[GRASS-stats] StatGIS 09 "GeoInformatics for Environmental Surveillance"

[Markus Neteler]

Conference announcement (last call):

StatGIS 09 "GeoInformatics for Environmental Surveillance"

Location: Milos Island, Greece. George Eliopoulos Milos Conference Centre
Conference Dates: June 17-19, 2009.
Conference Web Site: http://milos.conferences.gr/statgis2009/
Contact: statgis2009 at heliotopos.net



Keynote Speakers:
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We are pleased to announce the following keynote speakers for this event:

+ Noel Cressie, Ohio State University: Spatio-Temporal Random Effects Filtering

+ Hans Wackernagel, Ecole des Mines de Paris: Data assimilation for
epidemiological surveillance

+ Stefano Nativi, CNR-IMAA, University of Florence: Multidisciplinary
interoperability architectures, some GEOSS and GMES experiences


Conference Overview:
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StatGIS is addressed to researchers in academia and research
institutes, as well as practitioners and industry professionals who
want to learn about recent developments in spatial statistics and
their applications, and to share their experiences in these areas.
Application fields of interest for this conference will include, but
not be limited, to: spatial environmental modelling, early warning
monitoring systems for the environment, geostatistics in natural
hazards prediction, optimum spatial design, space-time analysis and
renewable energy resources, remote sensing applications in land
reclamation after mining exploitation, spatial metrics for
biodiversity assessment and monitoring, etc.

The conference will provide an opportunity for researchers and
industry to meet and exchange the latest in spatial statistics and
geoinformatics with an emphasis on the main steps involved in
environmental monitoring and surveillance. We will start with the
collection of data from environmental sensors and monitoring networks
and further discuss their use by the web services and systems involved
in the processing of the information. The automated analysis of the
data and the detection of anomalies and changes will also be covered
before finally addressing the visualization and communication of the
generated information for efficient decision making.

The international character of the conference will be an opportunity
to focus on GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) and
GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) related issues, in
particular on the need for cost-effective sustainable services.
StatGIS 2009 will therefore focus on generic solutions, re-usable
software solutions, in particular Open Source technology, and
interoperability of systems. Cross-border issues that affect the
homogeneity of geographic information (INSPIRE) and of global
environmental monitoring networks as well as the interoperability of
the systems will also be covered.

Those used to the tradition of StatGIS being an important meeting to
learn about the latest developments in geostatistics and spatial
statistics will not be disappointed by the challenges that will be
discussed in Milos. Statistical issues that will be covered range from
the analysis of data provided by heterogeneous networks, the automatic
detection of anomalies for early warning, to the real-time
interpolation of data collected by mobile devices or the fast
processing of environmental data for reducing computing times. The
monitoring of environmental risks using spatial statistics and
geoinformatics covers a large number of applications. These cover
issues as different as environmental radioactivity, global change,
biodiversity, pests, floods, droughts, fires or earthquakes but also
health risks associated with the spreading of viruses or any health
threats.

Key papers will be published in a special issue of Computers & Geosciences.


Conference Topics
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Topic A. Monitoring networks and Sensor Webs
Topic B. Service Oriented Architectures for Environmental Monitoring
Topic C. Statistics and spatial metrics for Environmental Monitoring
Topic D. Open Source tools for Environmental Web Services
Topic E. Applications and Case Studies
Topic F. Visualisation and Decision-Making
Topic G. Socio-economical benefits of Service Oriented Architectures
for Environmental Monitoring


Workshop: "Lessons learned from INTAMAP, an interoperable framework
for real-time automatic mapping of critical environmental variables"


Important dates and deadlines
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- Friday 13 February 2009 - Abstract submission.
- Friday 27 February 2009 – Notification of abstract acceptance
- Friday 2 April 2009 – Submission of full papers
- Friday 24 April 2009 – End of reviewing
- Friday 8 May 2009 – Submission of camera ready copies of corrected papers
- 17-19 June 2009: Conference in Milos, Greece


Conference Fees:
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Early registration until April 25th
Students: 150 Euros
Regular: 300 Euros

Late registration
Students: 200 Euros
Regular: 350 Euros


Organizing Committee
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Cornford, Dan (Aston University, UK)
Dubois, Gregoire (JRC, European Commission)
Hristopulos, Dionisis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Pebesma, Edzer (University of Münster, Germany)
Pilz, Juergen (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)


Scientific Committee
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Allard, Denis (INRA, France)
Atkinson, Peter (University of Southampton, UK)
Bogaert, Patrick (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Brenning, Alexander (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Brus, Dick (Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands)
Christakos, George (San Diego State University, USA)
Cornford, Dan (Aston University, UK)
Diggle, Peter (Lancaster University and Johns Hopkins University
School of Public Health, UK and US)
Dubois, Gregoire (JRC, European Commission)
Fortin, Marie-Josée (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ghosh, Sujit K.  (North Carolina State University, USA)
Goodchild, Michael F. (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
Goovaerts Pierre (BioMedware, USA)
Griffith, Daniel A. (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Havlik, Denis (Austrian Research Centres GmbH - ARC, Austria)
Heuvelink, Gerard (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Hristopulos, Dionisis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Kyriakidis, Phaedon (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
Lark, Murray (Rothamsted Research, UK)
Myers, Wayne (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Nativi, Stefano (CNR-IMAA, University of Firenze, Italy)
Neteler, Markus (Fondazione Mach - Centre for Alpine Ecology, Italy)
Papritz, Andreas (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Patil, Ganapati P. (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Pebesma, Edzer (University of Münster, Germany)
Pilz, Jürgen (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Saura, Santiago (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain)
Schaepman, Michael (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Schouppe, Michel (DG INFSO, European Commission)
Stein, Alfred (ITC, The Netherlands)
Stöhlker, Ulrich (BFS, Germany)
Switzer, Paul (Stanford University, USA)
van den Boogaart, Gerald (TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany)
Wackernagel, Hans (Ecole des Mines de Paris, France)