Dear all,
I and Keith C. Clarke are organizing a workshop in AutoCarto in Orlando
(November 2010). We would be most pleased if you could participate and if you
could help us disrtibute the call for participation (below) to your networks.
I hope this is of interest and apologies in advance for any future duplications
(we just started to send the call).
Best regards,
-Arzu
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Dr. Arzu Coltekin
Geographic Information Visualization & Analysis (GIVA) Division
Department of Geography
University of Zurich - Irchel
Winterthurerstr. 190
CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
tel: +41-44-6355440
fax: +41-44-6356848
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Virtual Globes or Virtual Geographical Reality:
How much detail does a digital earth require?
ASPRS/AutoCarto 2010 Workshop
November 16th, 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA
http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~arzu/geovirtual
Theme summary:
The vision of a "digital earth" has captured the imagination of many, and led
to a conference series and an International Journal. Virtual globes are
increasingly more popular, and increasingly more "crowded" with cartographic
and multimedia detail. Not only can high resolution graphic data be produced
more easily today than ever before, the Web 2.0 (including VGI) feeds these
globes with information from the bottom-up, with images, videos, sounds and
annotations. These developments are mainly positive, however, side effects such
as visual clutter (e.g. "red dot fever" is an example) or lags in data loading
times hinder the power and efficiency of these candidate digital earths.
This workshop brings together experts from different yet related areas of
geographic sciences, visual analytics and information visualization with the
aim of producing a research agenda for level-of-detail (LOD) and information
display-related issues for geovirtual environments (GeoVEs) and virtual globes.
Many aspects from production to visualization and semantics will be covered.
The outcome of the workshop will be compiled into a web-based publication.
Depending on the success of the event a textbook compilation can also be
envisioned.
Topics:
Workshop will treat the state of the art and research goals for the following
topics (but not limited to):
. Theories and Vision of Digital Earth
. Data Acquisition and Sources
. Data Integration (Multiple Sensors, VGI and 'formal' data)
. Modeling, Simulation, Visualization
. Level of Detail and Information Density
. Visual Complexity and Visual Analytics
. Display Types (Small and Large Displays, 2D and 3D Displays, Limitations,
Advantages)
. Users and Applications of GeoVEs and Digital Globes
Important Dates:
Registration required: October 15th, 2010
Position papers (1000-1500 words): November 1st, 2010 (please also state
whether you are attending)
Workshop: November 16th, 2010 (half day, morning from 7:45 to 12:15).
Organizers:
Dr. Arzu Coltekin is a geovisualization researcher and lecturer. She earned her
PhD from Helsinki University of Technology in Finland specializing in
Stereoscopic Visualization in Photogrammetry. She joined the faculty at the
University of Zurich (Switzerland) in 2006 as a senior researcher in Geographic
Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) at the GIScience center and has
worked there since [see: http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~arzu for more].
Dr. Keith C. Clarke is a research cartographer and professor. He holds the B.A.
degree with honors from Middlesex Polytechnic, London, England, and the M.A.
and Ph. D. from the University of Michigan, specializing in Analytical
Cartography. He joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa
Barbara in 1996 and has worked there since. He is co-author on the UCGIS
research agenda for visualization, has current projects in VR and AR, and is
chair of the National Research Council's Mapping Sciences Committee [see
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~kclarke/ for more].
Goals:
. Creating a bridge between concepts, approaches, tools from separate
communities working with 'digital earth' and thus help prevent duplicating
effort
. Potentially fostering collaboration people working in this interdisciplinary
endeavor
. Identifying short, mid and long-term research priorities
. "Thinktank" on solutions for the most important research topics within these
topics
Workshop Format:
Workshop will be organized over three sessions, first two sessions will have
overview presentations by the organizers and a last session which is longer in
time will be a panel & discussion.
Participation & Process:
Workshop is open to everyone who is interested. Those who would like to take a
more active role are encouraged to submit position papers and/or contact the
organizers. Position papers should be 1000 to 1500 words on any of the topics
or a related topic, and express professional opinions that are backed up by
scientific findings as well as reason. Please submit your contribution to by
November 1st, 2001 to arzu.coltekin AT geo.uzh.ch with a cc to kclarke AT
geog.ucsb.edu. Subject line should read .ASPRS/AutoCarto2010: GeoVE workshop..
Note that registration is required by October 15th if you will attend.
Registration is possible here:
https://www.asprs.org/orlando2010/regform/index.html
Publication:
An online "workshop proceedings" is planned with the submitted position papers.
We will integrate the workshop proceedings in an interactive web-based
publication which will serve as a collaboration and dissemination environment
after the workshop. We hope that this may foster and inspire new ideas.
You can submit position papers even if you are unable to attend the workshop.
However, if you intend to come please register as soon as possible and let us
know whether you will attend or not when submitting your position paper on
November 1st (we would like to structure the panel/discussion session with
active members).
You are welcome to contact us with any questions you may have at arzu AT
geo.uzh.ch and kclarke AT geog.ucsb.edu. More information can be found here:
http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~arzu/geovirtual
With kind regards,
Arzu Coltekin and Keith C. Clarke, workshop organizers
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