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 - Spatio-temporal Modelling

 

 Chair Co-Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Wenzhong (John) Shi Bin Jiang Jiangping Chen Anshu Zhang
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon
Hong Kong
China
 
+852 2766 5975
+852 2330 2994
 
Department of Technology and Built Environment
University of Gävle, SE-801 76
Gävle
Sweden
 
+46 26 64 8901
+46 26 64 8758
 
School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering
Wuhan University
129 Louyu Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
China
 
+86 27 6877 8546
+86 27 6877 8086
 
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon
Hong Kong
China
 
+852 2766 5977
 
www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk/staff/John.Shi fromto.hig.se/~bjg    

 

WG II/1 Terms of Reference

  • Concept and theory of modelling dynamics
  • Spatio-temporal data models and structures
  • Dynamic data models and structure
  • Spatio-temporal and dynamic topology and relationships
  • Spatio-temporal data indexing and query for field- and object-based spatial data models
  • Computational geometry for spatio-temporal modelling
  • Modelling change detection

 

WG II/2 - Multiscale n-dimensional Spatial Data Representations, Data Structures and Algorithms

 

 Chair Co-Chair Co-Chair Secretary
François Anton Eric Guilbert Pawel Boguslawski Umit Isikdag
Department of Geodesy
National Space Institute
Technical University of Denmark (DTU SPACE), Elektrovej
DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby
Denmark
 
+45 45 25 34 10
+45 45 25 95 75
 
Office HJ725
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom
Kowloon
Hong Kong
 
+852 3400 3662
+852 2330 2994
 
Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
81310 UTM Skudai
Johor
Malaysia
 
+60 75530989
+60 75566163
 
Department of Software Engineering
Beykent University
Ayazaga
Istanbul
Turkey
 
+90 536 434 77 37
+90 312 266 00 62
 
webpage www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk /staff/Eric.Guilbert/ webpage www.isikdag.com

 

WG II/2 Terms of Reference

  • Topological and geometric data structures for multi-scale data handling, analysis and generalization
  • Topological and geometric data structures for representing, handling and analysing n-dimensional spatial data
  • Multi-scale  modeling and representation of image data- Algorithms for 2D/3D/nD spatial data analysis generalization at multiple scales
  • Multiple scale representation: conceptual, logical and physical data modelling and database design, model generalization
  • N-dimensional  representation: conceptual, logical and physical data modelling and database design - Data enrichment for context aware generalization: extraction of topological structure and semantic information
  • Continuous generalization: incremental streaming of multi-scale spatial data
  • Multi-scale modeling and representation of image data
  • Collaboration with other communities, such as computational geometry, databases, location-based services

 

WG II/3 - Spatial Analysis and Data Mining

 

 Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Yaolin Liu Emmanuel Stefanakis Guofeng Wu
School of Resource and Environmental Sciences
Wuhan University
No. 129 Luoyu Rd.
Wuhan 430079
China
 
+86 27 68778650
+86 27 68778893
 
Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering
University of New Brunswick
15 Dineen Drive
PO Box 4400
Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3
Canada
 
+1-506-453-5137
+1-506-453-4943
 
School of Resource and Environmental Sciences
Wuhan University
No. 129 Luoyu Rd.
Wuhan 430079
China
 
+86 27 68778893
 
  gge.unb.ca/Personnel/Stefanakis/Stefanakis.html  

 

WG II/3 Terms of Reference

  • Spatial analysis models and methods, and GIS modeling
  • Knowledge discovery from spatial databases
  • Semantic enriched analysis and mining in cooperation with ICWG II/IV
  • Spatial analysis and data mining applications
  • Spatial-temporal data analysis and mining

 

WG II/4 - Spatial Statistics and Uncertainty Modeling

 

 Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Alfred Stein Xiaohua Tong Huan Xie
Faculty of geo-information science and earth observation
University of Twente
PO Box 215
7400 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
 
+31-53-48743458
+31-53-4874335
 
College of Surveying and Geo-informatics
Tongji University
1239 Siping Road
Shanghai 200092
China,
 
+86-21-65988851
+86-21-65981085
 
College of Surveying and Geo-informatics
Tongji University
1239 Siping Road
Shanghai 200092
China
 
+86-21-65988851
+86-21-65981085
 
www.itc.nl/about_itc/resumes/stein.aspx    

 

WG II/4 Terms of Reference

  • Understanding uncertainties in spatial data collected with earth observation techniques and stored in information systems.
  • Statistical quality assessment for spatio-temporal data
  • Modeling error propagation in spatial analysis
  • Issues of scale in spatial objects
  • Quality of deterministic model output in space and time
  • Trust in spatial data and modeling
  • Issues of sampling and monitoring relate the quantified quality of the input to the fitness for use

 

WG II/5 - GeoComputation and GeoSimulation

 

 Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Tao Cheng Mikhail Kanevski James Haworth
SpaceTimeLab
Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering
University College London
Gower St.
WC1E 6BT London
UK
 
+44 20 76 79 27 38
+44 20 73 80 04 53
 
CRET research center
University of Lausanne
Geopolis building
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
 
+41 21 692 3531
+41 21 692 3535
 
SpaceTimeLab
Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering
University College London
Gower St.
WC1E 6BT London
UK
 
+44 20 76 79 72 24
+44 20 73 80 04 53
 
ucl.ac.uk/spacetimelab   ucl.ac.uk/spacetimelab

 

WG II/5 Terms of Reference

  • Geocomputational methods and algorithms for processing spatio-temporal data
  • Machine learning methods (Neural networks, Statistical Learning Theory, Genetic algorithms, and Evolutionary computing, etc.)
  • Agent-based simulation and cellular automata modeling
  • Geostatistics and spatial econometrics
  • High performance computation (cloud computing and grid computation)
  • Applications in urban studies of geodemographics, health, criminology and transport; in environmental, ecological and biological modeling and analysis; and in modeling mobile, wireless, and location-based service networks

 

WG II/6 - Geovisualization and Virtual Reality

 

 Chair Co-Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Chris Pettit Arzu Coltekin Bo Wu Victoria Rautenbach
City Futures Research Centre
Built Environment, UNSW AUSTRALIA
UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052
Australia
 
+61-2 9385 4826
 
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057, Zurich
Switzerland
 
+41 44 635 5440
 
The Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon
Hong Kong
China
 
+852 2766 4335
 
Centre for Geoinformation Science
University of Pretoria
Pretoria
South Africa
 
+27 12 420 3489
 
www.be.unsw.edu.au/research-centres-and-clusters/city-futures/ www.geo.uzh.ch/~arzu/ www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk /staff/Bo.Wu/index.htm  

 

WG II/6 Terms of Reference

  • Enhanced communication of geographical data, information, and knowledge
  • Geographical visualisation of multi-dimensional data
  • Novel methods and tools for exploring and visualizing geographical decision spaces
  • Geovisual analytics for usability testing and exploring big data
  • Platforms to supporting geographical visualisation including the web and mobile devices
  • Geographical visualisation of crowd sourced, social media, and government databases
  • Development and application of immersive and semi-immersive virtual reality
  • Virtual Reality and augmented reality representations of space, place and time.

 

WG II/7 - Intelligent Spatial Decision Support

 

 Chair Co-Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Qing-Quan Li Giuseppina Vacca Shih-Lung Shaw Yang Yue
Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial-temporal Smart Sensing and Services
Shenzhen University
China
 
+86-755-26536190
+86-755-26534462
 
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture
University of Cagliari
Italy
 
+39 070 675 5442
+39 070 6755405
 
Department of Geography
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0925
USA
 
+1 865-974-6036
+1 865-974-6025
 
Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial-temporal Smart Sensing and Services
Shenzhen University
China
 
+86-755-26536190
+86-755-26534462
 
  people.unica.it/giuseppinavacca/    

 

WG II/7 Terms of Reference

  • Theory, concepts, design and development of Spatial Planning Support Systems (SPSS) and Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS);
  • Theory, concepts, design and development of Integrated Planning and Decision Support Systems (IPDSS);
  • 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 and application of Spatial Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (SMCDA) in single and group environment;
  • Multi-dimensional, multi-thematic and multi-resolution spatial information for spatial decision support systems;
  • Spatial decision modeling, collaborative and exploratory data analysis, and decision visualization;
  • GeoSocial networks, crowdsourcing and public participatory spatial decision support;
  • Data-intensive computing and computational intelligence for spatial decision support;
  • Web-based and cloud-based spatial decision support systems

 

WG II/8 - Mobility: Tracking, Analysis and Communication

 

 Chair Co-Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Monika Sester Stephan Winter XiaoGuang Zhou Bin Zou
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Appelstr. 9a
30167 Hannover
Germany
 
+49 511 762 3588
+49 511 762 2780
 
Department of Infrastructure Engineering
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Australia
 
+61 3 8344 7875
 
School of Geosciences and Info-Physics
Central South University
Changsha
Hunan
PR. China, 410083
 
+86 731 88877984
+86 731 88836153
 
School of Geosciences and Info-Physics
Central South University
Changsha Hunan
PR. China 410083
 
+86 186 0731 2100
 
www.ikg.uni-hannover.de www.ie.unimelb.edu.au   www.hjgis.net

 

WG II/8 Terms of Reference

  • Acquisition methods for tracking moving objects
  • Spatio-temporal data modelling and analysis of moving objects
  • Querying and reasoning about movement data
  • Generalizing movement data
  • Graphical and verbal communication of movement data
  • Applications in traffic or wildlife monitoring, emergency management including evacuation, and transportation

 

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

 

 Chair Co-Chair Co-Chair Secretary
Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi Christophe Claramunt Margarita Kokla Krzysztof Janowicz
Centre for research in Geomatics
Department of Geomatics
Laval University
Quebec City
Qc, G1 K 7P4
Canada
 
+1-418 656-2131- 2750
+1-418 656-7411
 
Naval Academy Research Institute
Lanvéoc-Poulmic
BP 600
Brest naval
France 9
 
 
School of Rural and Surveying Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
9 Iroon Politechniou str.
15780, ZografosCampus
Athens
Greece
 
+30 210 7722637
+30 210 7722734
 
Geography Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
USA
 
+805 880-2572
+805 893-2578
 
www.crg.ulaval.ca webpage   geog.ucsb.edu/~jano/

 

ICWG II/IV Terms of Reference

  • Semantic interoperability of geospatial databases
  • Knowledge representation and formal languages for Geospatial ontologies
  • Semantic mapping and semantic enrichment of geospatial concepts
  • Semantic interoperability of web services
  • Semantic interoperability in ad-hoc networks of geospatial databases
  • Real-time semantic interoperability
  • Geospatial semantic Web
  • Semantic sensor web and linked data
  • Semantics of Volunteered Geographic Information

 


 

 

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