Symposium on Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience
AAG Annual Meeting: Seattle 2011
A special Symposium focused on the research status, recent advances and research needs of space-time integration, modeling and analysis in geography and GIScience has been organized within the AAG Annual Meeting. Space-time analysis is a rapidly growing research frontier in geography, GIS, and GIScience. Advances in integrated GPS/GIS technologies, the availability of large datasets (over time and space), and increased capacity to manage, integrate, model and visualize complex data in (near) real time, offer the GIS and geography communities extraordinary opportunities to begin to integrate sophisticated space-time analysis and models in the study of complex environmental and social systems, from climate change to infectious disease transmission.
Nearly 60 sessions are running on four concurrent tracks from Wednesday-Friday of the conference. Geographers, GIScientists, modelers, computer programmers, GPS/GIS scientists, climate change scientists, epidemiologists, ecologists, planners, transportation experts, and others with active research expertise in integrating space–time in GIS and geography will participate. This special Symposium builds on momentum from a space-time analysis workshop sponsored by the AAG, Esri, the University of Redlands, and University of Southern California in early 2010, as well as other recent initiatives.
The Symposium will open with a "Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience: Opening Plenary" on Wednesday morning, April 13, at 8:00 a.m. (Grand Ballroom ABCD - Sheraton Hotel, Second Floor). Organized and chaired by AAG Executive Director Douglas Richardson, this plenary will include presentations on current research trends by prominent theorists and pioneers in space-time GIScience and technology research, including Michael Goodchild, Mei-Po Kwan, and Tomoki Nakaya. Concurrent sessions are organized into the following four tracks: Diverse Perspectives on Advancing Theory, Modeling, and Methods; Developments in Key Topical Areas; A Focus on the Environment; and Historical GIS and Gazetteers. A concluding "Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience Discussion: Trends and Directions" session will be held on Friday, April 15 at 1:45 p.m. (Willow B - Sheraton Hotel, Second Floor). Richardson, Goodchild, Kwan, and Nakaya will re-assemble for a panel to discuss future trends and directions for research on space-time integration based on the wide range of Symposium presentations.
- Diverse Perspectives on Advancing Theory, Modeling, and Methods: 2277, 2286, 2477, 2486, 2577, 2677, 3178, 3186, 3278, 3286, 3478, 3486, 3586, 3686, 4186, 4286, 4476, 4486, 4586, 4686
- Space-Time Integration in GIScience: Developments in Key Topical Areas: 2276, 2476, 2576, 2676, 3177, 3277, 3477, 3577, 3677, 4178, 4278, 4478, 4578, 4678
- Space-Time Integration in GIScience: A Focus on the Environment 3176, 3276, 3476, 3576, 3676, 4177, 4277, 4477, 4577
- Space-Time Integration in GIScience: Historical GIS and Gazetteers (AAG/Harvard CGA Track): 2287, 2487, 2587, 3187, 3287, 3487, 3587, 3687, 4187, 4287, 4487, 4587, 4687
- GIS Poster Session: 4221
- Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience Plenaries: 2179, 4387
Symposium Organizers are:
- Michael Goodchild – University of California - Santa Barbara
- Douglas Richardson – Association of American Geographers
- Mei-Po Kwan – Ohio State University
- Peter Bol – Harvard University
- Luc Anselin – Arizona State University
- Kathleen Stewart – University of Iowa
- Tomoki Nakaya – Ritsumeikan University, Japan
- Dan Griffith – University of Texas at Dallas
- Scott Bell – University of Saskatchewan
- Martin Dijst – Utrecht University, the Netherlands J
- eremy Mennis – Temple University
- Wendy Guan – Harvard University
- Elizabeth Wentz – Arizona State University
- Michael Gould – Environmental Systems Research Institute
- Donggen Wang – Hong Kong Baptist University, China
- Harvey Miller – University of Utah
- Jean McKendry – Association of American Geographers
- May Yuan – University of Oklahoma
- Seraphim Alvanides – Northumbria University, UK
- Sara Fabrikant – University of Zurich
