International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, 2004
23rd to 25th August 2004
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
First Announcement and Call for Papers

Call for Papers

Any researcher interested in presenting a paper at the 11th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling is invited to submit a full text paper. Papers can be in any area of Geographical Information Science, which is to say in the theoretical areas which address the working of and work with Geographical Information Systems. Papers might be related to a large range of topics, of which the following list gives a flavour, but is not prescriptive, including:

• Uncertainty in spatial information: How it is conceptualised, Described, Modelled, and Propagated.
• User interfaces: Usability testing, Interface design, and Visual lanaguages.
• Scale issues of geographical information: Problems with scale, Exploiting scale, Multiscale analysis and description.
• Databases: Extending Geographical database structures, Data Models, Data fusion, Data base description and ontology, Interoperability.
• Dissemination of Geographical Data: Spatial Data Infrastructures, Web Access, Watermarking
• Visualisation: New and traditional approaches to visualisation and mapping, Generalisation, Symbolisation,
• Terrain and surface modelling: Interpolation, Modelling, Analysing, and Extracting Features
• Spatial Modelling: The use of spatial data in urban, regional, transport and environmental modelling
• Remote Sensing: The conversion of RS data to information, Novel algorithms, and Integration and Fusion of data.
• Spatial Cognition: Human understanding of space, Models of space, Wayfinding,
• Social issues of GIScience theory and GISystem use
• Critical evaluations of the use of GISystems in applications
• Social, Economic, Legal and Policy issues of Geodata and GISystems use

Papers relating to topics which are not mentioned in this list will be especially welcome.

All papers will be subject to full review by the International Programme Committee, and, if accepted, published in the conference proceedings.

Papers should be written in English (the official language of the conference) and prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors which can be found with this call and other information at (www.geog.le.ac.uk/sdh2004/).

Full papers should be emailed to sdh2004@le.ac.uk on or before 3rd January 2003.

Timetable

• Call for Papers 15th September 2003
•  Submission of Full Text Papers 3rd January 2004
•  Notification of Acceptance and Revisions 14th March 2004
•  Submission of Final Manuscript 16th May 2004
• Conference 23rd August 2004

Further details

For further information email: sdh2004@le.ac.uk Information will be available on the web at: www.geog.le.ac.uk/sdh2004

Timing and the IGC The Conference is to be held the week after the International Geographical Congress which will be held in Glasgow, Scotland in 2004. More information can be found at:

• http://www.iguglasgow2004.org 
• http://www.rgs.org 
• http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/-rsgs/
• http://www.geog.nau.edu/igust/Glasgow2004.html  

Location The Conference will be held at the University of Leicester in the English Midlands. Accommodation will be in a mixture of University Halls of Residence and Hotels.

The SDH Series The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH) is the premier international research forum for Geographic Information Science. It commenced in 1984, in Zurich, Switzerland, organized by the International Geographical Union Commission on Geographical Data Sensing and Processing which was later succeed by the Commission on Geographic Information Systems, Study Group on Geographical Information Science and then the Commission on Geographical Information Science (http://www.hku.hk/cupem/igugisc/ ). The conference is run biannually and has been held in the following locations:

• 1st - Zurich, 1984
• 2nd - Seattle, 1986
• 3rd - Sydney, 1988
• 4th - Zurich, 1990
• 5th - Charleston, 1992
• 6th - Edinburgh, 1994
• 7th - Delft, 1996
• 8th - Vancouver, 1998
• 9th - Beijing, 2000
• 10th - Ottawa, 2002 (jointly organized with ISPRS)

Since the first meeting, every other event has been held as a satellite meeting to the International Geographical Congress which in 2004 will be held in Glasgow, Scotland (www.rgs.org/  www.iguglasgow2004.org ).

This is a refereed conference with the accepted papers published in the conference proceedings. The Edinburgh and Delft proceedings had been published as post-conference publications by Taylor and Francis in the Advances in GIS series and the Ottawa conference has been published by Springer-Verlag as Advances in Spatial Data Handling. Many important seminal papers and novel ideas have been originated from this conference series.

UCGIS Communications Chair: Ling Bian