The
AAG Cartography
Specialty Group invites members to
request sponsorship of special sessions for the 2008 AAG annual meeting
in
Boston. In preparing your special session, please keep in mind that the
CSG
would like to sponsor a maximum of 50 sessions in an attempt to
minimize time
conflicts that often lead to poor turnout. We encourage the use of some
of the
newer presentation formats for sessions such as the Interactive Short
Paper
which consists of 10-14 five minute presentations: http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/papers.htm#isp
To request CSG
sponsorship, please email me
(CSG
Vice-Chair) by October 24th -- that is one week before the AAG deadline
of
October 31st:
Dawn
Youngblood, PhD
Curator, Edwin J. Foscue Map Library
Southern Methodist University
dyoungbl@smu.edu
Be sure to put "CSG Session" in your subject
line when writing.
Thank you and I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Dawn Youngblood
Vice-Chair (2007-2008) AAG-CSG
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B. Honors Student Paper
Competition
The
Cartography
Specialty Group (CSG) of the Association of American Geographers is
pleased to
announce the resurrection of the Honors Student Paper Competition on
cartographic and geovisualization related topics to be presented at the
AAG
Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts (April 15-19, 2008). The
purpose of
this competition is to promote written scholarship and oral
presentation by
students in the field of cartography and geovisualization. The CSG
welcomes
papers from current graduate and undergraduate students on any topic in
cartography and geovisualization.
We
especially encourage papers on theoretical, conceptual, and
methodological
developments in cartography and geovisualization rather than on
particular
mapping applications. Paper must be based upon original work, completed
as an
undergraduate or graduate student, relevant to the field of cartography
and
current geovisualization research. Papers must be written entirely by
the
applicant. Students who are selected as finalists will be placed in a
special
session at the annual meeting. The only exception is a student who is
also
selected as a Nystrom Dissertation Award finalist, in which case, he or
she may
present in the Nystrom paper session instead.
The
top five finalists will be awarded full registrations for the AAG
conference. A cash prize of $100 and a non-timeout version of ArcGIS
ArcView as
well as three extensions (Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst and
GeoStatistical
Analyst) will be awarded to the first place winner. The second place
winner
will receive four books of his/her choice from ESRI Press. All other
finalists
will also receive two books of their choice from ESRI Press.
An
extended abstract of approximately 700 words must be submitted
electronically by October 31, 2007, and the complete paper must
be submitted no
later than February 15, 2008. Any questions about the CSG student paper
competition should be directed to Paporn Thebpanya, pthebpanya@towson.edu or Sara
Irina
Fabrikant, sara@geo.uzh.ch.
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C. Student
Illustrated Paper Competition
The Cartography
Specialty Group
(CSG) of the Association of American Geographers is pleased to announce
the
resurrection of the Honors Student Paper Competition on cartographic
and geovisualization
related topics to be presented at the AAG Annual Meeting in Boston,
Massachusetts (April 15-19, 2008). The
purpose of this competition is to promote written scholarship and oral
presentation by students in the field of cartography and
geovisualization. The CSG welcomes papers
from current graduate
and undergraduate students on any topic in cartography and
geovisualization.
We especially
encourage papers on
theoretical, conceptual, and methodological developments in cartography
and
geovisualization rather than on particular mapping applications. Paper
must be
based upon original work, completed as an undergraduate or graduate
student, relevant
to the field of cartography and current geovisualization research.
Papers must
be written entirely by the applicant. Students who are selected as
finalists
will be placed in a special session at the annual meeting. The only
exception
is a student who is also selected as a Nystrom Dissertation Award
finalist, in
which case, he or she may present in the Nystrom paper session instead.
The top five finalists
will be
awarded full registrations for the AAG conference.
A cash prize of $100 and a non-timeout
version of ArcGIS ArcView as well as three extensions (Spatial Analyst,
3D
Analyst and GeoStatistical Analyst) will be awarded to the first place
winner. The second place winner will
receive four books
of his/her choice from ESRI Press. All
other finalists will also receive two books of their choice from ESRI
Press.
An extended abstract
of approximately
700 words must be submitted electronically by October 31, 2007, and the complete
paper must be submitted no later than February
15, 2008. Any questions about the
CSG student paper
competition should be directed to:
Megan Lawrence
Department of Geography
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403
mlawren5@uoregon.edu
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D. Sponsored Sessions
1. Spatial
Data Mining and Exploratory Data
Analysis
Sponsored by the
Geographic
Information Science,
Spatial Analysis and
Modeling, and
Cartography Specialty Groups.
This
session will address new research in the theory, design,
implementation,
and application of data mining and exploratory data analysis techniques
to
spatial and spatio-temporal data. Potential topics include:
*
Spatial data mining and knowledge discovery
*
Visualization/visual data mining/visual analytics
*
Exploratory spatial data analysis
*
New software tools
*
Applications of spatial data mining to social and physical
science data
To
present a paper in the session:
1.
Register and submit your abstract online (
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/).
2.
Email your presenter identification number (PIN), paper title, and
abstract
to both of the session organizers by October 25, 2007.
Organizers:
Jeremy
Mennis
Department
of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
Email:
jmennis@temple.edu; Web: http://astro.temple.edu/~jmennis/
Diansheng
Guo
Department
of Geography, University
of South Carolina
Email:
guod@sc.edu; Web: http://people.cas.sc.edu/guod/
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2. Impacts of Internet GIS and
Virtual Globes on Cartographic
Research
Sponsored
by the Cartography
and GIS Specialty
Groups.
Internet
GIS and virtual globes have
the potential to significantly alter how maps and other cartographic
artifacts
are designed, generated, distributed, and interacted with. Such
innovative tools
as Google Earth, Virtual Earth, or ArcGIS Explorer point toward new
research directions
and new mapping challenges for cartographers. This session will address
the impact
of these new applications and tools on cartographic research and the
challenges
involved in providing effective Internet-based map design. There is a
potential
to introduce novel visualization methods, develop new cartographic
skills, and
possibly a need for new paradigms in dealing with such issues as
abstraction
and map projection. Potential topics
for this session include, but are not limited to the
following
*
dynamic
map representation in Web applications (Google Maps, Yahoo
Maps)
*
mash-ups
and map API applications for Internet mapping services
*
3D
or temporal data representation on virtual globes
*
on-line
generalization methods
*
vector
data compression for Web mapping services
*
multimedia
cartography on the Internet
*
Web-based
collaborative mapping tools and virtual communities
*
new
on-line mapping formats and technologies (PDF, Flash, FLEX, or
web services)
To
present a paper in
the session:
1.
Register and
submit your abstract online (http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/).
2.
Email your
presenter identification number (PIN), paper title, and abstract to
both
session organizers by October 26, 2007.
Organizers:
Ming-Hsiang Tsou
Department
of
Geography, San Diego State University
Email: mtsou@mail.sdsu.edu
Website: http://map.sdsu.edu/tsou/
André
Skupin
Department
of
Geography, San Diego State University
Email: skupin@mail.sdsu.edu
Website: http://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Pages/skupin/index.htm
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3.
Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization
Sponsored
by the Cartography, Environmental,
and GIS Specialty
Groups.
We invite papers
within the
interdisciplinary research area of geographic information visualization
and
cognition. Specifically of interest are theoretical and empirical
contributions
exploring the human-geovisualization display interface. This includes
(but is
not limited to): geovisualization design research (2D/3D,
animated/virtual/
immersive, static/interactive/mobile, etc.) ~ the application of
cognitive
theories and methods to understanding geovisualization displays &
geovis
tool use ~ the application of geovisualization displays & tools to
understanding spatial cognition ~ reasoning, inference & decision
making
with geovisualization displays & tools ~ human geovisualization
interaction
research.
Contact
Information:
Sara Irina Fabrikant
University of Zurich
Email: sara@geo.uzh.ch
http://www.geo.uzh.ch/gia/aboutus/homepages/sara/
Amy Lobben
University of Oregon
Email: lobben@uoregon.edu
http://geography.uoregon.edu/department/faculty-staff/faculty/lobben/index.html
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4.
Geographic Information Retrieval
This session
welcomes the
submission of abstracts dealing with any aspect of Geographic
Information Retrieval (GIR), which can be defined as the
retrieval and relevance ranking of unstructured or partially structured
information
sources based on theme and geographic scope (Purves and Jones 2006).
Paper
topics include (but are not limited to):
- Methods
for identifying, gecoding, and disambiguating geographic terms in
documents
- Gazetteer sources for GIR
- Evaluating
GIR tools and algorithms
- Approaches
to indexing document collections to facilitate searching based on
geographic and thematic scope
- Collaborative
GIR
- Geovisualization
and map design issues for geographic presentation of GIR results
- Interface
design for GIR query formulation and review of returned query results
- The
use of ontologies to support GIR searches
- Identifying
spatial scopes or “footprints” for documents
- GIR case studies (e.g., GIR in
disaster/emergency response; GIR for studying infectious diseases)
To participate in the
session:
- Email your presenter identification
number
(PIN), paper title, and abstract to the session organizer (bmt139@psu.edu) by October
31, 2007 or whatever the final deadline date for abstracts is
in the event the deadline date is changed by the AAG.
Session Organizer:
Brian Tomaszewski
Penn State University
bmt139@psu.edu
Purves, R. and C. Jones (2006). "Geographic
Information Retrieval
(GIR)." Computers, Environment and
Urban Systems 30(4):
375-377.
Preliminary inquires,
notices of intention to submit, or any questions are welcome at any time