May 30^th – June 1^st 2013, Hong Kong

The 8^th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality which will be held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from May 30^th to June 1^st 2013. The Symposium provides an interdisciplinary forum for leading scientists and young researchers to present their latest research developments and share their experience in this field. The Symposium will include keynote speeches and parallel sessions.

Themes:

· Uncertainties in real world entities and ontology

· Spatial accuracy assessment

· Accuracy evaluation for DEM

· Temporal uncertainty in spatial data

· Incompleteness of spatial data

· Logical consistence in spatial database

· Semantic uncertainty in geographic data

· Uncertainty in remotely sensed image processing

· Uncertainty versus scales

· Quality assessment in spatial data generalization

· Spatial data models for uncertain objects in GIS

· Model validation with imperfect ground truth data

· Assessment of quality of crowdsourcing spatial data

· Uncertainty propagation in spatial analyses and operations

· Spatial querying and reasoning with uncertain data

· Uncertainty in geographical and environmental analysis

· Spatial data quality and decision making

· Spatial statistics

· Geostatistical methods for spatial data quality assessment

· Stochastic spatial simulation

· Spatial data quality and web- and mobile-based services

· Uncertainty in geovisual analytics

· Quality of spatial data visualization

· Meta-data and model for GIS data

Organizers

• International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing WG II/1, WG II/2, WG II/4, WG II/6, ICWG II/IV
• Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Faculty of Construction and Environment, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, LIESMARS, Wuhan University

Keynote Speakers

Dr Paul Cheung Director, Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs,

United Nation

Prof Mike Goodchild Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Prof Brian G Lees Editor-in-Chief, IJGIS, School of Physical, Environmental & Mathematical

Sciences, University of New South Wales: Canberra, Australia

Prof Deren Li State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China

Prof Alfred Stein Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, The Netherlands

Important Dates

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 28^th February 2013
Notification of Acceptance: 15^th March 2013
Deadline for Full Paper Submission: 15^th April 2013

Early Bird Registration: 15^th April 2013

Symposium Date: 30^th May 2013 – 1^st June 2013

Abstract Submission

The Organizing Committee invites abstract submission for consideration by the programme committee and inclusion in the Symposium programme. Abstracts should be 250 – 500 words in English and should reach the Symposium Secretariat at issdq2013.lsgi@polyu.edu.hk before28^th February 2013. Online submission system will be opened soon.

Publications

A CD publication will be published and distributed during the Symposium. A book with selected papers from the Symposium will be published after the Symposium.

Website

Interested parties please visit http://www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk/ISSDQ2013 for up-to-date information and registration.

Should you have any enquiries, please contact the Symposium Secretariat atissdq2013.lsgi@polyu.edu.hk or Miss Fiona Fong at +852 3400 3897 or Miss Violet Tsang at +852 2766 4350.

Organizing Committee, ISSDQ 2013

Hong Kong