Annual Workshop and Annual Meeting

Workshop Participants, Objectives and Focus

We are looking forward to see you in Lisbon ... 
We hope that you will accept the invitation of FIG Commission 3 and participate in the next workshop and annual meeting. 
Commission 3 and the Ordem dos Engenheiros from Portugal are already at work to make the workshop interesting. 
Papers that will be presented on your researches will be able to explain how the Spatial Information Management is having a big development in how geographic data, information and knowledge are produced and circulated. 
The integration of VGI in Spatial Data Infrastructure  (SDI) will also be an important theme of the workshop.
Situating geographic information, in the context of the deluge of large data and intense data search, presentations will explore both theories and applications of updated methods for checking and reliability of results and their usefulness in professional and government work. There are three sections that focus on: 1). VGI, Public Participation and Citizens' Science; 2). Spatial knowledge production and their utility on entrepreneurial and government choices; 3). Detection tools and emerging new competitive competitive challenges.
Citizens are increasingly becoming an important source of geographic information, sometimes entering domains that had until recently been the exclusive topic of authoritative agencies.
Papers will present the implications of VGI for further time-space compression and new forms, degrees of digital inequality, the renewed importance of geography and the role of crowdsourcing for geographic knowledge production. 

 

 

Commission 3 Topics

Within the main topic of the workshop, a larger number of other topics of interest related to SDI, SIM, VGI and crowdsourcing will be discussed. Topics will include, but are not limited to:
•    SDI at all levels – local, regional, national and global;
•    SIM challenges – natural and environmental risk prevention and disaster management, mitigation, waste management, etc.;
•    VGI collection, dissemination, analysis, applications, maintenance and visualization;
•    e-Governance and SDI in supporting decision making – theory, applications and best practice;
•    Integration of SDIs – cadastre, land use, utilities, environment, socio-economic;
•    SDI interoperability – standards, technical tools, metadata, portals;
•    3D/4D Cadastre;
•    Utilization of VGI and Crowdsourcing with SDI, SIM and environmental information;
•    2D/3D/4D geospatial models, algorithms, visualization, standards and applications;
•    Web and mobile GIS – challenges, services and real-time capabilities;
•    Business models and SDI, public-private partnerships and economic aspect.
 

Please view Call for Papers and Important Dates sections for details concerning paper submission.