From pyry.kettunen at maanmittauslaitos.fi Fri Dec 1 14:30:48 2023 From: pyry.kettunen at maanmittauslaitos.fi (Kettunen Pyry) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 13:30:48 +0000 Subject: [Icacogvis] FW: Call for Papers: Geoinformatics Research Days 2024 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear CogVis commission, Welcome to place in your calendars this cozy and friendly CogVis sponsored conference in safe and springly green Finland next May 😊 Abstract submission opening soon. Greetings, Pyry Kettunen one of the commission chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pyry Kettunen D.Sc. (Tech.), Research Manager Department of Geoinformatics and Cartography Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI, National Land Survey of Finland Vuorimiehentie 5, FI-02150 Espoo, Finland Mob +358 50 443 2958 Tel +358 29 531 4776 Email pyry.kettunen at nls.fi Web https://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/research/geospatial-representation-and-interaction ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lähettäjä: Nikander Jussi Lähetetty: perjantai 3. marraskuuta 2023 11.49 Aihe: Call for Papers: Geoinformatics Research Days 2024 Please forward this call for papers to colleagues in your network, who might be interested: Dear Researchers and Scholars, Geoinformatics Research Days is the annual gathering for geoinformatics experts in Finland, which has been arranged by the member universities of the Finnish University Network for Geoinformatics (Fiuginet) for over 10 years. Traditionally, the Research Days have been a relatively small-scale event with mostly invited programme. However, in 2023 Fiuginet made the decision to develop the event into a scientific conference, and therefore we are proud to announce the call for papers for Geoinformatics Research Days 2024. The event will take place on May 20th and 21st and will be organized by Aalto University together with the Fiuginet network. The event will be hosted in Espoo, Finland. The event is held together with the ICA Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualisation with targeted sessions and their members are also warmly welcome. Geoinformatics continues to play a critical role in harnessing spatial data, information technology, and geographic analysis to address pressing global issues such as climate change, sustainable development, disaster management, urban planning, natural resource management, and much more. As the significance of geospatial information grows in our dynamically changing world, the Geoinformatics Research Days aims to facilitate knowledge exchange and foster collaborative research in the domain of Geoinformatics in Finland and Northern Europe. We invite researchers, practitioners, and experts from academia, industry, and government sectors both in Finland and abroad to submit their research contributions for presentation during the Geoinformatics Research Days 2024. The conference will cover a broad spectrum of topics related to Geoinformatics, including but not limited to: 1. Geospatial Data Acquisition and Processing 2. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing 3. Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization 4. Geospatial Algorithms and Modeling 5. User Cognition in Geospatial Applications 6. Geoinformatic Human-Computer Interaction 7. Location-Based Services and Geographic Information Retrieval 8. Big Data Analytics for Geospatial Applications 9. Spatial Data Infrastructures and Interoperability 10. Geoinformatics for Smart Cities and Urban Planning 11. Environmental Monitoring and Geospatial Solutions 12. Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development 13. Geospatial AI and Machine Learning Applications 14. Open Geospatial Science and Open Source Software Submission Guidelines Presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract of a maximum of 2 pages in English. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed to ensure the quality of the contributions. All accepted publications will be given a chance to present their work at the Research Days. Important Dates: * Abstract Submission Opens: December 4, 2023 * Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: February 15, 2024 * Notification of Acceptance: April 2, 2024 * Conference Dates: May 20-21, 2024 Venue and Registration: Detailed information regarding the conference venue, registration process, and fees will be made available on the official Geoinformatics Research Days 2024 website https://geoinformaticsdays.geoportti.fi/. For any inquiries or further information, please contact the conference chair Jussi Nikander at jussi.nikander at aalto.fi. Sincerely, Senior university lecturer Jussi Nikander Conference Chair, Geoinformatics Research Days 2024 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We were graciously hosted by colleagues at the University of Stellenbosch, and the program included lightning talks, practical experiments with maps and various AI platforms, collective brainstorming, and fun with local tools like the vuvuzela. A great mix of people attended the workshop and contributed to a very stimulating and enjoyable day, followed by dinner at one of the local wine bars, another attraction of the Eastern Cape Region. For those of you who were unable to attend, you can have a look at the conference videos and some of the artifacts produced in the experimental sessions at the Commission on Geovisualization’s website: https://viz.icaci.org/. We also wrote a short paper summarizing some of the important points of discussion, which you can find linked on the Commission’s website: https://cogvis.icaci.org/publications.html. I am writing also to say goodbye and to introduce to you the new CogViz leadership team, as, after 12 years in helping to run the Commission, I have now stepped back from the Commission to allow for new ideas and fresh energy. I’d like to thank Sara Fabrikant for inviting me to help develop the Commission so many years ago. I hope we have created something that is durable, as there is still no shortage of cognitive issues in geographic information visualization to work on. I am confident that in the near term, the Commission is in good hands. Two of your new leadership team will be familiar faces, as they have been involved in developing and organizing activities in the most recent term, Petr Kubicek (Czechia) and Pyry Kettunen (Finland). Petr and Pyry are joined by two new team members, Hua Liao (China) and Tumasch Reichenbacher (Switzerland). This is a perfect mix of institutional knowledge and experience and new perspectives, and I am confident they will develop stimulating and interesting events and activities to bring researchers from around the world together to work on problems of mutual interest. If you have not had the pleasure of meeting these colleagues on the leadership team personally, you can find brief profiles of them on the CogVis website: https://cogvis.icaci.org/members.html. I encourage you to reach out to them with your ideas for the Commission. 

 I wish the new team every success as they take the Commission into the future, and I am still planning on attending many future Commission events, but now enjoying them as a regular Commission member! Happy holidays to everyone, whichever of them you celebrate! Cheers, Amy Dr Amy L. Griffin | pronouns: she/hers Vice President, International Cartographic Association Senior Lecturer of Geospatial Science School of Science RMIT University GPO Box 2476 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia +61 3 9925 2338 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ikveladze at gmail.com Fri Dec 8 12:31:59 2023 From: ikveladze at gmail.com (Irma Kveladze) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 12:31:59 +0100 Subject: [Icacogvis] Commission updates and the new leadership team In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <179A5F13-B61C-4C70-989B-F81D7699FC43@gmail.com> Dear Amy, I would like to take a moment to thank you for all the wonderful events you have organized for the conferences throughout the years. Your hard work and dedication have not gone unnoticed and we truly appreciate everything you have done to make commission activities insightful and successful. As you embark on new initiatives (I have no doubts about it), I wish you all the best and look forward to seeing you at future ICA events. I would also like to extend a warm welcome to the new CogViz leadership, looking forward to the new and fresh ideas they bring to the commission. Happy Holidays, Best, Irma > On 8 Dec 2023, at 06.03, Amy Griffin wrote: > > RMIT Classification: Trusted > > > Dear CogVisers, > > I hope that as the year comes to a close you are all looking forward to an end-of-year rest and celebration of surviving another lap around the sun with your family and friends. > > Those of you who were able to travel to Cape Town would have enjoyed a very well organized 31st International Cartographic Conference. A big thank you to our South African colleagues for all of their work in making that event happen. Our Commission co-developed a pre-conference workshop on Maps and AI along with the Commission on Visual Analytics (now renamed the Commission on Geovisualization). We were graciously hosted by colleagues at the University of Stellenbosch, and the program included lightning talks, practical experiments with maps and various AI platforms, collective brainstorming, and fun with local tools like the vuvuzela. A great mix of people attended the workshop and contributed to a very stimulating and enjoyable day, followed by dinner at one of the local wine bars, another attraction of the Eastern Cape Region. For those of you who were unable to attend, you can have a look at the conference videos and some of the artifacts produced in the experimental sessions at the Commission on Geovisualization’s website: https://viz.icaci.org/. We also wrote a short paper summarizing some of the important points of discussion, which you can find linked on the Commission’s website: https://cogvis.icaci.org/publications.html. > > I am writing also to say goodbye and to introduce to you the new CogViz leadership team, as, after 12 years in helping to run the Commission, I have now stepped back from the Commission to allow for new ideas and fresh energy. I’d like to thank Sara Fabrikant for inviting me to help develop the Commission so many years ago. I hope we have created something that is durable, as there is still no shortage of cognitive issues in geographic information visualization to work on. > > I am confident that in the near term, the Commission is in good hands. Two of your new leadership team will be familiar faces, as they have been involved in developing and organizing activities in the most recent term, Petr Kubicek (Czechia) and Pyry Kettunen (Finland). Petr and Pyry are joined by two new team members, Hua Liao (China) and Tumasch Reichenbacher (Switzerland). This is a perfect mix of institutional knowledge and experience and new perspectives, and I am confident they will develop stimulating and interesting events and activities to bring researchers from around the world together to work on problems of mutual interest. > > If you have not had the pleasure of meeting these colleagues on the leadership team personally, you can find brief profiles of them on the CogVis website: https://cogvis.icaci.org/members.html. I encourage you to reach out to them with your ideas for the Commission. 
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> > > I wish the new team every success as they take the Commission into the future, and I am still planning on attending many future Commission events, but now enjoying them as a regular Commission member! > > Happy holidays to everyone, whichever of them you celebrate! > > Cheers, > Amy > > > Dr Amy L. Griffin | pronouns: she/hers > > Vice President, International Cartographic Association > > Senior Lecturer of Geospatial Science > School of Science > RMIT University > GPO Box 2476 > Melbourne VIC 3001 > Australia > +61 3 9925 2338 > > _______________________________________________ > Icacogvis mailing list > Icacogvis at lazarus.elte.hu > http://lazarus.elte.hu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/icacogvis Best, Irma _________________________  Irma Kveladze | Assistant Professor | Department of Sustainability and Planning Faculty of IT and Design | Aalborg University CPH A. C. Meyers Vænge 15 A | 2450 København SV | Denmark Room 2.001a | Tel: +45 5033 0070 ________________________________________________ ikv at plan.aau.dk | ikveladze at gmail.com | www.plan.aau.dk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 7981 bytes Desc: not available URL: From krasvas at uniwa.gr Thu Dec 14 15:41:06 2023 From: krasvas at uniwa.gr (Vassilios Krassanakis) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:41:06 -0000 Subject: [Icacogvis] Special Issue: "Geovisualization: Current Trends, Challenges, and Applications" | Geographies (ISSN 2673-7086) Message-ID: ***Apologies for possible cross-posting*** Dear Colleagues, We would like to inform you that the Special Issue "Geovisualization: Current Trends, Challenges, and Applications" is now complete. You can find below the full list of the published articles. Editorial: Krassanakis, V.; Skopeliti, A.; Keskin, M.; Cybulski, P. Geovisualization: Current Trends, Challenges, and Applications. Geographies 2023, 3, 801-805. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies3040043. List of Contributions: Goebbels, S.; Pohle-Fröhlich, R. Automatic Unfolding of CityGML Buildings to Paper Models. Geographies 2021, 1, 333-345. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies1030018. Stamou, L. Cartography and Art: A Comparative Study Based on Color. Geographies 2022, 2, 87-110. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies2010007. Iliopoulou, P.; Feloni, E. Spatial Modelling and Geovisualization of House Prices in the Greater Athens Region, Greece. Geographies 2022, 2, 111-131. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies2010008. Zhang, S.; Lippitt, C.; Bogus, S.; Taylor, T.; Haley, R. Mapping Construction Costs at the National Level. Geographies 2022, 2, 132-144. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies2010009. Li, M.; McGrath, H.; Stefanakis, E. Geovisualization of Hydrological Flow in Hexagonal Grid Systems. Geographies 2022, 2, 227-244. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies2020016. Wada, K.; Wallner, G.; Vos, S. Studying the Utilization of a Map-Based Visualization with Vitality Datasets by Domain Experts. Geographies 2022, 2, 379-396. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies2030024. Blana, N.; Kavadas, I.; Tsoulos, L. A Constraint-Based Generalization Model Incorporating a Quality Control Mechanism. Geographies 2023, 3, 321-343. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies3020017. Lampropoulos, G.; Panagiotopoulos, G.; Giannakoula, C.; Kokkalas, A. Geovisualization of Historical Geospatial Data: A Web Mapping Application for the 19th-Century Kaupert’s Maps of Attica. Geographies 2023, 3, 398-415. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies3020021. Our best wishes for the coming year! The Guest Editors of the Special Issue Dr. Vassilios Krassanakis, Assistant Professor (University of West Attica, Greece) Dr. Andriani Skopeliti, Assistant Professor (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Dr. Merve Keskin, Postdoctoral Researcher (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Austria) Dr. Paweł Cybulski, Assistant Professor (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Dr. Vassilios Krassanakis | Assistant Professor University of West Attica | Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering Egaleo Park Campus, Ag. Spyridonos Str., 12243 Egaleo (Athens), Greece Building: K10 | Office: K10.101 | Email: krasvas at uniwa.gr | Tel.: (+30) 210 538 7345 Webpages: [UNIWA]: https://geo.uniwa.gr/en/profile/krassanakis-vassilios/ [Personal]: https://sites.google.com/site/vassilioskrassanakis [GitHub]: https://github.com/krasvas [Google Scholar]: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=62pBQHwAAAAJ&hl=el&oi=ao [Scopus]: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56094634800 [Web of Science]: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/2292078 [Semantic Scholar]: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Vassilios-Krassanakis/3163032 [ResearchGate]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vassilios-Krassanakis [ORCID]: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3030-4203 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: