ISPRS WG IV/5

With the last call for papers arriving our inboxes today, we also have noted that the deadlines were renewed for submitting to ICA conference (thus to our joint sessions on Web-based geovisualization). The new date is Nov 15th. For more details, please see the post below by Chris.

Guardian just published a really nice-sounding data visualization competition, for some reason only “The competition is open to citizens of the UK, US, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden” — so you have the wonderful solution, yet not from one of these countries; .. well .. we will publish it here and/or match you with our members who are located in these countries perhaps for a collaborative action? The news piece is titled: How transparent is world aid data? Visualise where…

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Last live update from ISPRS Congress: As I am sitting in the closing ceremony, I feel compelled to report to you all that our WG members Mark Imhof, Matthew Cox, Chris Pettit and their co-authors D.W. Harvey and G.E. Heemskerk have received an ISPRS award based on their presentation of the rich multimedia Victorian Resources Online website. How great is that? We cordially congratulate the team and look forward to reporting many more of success stories by our WG members.

Hi again folks! I am back – below is a little coverage of what happened in the remaining geoviz sessions, as far as I could capture. Please comment away or drop me a line if you think something needs correcting or adding. Our two technical sessions on Thu AUG 30th 2012 started with our working group chair Chris Pettit presenting his paper (co-authored by five others) titled Visualisation Support for Exploring Urban Space and Place; demonstrating clearly the challenge we’re…

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A quick update for our members and followers who didn’t manage to get to (beautiful) Melbourne this time around: Workshop was a success! We had nearly 40 participants and seemingly nobody fell asleep on an intense day. We delivered four lectures that had a nice balance between theory and applications and demonstrated a full experimental session with eye tracking. Thanks everyone who made this happen (organizers as well as participants). More information, proper acknowledgements and at least one selected photo…

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Our ISPRS workshop on Geovisual Analytics (Chris Pettit, myself, Amy Griffin and Anthony Robinson) is just around the corner with less than a week to go! So here is a space-time note for our participants: We will keep to the time table as announced in the program (http://www.isprs2012.org/speakers.asp?GeovisualAnalytics). It will take place in Melbourne Contention and Exhibition Centre: Address: 1 Convention Centre Place Melbourne Victoria 3006 MEC room 1 Map and directions: http://www.mcec.com.au/where-is-mcec/ Looking forward to an exciting day!

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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