The 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics

August 4, 2009 – 10:20 am

will be held in Fairfax, VA.  August 12-14, 2009.  It’s organized by the Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS) at GMU.

See the Web site : http://www.geoinformatics2009.org  &  the full program:  http://www.geoinformatics2009.org/download/PreProg.pdf

Download one-page instruction for Geoinformatics 2009: http://www.geoinformatics2009.org/download/Geoinformatics2009_CallForPapersSessions_one.pdf

The keynote speakers include Michael Goodchild, Mark Townshend, Mark Richardt, Zdenka Willis. 

Please join this exciting event holding locally….

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Most Complete Topographic Map of Earth

July 1, 2009 – 4:20 pm

NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth that covers most of our planet than ever. This new global digital elevation model of Earth was created from nearly 1.3 million individual stereo-pair images collected by the Japanese Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), instrument aboard Terra, NASA and Japan’s Minsitry of Economy, Trade and Insustry (METI) developed the data set. This data is publically available online.

Download ASTER GDEM tiles from ERSDAC at http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp

or, https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/wist-bin/api/ims.cgi?mode=MAINSRCH&JS=1

See the article in GIM magzine about this:

http://www.gim-international.com/news/id3889-Most_Complete_Topographic_Map _of_Earth.html

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Call for Papers, Tutorials, Panels

June 30, 2009 – 1:53 pm

GEOProcessing 2010: The Second International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services.

Submission deadline: September 10, 2009

Conference: Feb. 10-15, 2010-St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

See for more in details: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/GEOProcessing10.html

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournls.org

The topics suggested by the conference are including: Geo-spatial fundamentals, Geo-spatial Web Services, GIS, Geo-spatial simulation and visualization, Geo-modeling, Digital cartography data, Earth Geo-observation, Geo-sensing, Geo-spatial domain applications, and Managing geo-spatial data.

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Welcome to the Geoinformatics portal

April 2, 2009 – 12:49 pm

This portal intends to serve as a resource center for graduate level researchers in Geoinformatics, a new and cutting edge research field in the Earth Science.  Although the definition of Geoinformatics varies, it is mostly known that Geoinformatics uses geocomputation for analyzing  geoinformation.  GMU is a leading research center in this field through the Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, and Center for Earth Observing and Space Research.

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