What is special about Geospatial?

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.