Themes

Main theme:
Global Change, Adaptation and Risk Management

Themes: (include but not limited to)

• New developments in early warning systems
• GIS in emergency and crisis management
• GIS in Education
• GIS in Business Processes
• New trends of technologies and research in GIS community
• Geospatial data sharing and interoperability
• Geospatial web services and service quality
• Geospatial Grid computing
• Geospatial Web portal
• Analysis-oriented and standards-compliant WebGIS
• 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
• Spatial workflow and spatial decision support
• Virtual Globes and their application to scientific research and daily life
• 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 for DEM generation and 3D modeling
• Geospatial education, such as virtual globes-based virtual education
• Cartographic Theory and Applications
• Data Models in Cartography
• Spatial Decision Support Systems
• Representation and Visualization of Geospatial Data
• Errors and Their Measurements in Spatial Data
• Acquisition and Processing of Remotely Sensed Data
• Information Extraction from Remotely Sensed Data
• Statistics and application models of spatial data
• Satellite Positioning Technology and Location based service
• Web GIS & Internet GIS
• Urban GIS and its applications
• Theories and Algorithms in GIS
• Government and public GIS
• Land Use / Land Cover Change
• GIS for Environment and Health
• Geo-spatial simulation
• Geospatial computation
• Environmental Criminology and Crime Simulation
• Climate Changes and Global Environment