Workshop Participants, Objectives and Focus

 

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Please allow me to invite you to the Annual Workshop and Meeting of FIG Commission 3, organized in joint with the Consiglio Nazionale Geometri e Geometri Laureati, the Collegio dei Geometri e Geometri Laureati di Napoli and the EGoS General Assembly, 3rd to 6th December 2018, Naples, Italy.

The place will be the ideal opportunity to explore and discuss the latest progress and research on enhancing spatial data networks, ensure user trust and boost the digital transformation process on

“Spatial Information in the Era of Data Science:

Challenges and Practical Solutions”

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Participants and Focus

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Data can be cataloged by volume, services and variety.

Big Data involves unprecedented data volumes, such as those available from information systems, sensors, business transactions, social media, online publications and so on.

Data is available in many forms and in real time on ubiquitous and pervasive technologies, such as smartphone apps. The variety of data, given the multitude of sources that can be available on a single topic, makes it difficult to integrate information into a single result that can be sure.

The techniques for dealing with the volume of data are constantly expanding with tried and tested methods, but the requirements for adequate management and services, and the variety of sources raise new problems. Services and variety imply the use of ever more complex processes and algorithms, dealing with technical, interoperability, applications, user-requirements, open source, etc. to be handled. They make it difficult to integrate information into a result that you can rely on. A rich background of geographical knowledge will always be essential for an effective management of information systems in general, and Geographic Information Systems in particular.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are designed to correlate data concerning the territory around the planet; make this information easy to view, analyze and share. The use of Big Data in this field has become so widespread as to constitute a modern science that, while offering new and unique opportunities, pushes for incessant research, involves challenges and raises many technical, social and educational questions that require increasingly updated solutions.

The workshop aims to put the evolution of recent Data Science themes related to spatial information in the spotlight, to discuss how these are translated to new ideas and contributions to projects, develop technological solutions and evaluate their effectiveness.

The workshop will also investigate new exploitation, development and use methodologies of VGI derived information to various geographic and social scientific disciplines that make use of mapping, GIS, SIM and SDI systems and procedures.

Whether you represent a surveyor in the public or private sector, a scholar or university representative, investigating spatial information strategies, you are welcome to take part in the workshop, present and publish your work in a highly qualified field.

The best paper will get international recognition, and will be published in the FIG network communication.

Special support will be offered to Young Surveyors presenting their work who are interested in participating in the workshop.

You should not miss the 2018 FIG Commission 3 Workshop and Meeting edition. 

 

 

Commission 3 Topics

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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:

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• 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.

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