PROGRAM FOR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH
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09:00-10:30 Session 7A: Thematic Mapping
Chair:
Location: Library Hall
| 09:00 | Mapping uncertainties in the United Nations peace operations |
| 09:15 | Mapping medical infrastructure, mines, and veterans as potential predictors of the worship of Asclepius in Roman Dacia PRESENTER: Lucie Marková |
| 09:30 | Where are the small islands? Raising their visibility through vignettes on global maps PRESENTER: Serena Coetzee |
| 09:45 | Blending with Intent: Color Design for Bivariate Thematic Maps |
| 10:00 | Beyond Winner-Takes-All: Evaluating Grid Cartograms for a More Differentiated Representation of German Election Results PRESENTER: Paula Berenike Mennerich |
| 10:15 | Selection of a Suitable Cartographic Projection for the State Area |
09:00-10:30 Session 7B: GeoAI & Data-driven Cartography
Chair:
Location: F1
| 09:00 | From 75 Million Images to a Verified Dataset of Statistical Maps: A Multi-Stage Extraction Pipeline Combining Active Learning and Vision Language Models PRESENTER: Marta Solarz |
| 09:15 | Advancing Graph Convolutional Networks to Improve Road Network Selection for Small-Scale Maps PRESENTER: Albert Adolf |
| 09:30 | Research on Natural-Language-Triggered Automatic Generation of Disaster Maps PRESENTER: Yong Wang |
| 09:45 | Information Distortion and Cartographic Quality in AI-Generated Thematic Maps PRESENTER: Kacper Sobczak |
| 10:00 | Automated Mapping of Urban Green Spaces Using Object-Based Image Analysis with Application to European Cities PRESENTER: Rafael Osvald |
| 10:15 | Automated Settlement Label Placement with Contrast and Clutter Optimization PRESENTER: David Šklíba |
10:30-11:00Coffee Break (Library)
11:00-12:30 Session 8A: Cartography & Education
Chair:
Location: Library Hall
| 11:00 | Exploring a blended learning approach with maps for developing sense of place PRESENTER: Serena Coetzee |
| 11:15 | From first encounters to expertise? Pupils’ understanding of contour lines across educational levels PRESENTER: Lenka Krajňáková |
| 11:30 | From Daily Life to the Future: Cultivating Spatial Literacy and Sustainability Awareness through the World Children’s Map Competition |
| 11:45 | Cartography versus Geomatics Education in Switzerland |
| 12:00 | Metrics for evaluating mosaic cartograms PRESENTER: Petra Krsková |
| 12:15 | Towards cartographic xR representation – case topobathymetric hypsometric colouring PRESENTER: Pyry Kettunen |
11:00-12:30 Session 8B: Atlas Cartography II
Chair:
Location: F1
| 11:00 | Atlas of Switzerland Web: Genesis of a Web Atlas PRESENTER: Luca Gaia |
| 11:15 | Enhancing a Printed Vltava River Atlas with Augmented Reality PRESENTER: František Mužík |
| 11:30 | Who does it belong to? How atlas maps show border changes PRESENTER: Marcin Wereszczyński |
| 11:45 | New printed edition of the National Atlas of Spain: Part VI. Social services and facilities |
| 12:00 | Dynamic Contextualization: Redefining User-Driven Base Map Interaction within the Atlas of Switzerland Web PRESENTER: Christian Wohlert |
| 12:15 | Tactile Atlas of Nigeria: Development of educational cartographic materials about Nigeria for students with visual impairments  PRESENTER: Bamidele Oke |
12:30-14:00Lunch Break (Library)
13:00-14:00 Session 9A: POSTER SESSION II
Location: Library 1st floor
Development of a Regional Atlas Series and Interactive Web Atlas in Georgia PRESENTER: Roman Kumladze |
Interpreting Vineyard Landscape Heritage Through Historical Military Maps and LiDAR Data: The Little Carpathians Case Study (Slovakia) PRESENTER: Šárka Mindova |
Ensemble Machine Learning and Derivative Spectroscopy for Robust Estimation of Plant Physiological Traits in Precision Viticulture PRESENTER: Marco Lutz |
Scrolling Through the Heat: Evaluating User Engagement in an Interactive Map-Based Narrative of Urban Heat Across European Cities PRESENTER: Alikhan Beisenbayev |
Cartographic Representation of African History: Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1875-1914 |
Cartographic Image vs. Reality: Spatial Overlay Analysis of Maps Depicting the Czech-German Ethnic Border (1840s–1930s) PRESENTER: Petra Justova |
Heat vulnerability index mapping across spatial scales: effects of data sources and resolution in urban environments PRESENTER: Hana Bobáľová |
Assessment of Water Presence in River Channels Using Airborne LiDAR Data |
From 2D to 3D: Teachers' perspectives on 3D printed models in geography education PRESENTER: Oldřich Mokruša |
Mapping Sustainable Development Goals at the Regional Scale: A Student Perspective PRESENTER: Anna Auermüllerová |
Communication Networks: From Early Modern Moravia to Contemporary Czech Republic PRESENTER: Gabriela Godiskova |
Mapping tourism potential: a GIS based analytical model applied to Aragón, Spain PRESENTER: Maria Caudevilla-Lambán |
When a Historical Map Comes Back to Life: The Janovice Estate (1759) in a Digital Environment PRESENTER: Stanislav Popelka |
Is There Consistency in Visualising Missing Data? A Review of Existing Approaches PRESENTER: Merve Polat Kayali |
13:00-14:00 Session 9B: ICA commission on Early Warning & Crisis Management - business meeting
Progressive Cartography in Early Warning and Disaster Risk Reduction (Milan Konecny, LIU Jiping, chairs)
1. Progressive Cartography and New Concept of Digital Earth for EW, DRM, and DRR (Milan Konecny, SCI MUNI, Brno, CZ)
2. Cartographic Support of EW, DRM, and DRR in China (LIU Jiping, CASM, Beijing, China)
3. When Science Meets Disaster (Pavel Spulak, General Directorate of Fire Rescue Service, Czech Republic, Prague)
4. The Shovi Resort Glacial Mudflow and Its GIS Analyses (Robert Maghlakelidze, Dali Nikolaishvili, Giorgi Maghlakelidze).
Chair:
Location: Library Hall
13:00-14:00 Session 9C: ICA commission on Atlases - business meeting
ICA Commission on Atlases business meeting (Vit Vozenilek, chair)
- Report on recent activities of the Commission
- Outlook and planned activities for 2027
- ICA International Cartographic Conference (ICC) 2027 in Warsaw – discussion of the Commission’s planned activities and contributions
- Special Issue of the International Journal of Cartography on Atlases – current status, scope, and further planning
- Further publication projects of the Commission
- Other matters and proposals from Commission members
Chair:
Location: F1
14:00-15:30 Session 10A: 3D Geovisualization
Chair:
Location: Library Hall
| 14:00 | Digital twins for understanding territorial dynamics: A case study of the Moria Camp, Lesvos, Greece PRESENTER: Ermioni Eirini Papadopoulou |
| 14:15 | Topographic databases in the creation of immersive geovisualizations for natural heritage sites |
| 14:30 | Indications of (not so clear) Gender Differences in VR-based Urban Fear Spaces PRESENTER: Katrin Reichert |
| 14:45 | Concept of a Geospatial Digital Twin for Crisis Management and Military Applications: Information Scope and Data Modelling |
| 15:00 | Beyond 3D Models: Leveraging multiscale 3D Geovisualization and GeoBIM for Next-Generation PropTech Applications PRESENTER: Apostolos Papakonstantinou |
| 15:15 | Automated 3D Modelling of LoD2 Buildings Based on Data of Aerial Laser Scanning |
14:00-15:30 Session 10B: LIGHTNING TALKS II
Chair:
Location: F1
| 14:00 | Are We Truly Exploiting the Potential of Geospatial Data? The Case of Territorial Differentiation in Lithuania |
| 14:05 | Statistical Atlas on the Gender Equality Index |
| 14:10 | Map Generalization using Deep Learning and Constraints: Best of both worlds? |
| 14:15 | Automated detection of terrain depressions in spatial data using a contour tree-based approach PRESENTER: Vojtěch Müller |
| 14:20 | An inconsistency detection and processing method for patch boundary under multiple constraints PRESENTER: Hongmei Yin |
| 14:25 | Features of the Armenian National Spatial Data Infrastructure Development PRESENTER: Narek Kroyan |
| 14:30 | Early Lessons from Adapting the Colouring Cities Framework for Graz, Austria PRESENTER: Thibaud Chassin |
| 14:35 | Dynamic Cartography of Terrain Mobility: A GeoAI and Web Mapping Approach to Passability Assessment |
| 14:40 | Automating construction of cartographic ontology for transparent map-making decisions PRESENTER: Xiaolong Wang |
| 14:45 | Geographical Information System of Landscapes of Georgia PRESENTER: Zurab Laoshvili |
| 14:50 | Deterministic Edge Extraction and Generalization for 3D Cartography PRESENTER: Dennis Dvorak |
| 14:55 | Geographic entity matching based on spatial and semantic features PRESENTER: Yao Cheng |
| 15:00 | Geographical and Cartometric Analysis of the State Border in a High-Mountain Region (from a case study of the Georgian-Russian state border – the Abkhazian section of the Caucasus) PRESENTER: Revaz Tolordava |
| 15:05 | Typical Road Network Spatial Structure Recognition and Intelligent Selection Scheme Recommendation Coupling Semantic-Spatial Features PRESENTER: Wenjuan Lu |
15:30-16:00Coffee Break (Library)
16:00-17:30 Session 11A: Mobility Visualization
Chair:
Location: Library Hall
| 16:00 | Do bushfire spread prediction maps encourage people to take appropriate protective actions? PRESENTER: Amy Griffin |
| 16:15 | Assessing agricultural landscape diversity between 2022 and 2023 using rectangular and hexagonal grid frameworks PRESENTER: Matej Blazsek |
| 16:30 | Visualizing Animal Movement in Static Maps: A Case Study of White Stork Migration PRESENTER: Ana Kuveždić Divjak |
| 16:45 | Designing Uncertainty Visualization for Noise Map PRESENTER: Zulfa Nuraini Afifah |
| 17:00 | Mapping Early Modern Mobility: From Fragmentary Sources to Spatial Patterns PRESENTER: Josef Műnzberger |
| 17:15 | Visualizing minibus taxi availability in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality PRESENTER: Serena Coetzee |
16:00-17:30 Session 11B: Participatory & Inclusive Mapping
Chair:
Location: F1
| 16:00 | The Arctic, a Personal Project or: Lessons and Observations When Working with Content that Continuously Evolves |
| 16:15 | Cartographic Implications of Geometry Choice in Participatory Mapping: A Comparative Study of Two-Wheeled Urban Mobility in Olomouc and Reykjavík PRESENTER: Jiri Panek |
| 16:30 | City center tactile map produced by 3d printing PRESENTER: Dimitra Zacharopoulou |
| 16:45 | Cartographic aspects of processing, visualization and publication of emotional mapping data PRESENTER: Jakub Konicek |
| 17:00 | Meta-Photoatlases as Semiotic Knowledge Models: From Atlasgraphy to Atlas Semiotics PRESENTER: Saba Modebadze |
| 17:15 | From Observation to Participation: Redefining Cartography for Sustainable Development Through a Small Island Workshop PRESENTER: Jan Brus |
17:30-18:00 Session 12A: Keynote - Ivan Buchta - In Service of the Entertainment: How Digital Cartography Contributes to the Success of Czech Game Developers
Chair:
Location: Library Hall
17:30-18:00 Session 12B: Keynote - Dana Končelíková - What Does the Brain Do When It Looks at a Map? The Neurobiology of Orientation
Chair:
Location: F1
19:00-23:00 Gala Dinner
We will gather for a festive gala dinner in the abbey’s iconic Rajská zahrada, set within the historic complex associated with Gregor Mendel.
Garden of the Augustinian Abbey (Augustiniánské opatství) Mendlovo náměstí 1a, 603 00 Brno
Please note that the main entrance to the Gala Dinner venue closes at 19:00. After 19:00, please use the secondary entrance next to the Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady.