<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear all,</span><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3798511543"><div><div class="yiv3798511543WordSection1"><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal">We would like to invite your contributions to the Special Issue on <b>"Open Geospatial Science and Applications"</b> of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964) which is an international, open access journal on geo-information. </div><div
class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal">We are very pleased to have this special issue in an open access journal and also happy that the journal publishers have agreed to our request that as long as the papers are submitted before the submission deadline (28th Feb 2015) , the journal publishers have kindly agreed to publish planned papers free of charge.</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal">The last decade has seen a rapid growth in open source geospatial software and open data developments. Building upon the broader progress in open science, the synergies in the developments in open source geospatial software, open data, open standards, open hardware and open access to research publications have been key in accelerating the advancement for open geospatial science and applications. We invite original research contributions on all aspects of open source
geospatial software and its applications, and particularly encourage submissions focusing on the following themes for this Special Issue.</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>The use of open source geospatial software and data, in and for scientific research</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Academic endeavours to conceptualize, create,
assess open source geospatial software and data, and teach such usage.</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Use of Open Data and Big Data</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Data quality, software quality</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Open source implementations</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Open SDI</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Community building</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Assessment of costs and benefits of open source applications and open source business models</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Architectures and frameworks for open source software and data</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New
Roman';"> </span></span></span>Teaching geospatial sciences with open source solutions and open data</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Open Source GIS application use cases: government, participatory GIS, location based services, health, energy, water, climate change, etc.</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Human computer interfaces and
usability in and around Open GI systems</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal">Details and submission guidelines including instructions for authors at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications">http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications</a> </div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoPlainText">If you are interested to submit your paper , please email your abstracts to me <span style="color:#1F497D;">at <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a> </span>before 15/08/2014 . We look forward to your contributions. </div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal">Best wishes,</div><div
class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal">Suchith, Thierry ,Franz-Josef, Serena ,Luciene, Barend </div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal">Guest Editors</div><div class="yiv3798511543MsoNormal"> </div></div>
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