GIS and geospatial science

Title of session: GIS and geospatial science

Organizers:

Stelian Dimitrov          Sofia University

Leonid Todorov           Sofia University

Evgenia Sarafova         Sofia University

Tanya Trenkova           NIGGG-BAS

The importance of GIS and geospatial technologies in the world of today and tomorrow grows rapidly. The value of geospatial knowledge becomes a determining factor for successful management solutions.

The expansion of web-tools and platforms for global datasets sharing, integration and management, mobile GIS and crowd-sourcing brings the infiltration of GIS to new levels of development and enables the penetration of spatial data and analysis into the everyday life.

The session is aimed at disseminating knowledge, and sharing expertise and experience in geospatial sciences in various aspects and applications.

We encourage you to submit abstracts and papers to be presented at the conference on the following topics:

• Geo-Data Management and Open data
• Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI): Data and Service Sharing, Integration and Management
• Spatial Data Analysis and Applications in GIS
• Environmental and Urban Geospatial Modelling (3D modelling, BIM, etc.)
• GIS in Sustainable management of natural resources
• Web-GIS Applications, Web Services and Web Tools
• Mobile GIS Applications
• Crowdsourcing and Participatory GIS Applications
• INSPIRE Directive contribution to EU Digital Agenda

Planned output:

The conference papers can be published in:

Peer-reviewed book in Springer series on Key Challenges in Geography

Special Issues of: European Journal of Geography, Journal of Bulgarian Geographical Society, or Journal Problems of Geography.

Looking forward to welcoming your contribution to this session!