EWUCI 2021: European Workshop on Urban Climate Indicators 2021 Paris, France, May 17, 2021 |
| Conference website | http://ewuci.info |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ewuci2021 |
| Submission deadline | January 15, 2021 |
EWUCI 2021 Call for Contributions
The European Workshop on Urban Climate Indicators tackles the design of relevant and computable urban climate indicators to study and adapt to climate change, specifically indicators that can be scaled in space and in time throughout Europe thanks to a better access to and better sharing of data.
Targeted audience is scientists and experts who specify, prototype or produce indicators relevant to urban climate study, scientists and experts who advance the field of information infrastructure to support this application.
Context and objectives
Modelling urban climate phenomena and their impacts requires data about the topography, buildings characteristics, vegetation, and also data about the socio-economic context. It also requires expertise in the different computation domains, statistics, remote sensing, spatial analysis, machine learning and in the urban and climate domains to design relevant indicators.
Scalability in space and time refers to the capacity to use these indicators beyond an initial spatiotemporal scope, for example to compare values with another time period or with another city. It also refers to the change of level of detail for instance to contribute to european regulations based on facts and learnings that make sense at more local scales.
In terms of data, the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment provides more resolute simulations and the Public Sector Information Reuse directive will lead to more high resolution geographical, meteorological and statistical data to be open in Europe. These are opportunities for urban climate indicators design. Yet, designing scalable urban climate indicators is hindered by multiple heterogeneities to consider, either heterogeneities between territories that have different topographies or different cultures, or heterogeneities in the technologies (remote sensing data, structured databases with different classifications) and also variations in rules affecting access, transparency and charging. This is altogether a typical application of heterogeneous information brokering on spatial data infrastructures.
Contributions are welcome about:
- specific indicators design to study climate change and adapt to it,
- more generally applications illustrating the benefits of better exploiting such information,
- technical challenges to find and combine different data sources, indicate quality and suitability of results and store results in an accessible way, and indicate quality / suitability
- institutional and economic prerequisites and barriers regarding GIS information access, sharing, merging, quality management
- various facilitation roles that different agencies could play to further access and sharing of such GIS, as well as quality assurance.
List of Topics
- urban climate indicators
- multi-sources land use land cover
- spatial information infrastructure
- geodata fitness for use
- indicators transposition
Important dates
Papers track
- Call for Papers: November 17th, 2020
- Submission January 15th, 2021
- Notifications: February 26th, 2021
- Camera-ready papers: April 2nd, 2021
Challenges track
- Challenge datasets available: early December 2020
- Call for Challenge papers: early December 2020
- Submission: March 2021
- Notifications: April 2021
Submission Guidelines
The workshop will include paper sessions and a challenge track. In both cases, you are invited to submit a short paper (5-6 pages) describing your contribution on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ewuci2021 before the deadline indicated above for the relevant track. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Contributions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS Authors (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Contributions are not anonymous. All accepted papers will be archived in an electronic proceedings published by CEUR-WS.org.
Committees
Program Committee
- Bénédicte Bucher (IGN, EuroSDR)
- Paul Chapron (IGN)
- Zenaida Chitu (Meteo Romania)
- Carl Fortelius (Finnish Meteorological Institute)
- Clément Godin (IGN)
- Clément Guillo (INSEE)
- Arnaud Le Bris (IGN)
- Saara Lilja-Rothsten (Finnish Meteorological Institute)
- Vincent Loonis (INSEE)
- Valéry Masson (Météo France)
- Adriaan Perrels (Finnish Meteorological Institute)
- Rina Tammisto (Statistics Finland)
- Heli Ursin (NSL Finland)
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Organizing Committee
- Bénédicte Bucher (IGN, EuroSDR)
- Vincent Loonis (INSEE)
- Valéry Masson (Météo France)
- Rina Tammisto (Statistics Finland)
Publication
EWUCI 2021 proceedings will be published in CEUR.
Venue
The conference will be held in Paris, France, and an on-line solution also is investigated.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to ewuci2021 at easychair.org.