IEEE International Conference on Spatial Data Mining and Geographical Knowledge Services (ICSDM)

Beijing International Workshop on Geographical Information System (BJ-IWGIS)

June 29-July1, Fuzhou, P.R.China

Website:http://www.icsdm2011.org/

Conference Theme:

"Bridging the Gap Between Spatial Information Technology and Geoscience Research"

Conference Topics:

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

1.　　 Geo-spatial fundamentals, theories and algorithms in GIS

o　  New trends in GIS technologies and research

o　  Spatiotemporal data structures and algorithms

o　  Systems architectures and middleware for GIS

o　  Standardization of geo-spatial data and geo-processing services

o　  Geo-spatial data processing and management mechanisms

o　  Spatiotemporal data quality and uncertainty

o　  Spatiotemporal modeling

o　  Spatial ontology and cognition

o　  Computational geometry for GIS problems

o　  Automated mapping and map generalization

2.　　 Geo-spatial data mining and knowledge discovery and geographical process modeling

o　  Spatial-temporal analysis and modeling methods

o　  Geo-spatial and spatiotemporal data mining algorithms

o　  Spatio-temporal data reasoning

o　  Spatial statistics and data mining

o　  Visual spatial data mining

o　  Spatial decision support systems

o　  Spatial data warehouse and spatial OLAP

o　  Modeling and analysis of digital elevation/shape

o　  Modeling uncertainty in geo-spatial information

o　  Virtual modeling of large geographic areas

o　  Time-geography modeling

o　  Spatial query processing and optimization

3.　　 Geo-spatial Web services, WebGIS and geographical grid computation

o　  Standards and geo-spatial metadata

o　  Geographical web search engines and information retrieval

o　  Geo-spatial interoperability and data integration

o　  Geo-spatial sharing and dissemination

o　  Geo-spatial web service and WebGIS architecture

o　  Geo-spatial web resource monitoring, scheduling, allocation and control

o　  Geo-spatial web service discovery, matching and composition/aggregation

o　  Ontology or agent techniques for web service

o　  Geo-spatial web services and service quality

o　  Workflow-based web service orchestration and organization

o　  Geographical grid computational environment

o　  Distributed, parallel, and collaborative geo-processing

o　  Geographical data grid, information grid and knowledge grid and service grid

o　  Geo-spatial semantic web and ontology-based knowledge base

o　  Geo-spatial sensor web

o　  Grid resource management, reservation, scheduling, and load balancing

o　  Grid-based knowledge discovery and decision servicee

o　  Grid-based geographical problem-solving environment

o　  Geo-spatial web portal and grid portal

o　  Cloud computing for geo-spatial processing

o　  Wireless and mobile GIS

o　  Mobile service and mobile grid

o　  Location-based services (LBS)

o　  Location privacy, data sharing and security

o　  Geo-Cyber Infrastructure and Spatial data infrastructure

4.　　 Geo-spatial simulation and visualization, and virtual geographical environment

o　  2D and 3D information acquisitions, processing, modeling and visualization

o　  Representation and visualization of geospatial data

o　  Distributed simulations and sensor webs

o　  Simulation modeling of dynamic geo-processes

o　  Exploratory spatial data analysis

o　  Geo-visualization and geo-visual analytics

o　  3D nature scene modeling and rendering with high complexity and large scale

o　  Distributed/Collaborative interactive simulation

o　  Visualization of geospatial uncertainty

o　  Digital Earth and virtual geographic environment

o　  Distributed, parallel, and GPU algorithms for GIS

o　  Human-computer interaction and visualization

5.　　 Remote Sensing and Earth Observation System

o　  Earth observation sensor networks and applications

o　  Acquisition and processing of remotely sensed data

o　  Calibration and validation of remotely sensed data

o　  Data mining across sensors

o　  Intelligent sensors/sensor fusion and assimilation

o　  Sensor information management systems

o　  Spatiotemporal sensor data mining

o　  Remote sensing image processing and pattern recognition

o　  Automated object extraction and database updates from imagery

o　  Processing and application of high-resolution and hyper-spectral imagery

o　  Radar remote sensing (SAR, InSAR, PolSAR)

o　  LIDAR technology for generating digital elevation models and 3D modeling

6.　　 Domain applications of integrated Geographical information technology ( GIS, Remote sensing and GPS,etc)

o　  Application in natural resource investigation and management

o　  Application in land use and land cover management

o　  Application in agricultural operation and management

o　  Application in coastal and Wetlands management

o　  Application in urban and built Environment

o　  Application in traffic and transportation management

o　  Government and public GIS

o　  Application in climate change and the global environment

o　  GIS for the environment, ecology and health monitoring and governance

o　  Environmental criminology and crime simulation

o　  Application in geology and hydrogeology

o　  Application in hazard simulation and assessment, risk management and disaster response