12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, 2006
12^th to 14^th July, 2006
University of Vienna, Austria
Announcement of Scholarship Winners

Sponsored by Environmental Systems Research Institute ESRI ® and the IGU Commission on Geographical Information Science

Scholarship Winners

Tinghua Ai

Stephanie Deitrick

Hui Ding

Geoffrey Lawson

Arika Ligmann-Zienska

Martin Tomko

Vlasios Voudouris

CONGRATULATIONS ALL

To enable researchers to present a paper at the 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling the International Programme Committee announced a scholarship award competition.   Six scholarships of $US500 were awarded.  Candidate papers must meet the criteria of the review process, but preference will be given to scholars from Africa, Asia, South America or Eastern Europe, especially those in the early stages of their career.  Graduate students, post-doctoral students and non-tenured faculty are encouraged to apply.  The scholarships are supported by the International Geographical Union and by ESRI.®

The Committee invites submission of full text papers of up to 5000 words.  Papers may be in any area of Geographical Information Science – the theory, concepts and principles of geographic information handling.  Topics that address the working of, and work with Geographical Information Systems are appropriate, including:

• Uncertainty in spatial information: How it is conceptualised, described, modelled, and propagated.
• User interfaces: Usability testing, Interface design, and Visual languages.
• Scale issues of geographical information: Problems with scale, Exploiting scale, Multiscale analysis and description.
• Databases: Extending geographical database structures; Data models, Data fusion, Data base description and ontology, Interoperability.
• Sharing and dissemination of geographical data: Spatial Data Infrastructures, Web Access, Watermarking
• Visualisation: New and traditional approaches to visualisation and mapping, Generalisation, Symbolisation,
• Terrain and surface modelling: Interpolation, Modelling, Analysing, and Extracting Features
• Spatial Modelling: The use of spatial data in urban, regional, transport and environmental modelling
• Remote Sensing: The conversion of RS data to information, Novel algorithms; Integration and fusion of data.
• Spatial Cognition: Human understanding of space, Models of space, Wayfinding,
• Social issues of GIScience and GISystem use
• Critical approaches to and evaluations of the use of GIS in applications
• Social, Economic, Legal and Policy issues of spatial data and GIS use

Papers relating to topics which are not mentioned in this list will be especially welcome.

Full papers of 5000 words maximum should be emailed to greg.elmes@mail.wvu.edu on or before 31^st December 2005.  Papers should be written in English (the official language of the conference) and prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors, which can be found with this call and other information at (www.igugis.org or www.gicon2006.at).  All papers will be subject to full review by the International Programme Committee, and, if accepted, published in the conference proceedings.

Timetable

• Submission of Full Text Papers 31^st December 2005
• Notification of Acceptance and Revisions 15^th February 2006
• Submission of Final Manuscript 6^th March 2006
• Conference 12^th –14^th July 2006

Further details

For further information email: greg.elmes@mail.wvu.edu .   Information for authors is available at: www.igugisc.org or www.gicon2006.at

Location

The Conference will be held at the University of Vienna, in Austria, July 12-14^th 2006.  Further details at www.gicon2006.at .

A blind-review by three members of the Scientific Committee will assess papers for inclusion in SDH.  All accepted papers that are revised, formatted and delivered by the March 2006 deadline will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag.