ISPRS WG IV/5

Digital Earth – Virtual Nations – Data Cities is a d_city publication available freely as an e-book or can be purchased hard copy. Editors Davina Jackson and Richard Simpson have put together  an astonishing resource which covers a wide expanse of topics on how data can be visualised and modelled to inform  problems spanning the natural systems to the built environment and cities. Our working group co-chair Dy Andy Hudson-Smith features on p 22. I would recommend this online resource to…

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I know this is old news to some of you as it has been widely circulated in various social media outlets, but especially those who are interested in virtual reality will find this potentially very interesting: Tracking the fingers in such precision offers very interesting possibilities in a virtual environment indeed. Also see Technologyreview.com’s article on the subject. ps. I don’t mean to advertise the company or the brand (I haven’t tested the product to start with) 🙂

As some of you already (probably) know, we have a pre-congress workshop prior to ISPRS congress in Melbourne on geovisual analytics on August 24th. There are still a few places available, thus the registration is still possible. Please come join us and/or let interested parties know. Workshop will be organized as lectures and hands-on sessions, and will be delivered by Chris Pettit (Uni Melbourne, AU), Arzu Coltekin (Uni Zurich, CH), Amy Griffin (Uni NSW, AU) and Anthony Robinson (Penn State…

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One of the members of our working group Gustavo Arciniegas and his colleagues have published another interesting research paper on the application of real-time interactive mapping  device (touch-table) for supporting collaborative planning in developing renewal offshore energy off the coast of Scottland. The combination of GIS, MCE and the touch-table technology were used to support a local knowledge workshop and  a negotiation workshop. This is the first time such an approach  has been used to support marine spatial planning off…

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1) Oxford University, UK Part-time research assistant to do statistical, spatial, and social analysis The position will involve the analysis of the corpus of Wikipedia text, user-pages and history files and the use of statistical techniques to explain spatial and social patterns. Our research question focuses on patterns of representation on Wikipedia as well as an articulation of patterns of conflict and barriers to participation. The successful candidate will manage and perform queries on a large database, statistically and geographically…

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In case you were wondering where to be in late May/early June, here is a conference in Bernburg, Germany; with what seems to be an attractive program for geographers, engineers, landscape architects and designers among us: Program: http://gisandscience.com/2012/02/29/dla-2012-conference-geodesign-3d-modeling-and-visualization/ Registration: http://dla.loel.hs-anhalt.de/dla2012/registration/ (via Tom Paradis)

If you are in Chicago, London, Sydney, San Francisco, London, Canberra, .. ok I lost count but seems like locations in the US, Australia, UK, Germany and Finland; you’ll find some interesting stuff happening on big data, including visualization challenges and “data science hackathons”. We thought some of you may be interested. More information here: http://bigdataweek.com/

ISPRS2012 Melbourne update: If you have a paper but have not yet registered to the conference, you can still do it with early registration fees (authors only). Below is an email by Prof. Mark Shortis, the technical program director of the congress, giving you more detail: > Due to the delays in notification of presentation allocations, the > deadline for early registrations at the reduced rate will be extended to > April 30 for authors only. This is the date…

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As you all know, we are going to Melbourne for the ISPRS 2012, we will have three technical sessions with lots of interesting presentations, but we also have a full-day workshop prior to the congress on: Geovisual Analytics Workshop will be organized as lectures and hands-on sessions (download flyer for more details), and will be delivered by Chris Pettit (Uni Melbourne, AU), Arzu Coltekin (Uni Zurich, CH), Amy Griffin (Uni NSW, AU) and Anthony Robinson (Penn State Uni, US). The…

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Our colleagues at the ICA’s geoviz commission are getting ready for another geovisual analytics meeting with a temporal focus with a workshop in September 2012, just before GIScience 2012. The call is aptly titled as “GeoVisual Analytics, Time to Focus on Time”. If you work with temporal data, you may want to check this out. More details here.