ISPRS WG IV/5

Organizers: International Cartographic Association Commission on Cognition, Amy Griffin (University of New South Wales), Kirk Goldsberry (Harvard University), Sarah Battersby (University of South Carolina), Sara Irina Fabrikant (University of Zurich), and Scott Bell (University of Saskatchewan). Specialty Group Sponsors: Cartography, GIS, and Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Content We invite papers on cognitive aspects of geographic research to be included in a series of sessions at the 2012 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in New York City. Specifically of…

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The ISPRS Congress will run from 25th August to 1st September in Melbourne The working group will be running a technical session on geographical visualization and virtual reality during the congress. Papers are welcome on the following topics: • Enhanced communication of geographical data, information, and knowledge • Geovisualization (including the Web) • Novel methods and tools for exploring geographical decision spaces • Exploration of tools and techniques for visualizing space and time • Usefulness and Usability testing  (Experimental and…

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P O S I T I O N 1: Fixed-term Senior Research Associate/Lecturer (“Oberassistent”) Position in GIScience/Geovisualization The Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis group at the University of Zurich invites applications for a fixed-term Senior Research Associate/Lecturer position in Geographic Information Science/Geovisualization. The position is housed in the UZH Geography Department, and associated with its internationally reputed GIScience Center. The appointment will be made on an annual basis for the first year (starting November 1, 2011) with opportunity for multi-year…

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Outstanding candidates are invited to apply for a postdoctoral research associate position at the GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University. The position is a combined research and teaching position. The research associate will work on projects concerning representation of and/or reasoning about spatial (and spatiotemporal) information. The GeoVISTA Center offers a number of research opportunities and depending on the expertise, skills, and interests of the applicant several options exist for doing joint research. It is expected that…

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Final call for participation, 1 pages submission are due 30th April “Persistent problems in geographic visualization”ICC2011 Workshop on July 2nd 2011, Paris Organized by ICA commission on GeoVisualizationhttp://geoanalytics.net/ica/in collaboration withISPRS WG II/6 Geographical Visualization and Virtual Realityhttps://geoviz.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ Synopsis: In this one-day workshop, we seek to identify and communicate about persisting research challenges in geographic visualization and geo-visual analytics amongst peers. Participants are expected to present work in progress towards solving a problem, or a design issue (rather than reporting results) and…

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