First Announcement and Call for Papers

7th International Workshop of Geographical Information System (IWGIS’07)
August, 2007, Beijing, China

IWGIS has been held in Beijing every three years since 1987 with the purpose of demonstrating and discussing the integrated techniques and applications of GIS. The 7th IWGIS will be held in early August, 2007. The theme of this workshop is GIS and regional sustainable development, including various topics related to new philosophies, new techniques, and new solutions of GIS.

Organizers:
State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environment Information System
Institute of Geographical Sciences & Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Topics:
Spatial-temporal analysis and modeling
Geographical data mining and knowledge discovery
Terrain analysis and surface modeling
Geo-pattern finding and Geographical information Tupu
Geo-visualization
Spatial data fusion
Spatial ontology and geographical cognition
LBS and GIS for transportation
Geo-grid computation
Remote sensing image processing and pattern recognition
Uncertainty
GIS policy and education
GIS applications in LUCC, environment, health, coastal management, etc.

Call for Papers:
You are cordially invited to submit one-page abstract to the workshop. The abstract should be written in English, and should include the title, author name(s), author affiliation, contact information (postal address, phone numbers and e-mail address) and 3-5 keywords. The abstract will be reviewed by no less than two referees. The author of accepted abstract will be invited to submit the full paper which will be presented in oral or poster sessions according to the content. All accepted papers will be published in a proceeding volume.
The abstract should be submitted electronically via e-mail (iwgis@lreis.ac.cn) using Microsoft Word or plan text format.

Important Dates:
Abstracts due: January 31, 2007
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2007
Full papers due: April 15, 2007
Workshop date: August, 2007

Contact:
Dr. Jun Xu
11A Datun Road, LREIS, Beijing, China, 100101
Tel: 86-10-64888962
Fax: 86-10-64889630
E-mail:
xujun@lreis.ac.cn
For more information, please visit http://www.lreis.ac.cn/eng/kfjl/IWGIS/.


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