6th International Workshop on Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems: Environmental and Urban Challenges (IF&GIS? 2013)

May 12-15, 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia

The 6th International Workshop on Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems (IF&GIS' 2013) is a serial event in the development of theories, models and advanced applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It continues a series of successful workshops held in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 in St. Petersburg and 2011 in Brest, France. It has been continuously organized by the OOGIS research laboratory of St Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation and French Naval Academy Research Institute. The 6th event will return to St. Petersburg and will be specifically focused on environmental issues, from global to local scales. The scope of the 6th IF&GIS workshop will address several GIS and environmental research issues of the modeling, analysis, information processing and visualization. Contributions are expected from scientists, experts, practitioners, academic and Ph.D. students in a wide range of disciplines. The proposed scientific domains as far as they address GIS fundamentals and their application to urban and environmental challenges include but are not limited to:

GIS Fundamentals:
? GIS ontologies
? GIS data integration
? GIS data modeling
? GIS data analysis
? GIS data fusion
? Artificial Intelligence and GIS
? GIS and real-time monitoring systems
? GIS algorithms and computational issues
? GIS simulation
? Data Security and GIS
? Novel and emerging GIS research areas

Urban and environmental challenges:
? Environmental management
? Land-based planning
? Landscape studies
? GIS for global warming modeling
? Urban GIS
? Transportation GIS
? Marine and Coastal GIS for the Arctic Sea
? Intelligent GIS (IGIS) Monitoring Systems for Weather / Environmental forecasting
? GIS Applications to platform operations in Artic regions
? GIS modeling for Arctic Challenges and weather forecasting

The forthcoming international IF&GIS Workshop encourages presentation of scientific and technological innovations as well as application opportunities aimed at having environmental and global warming problems under control, as well as the monitoring, planning and simulation to sustain maritime presence in the Arctic. All papers accepted for the Workshop will be published in the series Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Geoinformation & Cartography (LNG&C) after the workshop. Preliminary proceedings will be available in CD-version at the time of the workshop.

Important Deadlines
? Abstracts submission: August 20, 2012
? Full paper submission: September 30, 2012
? Notification of acceptance: November 20, 2012
? Final papers due: December 15, 2012

Workshop Chairs
V. Popovich (SPIIRAS, Russia)
C. Claramunt (Naval Academy Research Institute, France)
M. Schrenk (CEIT ALANOVA, Vienna, Austria)
K. Korolenko (Newport, USA)

Program Committee
G. Andrienko (Fraunhofer Institute IAIS. Germany)
V. Aleksandrov (SPIIRAS, St.Petersburg, Russia)
T. Badard (Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada)
I. Benenson (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
M. Bertolotto (University College Dublin, Ireland)
R. Billen (University of Liege, Belgium)
J. Breman (ESRI, USA)
M. Breunig (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)
B. Bucher (IGN, France)
G. Camara (INPE, Brazil)
E. Camossi (JRC, Italy)
J. Carswell (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
T. Devogele (University of Tours, France)
S. Fotheringham (University of St Andrew, UK)
R. Goralski (GeoVS Ltd., UK)
F. Gourmelon (University of Brest, France)
D. R. Green (University of Aberdeen, UK)
E. Guilbert (Hong Kong Polytechnic)
A. Hamfelt (Uppsala University, Sweden)
N. Hovanov (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
B. Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
S. Ilarri (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
G. Jakobson (Altusys, Boston, USA)
B. Jiang (University of G?vle, Sweden)
C. Jones (Cardiff University, UK)
M.-J. Kraak (ITC, The Netherlands)
A. Krek (University of Hamburg, Germany)
I. Kotenko (SPIIRAS, St.-Petersburg, Russia)
S. Levashkin (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico)
Ki-Joune Li (Pusan National University, South Korea)
S. Liang (Ryerson University, Canada)
V. Lobo (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
M.R. Luaces (University da Coruna, Spain)
F. Mata (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico)
N. Moldovyan (SPIIRAS, Russia)
A. Napoli (Ecole des Mines, France)
C. Pierkot (The EspaceDev Research unit, France)
A. Smirnov (SPIIRAS, St.Petersburg, Russia)
A. Stepnowski (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
D. Stojanovic (University of Nys, Serbia)
J. C. Thill (UNC Charlotte, USA)

Organising Committee Chairman
R. M.Yusupov, Director of SPIIRAS (St. Petersburg)

Organising Committee Members
Y. Shalamaiko (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
I. Podnozova (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)
Y. Ivakin (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg)