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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Mhwah, are you aware that this IJGI journal has at the moment a stunning total of 83 "special issues" open, out of which by quick glance 4 have "open
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">This journal I now consider a borderline predatory one, and will personally not do reviews nor write papers for anymore...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 14/02/2020, 07:09, "GeoForAll on behalf of Chaowei Yang" <<a href="mailto:geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> on behalf of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The ISPRS International
<i>Journal of Geo-Information</i> (<i>IJGI</i>) will publish a special issue about “Geospatial Open Systems”. This Special Issue intends to synergize insight about the state of knowledge of open systems scoping, design, implementation, deployment, use, and
sustainability for geo-information (geospatial) applications. Manuscripts that broaden and/or deepen insight into these topics are candidates for the Special Issue. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Scope: Open systems provide free access to geo-data and geo-information in a variety of geospatial domains, such as environmental science and management, human dynamics,
transportation planning and management, geo-information crowdsourcing, community organizing, and geosciences, among others. Open systems enable access for almost everyone, barring any illegal activity. Open systems might or might not use open source software
as part of the development efforts. Open knowledge systems now in development for various applications promise to transform how people make use of data, information, evidence, and knowledge. The Special Issue explores the past, present, and future of open
systems environments addressing data, information, and knowledge for geospatial applications. Any aspect of open geospatial data, information, knowledge, and software systems is a relevant topic as long as the topic is well reasoned and developed in a thorough
manner in line with <i>IJGI</i> guidelines. Prospects for development and use of geospatial open source software are relevant for consideration. Software applications addressing these topics are also part of the scope, but the issue is not limited to these
topics. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please click the following link for additional information including submission instructions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Open_Systems"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Open_Systems</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Prof. Timothy Nyerges, U of Washington</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Prof. Piotr Jankowski, San Diego State University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Prof. Wenwen Li, Arizona State University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Prof. Chaowei Yang, George Mason University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Guest Editors</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="background:white">Chaowei Phil Yang, Ph.D.,</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Director, NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center; www.stcenter.net</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Co-Director, Center of Intelligent Spatial Computing for Water/Energy Sciences; http://cisc.gmu.edu/</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Professor, GGS, GMU, http://ggs.gmu.edu/</span><br>
<span style="background:white">http://cpgis.gmu.edu/homepage/</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Tel: 703-993-4742 (O)</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323130;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Yang, C., Yu, M., Li, Y., Hu, F., Jiang, Y., Liu, Q., Sha, D., Xu, M. and Gu, J., 2019. Big Earth data analytics: a survey. </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI";color:#323130">Big
Earth Data</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI";color:#323130">, 3(2),83-107. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2019.1611175" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#10147E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">DOI:
/10.1080/20964471.2019.1611175</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323130;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Yang, C., Clarke, K., Shekhar, S. and Tao, C.V., 2020. Big Spatiotemporal Data Analytics: a research and innovation frontier.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> International
Journal of Geographical Information Science, DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2019.1698743" target="_blank">10.1080/13658816.2019.1698743</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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