Call for Papers - GIS Research UK (GISRUK) 2015.

 

 <http://leeds.gisruk.org/> http://leeds.gisruk.org/

 

Aims

 

We welcome colleagues to the 23rd GIS Research UK (GISRUK) conference. The
GISRUK conference series is the UK's national GIS research conference,
established in 1993. GISRUK conferences attract delegates from all parts of
the UK, together with the European Union and North America and from
disciplines including Geography, Computer Science, Planning, Archaeology,
Geology, Geomatics and Engineering. 

 

#GISRUK2015 will be hosted by the University of Leeds' School of Geography
in the Faculty of Environment. The conference will take place on the 15th -
17th April 2015.

 

Important Dates

 

Abstract submission deadline: Friday 7th November 2014.

Notification of acceptance: February 2015

Conference dates: 15th - 17th April 2015

 

Conference Themes

 

In recognition of the recently funded £6M+ ESRC Consumer Data Research
Centre, we are especially interested in abstracts on our main conference
theme:

 

            Big Data and the Future of GIS.

 

We also welcome submissions on all aspects of methodological, applied or
theoretical GIS and, in particular, our other conference topics:

            Health and Wellbeing

            Crime and Policing

            Retail Geography

            Transport Systems

            Environmental GIS and Hazards

            Uncertainty and Error

            Energy and Sustainability

            Spatial Analysis and Visualisation

            Geodemographics and Population

            Historical applications of GIS

 

If you are unsure about the relevance of your paper, please contact the
conference chair ( <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Abstract Submission

 

We invite submission of extended abstracts (up to 1500 words). All abstracts
will be peer reviewed; accepted abstracts will be published in the
conference proceedings and some will have the opportunity to be written up
as full papers and submitted to a special issue of Applied Spatial Analysis
and Policy.

 

Papers must be submitted as pdf files (without restrictions) and follow the
GISRUK style guidelines. Templates are available for MS Word and LaTeX on
the conference web site:

 

             <http://leeds.gisruk.org/submit.html>
http://leeds.gisruk.org/submit.html

 

Papers must include a short abstract (up to 100 words) and up to 5 keywords
or phrases. These must be copied into the ‘Abstract’ and ‘Keywords’ boxes in
EasyChair.

 

For further information, please contact the conference chair (
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