Themes

• Uncertainties in real world entities and ontology
• Spatial accuracy assessment
• Accuracy evaluation for DEM
• Temporal uncertainty in spatial data
• Incompleteness of spatial data
• Logical consistence in spatial database
• Semantic uncertainty in geographic data
• Uncertainty in remotely sensed image processing
• Uncertainty versus scales
• Quality assessment in spatial data generalization
• Spatial data models for uncertain objects in GIS
• Model validation with imperfect ground truth data
• Assessment of quality of crowdsourcing spatial data
• Uncertainty propagation in spatial analyses and operations
• Spatial querying and reasoning with uncertain data
• Uncertainty in geographical and environmental analysis
• Spatial data quality and decision making
• Spatial statistics
• Geostatistical methods for spatial data quality assessment
• Stochastic spatial simulation
• Spatial data quality and web- and mobile-based services
• Uncertainty in geovisual analytics
• Quality of spatial data visualization
• Meta-data and model for GIS data

Organizers

• International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) WG II/1, WG II/2, WG II/4, WG II/6, ICWG II/IV
• Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Faculty of Construction and Environment, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, LIESMARS, Wuhan University

Keynote Speakers

• Dr Paul Cheung           Director, Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs,  United Nation
• Prof Mike Goodchild     Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Prof Brian G Lees        Editor-in-Chief, IJGIS, School of Physical, Environmental & Mathematical Sciences, University of New South Wales: Canberra, Australia
• Prof Deren Li               State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China
• Prof Alfred Stein          Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, The Netherlands

Important Dates

Deadline for Abstract Submission:                 31st January 2013
Notification of Acceptance:                           15th February 2013
Deadline for Full Paper Submission:              15th April 2013
Early Bird Registration:                                15th April 2013
Symposium Date:                                        30th May 2013 – 1st June 2013

Abstract Submission

The Organizing Committee invites abstract submission for consideration by the programme committee and inclusion in the Symposium programme. Abstracts should be 250 – 500 words in English and should reach the Symposium Secretariat (issdq2013.lsgi@polyu.edu.hk) before 31st January 2013. Online submission system will be opened soon.

Publications

A CD publication will be published and distributed during the Symposium. A book with selected papers from the Symposium will be published after the Symposium.

Website

Interested parties please visit http://www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk/ISSDQ2013 for up-to-date information and registration.

Should you have any enquiries, please contact the Symposium Secretariat at issdq2013.lsgi@polyu.edu.hk or Miss Fiona Fong at +852 3400 3897 or Miss Violet Tsang at +852 2766 4350.

Organizing Committee, ISSDQ 2013

Hong Kong