12:20 - 14:00

Lunch
(Venue: Staff Canteen of New Asia College, CUHK)

Session 1：Geo-process Modelling and Applications (1)
(chaired by Prof. Alexey Voinov)

14:00 - 14:20

Modeling of Cross-country Transport in Raster 
Prof. Marian Rybansky - Military Geography and Meteorology, University of Defence in Brno

14:20- 14:40

RCEIS – A German-Chinese Initiative for a Research Centre for Environmental Information Science
Dr. Cui Chen- Department Environmental Informatics (ENVINF), Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ

14:40 - 15:00

Research on Adaptive Tide Numerical Simulation based on Steering Dynamic Monitoring
Prof. Fei Guo - Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University

15:00 - 15:20

A Review on HASM
Mr. Mingwei Zhao - Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

15:20- 15:40

Tea Break

Session 2：Geo-process Modelling and Applications (2)
(chaired by Prof. Marian Rybansky)

15:40 - 16:00

A Multi-scale Spatio-temporal Modelling Approach to Exploring Vegetation Dynamics
Dr. Bingwen Qiu - Spatial Information Research Centre of Fujian, Fuzhou University

16:00 - 16:20

Modeling and Simulation of Crowd Evacuation in Multi-floor Buildings
Dr. Wenhang Li - Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences

16:20 - 16:40

Continuum Crowd Simulation with Large Amounts of Groups 
Dr. Qishen Duan - Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Science

16:40 - 17:00

Simulation of Actual Terrain Ocean Tide in the Bays with SPH  
Dr. Tao Wang - Guangzhou Institute of Geography

Panel Discussion
(chaired by Prof. Sven Erik Jørgensen)

17:00 - 18:00

What is the Ongoing Development in Geographic Process Modeling? 

Dinner
(Address: Serenade Chinese Restaurant, 1-2/F, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Restaurant Block, Tsim Sha Tsui, HK)

7 Nov 2014 (Friday)

Venue: Room 303, Fok Ying Tung Remote Sensing Science Building, CUHK

Keynote Addresses (2)
(chaired by Prof. Qing Zhu)

09:30 - 10:20

Keynote Address
Coupling Land Use, Ecological Processes and Ecosystem Services Modelling
Prof. Bojie Fu - State Key Lab. of Urban and Regional Ecology,
Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

10:20 - 10:40

Tea Break

10:40 - 11:30

 Keynote Address
Slipstreaming Human Geosimulation in Virtual Geographic Environments
Prof. Paul M. Torrens - Center for Geospatial Information Science, University of Maryland

11:30 - 12:20

Keynote Address
VGE: An Environment for New Forms of Geographic Experiments
Prof. A-Xing Zhu - Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison

12:20 - 14:00

Lunch
(Venue: Staff Canteen of New Asia College, CUHK)

Session 3：Model Integration and Related Technologies
(chaired by Prof. Guoan Tang)

14:00 - 14:20

Exploring Climate Mitigation and Low-carbon Transitions: New Challenges for Model Integration
Prof. Alexey Voinov - Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente

14:20 - 14:40

Analysis and Method of Description on Geographical Model Data Format  
Dr. Di Hu - Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University

14:40 - 15:00

A Spatial-Temporal Framework in Hydrological Models 
Prof. Xiaoxiang Zhang - Institute of Geographical Information Science & Engineering, Hohai University

15:00 - 15:20

A Data Description and Interchange method for the Reusing, Sharing and Integration of Geo-Analysis Models
Mr. Songshan Yue - Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University

15:20 - 15:40

Tea Break

Session 4：Virtual Geographic Environment and Visualization (1)
(chaired by Prof. Xiaoxiang Zhang)

15:40 - 16:00

Urban-scale 3D Solar Radiation Modeling and Web-based Data Sharing in VGEs 
Mr. Jianming Liang - Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences

16:00 - 16:20

A Virtual Geographic Environment System with Adjustable Emission Inventory for Air Quality Management in the PRD, China
Dr. Chunxiao Zhang – Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

16:20 - 16:40

A Method for Generalising Terrain Sketch Based on Visual Conditions 
Mr. Kejian Qian - Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University

16:40 - 17:00

Pre-Quaternary Underlying Terrain Virtualization and Reconstruction of the Ordos Platform in the Loess Plateau of China using Geologic Information and Its Implementation in the Landscape Evolution Modelling
Mr. Liyang Xiong - Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University

Panel Discussion
(chaired by Prof. Michael Batty)

17:00 - 18:00

What Virtual World Can Contribute toScientific Simulation? 

Dinner
(Address: Staff Common Room Clubhouse, University Guest House, CUHK)

8 Nov 2014 (Saturday)

Venue: Room 303, Fok Ying Tung Remote Sensing Science Building, CUHK

Keynote Addresses (3)
(chaired by Prof. Michihiko Shinozaki)

09:30 - 10:20

Keynote Address
Application of Ecological Models for Assessment of Sustainability
Prof. Sven Erik Jørgensen - Environmental Chemistry, University of Copenhagen

10:20 - 10:40

Tea Break

10:40 - 11:30

Keynote Address
Cloud-based Service Methodology for GeoSpatial Modeling and Knowledge Sharing
Prof. Jianya Gong - State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University

11:30 - 12:20

Keynote Address
On GeoProcessing BigData, Machine Learning and Visualization
Mr. Mansour Raad - ESRI

12:20 - 14:00

Lunch
(Venue: Staff Canteen of New Asia College, CUHK)

Session 5：Virtual Geographic Environment and Visualization (2)
(chaired by Prof. Paul Torrens)

14:00 - 14:20

A Prototype 3D Spatialisation for Time Management in a Virtual Environment 
Dr. Antoni Moore - School of Surveying, University of Otago 

14:20 - 14:40

Multi-sourced Heterogeneous Data Seamless-Integration in 3D
Mr. Mingwei Liu - Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University

14:40 - 15:00

Network Simulation and Visual Analysis of Dam-break Flood Spatio-temporal Process
Ms. Ling-zhi Yin - Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University

15:00 - 15:20

Towards Live Virtual Geographic Environment 
Dr. Weitao Che - Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

15:20 - 15:40

Tea Break

Session 6： Development of VGEs and its Usage
(chaired by Prof. Jianhua Gong)

15:40- 16:00

CHIA: A Virtual Historical Geographic Environment
Dr. Kai Cao, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

16:00 - 16:20

3D Stand-level Growth Simulation for Chinese fir Plantations
Dr. Liyu Tang - Spatial Information Research Centre of Fujian, Fuzhou University

16:20 - 16:40

Redis based SVG Spatial Visualization Database
Mr. Jian Jiao - School of Computer Science, South China Normal University

Panel Discussion
(chaired by Prof. Hui Lin)

16:40 - 18:00

Bridge Geo-process Modelling and Virtual World for Naturally Research

Dinner
(Address: Chiuchow Garden, Shop 801B, 8/F, New Town Plaza, Phase I, Shatin, HK)

9 Nov 2014 (Sunday)

Field Trip to Crooked Island and Tung Ping Chau

9:00

Assembly near CUHK School Bus Stop No. 2

9:30

Departure from Ma Liu Shui Ferry Pier to Crooked Island

10:30-11:30

Field Study at Crooked Island

11:30-12:30

Lunch at Crooked Island

12:30

Departure from Crooked Island to Tung Ping Chau

13:30-15:00

Field study at Tung Ping Chau

15:00

Departure from Tung Ping Chau to  Ma Liu Shui Ferry Pier

16:30

Dismiss at Ma Liu Shui Ferry Pier