WG Correspondence

Our mission:

Our working group, in its second term under ISPRS Technical Commission IV, aims at informing and activating people interested in distributed, web-based geoinformation services and applications, and working in academic institutions, government agencies and private sectors. We are focused on promoting the goals of the WG as expressed in its terms of reference by means of various activities and events and in cooperation with ISPRS, other national and international organisations and Geomatics-related firms.

Terms of Reference:

• Development of Web-based geospatial data processing, integration, services and applications:
  • Intelligent web mapping/GIS services
  • Service-oriented architecture for the integration of multiple geospatial web services (attention to map mashup development)
  • Applications of web semantics and ontology
  • Web-based geospatial information visualization
  • Raster-based spatial analysis with integration of web-based visualisation systems
  • Web-based spatiotemporal analysis (in collaboration with WG II/1)
• Integration of open source solutions and open standards/specifications
• Development of web-based spatial decision support systems, public participation GIS, and planning support systems (in collaboration with WG II/7)
• Development of mobile and ubiquitous geospatial services and applications:
  • Adaptive and context-aware processing and visualisation of spatial information
  • Integration of spatial data in information-mobility services
• Development of Internet and web-based virtual and collaborative geospatial environments
• Development and applications of web-based multidimensional GIS
• Quality assessment of Internet- and web-based geospatial processes and applications
• Cooperation with related commissions and/or working groups, ICA (Internet and Mapping Commission), WGISS, FIG, OSGeo, etc.

• WG IV/5 joins WG IV/1 and other ISPRS WGs to co-organize ISPRS Workshop on Geospatial Data Infrastructure: from data acquisition and updating to smarter services, to be held in Guilin, China from Oct 20-21, 2011. First Call for Papers.
• WebMGS 2010 was successfully concluded. Please read our report and view some photos taken during the workshop (Note: report and photos will be available online soon).
• WG IV/5 co-organized the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2010 conference, held in Barcelona, Spain in September 2010.
• The 3rd Call for Papers of WebMGS 2010 is released, which contains detailed information about workshop registration. You can download a copy here.
• In conjunction with the ASPRS/CaGIS 2010 Specialty Conference, Commission IV Symposium ″Geodatabases & Digital Mapping″, to be held Orlando, Florida, USA from November 15 to 19, 2010. Call for Abstracts.
• WebMGS 2010: 1st International Workshop on Pervasive Web Mapping, Geoprocessing and Services, to be held in Como, Italy from August 26 to 27, 2010. Please download a copy of the 1st Call for Papers or check out the workshop website at: http://webmgs2010.como.polimi.it/.
• 1910 - 2010: ISPRS Centenary Celebration, July 4, 2010, Download Invitation Folder

Working Group Officers:

Chair	Co-Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Dr. Songnian Li Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria St., Toronto, ON M5B 2K3 Canada   Tel.: +1-416-979-5000 ext 6450 Fax: +1-416-979-5122 E-mail: snli@ryerson.ca http: www.ryerson.ca/~snli	Dr. Bert Veenendaal Professor Department of Spatial Sciences Curtin University GPO Box U1987 Perth WA 6845 Australia   Tel.: +61 8 9266 7565 Fax: +61-8-9266-2703 E-mail: b.veenendaal@curtin.edu.au http: spatial.curtin.edu.au/people/bert.cfm	Dr. Maria Antonia Brovelli Professor DIIAR Department Polytechnic of Milan Como Campus, Via Valleggio 11 22100 Como, Italy   Tel:  +39-031-332-7313 Fax: +39-031-332-7321  E-mail: maria.brovelli@polimi.it http: geomatica.como.polimi.it/cv/	Dr. Suzana Dragicevic Professor Department of Geography Simon Frasier University 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada   Tel.: +1-778-782-4621 Fax: +1-778-782-5841 E-mail: suzanad@sfu.ca  http: www.sfu.ca/dragicevic/