NZGRC-2019: New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference 2019 Queenstown Memorial Centre Queenstown, New Zealand, September 18, 2019 |
Conference website | https://geospatial.ac.nz/nzgrc-2019/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nzgrc2019 |
Submission deadline | July 26, 2019 |
The 2019 New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference will take place on 18 September, at the Queenstown Memorial Centre in Queenstown, Otago. We are pleased to announce that the conference is being run in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on GeoComputation, GeoComputation 2019, and encourage both NZ and international visitors to attend both conferences. GeoComputation 2019 will host some workshops on 18 September (also at the Queenstown Memorial Centre), then the main part of the conference will take place on 19-21 September.
The conference theme is Finding our way to a better future. Society is facing some significant global challenges: they are not necessarily new, but the awareness and urgency of these problems has escalated. The ability to effectively evaluate, understand and address these large-scale issues is vital if we are to make an impact on them. We are also on the cusp of a step-change in how we live and work in our work with disruptive technology and big data changing our futurescape. How we can harness these changes for the benefit of society is key.
Most of these challenges include a location component at a variety of scales. Geospatial information helps us to makes sense of the problems and gives us a better way of framing and addressing them. Knowing where people and things are, and their relationship to each other, is essential for evidence-informed decision-making. Not only is real-time information needed to prepare for, and respond to, things like natural disasters and political crises, but location-based services are helping governments to develop strategic priorities, make decisions, and measure and monitor outcomes.
NZGRC-2019 will bring the geospatial community together to explore how research in geospatial science and technology can help to address these challenges over the coming decades – both in terms of technological foundations and applied areas – and to consider how geospatial research can contribute to future societal wellbeing and just transitions.
Submission Guidelines
All geospatial submissions are welcome, with submissions aligned with the conference theme especially so. The conference theme is Finding our way to a better future. We invite submissions from all aspects of geospatial research and practice – including theory, technology, application, and innovation. The conference will include a range of academic sessions including posters. The participation of early career scholars, postgraduate students, and government and industry practitioners is positively encouraged. Conference guiding themes, under the overarching theme of Finding our Way to a Better Future, are:
- The future of geospatial science and technology. Topics might include smart geocomputation and geoanalytics, such as dynamic-temporal GIS, scalable geospatial computation, uncertainty, visualisation and geovisual analytics, advanced sensing, citizen science and volunteered geoinformation, and rapid spatial data analytics.
- Enabling seamless geospatial data. This might include good geospatial data governance, next-generation spatial data infrastructures and improved methods for knowledge representation.
- Ensuring good decisions from spatial information. Good decisions are those which are usable, have strong social licence, and which leave no-one behind including indigenous communities.
- Addressing key challenges for society using geospatial science and technology. Challenges may include: transitioning to a carbon neutral society, adapting to a changing climate, secure and sustainable food and agriculture, and sustainable cities and communities.
Submissions which address related areas are also welcome.
All abstract submissions of a maximum of 300 words must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference. The following submissions are welcome:
- Oral presentation (regular talk): 15 minutes plus 5 minutes of questions: detailed presentation of completed research projects
- Oral presentation (lightning talk): 7 minutes plus 3 minutes of questions: summary presentation of ongoing or completed research
- Poster presentation
Due to limited space in the programme, the committee reserves the right to adjust the submission type as necessary.
List of Topics
- Geocomputation
- Geoanalytics
- Advanced sensing
- Citizen science and volunteered geoinformation
- Geospatial data governance
- Next-generation spatial data infrastructures
- Knowledge representation
- Social licence in geospatial
- Indigenous communities and GIS
- Geospatial solutions: transitioning to a carbon neutral society
- Geospatial solutions: adapting to a changing climate
- Geospatial solutions: secure and sustainable food and agriculture
- Geospatial solutions: sustainable cities and communities
- ... [other related topics are welcome]
Organizing and Program Committee
- Matthew Wilson (GRI/ University of Canterbury)
- Melanie Tomintz (GRI/ University of Canterbury)
- Antoni Moore (University of Otago)
- Kathryn Salm (FrontierSI)
- Graeme Blick (LINZ)
Invited Speakers
- [TBC]
Venue
The conference will be held at the Queenstown Memorial Centre in beautiful Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand.
Contact
Further information is available on the conference website. All questions about submissions should be emailed to gri-enquiries@canterbury.ac.nz.