ISPRS WG IV/5

The 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality will be held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from May 30th to June 1st 2013. The Symposium provides an interdisciplinary forum for leading scientists and young researchers to present their latest research developments and share their experience in this field. The Symposium will include keynote speeches and parallel sessions. Themes Uncertainties in real world entities and ontology Spatial accuracy assessment Accuracy evaluation for DEM Temporal uncertainty in spatial data Incompleteness of…

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This just in … — The giCentre at City University London has research interests in information visualisation design, application and theory to support exploratory data analysis, visual analytics and the dissemination of information. We specialise in data and analyses that have geographical and temporal components. City University London is offering studentships for 3-year full-time PhD candidates. Successful candidates will have tuition fees paid and a tax-free bursary that will cover living costs. This university-wide scheme is very competitive, so we…

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Couple of folks at the urbanprototyping.org are running a data challenge which may be just right for this audience, take a look! Below quote is from http://urbanprototyping.org/prototype/challenges/urban-data-challenge-zurich-sf-geneva/: What’s the heartbeat of your city? Does data make your pulse race? Example Project: Ville Vivante “Buses, trams, bicycles, pedestrians, and cars zoom about modern cities like blood pulsing through the body. But with urban growth comes challenges—one of them is how to improve transportation. Luckily, advances in technology combined with active open…

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A cool position at Oxford Uni – full time, 12 months, with a deadline Jan 9. You’d work with Dr. Mark Graham, who’s a member of our working group but he wears many hats (Director of Research, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/graham, www.geospace.co.uk, www.wikichains.org, twitter.com/geoplace) Here’s the ad that was circulated, grab the opportunity if you have the skills and interest: *** We are hiring a full-time Researcher to work with Dr. Mark Graham on a project to…

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As Chair of the ISPRS WG II/6 on Geoviz and Virtual Reality I have great pleasure in introducing our working group executive for 2012-16. Dr Arzu Coltekin, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Co-Chair) Dr Bo Wu, Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Co-Chair) Dr Martin Tomko, Architecture Building and Planning Faculty, The University of Melbourne (Research Secretary) Also, I would like to thank Dr Andy Hudson-Smith who has been co-chair for 2008-2012 working…

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Three commissions of the ICA (International Cartographic Association), joined together, organize a pre-conference workshop titled Eye tracking: why, when and how? The event is in Dresden, Germany on 23-24 August 2013. The event comes with a data challenge too. I have opened the eye tracking data from one my studies for this event. You will find the details in the call below: —- ICA Commission on Cognitive Visualization, ICA Commission on Geovisualization, ICA Commission on Use and User Issues International…

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At the Centre for Geoinformatics at the University of St Andrews in Scotland the following positions are advertised; some of which might be of interest to our followers (e.g. no. 2 – postdoc in visual analytics): 1. Lectureship in Geoinformatics, permanent position, application DL 21 Dec 2012: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geoinformatics/jobs-and-studentship/lectureship-in-geoinformatics/ 2. Postdoctoral researcher in Geoinformatics, preferably Visual Analytics/Visualisation Three year fixed post, application DL 7 Dec 2012 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geoinformatics/jobs-and-studentship/research-fellow-in-geoinformatics/ 3. Postdoctoral researcher in Geoinformatics Two year fixed post, application DL 21 Dec 2012…

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