Free CASA One Day Conference - April 13th

Riding high from a mention on the front page of Engadget, we at CASA at UCL are running a free one day conference on 13th April which will feature the work of our group on projects associated with our research funded by various UK research councils.

The conference is free but you have to register and space is limited.

If you want to come to the one day CASA meeting “Advances in Spatial Analysis & e-Social Science”, then please go to the registration site at http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/conference/ and register.

Personally , the du team will be talking about the 'Geography of Everything' based around a project we have so far been unable to blog about, its going to be good...

If you need any more information about this meeting email christiane.morgan@ucl.ac.uk.

The programme for the CASA meeting is listed below

Session One (AM)

Online exploration of cultural regions, migration and ethnicity using the geography of personal names - Paul Longley & Pablo Mateos

Spatial Interaction Models for Higher Education - Alex Singleton & Ollie O’Brien

The Dynamics of Skyscrapers: Scaling, Allometry, and Sustainability - Michael Batty

Development of an urban growth model using high-resolution historical data - Kiril Stanilov

Session Two (PM)

The research frontier in urban modelling: the agenda and the challenges - Alan Wilson

On-line Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Network Data and Road Developments - Tao Cheng

Twitter Tags and Real-Time Visualisation of Complex Geographic Data with MapTube - Richard Milton

Tales of Things and Electronic Memory ­ Creating and Mapping The Geography of Everything - Andrew Hudson-Smith

Panel Discussion with Mike Goodchild, Keith Clarke, David Maguire, Carl Steinitz

Final Call - International Conference on Theory, Data Handling and Modelling in GeoSpatial Information Science, Hong Kong

We have a final call for papers in geographic/urban visualisation - the deadline for abstracts has passed but as we are running a workshop send them to us via the contact page and we will sort out the initial submission process.

The Joint International Conference on Theory, Data Handling and Modelling in GeoSpatial Information Science will be held on May 26th to 28th 2010 in Hong Kong.

This conference will be a notable event in the international community of Geo-spatial information Science (GISc) in 2010, organized by: Commission II of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and Commission of Geographic Information Science and Commission of Modelling Geographical Systems of the International Geographical Union (IGU). The conference will join together the Symposium of Technical Commission II of ISPRS, the Symposium on Spatial Data Handling and the Conference on Modelling Geographical Systems from IGU.

ISPRS is a society regrouping scientific societies from more than 100 countries working in domains related to photogrammetry, remote sensing and geographical information science. 2010 will be a special year for the society as it will be celebrating its centenary anniversary. The ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium is organised every four years alternately with the ISPRS Congress and is among the major events in ISPRS calendar regrouping leading scholars from the GISc and related communities. Last editions of the symposium were held in Ottawa, Canada (2002) and Vienna, Austria (2006) jointly with SDH.

You can find the submission guidelines and template from here.

Also take a look at the new Geovisualisation and Virtual Reality site (its hosted here in CASA) where you can sign up to become a member.

Call for Papers: 14th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling in Hong Kong

The 14th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling will be held in Hong Kong 26-28th May 2010. As co-chair of the Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality Working Group we will be organising sessions on the visualization of spatial data.

Abstracts are due 31st August 200, we encourage you to submit an abstract/paper and join us in Hong Kong in 2010.

Important Dates:

August 31st 2009 - Deadline for abstract
September 30th 2009 - Notification of accepted abstracts
November 30th 2009 - Deadline for full paper
January 15th 2010 - Notification of full paper acceptance
February 15th 2010 - Deadline for revised full paper
May 26th-28th 2010 - Symposium

For further information on the symposium visit http://isgis.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk

DU at the Science Museum

Slightly short notice on this one but we are at the Science Museum, London, tonight showing aspects of the Virtual London model and talking about its use in visualising local climate change.

Located at the 'Dana' Centre the full info for tonight is as follows:

Dramatic temperature changes, sudden rainfall and rapid changes in pollutant levels – our cities’ climates are becoming more and more difficult to predict. Architects and planners are faced with increasingly complex and uncertain information when shaping tomorrow’s cities. Does this mean there should be a radical rethink of how we develop urban space?

Join architect Nate Kolbe from the Superfusionlab practice as he shows off their ‘Snow City’ installation, a conceptual 3D model of London under deep snow. This extreme example serves as a starting point as we explore how climate catastrophes could affect cities, and what city builders and planners need to do to prepare.

Have your say with Geoff Darch as he talks about transport strategies to deal with flash floods or water shortages. And experts from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (thats us) will demonstrate computer models of London under water.

Come and give your opinion on what should be considered when designing the cities we live in…

This event is part of the London Festival of Architecture.

Event organised by:
The Science Museum

The event is free - Call 020 7942 4040 to book

AAG Conference, Boston

We are heading off to the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference in Boston on Wednesday. The AAG is always a good place to touch base with the latest research, we are presenting a paper on Saturday for those interested, the full details are below:

Abstract Title:
Web 2.0 and CyberInfrastructure: GeoVue Tools and Virtual Worlds for Geographic Visualisation

is part of the Paper Session:
Build it, Mapt it, Web it

scheduled on Saturday, 4/19/08 at 10:10 AM.

Author(s):
Andrew Hudson-Smith, Dr* - University College London

Abstract:

Web 2.0, specifically The Cloud, GeoWeb and Wikitecture are revolutionizing the way in which we present, share and analyze geographic data. In this paper we outline and provide working examples using our suite of tools which are detailed below, aimed at developing new applications of GIS and related technologies.

GeoVUE is one of seven nodes in the National Centre for e-Social Science whose mission it is to develop web-based technologies for the social and geographical sciences. The Node, based at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London has developed a suite of free software allowing quick and easy visualization of geographic data in systems such as Google Maps, Google Earth and Second Life. These tools address two issues, firstly that spatial data is still inherently difficult to share and visualize for the non-GIS trained academic or professional and secondly that a geographic data social network has the potential to dramatically open up data sources for both the public and professional geographer.

With our applications of GMap Creator, Image Cutter, PhotoOverlay Creator, GEarth Creator and finally MapTube, we detail ways to intelligently visualize and share spatial data. This paper concludes with detailing usage and outreach as well as an insight into how such tools are already providing a significant impact to the outreach of geographic information.

Keywords:

google earth,web 2.0, second life, visualisation, google maps

Fingers crossed for good weather as we are packing our panorama kit, all being well our previously delayed (due to fog in Hong Kong) HDR tutorial should go online next week.