Theory and Concepts of Spatial Information Science

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WORKING GROUPS of ISPRS COMMISSION II

• WG II/1 - Cognition and Modeling of Space and Time
• WG II/2 - Multi-Scale Representation of Spatial Data
• WG II/3 - Spatial Analysis and Data Mining
• WG II/4 - Uncertainty Modeling and Quality Control for Spatial Data
• WG II/5 - Multidimensional and Mobile Data Models
• WG II/6 - Geo-Visualization and Virtual Reality
• WG II/7 - Spatial Decision Support and Location-Based Services

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INTERCOMMISSION WG of ISPRS COMMISSION II

• ICWG II/IV - Semantic Interoperability and Ontology for Geospatial Information
• ICWG IV/II - Geo-Sensor Networking and GEOGRID

 

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

 

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 +86 (10) 68245953 +86 (10) 68217248 tang@casm.ac.cn	Department of Geomatics The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia +61 3 8344 7875 +61 3 9347 2916 winter@unimelb.edu.au www.geom.unimelb.edu.au	Department of Spatial Information Engineering School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering Wuhan University China +86 27 6877 8392 lkmeng@whu.edu.cn	State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS) Wuhan University Wuhan China +86-27-6877 8035 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

 

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

 

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 +49 (511) 7623588 +49 (511) 7622780 Monika.Sester@ikg.uni-hannover.de www.ikg.uni-hannover.de/ mitarbeiter/sester.html	GIS-centre Lund University Sölvegatan 12 SE-223 62 Lund Sweden +46 (46) 222 01 55 +46 (46) 222 83 91 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 +49 511 762 19369 +49 511 762 2780 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.

 

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WG II/3 - Spatial Analysis and Data Mining

 

Chair	Co-Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Liu Yaolin	Tao Cheng	Abdülvahit Torun	Shuliang Wang
School of Resource & Environmental Sciences Wuhan University Wuhan 430079 China +86 (27) 68778552 +86 (27) 68778893 yaolin610@163.com 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 +44 (0) 20 7679 2738 tao.cheng@ucl.ac.uk 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 +1 (612)626-7810 torun@cs.umn.edu bdulvahit.torun@hgk.mil.tr	International School of Software Data Mining Laboratory Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China + 86 027 6877 8883 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

 

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

 

Chair	Co-Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Alfred Stein	Gerhard Joos	Hande Demirel	M. R. Delavar
ITC Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands +31-53-4874552 +31-53-4874335 stein@itc.nl	NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency P.O. Box 174 2501 CD The Hague Netherlands +31 (0)70 3743848 Gerhard.Joos@dotGIS.de www.nc3a.nato.int	Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Civil Engineering Division of Photogrammetry 34469, Maslak, Istanbul Turkey +90 (212) 2856110 +90 (212) 2856587 hande.demirel@itu.edu.tr hdemirel@ins.itu.edu.tr 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 0098-21-61114257 0098-21-88008837 Mob: 09123406104 mdelavar@ut.ac.ir 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

 

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WG II/5 - Multidimensional and Mobile Data Models

 

Chair	Co-Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Alias Abdul Rahman	Christopher Gold	François Anton	Pawel Boguslawski
Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Engineering University of Technology Malaysia 81318 UTM Skudai, Johor Malaysia + 60 7 5530806 alias@utm.my web.utm.my/fksg/	School of Computing University of Glamorgan Pontypridd CF37 1DL Wales UK +44 (1443) 654265 +44 (1443) 482715 mcmgold@glam.ac.uk www.voronoi.com/ www.glam.ac.uk/ soc/index.php	DTU Informatics Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling Technical University of Denmark Richard Petersens Plads Building 321, room 219 2800 Lyngby Denmark +45 45253410 fa@imm.dtu.dk	Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor Malaysia +60 7 5530989 pawel@utm.my www.voronoi.com/ 3DTopologyGroup/

 

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.

 

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WG II/6 - Geo-Visualization and Virtual Reality

 

Chair	Co-Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Christopher J. Pettit	Andy Hudson-Smith	Bo Wu	Arzu Çöltekin
Department of Primary Industries Victoria Australia +61-3-83412407 +61-3-93476056 cpettit@unimelb.edu.au	Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis University College London 1-19 Torrington Place London, WC1E 7HB UK +44 (0)20 7679 1782 +44 (0)20 7813 2843 asmith@geog.ucl.ac.uk	Department of Land Surveying and Geoinformatics The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong +852- 2766 4335 +852- 2330 2994 lsbowu@inet.polyu.edu.hk	GIScience Center University of Zurich Switzerland +41- 44 635 5440 +41- 44 635 5848 arzu.coltekin@geo.uzh.ch

 

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

 

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

 

Chair	Co-Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Ali Sharifi	Shattri Mansor	Masatoshi Arikawa	Rainer Laudien
ITC Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands +31 (53) 4874261 +31 (53) 4874575 alisharifi@itc.nl www.itc.nl	Spatial and Numerical Modeling Laboratory Institute of Advanced Technology (ITMA) University of Putra Malaysia (UPM) 43400 Serdang, Selangor Malaysia +603-8946 7543 +603-8656 6061 shattri@eng.upm.edu.my 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 +81-4-7136-4305 +81-4-7136-4292 arikawa@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~arikawa/	Geography, GIS & RS University of Cologne D-50923 Cologne Germany +49-221-470-7428 +49-221-470-1638 rlaudien@uni-koeln.de rlaudien@uni-koeln.de 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

 

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

 

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 +81 (3) 5452 6412 +81 (3) 5452 6414 shiba@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp ryosuke.shibasaki@ mb.neweb.ne.jp 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 +30 210 7722731 +30 210 7722670 mkav@survey.ntua.gr mkav@softlab.ece.ntua.gr	Geomatics Department Laval University Quebec City Poste 2750 Quebec G1 K 7P4 Canada +1-418-656-2131 +1-418-656-7411 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 +30 210 7722637 +30 210 7722734 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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