The Salzburg University Centre for Geoinformatics is offering an annual forum to the worldwide geoinformatics community, bringing together English-speaking researchers and practitioners across disciplines and industries. Simultaneously, the GI_Forum connects participants into a well established co-located regional symposium - Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT) - sharing the state-of-the art AGIT-EXPO exhibit.
The GI-Forum 2008 in Salzburg will take place on July 1-4, 2008.
Keynote speakers will be:
- Mike Goodchild (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) and
- Andrew Frank (University of Technology Vienna, Austria)
There is also the possibility for students to hand in their papers:
There is a Best Student Paper Award - Geoinformatics Trophy 2008. The Geoinformatics Trophy awards the best student paper contribution.
- Topics: Advanced methods and techniques of Geoinformatics and its broad range of application domains as stated in the Call for Papers posted on webpage.
- Prerequisites: Confirmation of student enrolment at a higher education institute. Non-student coauthors are not allowed. Oral presentation at the GI_Forum 2008 in Salzburg.
More information you can find on the official homepage.
[via http://www.gi-forum.org]
Written and submitted from CUAS, Villach.
