ISPRS WG IV/5

As you know, we sometimes feature recently finished PhD theses here in the blog. While 2020 has been an odd year in many ways, several PhD candidates finished up their thesis, defended their thesis remotely, basically talking to a screen. Not really the best energy but we commend them all for their resilience and congratulate them for this gigantic life event. Among those was Merve Keskin, a member of our WG, and Merve has sent us the following text that…

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An active ISPRS Congress is ahead of us! Our working group will chair several regular sessions (we are the ‘area chair’ for geovisualization, virtual and augmented reality sessions), two theme sessions and offer one tutorial. Both for regular sessions and theme sessions, you are welcome to use the congress’ interface to submit your contributions by 3rd of February, 2010 start here: http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/index.php/participate-submit/. The tutorial does not require contributions but at some point you will need to sign up for it….

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ISPRS2020/2021 Thematic session SimVisu2020 /2021 “Visualization of complex spatio-temporal data and phenomena on earth“. 2021 deadline: 1 February 2021, submit here Organizers: Sidonie Christophe,  Arzu Cöltekin, Christopher Pettit, Victoria Rautenbach, for the ISPRS WG IV The purpose is to bring closer simulation, prediction, learning models to geovisualization and geovisual analytics, to ease the visuo-spatial reasoning on the complex data and phenomena we could observe, learn, predict and simulate. The objective of this thematic session is to make researchers have a new…

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An open catalogue for geospatial educational resources   Tutorial presenters: Serena Coetzee, Victoria Rautenbach, Arzu Çöltekin, Chris Pettit, Sidonie Christophe, Marguerite Madden, Ochiroo Lkhamjav Existing geospatial educational resources (e.g. electronic textbooks, tutorials, and quizzes) are not always easy to find and to integrate into an academic module, amongst others, because the required metadata is not available. As a consequence, simple search attempts do not bring us to these resources, and we miss out on some material that may be very…

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Call for papers for a thematic session at the ISPRS 2020 / 2021 Digital twins: Vision papers Organizers: Arzu Çöltekin, Chris Pettit, Sidonie Christophe and Victoria Rautenbach 2021 deadline: 1 February 2021, submit here 2020 Deadline: 3rd of February As part of the “ISPRS Olympics” (the global international congress that takes place every fourth year) ISPRS2020 in Nice, we are organizing a thematic session on Digital Twins. With the advent of better functioning and more affordable extended reality displays (virtual,…

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A few of us are involved in organizing a journal special issue, loosely linked to the three events (see the previous post) this year. If you work on geovisual analytics/geovisualization and modern cartographic considerations for visual analytics/geovis (from a “display design” perspective), this may be for you. Note that this is an open access publication, this means there’s an article processing charge of CHF1000. This is nothing to do with the guest editorial team, it’s completely managed by the journal….

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Our working group is involved in organizing three events this year. Below you will find a summary and links to relevant event pages. Feel free to spread the word! 1) Workshop on Reproducibility in Cartography https://cogvis.icaci.org/18_reproducibility.html Led by ICA’s CogViz Commission. April 27th 2018, Olomouc, Czech Republic 2) Workshop on Virtual environments as geo/spatial labs http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~arzu/sc2018ve/ At the Spatial Cognition Conference. September 5th 2018, Tuebingen, Germany 3) Theme session on Virtual & Augmented Reality: Technology, Design & Human Factors http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~arzu/arvr2018/ At the…

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We are starting a new thread in our blog! We will be featuring interesting scientific work done by our members or in our extended community once in a while. We begin by a recently completed PhD thesis, by our working group secretary Dr. Victoria Rautenbach. Victoria (relatively recently, and very successfully) completed her PhD at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In this post, we provide a summary of Victoria’s PhD project, and link to some of the related publications for…

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Open position for a PhD student in computer science in the area of geographic visualization at the University of Zürich. This position is for a PhD student participating in a Swiss National Science Foundation funded project. See the description, benefits and requirements here: http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~arzu/VMML_GeoVis_Position.pdf

One of our active members, Prof. Alex Klippel of PennState, is leading (and we are helping) a few special sessions at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) annual meeting on topics that are core interest to our working group. Please see the call for contributions below, and feel free to distribute this to your networks. If you are interested, please send your PIN to klippel (at) psu.edu by November 17th, 2016. If this language confuses you as it once did…

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