{"id":2452,"date":"2014-10-10T10:39:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T10:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scotland.gov.uk\/coastal-monitoring\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2019-05-03T12:17:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:17:01","slug":"8th-international-giscience-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2014\/10\/10\/8th-international-giscience-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"8th International GIScience conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September, Marine Scotland Science staff attended the 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/giscience.org\/\">8th International Conference on Geographic Information Science<\/a> (GIS),. The biennial conference, held in Vienna and hosted by the Austrian University of Technology brought together more than 600 international participants from academia, industry, and government organisations to discuss the state-of-the-art advances in the field of GIS.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s programme provided a platform for geographers, computer scientists, and cartographers to meet with GIS practitioners such as ecologists, traffic specialists, linguists and social scientists. The 3-day long programme, combined with 1-day pre-conference workshops, included a number of different sessions in movement analysis, land use &amp; land cover, mapping, spatial analysis and modelling, time geography, user generated data, volunteering GIS and public participation GIS.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned Professors <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herbert_Edelsbrunner\">Edelsbrunner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rose.geog.mcgill.ca\/\">Sieber<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gicentre.net\/\">Dykes<\/a> were invited to deliver keynote talks on topology, citizen science and geo-visualisation respectively and in total, more than 100 presentations were given.<\/p>\n<p>A brief overview of selected presentations from the conference and movement workshop is provided <strong>here<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Article by Andronikos kafas<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September, Marine Scotland Science staff attended the 2014 8th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIS),. 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