6th International Spatial Data Quality Symposium

10 January 2009, 7:47pm

6th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality – Call for Papers - Due date extended to 16 January 2009.

You are invited to participate in the 6th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (ISSDQ 2009) that will take place in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, from July 6‐8, 2009. This event is organised jointly with the ISPRS Working Group II/4.

The program will provide three days of paper presentations divided into two parallel sessions, keynote addresses at the beginning of each day and a poster session.

Authors are invited to submit full papers or posters. Accepted papers and posters abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings and authors from selected papers will be encouraged to submit longer versions of their papers for a special issue of the peer‐review journal Transactions in GIS (TGIS) to be published at the end of 2009.

Conference topics

Papers are invited on all topics related to spatial data quality, including (but not limited to):

‐ Quality in geospatial data acquisition
‐ Spatial querying of data and their quality
‐ Spatial data modelling for uncertain objects and their relationships
‐ Data quality and spatio‐temporal process models
‐ Quality issues in spatial data mining and data fusion
‐ Data quality in remotely sensed images
‐ Geostatistical methods for spatial data quality
‐ Error propagation in spatio‐temporal operations
‐ Spatial analysis with uncertain data and related quality of information
‐ Ontology and spatial data quality
‐ Spatial and spatio‐temporal database integrity constraints
‐ Communication/visualization of uncertainty in remote sensing and GIS
‐ Metadata and models for GIS and remote sensing data
‐ Error‐aware and quality‐aware GIS
‐ Spatial data usability
‐ Impact of data quality on decision making
‐ Data quality and law (liability, consumer protection)
‐ Risk‐based data quality assessment
‐ Spatial data quality vs scales
‐ Applications of Spatial Data Quality

Organising Committee

Rodolphe Devillers, Memorial University (Chair)
Alvin Simms, Memorial University
Krista Jones, Memorial University
Randy Gillespie, CIG‐NL
Mahmoud Reza Delavar, U. of Tehran, Iran
Bob Leeman, CIG‐NL

Program Committee

Francisco Javier Ariza López, Spain Marc Gervais, Canada
Yvan Bédard, Canada
Nicholas Chrisman, Canada
David Coleman, Canada
Alexis Comber, UK
Sytze de Bruin, The Netherlands
Mahmoud Reza Delavar, Iran
Hande Demirel, Turkey
Rodolphe Devillers, Canada
Matt Duckham, Australia
Peter Fisher, UK Kirsi Virrantaus, Finland
Andrew Frank, Austria
Michael Goodchild, USA
Gerard Heuvelink, The Netherlands
Robert Jeansoulin, France
Werner Kuhn, Germany
Tarmo Remmel, Canada
Sylvie Servigne, France
John Shi, Hong Kong
Alvin Simms, Canada
Alfred Stein, The Netherlands

Important dates

Full papers submission - January 16, 2009
Acceptance notification - February 27, 2009
Early registration starts - March 6, 2009
Poster submission - March 13, 2009
Camera‐Ready papers due - April 10, 2009
Notification of poster acceptance - April 10, 2009
Early registration ends - May 1, 2009
Conference - July 6‐8, 2009

Submission

Papers should only be submitted electronically through the conference Web site, using the tool ConfTool available from the conference Web site.

Contact information
Email: issdq2009@mun.ca

Conference web site - paper submissions

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