Dear colleagues,
Our workshop in Orlando is approaching. This is our second call for
participation and position papers. We would be most pleased if you could help
us circulate our call one more time.
For participation we kindly ask interested parties to register by October 15th
and send us a position paper by November 1st.
We apologize for cross-postings.
-Arzu Coltekin and Keith C. Clarke
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2nd Call for participation and position papers
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:
Please register by: October 15th, 2010
Position papers (1000-1500 words): November 1st, 2010
Workshop: November 16th, 2010 (half day, morning from 7:45 to 12:15).
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. We will invite panelists based on the position papers. 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 you can submit a
position paper even if you are unable to attend. However if you will attend,
please register by October 15th, 2010.
Registration is possible here:
https://www.asprs.org/orlando2010/regform/index.html
It is possible to register to the workshop even if you are not attending the
main conference.
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).
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].
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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