GIS Reasearch UK (GISRUK) 2000
5th - 7th April 2000, University of York, UK.
*** Call for Participation ***
The Conference has a number of aims:
to act as a focus for GIS research in the UK
to provide a mechanism for the announcement and publication of GIS
research
to act as an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of research
ideas
to promote active collaboration amongst UK researchers from diverse
parent disciplines
to provide a framework in which postgraduate students can see their
work in a national context
Conference Format:
The conference will include invited plenary sessions involving
international speakers, over 50 'long' and 'short' research papers,
poster papers and a publishers' exhibition.
The invited plenary speakers this year are Professor Waldo Tobler, from
the Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara and
Dr Craig Trotter, of Landcare Research, New Zealand.
Waldo, who will give this year's AGI Lecture, is internationally
regarded for his work in computational geography and analytical
cartography. Craig, who will give this year's Taylor & Francis Lecture,
is an ecologist using GIS and Remote Sensing to understand and model
environmental resources in order to predict likely future change.
The conference will begin at 14.15 on Wednesday 5th April and close at
13.00 on Friday 7th April. The conference registration desk will be
open from 12.30 on Wednesday 5th April.
The provisional programme is available on the Web pages, together with
the registration details:
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/gisruk/gisruk.html
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