ISPRS WG IV/5

The workshop will take place as part of the Joint International Conference on Geospatial Theory, Processing, Modelling and Applications. Sunday, 5 October 2014, 9:00am – 17:00pm Description: This workshop offers an overview of the current state-of-the-art on multi-dimensional data visualization for urban management and planning. The existing 2D and 3D approaches are critically reviewed from function, as well as design perspectives, with human factors in mind. The first half of the workshop consists of two lectures that will provide participants…

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This competition is a fantastic opportunity for a student to win a trip to present a paper at Trimble Dimensions 2014. Dimensions is their big expo which takes place every two years in Las Vegas. The author of the winning paper will receive a trip to Dimensions 2014 with four nights’ accommodation. In addition, the author’s school will receive a Trimble V10 Imaging Rover, which is their new terrestrial photogrammetry instrument, and a Trimble R10 GNSS receiver, which is their…

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The workshop will take place as part of the Joint International Conference on Geospatial Theory, Processing, Modelling and Applications. Sunday, 5 October 2014, 9:00am – 17:00pm Description: This workshop offers an overview of the current state-of-the-art on multi-dimensional data visualization for urban management and planning. The existing 2D and 3D approaches are critically reviewed from function, as well as design perspectives, with human factors in mind. The first half of the workshop consists of two lectures that will provide participants…

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http://www.iseis.cuhk.edu.hk/GPMinVGE/Home.html (The dateline of abstract submission is 27 April 2014) Geographical reasoning is an important way of thinking about the world and its inhabitants, but our abilities in spatial thinking and reasoning are still quite primitive and require extensive exploration. Geographic knowledge is the product of geographic thinking and reasoning about the world’s natural and human phenomena, but it has now evolved from the phenomenological to the intellectual, from understanding “what” and “where” to “why” and “how”. This is initiating…

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The European Space Agency (ESA) invites Early Career Scientists to join leading experts in Earth Observation, Modelling and Data Assimilation in ESRIN (Frascati, near Rome) for keynote lectures, hands-on computing practicals and poster sessions on the occasion of the 7th Earth Observation Summer School on “Earth System Monitoring & Modelling”. More information is available at: https://earth.esa.int/web/eo-summer-school/home Application Submission: https://earth.esa.int/web/eo-summer-school/application-submission All enquiries should be addressed to eotraining@esa.int

The ISPRS Foundation offers travel grants to participate in the 2014 ISPRS Midterm Symposia http://www.isprs.org/society/midterm.aspx. Interested persons should complete the attached application and return it to The ISPRS Foundation Operations Officer at j.trinder@unsw.edu.au by 24-Mar-2014 for Technical Commission IV and VI by 05-May-2014 for Technical Commission V by 07-Aug-2014 for Technical Commission II, III, VII by 07-Sep-2014 for Technical Commission I, VIII Late applications will not be considered.

A job that may be of interest to our readers (snippet below). See the full ad here: http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A889 Does that sound like you? Apply now! — Salary: £25,759 to £36,661 Closing Date: Thursday 06 March 2014 Interview Date: See advert Reference: A889 We wish to appoint a Research Associate with strong skills in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for an exciting post in a major research team. You will work closely with Prof Ian Gregory and an inter-disciplinary group of researchers…

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ISPRS/IGU Conference – Submission deadline extended to 1 March 2014 Please note that the Abstract submission deadline is extended to March 1, 2014, 5:00PM (EST) for the Joint International Conference on Geospatial Theory, Processing, Modelling and Applications, to be held on 6-8 October 2014, Toronto, Canada. An abstract is required for the following types of submissions (ISPRS Annals doesn’t require submission of an abstract, full paper is due May 1, 2014): – ISPRS Archives – SDH Short Papers – SDH…

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If you are interested in things like geodesign, 3D city models, virtual reality and human-computer interaction and have basic computational skills, here’s a funded PhD position in Zurich, Switzerland you may consider: http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~arzu/geovis-phd-search-uni-zurich.pdf If not you, maybe it’s someone you know. Please distribute the news to your networks..

The George Mason University, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science (http://ggs.gmu.edu/) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor-level beginning August 2014 with a specialization in geovisualization. Higher academic rank and/or tenure status may be considered depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate. For details on the position, please visit https://jobs.gmu.edu/postings/32126.