The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH) is the premier long-running forum in geographical information science, providing a prestigious outlet to geographers, cartographers, computer scientists and others in this rapidly developing multidisciplinary area. This conference has been organized as one of the main activities of the International Geographical Union since it was first started in Zurich in 1984.

• The 15th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling will be held
  on 22-24 August 2012 in Bonn, Germany.
  Conference Website: http://www.sdh2012.org/
  Chair of the organising committee is Professor Sabine Timpf, University of Augsburg.
• Tradition Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth's Future Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union, August 4-9 2013,
  Kyoto International Conference Centre

  The IGU Kyoto Regional Conference 2013 is hosted by Japan National Committee for IGU on behalf of the entire geographic community in Japan and in cooperation with Japan Organization of Geographical Societies (JOGS) and IGU.
  
  Conference Website: http://www.igu-kyoto2013.org/
  First circular available at:
  http://oguchaylab.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/igu-kyoto2013/pdf/IGU_Kyoto_2013_1st_circular.pdf

  Previous Conferences/Meetings:

• IGU Regional Conference 2010 was held Tel Aviv, Israel, July 12-16, 2010.
• The 14th International Symposium for Spatial Data Handling - Theory, modeling and concepts in Geospatial Information Science was held 26-28th May 2010 in Hong Kong.
• Scientific sessions and business meeting held at the 31st International Congress of Geographers, Tunis,
  12-17^th August 2008.
• 13th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling 2008 (SDHO8),
  23-25^th June, SupAgro Campus, University of Montepelier, France.
  Held in conjunction with SAGEO (Spatial Analysis and GEOmatics).
• 12^th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling 2006 (SDH06)
  12-14^th July, University of Vienna, Austria.

  • Scholarship winners 2006
  • Scientific Committee 2006
  • The 12th Symposium was held at the University of Vienna, July 12th - 14th 2006 in conjunction with  Geoinformation Connecting Societies - GICON 2006 combined the activities of:
    • ICA: Workshop Geospatial Analysis and Modelling and
    • ISPRS: Technical Commission II Symposium
    • SDH06
      
      Kainz, Riedl and Elmes (Eds) 2006, Symposium Proceedings: Progress in Spatial Data Handling, 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Springer.
      Fisher, Peter F. (Ed.) 2005, The 2004 Proceedings: Developments in Spatial Data Handling, 11th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, ISBN: 3-540-22610-9 may be found at: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com or Springer. 
       

• IGU 2006 Brisbane Conference Regional Responses to Global Changes a View from the Antipodes, 3-7 July 2006 Brisbane Australia.
  Specialist paper sessions and joint sessions were held with the Commission Land Use and Land Cover Change CO4.24.
• International Congress of Geographers, Glasgow, Scotland 15-19 August 2004. This meeting featured two complete days of scientific sessions organized by the Commission, for a total of 12 sessions, followed by the business meeting. Forty eight papers were presented and approximately 30 attended each session for a total of 360.
• Spatial Data Handling Symposium (SDH2004)
  22-24 August 2004, University of Leicester, UK
• Spatial Data Handling Symposium (SDH'2002)
  9-12 July 2002, Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa, Canada
• Spatial Data Handling Symposium (SDH'2000)
  10-12 August 2000, Beijing, China

Last Updated 27 January 2012