ISPRS WG IV/5

The second of a series of papers as part of a special issue of the Open Access Journal Future Internet on the theme “Internet and Landscapes“, as edited by the ISPRS Working II/6 on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality (Chris Pettit and Arzu Coltekin) has now been published by Olaf Schroth, Ellen Pond, Cam Cambell, Petr Cizek, Stephen Bohus and Stephen R.J. Sheppard. The paper investigates the limitations associated with virtual globe technology in two grassroots and a collaborative visioning…

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The first of a series of papers as part of a special issue of the Open Access Journal Future Internet on the theme “Internet and Landscapes“, as edited by the ISPRS Working II/6 on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality (Chris Pettit and Arzu Coltekin) has now been published by Philip Paar and Jorg Rekittke. The paper provides an excellent example of Grassroots GIS focusing on the urban blight issue of slums. The paper describes the application of a range of…

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There are many ways to visualize data, and not just geographically. This TED talk provides some innovative approaches to visualizing ‘datascapes’ on issues ranging from the cost of the financial crisis to the GDP of nations to the CO2 emissions from volcanoes. Is ‘data the new oil?’ or as David McCandles would prefer ‘data as the new soil’ to foster creativity, productivity and sustainability.

The Geoviz & Virtual Reality Working Group will be running a technical session comprising refereed and non-refereed papers as part of the ISPRS Congress 2012 Melbourne, 25th August to 1st Sept. Instructions for submitting abstracts can be found at: http://www.isprs2012.org/submit.asp. When submitting your abstract please select from drop down list TC Working Groups → WG II/6 Geo-Visualization and Virutal Reality. The deadline for submission of abstracts of papers for presentation at the ISPRS 2012 Congress is Monday, 24 October 2011….

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A PhD Thesis titled: “Evaluating the appropriateness of visually combining quantitative data representations with 3D desktop virtual environments using mixed methods” has recently been completed by Dr Susanne Bleisch, City University London. The thesis can be downloaded at: http://phd.sbleis.ch/

The Department of Land Surveying & Geo-Informatics of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is organizing an Annual Seminar on Spatial Information Science and Technology (ASSIST 2011), which is the 7th of its annual seminar series. The impetus of ASSIST is to provide a forum for all participants working in the broad field of Spatial Information Science and Technology to showcase the work they are doing. Unlike other conferences and symposia, the aim of ASSIST is to provide a friendly and…

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This year we are involved in organizing one more scientific event: STGIS 2011 (Spatial Thinking and Geographic Information Science) conference will take place in Tokyo, Japan from the 14th through the 16th of September 2011.  Come join us! Registration is free. Register here: http://curricula.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stgis2011/regist.html Program: http://curricula.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stgis2011/program.html Keynotes: http://curricula.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stgis2011/key.html And the rest: http://curricula.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stgis2011/index.html

Slightly late to report this but better than never: back about eight weeks ago, our joint workshop with ICA Commission on GeoVisualization (http://geoanalytics.net/ica/) in Paris on July 2nd, 2011 was a success. At least we enjoyed it, and seemingly most of our participants did too. The meeting took place on a Saturday and lasted the entire day from 9.30 to 5pm, with thirteen presentations (enjoying work, especially on a Saturday, caused some ‘workaholism’ comments but no one openly admitted to…

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I am Marcos Nino-Ruiz, a PhD candidate at Melbourne University and the CRC for Spatial Information, currently researching on Geospatial awareness of Climate Change Adaptation. Given that we share some of our scientific interests in this regard, I’m a forwarding the following invitation to participate in an online survey on the matter. Hope you find it interesting! ——- I cordially invite you to participate in a research project: Climate change in context: Geospatial awareness of land use allocation. If you…

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