Call for Papers

is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management aims at creating a meeting point of researchers and practitioners that address new challenges in geo-spatial data sensing, observation, representation, processing, visualization, sharing and managing, in all aspects concerning both information communication and technologies (ICT) as well as management information systems and knowledge-based systems. The conference welcomes original papers of either practical or theoretical nature, presenting research or applications, of specialized or interdisciplinary nature, addressing any aspect of geographic information systems and technologies.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING
2. REMOTE SENSING
3. MODELING, REPRESENTATION AND VISUALIZATION
4. KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION AND MANAGEMENT
5. DOMAIN APPLICATIONS

AREA 1: DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING

Photogrammetry
Natural Phenomena Data Acquisition
Spatio-Temporal Data Acquisition
Geospatial Information and Technologies
Seismic Data Processing
Geodesy
Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
Geocomputation
Geospatial Architectures and Middleware
Performance Evaluation
Parallel and Distributed Computation
Real-Time Sensors

AREA 2: REMOTE SENSING

Spectroscopy and Spectroradiometry
Hyperspectral Imaging
Earth Observation and Satellite Data
RADAR and LiDAR
Infrared Remote Sensing
Sensor Networks
Urban Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing of Agriculture
Hydrological Remote Sensing
Ocean Topography
Remote Sensing in Climate Change Studies

AREA 3: MODELING, REPRESENTATION AND VISUALIZATION

Computational Geometry
Query Processing and Optimization
Cartography and Geodesy
3D Modeling and Simulation
Computer Graphics Applications
Computer Vision Applications
Human Computer Interaction and Visualization
Spatial Information and Society
Data Sharing, Privacy and Security
Topological Modeling and Analysis
Underground Geo-Reserves Modeling
Spatial Modeling and Reasoning
Standardization and Interoperability
Storage, Indexing and Searching

AREA 4: KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION AND MANAGEMENT

Decision Support Systems
Web Applications
Geographic Information Retrieval
Intelligent Data Fusion
Data Mining and OLAP
GPS and Location Detection
Location-Based and Mobile Services
Spatio-Temporal Database Management
Spatial Data Quality and Uncertainty
Spatial Analysis and Integration
Image and Video Understanding
Big Data and GIS
Land Management
Spatial Information Management
Deep Learning for Urban and Environment Planning
Machine Learning for Spatial Data

AREA 5: DOMAIN APPLICATIONS

Ecological and Environmental Management
Urban and Regional Planning
Crops and Soils Research
Water Information Systems
Energy Information Systems
Coastal Management
Natural Resource Management
Industrial Applications
Disaster Management
Climate Change
Transportation Engineering
Ocean Engineering
Oil Exploration
3D/4D Cadaster

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Toshihiro Osaragi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Japan
Ioannis Manakos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece, Greece
Lena Halounova, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, Czech Republic

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations and an excessive number of co-authors.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

SECRETARIAT

GISTAM Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
2900-616 Setubal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: gistam.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://gistam.scitevents.org

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Lemonia Ragia, Hellenic Open University, Greece

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Cédric Grueau, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal/IPS, Portugal
Robert Laurini (honorary), Knowledge Systems Institute, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Andrea Ajmar, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Rute Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal
José António-Tenedório, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, NOVA FCSH, Portugal
Thierry Badard, Laval University, Canada
Jan Blachowski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Pedro Cabral, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Cristina Catita, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Filiberto Chiabrando, Politecnico di Torino- DAD, Italy
Eliseo Clementini, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain
Paolo Dabove, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Pinliang Dong, University of North Texas, United States
Nikolaos Doulamis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Anastasios Doulamis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Suzana Dragicevic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
João Catalão Fernandes, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Ana Maria Fonseca, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC), Portugal
Cidália Maria Parreira da Costa Fonte, Coimbra University / Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra, Portugal
Cheng Fu, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Sébastien Gadal, CNRS ESPACE UMR 7300, Aix-Marseille Universite (AMU), France
Jinzhu Gao, University of the Pacific, United States
Lianru Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Fabio Giulio Tonolo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Gil Rito Gonçalves, University of Coimbra & INESC Coimbra, Portugal
Hans W. Guesgen, Massey University, New Zealand
Gilberto Gutierrez Retamal, University of Bio-Bio, Chile
Bob Haining, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cristina Delgado Henriques, Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Wen-Chen Hu, University of North Dakota, United States
Karsten Jacobsen, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Bin Jiang, University of Gävle, Sweden
Steven Jin, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Simon Jirka, 52 North, Germany
Andreas Koch, University of Salzburg, Austria
Poh-Chin Lai, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Roberto Lattuada, myHealthbox, Italy
Brahim Lejdel, University of El-Oued, Algeria
Christophe Lienert, Secretariat Steering Committee "Intervention in Natural Hazards" LAINAT, Switzerland
Yu Liu, Peking University, China
Vladimir V. Lukin, Kharkov Aviation Institute, Ukraine
Jean Francois Mas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Gavin McArdle, University College Dublin, Ireland
Gintautas Mozgeris, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Anand Nayyar, Duy Tan University, Vietnam
Dimos N. Pantazis, University of West Attica, Greece
Massimiliano Pepe, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Muhammad Zulkarnain Bin Abd Abd Rahman, Faculty Built Environment and Surveying, Malaysia
Dar A. Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
Mathieu Roche, Cirad, France
John Samuel, Graduate School of Chemistry, Physics and Electronics, Lyon, France
Diego Seco, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Sylvie Servigne, INSA Lyon, France
Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil
Francesco Soldovieri, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Uwe Stilla, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Jantien Stoter, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Rui Sun, Beijing Normal University, China
Ana Cláudia Moreira Teodoro, Oporto University, Portugal
Fabio Tosti, University of West London (UWL), United Kingdom
Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, United States
Michael Vassilakopoulos, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., University of Thessaly
Benoit Vozel, University of Rennes I - IETR/Shine, France
Lei Wang, Louisiana State University, United States
Christiane Weber, UMR TETIS CNRS, Maison de la Télédétection, Montpellier, France
Stephan Winter, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Laszlo Zentai, Eötvos-Lorand University Budapest, Hungary
F. Benjamin Zhan, Texas State University, United States