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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear colleagues,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Geospatial data science represents an emerging interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field intersecting among three broad knowledge domains: geospatial sciences and technologies, mathematical and statistical sciences, and cyberinfrastructure
and computational sciences. The core of this intersection encompasses the synergies and interactions between big data and cyberGIS with geospatial principles guiding discovery and innovation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We are organizing the inaugural Symposium on Frontiers in Geospatial Data Science at AAG 2019 (http://annualmeeting.aag.org/). More information about this call for papers is available online:
<a href="http://cybergis.illinois.edu/event/aag-2019-symposium-on-frontiers-in-geospatial-data-science/">
http://cybergis.illinois.edu/event/aag-2019-symposium-on-frontiers-in-geospatial-data-science/</a>. If you are interested in organizing any sessions or panels as part of the Symposium, please contact Dandong Yin via dyin4@illinois.edu. To present a paper
in any of the Symposium sessions, please register and submit your abstract online, and email your presenter identification number (PIN), paper title, and abstract to dyin4@illinois.edu by the AAG submission deadline (October 25, 2018).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Look forward to your submissions and making this symposium as engaging and stimulating as possible.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Thanks & best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">- Dandong,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Dawn, Guofeng, Harv, Jing, and Shaowen</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Shaowen Wang</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Professor and Department Head</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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