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WORKING GROUPS of ISPRS COMMISSION II

Theory and Concepts of Spatial Information Science


 

WORKING GROUPS of ISPRS COMMISSION II


INTERCOMMISSION WG of ISPRS COMMISSION II

 


 

WG II/1 - Cognition and Modeling of Space and Time

 
Home Page: http://www.commission2.isprs.org/wg1

 

 Chair  Co-Chair  Co-Chair  Secretary
Xinming Tang Stephan Winter Lingkui Meng Bisheng Yang
Satellite Surveying and Mapping Application Center, SBSM
28 Lianhuachi West Rd.
Haidian District
Beijing 100830
China
Tel: +86 (10) 68245953
Fax: +86 (10) 68217248
E-mail: tang@casm.ac.cn
 
Department of Geomatics
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Australia
Tel: +61 3 8344 7875
Fax: +61 3 9347 2916
E-mail: winter@unimelb.edu.au
Url: www.geom.unimelb.edu.au
 
Department of Spatial Information Engineering
School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering
Wuhan University
China
Tel: +86 27 6877 8392
E-mail: lkmeng@whu.edu.cn
 
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS)
Wuhan University
Wuhan
China
Tel: +86-27-6877 8035
E-mail: bshyang@whu.edu.cn
 

 

WG II/1 Terms of Reference

  • Concept and theory of modelling space and time
  • Cognition of space and time
  • Spatial and spatio-temporal data models and structures
  • Spatial and spatio-temporal topology and relationships
  • Spatio-temporal data indexing and query for vector-based spatial data
  • Computational geometry for spatio-temporal modelling

 


 

WG II/2 - Multi-Scale Representation of Spatial Data

 
Home Page: http://www.commission2.isprs.org/wg2

 

 Chair  Co-Chair  Secretary
Monika Sester Lars Harrie Jan-Henrik Haunert
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Appelstraße 9a
D-30167 Hannover
Germany
Tel: +49 (511) 7623588
Fax: +49 (511) 7622780
E-mail: Monika.Sester@ikg.uni-hannover.de
Url: www.ikg.uni-hannover.de/mitarbeiter/sester.html
 
GIS-centre
Lund University
Sölvegatan 12
SE-223 62 Lund
Sweden
Tel: +46 (46) 222 01 55
Fax: +46 (46) 222 83 91
E-mail: lars.harrie@nateko.lu.se
Web: www.nateko.lu.se/Personal/Lars.Harrie/
 
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Appelstraße 9a
D-30167 Hannover
Germany
Tel: +49 511 762 19369
Fax: +49 511 762 2780
E-mail: Jan.Haunert@ikg.uni-hannover.de
 

 

WG II/2 Terms of Reference

  • Generalization and abstraction of vector and raster data
  • Semantic generalization of data models
  • Development of open standard services for generalization operations
  • Quality-based generalization: control and evaluation
  • Context interpretation: important structures in the data have to be interpreted before they can be generalized
  • Development of multiscale and multiple representation analysis tools to exploit the existing hierarchies and relationships especially in the context distributed data, e.g. in geosensor networks
  • Generalization of spatio-temporal information
  • Multiple representation modelling, storage and analysis of city models (e.g. CityGML)
  • Continuous generalization: incremental streaming of multi-scale data
  • Information aggregation from multi-scale spatial data.

 


 

WG II/3 - Spatial Analysis and Data Mining

 
Home Page: http://www.commission2.isprs.org/wg3

 

 Chair  Co-Chair  Co-Chair  Secretary
Liu Yaolin Tao Cheng Abdülvahit Torun Shuliang Wang
School of Resource & Environmental Sciences
Wuhan University
Wuhan 430079
China
Tel: +86 (27) 68778552
Fax: +86 (27) 68778893
E-mail: yaolin610@163.com
Url: lazarus.elte.hu/cet/cv/cv-yaolin.htm
 
Department of Civil and Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
University College London (UCL)
112 Chadwick Building
Gower Street
WC1E 6BT London
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 2738
E-mail: tao.cheng@ucl.ac.uk
Url: www.cege.ucl.ac.uk/research/geomatics
 
University of Minnesota
Department of Computer Science
6-196, EE/CS Bldg., 200 Union St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA
Tel: +1 (612)626-7810
E-mail: torun@cs.umn.edu
E-mail: bdulvahit.torun@hgk.mil.tr
 
International School of Software
Data Mining Laboratory
Wuhan University
Wuhan 430072
China
Tel: + 86 027 6877 8883
E-mail: slwang2005@whu.edu.cn
 

 

WG II/3 Terms of Reference

  • Theory of spatial analysis
  • Spatial reasoning processes
  • Information discovery in spatial databases
  • Spatial analysis models and methods
  • Spatial data mining. models
  • Intelligent computation in spatial analysis
  • Spatial analysis and data mining applications

 


 

WG II/4 - Uncertainty Modeling and Quality Control for Spatial Data

 
Home Page: http://www.commission2.isprs.org/wg4

 

 Chair  Co-Chair  Co-Chair  Secretary
Alfred Stein Gerhard Joos Hande Demirel M. R. Delavar
Department of Earth Observation Science
International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation(ITC)
PO Box 6
7500 AA Enschede
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-53-4874552
Fax: +31-53-4874335
E-mail: stein@itc.nl
 
NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency
P.O. Box 174
2501 CD The Hague
Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)70 3743848
E-mail: Gerhard.Joos@dotGIS.de
Url: www.nc3a.nato.int
 
Istanbul Technical University
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Division of Photogrammetry
34469, Maslak, Istanbul
Turkey
Tel: +90 (212) 2856110
Fax: +90 (212) 2856587
E-mail: hande.demirel@itu.edu.tr
E-mail: hdemirel@ins.itu.edu.tr
Url: www.ins.itu.edu.tr/jeodezi/fotog/hdemirel/
 
Dept. of Surveying and Geomatics Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Tehran
North Kargar
P.O. Box 11365-4563
Iran
Tel: 0098-21-61114257
Fax: 0098-21-88008837
Mob: 09123406104
E-mail: mdelavar@ut.ac.ir
Url: www.ut.ac.ir
 

 

WG II/4 Terms of Reference

  • Understanding uncertainties in spatial data
  • Quality control for spatio-temporal data
  • Modelling error propagation in spatial analysis
  • Presentation of quality information by metadata in GIS
  • Quality of spatio-temporal models

 


 

WG II/5 - Multidimensional and Mobile Data Models

 
Home Page: http://www.commission2.isprs.org/wg5

 

 Chair  Co-Chair  Co-Chair  Secretary
Alias Abdul Rahman Christopher Gold Ozgun Akcay Pawel Boguslawski
Faculty of Geoinformation
Science and Engineering
University of Technology Malaysia
81318 UTM Skudai, Johor
Malaysia
Tel: + 60 7 5530806
E-mail: alias@utm.my
Url: web.utm.my/fksg/
 
School of Computing
University of Glamorgan
Pontypridd CF37 1DL
Wales
UK
Tel: +44 (1443) 654265
Fax: +44 (1443) 482715
E-mail: mcmgold@glam.ac.uk
Url: www.voronoi.com/
Url: www.glam.ac.uk/ soc/index.php
 
Division of Photogrammetry
Istanbul Technical University
34469 Ayazaga
Istanbul
Turkey
E-mail: akcayoz@itu.edu.tr
 
University of Glamorgan
Faculty of Advanced Technology
Room J344
Pontypridd, CF37 1DL
Wales
UK
E-mail: pbogusla@glam.ac.uk
 

 

WG II/5 Terms of Reference

  • Data modelling and computational algorithms for multidimensional GIS
  • Dynamic GIS with applications, such as for the marine environment
  • Methodology and algorithms for dynamic operations in GIS
  • Design and development of databases for dynamic and multi-dimensional GIS
  • Data model and methods for information representation for GIS on mobile devices
  • Collaborate with other communities, such as Location-based Services, computational geometry.

 


 

WG II/6 - Geo-Visualization and Virtual Reality

 
Home Page: http://www.commission2.isprs.org/wg6

 

 Chair  Co-Chair  Secretary
Christopher J. Pettit Andy Hudson-Smith Jean-Philippe Aurambout
Department of Primary Industries
Victoria
Australia
Tel: +61-3-83412407
Fax: +61-3-93476056
E-mail: cpettit@unimelb.edu.au
 
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
University College London
1-19 Torrington Place
London, WC1E 7HB
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1782
Fax: +44 (0)20 7813 2843
E-mail: asmith@geog.ucl.ac.uk
 
Department of Primary Industries
Victoria
Australia
Tel: +61-3-83412407
Fax: +61-3-93476056
E-mail: jeanphilippe.auramabout@dpi.vic.gov.au
 

 

WG II/6 Terms of Reference

  • 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
  • Usability testing of geographical visualization and virtual reality
  • Development and application of Immersive and semi-immersive virtual reality
  • Enchantment of Geo-communication by Geo-visualization and Virtual Reality

 


 

WG II/7 - Spatial Decision Support and Location-Based Services

 
Home Page: http://www.commission2.isprs.org/wg7

 

 Chair  Co-Chair  Co-Chair  Secretary
Ali Sharifi Shattri Mansor Masatoshi Arikawa Rainer Laudien
Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-information Management
ITC, P.O. Box 6
7500 AA Enschede
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (53) 4874261
Fax: +31 (53) 4874575
E-mail: alisharifi@itc.nl
Url: www.itc.nl
 
Spatial and Numerical Modeling Laboratory
Institute of Advanced Technology (ITMA)
University of Putra Malaysia (UPM)
43400 Serdang, Selangor
Malaysia
Tel: +603-8946 7543
Fax: +603-8656 6061
E-mail: shattri@eng.upm.edu.my
Url: www.itma.upm.edu.my
 
Center for Spatial Information Science
The University of Tokyo
5-1-5, Kashiwa-no-ha
Kashiwa City
Chiba 277-8568
Japan
Tel: +81-4-7136-4305
Fax: +81-4-7136-4292
E-mail: arikawa@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Url: www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~arikawa/
 
Geography, GIS & RS
University of Cologne
D-50923 Cologne
Germany
Tel: +49-221-470-7428
Fax: +49-221-470-1638
E-mail: rlaudien@uni-koeln.de
E-mail: rlaudien@uni-koeln.de
Url: www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/
 

 

WG II/7 Terms of Reference

  • Theory, concepts, design and development of Spatial Planning Support Systems (SPSS)
  • Model integration, component based modelling, Community/participatory modelling (bio-physical and socioeconomic models)
  • Theory, concepts, design and development of Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS)
  • Theory concepts and application of Spatial Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (SMCDA) in single and group environment
  • Theories and concepts of decision supports using vague information
  • Design and development of Collaborative Spatial Decision Support Systems, (CSDSS), considering various modelling techniques, and requirements of different user-groups (style, functionality, etc.)
  • Theory, concepts, design and development of Integrated Planning and Decision Support Systems (IPDSS)
  • Concepts, theory and application of Location Based technology
  • Clarifying technical and social principles of location-based services (LBS)
  • Designing a prototype of future society based on LBS which will serve as both urban infrastructure and the media

 


 

ICWG II/IV - Semantic Data Interoperability and Ontology for Geospatial Information

 
Home Page: http://www.commission2.isprs.org/icwg2_4

 

 Chair  Co-Chair  Co-Chair  Secretary
Ryosuke Shibasaki Marinos Kavouras Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi Margarita Kokla
Center for Spatial Information Science
University of Tokyo
4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku
Tokyo 153-8585
Japan
Tel: +81 (3) 5452 6412
Fax: +81 (3) 5452 6414
E-mail: shiba@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
E-mail: ryosuke.shibasaki@mb.neweb.ne.jp
Url: shiba.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html
 
Faculty of Rural & Surveying Engineering
National Technical University of Athens(NTUA)
9 Iroon Politechniou str.
15780, Zografou Campus
Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 210 7722731
Fax: +30 210 7722670
E-mail: mkav@survey.ntua.gr
E-mail: mkav@softlab.ece.ntua.gr
 
Geomatics Department
Laval University
Quebec City
Poste 2750
Quebec G1 K 7P4
Canada
Tel: +1-418-656-2131
Fax: +1-418-656-7411
E-mail: Mir-Abolfazl.Mostafavi@scg.ulaval.ca
 
Cartography Laboratory
School of Rural and Surveying Engineering
National Technical University of Athens(NTUA)
9 Iroon Politechniou str.
15780, Zografos Campu
Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 210 7722637
Fax: +30 210 7722734
E-mail: mkokla@survey.ntua.gr
 

 

ICWG II/IV Terms of Reference

  • Assess ontologies and geo-semantics as they relate to the integration and harmonisation of heterogeneous data
  • Discuss and develop methods for semantic and geospatial data(base) interoperability
  • Continue developments on geo-spatiotemporal knowledge representation
  • Focus on data interoperability for applications in Interactive Transportation Systems (ITS)

 


 

 

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