'Geospatial Data Infrastructure: from data acquisition and updating to smarter 
services'

which will take place from October 20 - 21, 2011 in Guilin, China. 

It is a Joint Workshop of the ISPRS WG IV/1, IV/2, IV/4, IV5, IV7 and ICWG 
IV/VIII.

The conference topics are:

Data Acquisition and Updating
– Creating, populating, accessing, indexing, and analyzing multi-dimensional, 
multi-scale, spatio-temporal image databases
– algorithms, processes and techniques for automated update, change detection 
and quality control of 3D geo-spatial databases from imagery and collateral 
sources
– Theoretical and operational aspects of incremental updating and versioning 
of vector and raster spatial databases

Database Creation and Maintenance
– Development of multi-level (national, regional and global) geospatial 
databases with multi-sources
– Database generation for digital topographic and thematic mapping (including 
orthoimages and digital terrain models)
– strategy and processes for efficient maintenance of multi-dimensional 
spatial databases at local, regional and global scales
– Synchronization of disparate geospatial resources
– integrating geo-spatial data with environmental and socio-economic data for 
research, discovery and web services
– Assessment of remote sensing data for generating and visualizing landscape 
and models
– security and versioning of spatial databases
– Planetary mapping and database generation" in the theme "Database Creating 
and Maintenance

Smarter Geo-spatial Services and Applications
– technologies for efficient data handling, distributed and federated 
repositories, visualization, service releasing and applications
– high performance networks and communication for broad access and ?end-to-
end? coordination
– Application and assessment of advanced visualization, virtual reality and 
multimedia methods for 2-D, 3-D and 4-D mapping tasks in stand-alone, mobile 
or web-based environments
– Assessment of context-aware visualization and analysis of image data and 
geodatabases

Standards and Liaison
– open source principles, metadata and open standards of service, system 
architectures, and geospatial information
– Cooperation and liaison with international efforts (GEOSS, Digital Earth, 
UNSDI, INSPIRE and GMES), and organizations (GSDI, WGISS, ICA, OGC, W3C, ISO 
and EuroSDR)


Important dates are:
Deadline for abstracts: April 30,2011

Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2011

Deadline for full papers: August 1, 2011

Early registration: September1, 2011

Workshop: October 20-21, 2011

For further Workshop details please visit the website:
http://isprs-wg41.nsdi.gov.cn/

Best regards,

Sönke Müller