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Geovis/AR/VR Special sessions at the AAG – call for contributions

Geovis/AR/VR Special sessions at the AAG – call for contributions

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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New name, new team for our WG

New name, new team for our WG

During the last ISPRS meeting in Prague, there was a restructuring of the Commissions and Working Groups. Below you will find a summary of the changes: Name change: Our commission (Spatial Information Science) is now Commission IV, and our working groups is WG IV/9. We also modified the name of the WG slightly, and now we are called “Geovisualization, Augmented and Virtual Reality“. Team change: We also have some changes in our team. Our past co-chair Dr. Bo Wu decided…

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ISPRS Congress closing – our thanks

ISPRS Congress closing – our thanks

Today is the last day at the ISPRS, we are now in the closing ceremony. Because our working group organized four sessions (two theme sessions, two regular sessions, and related interactive sessions) & a tutorial, we want to thank all our contributors, all who reviewed (the list below), and all who came and listened, asked questions, joined conversation. Last but not least, the local organizers, who has done a great job! Reviewers for papers in our sessions (listed here https://geoviz.casa.ucl.ac.uk/?p=1205…

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Part II: Interactive presentations at the ISPRS congress (12-19 July 2016), Prague, Czech Republic

Part II: Interactive presentations at the ISPRS congress (12-19 July 2016), Prague, Czech Republic

This is the Part II of a blog post (Part I features the tutorial and oral sessions), in which we feature the interactive presentations at the ISPRS 2016 Congress (12-19 July, Prague). Our WG activities have been well-received and we had many submissions. Based on reviewer recommendations we selected some of them for oral presentations, and some of them for interactive presentations. Below you can see the interactive presentations: WED 13th July, 15.00-16.30 ThS16 Perceptual and Cognitive experiments with imagery…

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Part I: Our WG II/6 events at the ISPRS congress (12-19 July 2016), Prague, Czech Republic

Part I: Our WG II/6 events at the ISPRS congress (12-19 July 2016), Prague, Czech Republic

Our working group is (slightly hyper) active in the upcoming ISPRS congress starting next week! We start with a tutorial on eye movement analysis for imagery and 3D models, continue with two theme sessions perceptual and cognitive experiments and smart cities, and finish with two more sessions we organized on geographical visualization and virtual reality. Tutorial & Oral sessions: (also see our interactive sessions) On Tuesday (12 July) 08:30-12:00 Raechel Bianchetti and I (Arzu Çöltekin) are offering a tutorial titled,…

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Special issue section completed: Multidimensional Modelling, Analysis and Visualization

Special issue section completed: Multidimensional Modelling, Analysis and Visualization

  After our meeting in Canada in October 2014, we have been working on a special issue theme section with the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. The issue is now finalized & the contents look like this:   (to enlarge, click on the image — if you want to dig deeper, follow the links below) Link to journal issue Link to editorial

Two special issues from our Working Group in IJDE

Two special issues from our Working Group in IJDE

In the late summer 2015, we have completed two special issues for the International Journal of Digital Earth – you can see the editorials here (with brief summaries of the papers included in each special issue): 1) Geovisual Analytics: Design and Implementation: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2015.1047172 2) Geovisual Analytics: Human Factors: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2015.1047173 We believe these issues features some interesting research and you will enjoy reading them. Let us know if we’re right! 🙂

Our Geovis’15 workshop in France was a success!

Our Geovis’15 workshop in France was a success!

Our workshop in France held during the Geospatial week, titled Geovis’15 was very well received! The workshop was organized Sidonie Christophe (co-chair of the ICA Cognitive Visualization Commission) and myself (Arzu Coltekin, co-chair of this ISPRS WG II/6 Geovisualization and Virtual Reality). Furthermore, it was also supported by the ICA’s Commission on Geovisualization. The program of the workshop: http://www.isprs-geospatialweek2015.org/workshops/geovis/index.php?page=program Annals papers (all Geospatial week): http://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/II-3-W5/index.html Our introduction to the Geovis section in Annals: http://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/II-3-W5/497/2015/isprsannals-II-3-W5-497-2015.pdf Archives papers (all Geospatial week) http://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XL-3-W3/index.html

Deadline 30th May: Special Issue on Multidimensional Modelling, Analysis and Visualization

Deadline 30th May: Special Issue on Multidimensional Modelling, Analysis and Visualization

We are co-editing a special issue on Multidimensional Modelling, Analysis and Visualization — more details at the URL below. Submit full papers for consideration by May 30th. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/isprs-journal-of-photogrammetry-and-remote-sensing/call-for-papers/multi-dimensional-modeling-analysis-and-visualization/