Monthly Archives: February 2022

2022 AAG-GISSG Student Honors Paper Competition Result

Hi all,

On behalf of the AAG Geographic Information Science and Systems (GIS&S) Specialty Group, I am very pleased to announce the winners of this year’s student honors paper competition: 

1st place ($700): Wei Chen, Iowa State University

2nd place ($450):  Hoeyun Kwon, University of Iowa

Honorable mentions ($200 each):  Yanan Wu (The University of Texas at Dallas), Fangzheng Lyu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Karl Tacheron (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Congratulations to all student winners!  Many thanks to the GISS BOD review committee and all participants for joining us today! 

We are looking forward to next year’s student paper competition!  

AAG-GISS BOD

GISS Activities on Day 4 of AAG 2022

As entering the fourth day of AAG 2022, we would like to recommend the following amazing sessions sponsored by the GISS group, including two panels on GIS for Higher Education and Convergence of CyberGIS and GeoAI, 11 regular paper sessions, and the GISS Student Honors Paper Competition! Please join us in the Student Paper Competition session to support the next generation of GIScience scholars!

Eastern TimeSession TitleChair
08:00-09:20Panel: New GIS Service Models for Higher EducationDavid Cowen; Angela Lee
08:00-09:20Panel: Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Convergence of CyberGIS and Geospatial AIShaowen Wang
08:00-09:20Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scaling and Analysis on Urban Big DataDing Ma
08:00-09:20Spatiotemporal disease mapping and analysis (I)Hui Luan
09:40-11:00Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Computation and Uncertainty of Spatial AccessibilityJeon-Young Kang
09:40-11:00Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scale and Spatial Associations (Part III)Yongze Song
09:40-11:00Spatiotemporal disease mapping and analysis (II)Hui Luan
11:20-12:40Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Advanced CyberGISShaowen Wang
14:00-15:20GI Science & Systems Student Honors Paper CompetitionSong Gao
14:00-15:20Risk Communication and ResilienceBandana Kar
15:40-17:00GIScience and Big Data for Hazard ResearchBandana Kar
15:40-17:00Land change detection, quantification, and modelingRobert Pontius
17:20-18:40Methods to analyze a time series of land cover mapsRobert Pontius; Emily Evenden
17:20-18:40Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Education Advances and ChallengesEric Shook

Enjoy the conference, and we look forward to ‘seeing’ you on Day 4 🙂

AAG GISS BOD

GISS Activities on Day 3 of AAG 2022

Welcome to Day 3 of AAG 2022! The GISS Specialty Group will sponsor the following sessions on Day 3! Enjoy the conference!

08:00-09:20Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Data-Intensive Spatial Modeling for Complex Geographic ProblemsRebecca Vandewalle, Shaowen Wang
08:00-09:20Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scale and Spatial Associations (Part I)Yongze Song
09:40-11:00Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scale and Spatial Associations (Part II)Yongze Song
11:20-12:40Uncertainties in Big Data Analytics in Disaster ResearchBandana Kar
14:00-15:20Panel: Is Artificial Intelligence good for Geography?Renee Sieber
14:00-15:20Panel: Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding: Foundations and FundamentalsShaowen Wang
15:40-17:00Panel: Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: CyberGIS-enabled spatial epidemiologyXun Shi
15:40-17:00Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Human mobility in Big Data Era IYuqin Jiang
17:20-18:40Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Human mobility in Big Data Era IIYuqin Jiang

AAG GISS BOD

GISS Activities on Day 2 of AAG 2022

The GISS Speciality Group is thrilled to sponsor the following exciting sessions on Day 2 of AAG 2022! Please join these sessions and enjoy the conference!

E.T.RoomSession TitleTypeChair
08:00-09:20Virtual 3Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Recent Progress in the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP)PaperZiqi Li
08:00-09:20Virtual 16Emerging Vehicle Technologies and Services: Geographies of DiffusionPaperScott Kelley
08:00-09:20Virtual 39Symposium on Human Dynamics Research & Geospatial Health Symposium #11: Human Mobility and Urban Dynamics in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era 1 (Hybrid)PaperAtsushi Nara
08:00-09:20Virtual 52Information Session: Welcome to Summer SeriesPanelJulaiti Nilupaer
09:40-11:00Virtual 4Symposium on Human Dynamics Research & Geospatial Health Symposium #12: Human Mobility and Urban Dynamics in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era 2 (Virtual)PaperAtsushi Nara
09:40-11:00Virtual 34Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Multi-Scale Visualization, Analytics and ModelingPaperYi Qiang
09:40-11:00Virtual 40Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Space-Place GIScience Framework Panel SessionPanelLing Bian
11:20-12:40Virtual 5Symposium on Human Dynamics Research & Geospatial Health Symposium #13: Human Mobility and Urban Dynamics in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era 3 (Virtual)PaperAtsushi Nara
14:00-15:20Virtual 3Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Geospatial Artificial Intelligence and Deep LearningPaperNattapon Jaroenchai
14:00-15:20Virtual 28Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scales of Vulnerability, Resilience and Disaster Risk AssessmentPaperJinwen Xu
15:40-17:00Virtual 2Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Explainable AI in GeographyPaperJin Xing
15:40-17:00Virtual 46Urban Computational Paradigms with Shareable Data, Models, Tools, and FrameworksPaperXiao Huang
17:20-18:40Virtual 1Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Data-Intensive GeographyPaperRebecca Vandewalle
17:20-18:40Virtual 45Tobler Lecture and Transactions in GIS Plenary PresentationsPaperJohn Wilson

AAG-GISS BOD

GISS Specialty Group Activities at AAG 2022

As we are nearing the 2022 Annual meeting of AAG, we wanted to highlight the sessions that the Geographic Information Systems and Science Specialty Group (GISSG) is sponsoring this year. Despite the virtual format of the conference, the GISSG will host and co-host 57 sessions. Highlights include the following:

Tobler Lecture Series – This is the GISS Specialty Group’s signature lecture series. This session will feature two back-to-back presentations by two leading geographic information science scholars, Dr. Trisalyn Nelson from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Dr. Clio Andris from the Georgia Institute of Technology. The speakers will highlight the current and future of GIScience through their research work. While the Tobler Lecture Series honors Waldo Tobler, who made a series of seminal contributions to analytical cartography over a career spanning more than 40 years, the Transactions in GIS Plenary showcases the best work by geographers in advancing the fundamental guiding principles and impact of geographic information science.

GI Science & Systems Student Honors Paper Competition – The Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group (GISS-SG) of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) is pleased to announce the 2022 Honors Competition for Student Papers on Geographic Information Science topics to be presented at the annual meeting. The purpose of this competition is to promote scholarship and written and oral presentations by students in the field of GIS. This year, five students will share their recent research in this competition. Please join this session to support the five outstanding student finalists!

Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS – There are eighteen sessions organized as part of this symposium that focus on the application of AI and CyberGIS in geography research.  Those technologies are able to help researchers to dig out patterns and connections between people’s behaviors and geographic locations from various data sources. Those sessions also highlight the role of AI and CyberGIS in understanding, modeling, and visualizing geography-related research.

Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling – This symposium will also host seven sessions that focus on the associations between scale and spatial pattern research. Meanwhile, those sessions also explore the role of scale in spatial analysis, visualization, and risk assessment.

Symposium on Human Dynamics Research & Geospatial Health – There are seven sessions organized as part of this symposium that focus on human mobility and urban dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, those sessions also highlight the role of big data in mining human dynamics.

Advances in Agricultural Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence – Climate change and increased climate variability have posed great challenges to food security given the continuously increasing global population. With the recent advances in remote sensing technologies, new satellite missions and remote sensing datasets keep emerging. The developments of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, along with geospatial big data of various spatial, temporal, and spectral resolutions, have unprecedentedly enabled us to better understand the dynamics of natural and human-induced processes in agricultural systems.

Geospatial Health Research Symposium: Geography, Substance Use, and Addiction – Addiction is a chronic brain disease that can alter cognitive functioning, mood, and behavior, with negative effects on multiple health outcomes. Those sessions focus on the geographic topics relating to substance use and addiction.

Spatiotemporal disease mapping and analysis – The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated extensive research in spatiotemporal disease mapping and analysis, including a flood of dashboards visualizing disease spread over space and time via Web and mobile applications. Those sessions focus on mapping and analyzing spatiotemporal health outcomes and behaviors.

The complete information of sessions sponsored by the GISS Specialty Group is listed below:

IDDateTimeRoomSessionTypeChair/Organizer
37082/2509:40- 11:00Virtual 5Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Reproducibility and Replicability in GeographyPanelPeter Kedron
31022/2508:00-09:15Virtual 38Advances in Agricultural Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence 1PaperZijun Yang
33892/2514:00-15:20Virtual 7Advances in Agricultural Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence 2PaperZijun Yang
26432/2515:40-17:00Virtual 5Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Mining Human Dynamics with Big DataPaperGuiming Zhang
49352/2517:20-18:40Virtual 69Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group Business MeetingPanelBandana Kar
32762/2517:20-18:40Virtual 67Disaster Disruptions and DisplacementPaperLaura Siebeneck
27242/2608:00-09:20Virtual 39Symposium on Human Dynamics Research & Geospatial Health Symposium #11: Human Mobility and Urban Dynamics in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era 1 (Hybrid)PaperAtsushi Nara
29112/2608:00-09:20Virtual 16Emerging Vehicle Technologies and Services: Geographies of DiffusionPaperScott Kelley
28902/2608:00-09:20Virtual 3Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Recent Progress in the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP)PaperZiqi Li
49162/2608:00-09:20Virtual 52Information Session: Welcome to Summer SeriesPanelJulaiti Nilupaer
27382/2609:40-11:00Virtual 4Symposium on Human Dynamics Research & Geospatial Health Symposium #12: Human Mobility and Urban Dynamics in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era 2 (Virtual)PaperAtsushi Nara
29132/2609:40-11:00Virtual 40Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Space-Place GIScience Framework Panel SessionPanelLing Bian
28472/2609:40-11:00Virtual 34Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Multi-Scale Visualization, Analytics and ModelingPaperYi Qiang
35452/2611:20-12:40Virtual 5Symposium on Human Dynamics Research & Geospatial Health Symposium #13: Human Mobility and Urban Dynamics in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era 3 (Virtual)PaperAtsushi Nara
33882/2614:00-15:20Virtual 3Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Geospatial Artificial Intelligence and Deep LearningPaperNattapon Jaroenchai
29452/2614:00-15:20Virtual 28Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scales of Vulnerability, Resilience and Disaster Risk AssessmentPaper Jinwen Xu
26562/2615:40-17:00Virtual 46Urban Computational Paradigms with Shareable Data, Models, Tools, and FrameworksPaper Xiao Huang
29572/2615:40-17:00Virtual 2Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Explainable AI in GeographyPaperJin Xing
33942/2617:20-18:40Virtual 1Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Data-Intensive GeographyPaperRebecca Vandewalle
37432/2617:20-18:40Virtual 45Tobler Lecture and Transactions in GIS Plenary PresentationsPaperJohn Wilson
34012/2708:00-09:20Virtual 6Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Data-Intensive Spatial Modeling for Complex Geographic ProblemsPaperRebecca Vandewalle
30342/2708:00-09:20Virtual 3Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scale and Spatial Associations (Part I)PaperYongze Song
34352/2709:40-11:00Virtual 4Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scale and Spatial Associations (Part II)PaperYongze Song
29192/2711:20-12:40Virtual 11Uncertainties in Big Data Analytics in Disaster ResearchPaperEdwin Chow
37492/2714:00-15:20Virtual 9Is Artificial Intelligence good for Geography?PanelJeremy Crampton
33902/2714:00-15:20Virtual 63Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding: Foundations and FundamentalsPanelShaowen Wang
33912/2715:40-17:00Virtual 64Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: CyberGIS-enabled spatial epidemiologyPanelRebecca Vandewalle
27072/2715:40-17:00Virtual 58Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Human mobility in Big Data Era IPaperYuqin Jiang
30932/2717:20-18:40Virtual 59Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Human mobility in Big Data Era IIPaperYuqin Jiang
29702/2808:00-09:20Virtual 50New GIS Service Models for Higher EducationPanelDavid Cowen
33822/2808:00-09:20Virtual 62Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Convergence of CyberGIS and Geospatial AIPanelShaowen Wang
28912/2808:00-09:20Virtual 2Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scaling and Analysis on Urban Big DataPaperQunshan Zhao
32342/2808:00-09:20Virtual 56Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Emerging Themes in a Post-pandemic EraPaperHui Luan
31072/2809:40-11:00Virtual 61Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Computation and Uncertainty of Spatial AccessibilityPaperAlexander Michels
34632/2809:40-11:00Virtual 3Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scale and Spatial Associations (Part III)PaperYongze Song
34512/2809:40-11:00Virtual 46Spatiotemporal disease mapping and analysis (II)PaperEric Delmelle
34682/2811:20-12:40Virtual 59Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Advanced CyberGISPaperRebecca Vandewalle
38432/2814:00-15:20Virtual 48GI Science & Systems Student Honors Paper Competition (Hybrid)PaperSong Gao
29212/2814:00-15:20Virtual 14Risk Communication and ResiliencePaperJoslyn Zale
29202/2815:40-17:00Virtual 13GIS methods to analyze land changePaperJoslyn Zale
30642/2815:40-17:00Virtual 46Land change detection, quantification, and modelingPaperAiyin Zhang
26782/2817:20-18:40Virtual 50Methods to analyze a time series of land cover mapsPaperThomas Bilintoh
34642/2817:20-18:40Virtual 56 Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Education Advances and ChallengesPaperRebecca Vandewalle
25943/108:00-09:20Virtual 21Role of GIS in planning smart and resilient cities IPaperAvipsa Roy
30193/108:00-09:20Virtual 35Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: GeoAI – Intelligent Geospatial AnalyticsPaperDi Zhu
38043/109:40-11:00Virtual 24Integrating Earth observations, Internet of Things, and simulations to enhance air quality prediction across scalesPaperManzhu Yu
30333/109:40-11:00Virtual 16Geospatial Health Research Symposium: Geography, Substance Use and Addiction 1PaperKathleen Stewart
29733/109:40-11:00Virtual 14Role of GIS in planning smart and resilient cities IIPaperAvipsa Roy
30763/109:40-11:00Virtual 36Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: GeoAI in Remote SensingPaperXiaopeng Song
33573/111:20-12:40Virtual 21Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: UCGIS GeoAI & CyberGIS Research Initiative- GeoAI and CyberGIS for Advancing Spatial Decision MakingPaperYingjie Hu
32743/111:20-12:40Virtual 17Geospatial Health Research Symposium: Geography, Substance Use and Addiction 2PaperKathleen Stewart
30943/114:00-15:20Virtual 20Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Urban Visual IntelligencePaperYuhao Kang
33923/114:00-15:20Virtual 2Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Human-centered spatial decision support systemsPanelZhe Zhang
32883/115:40-
17:00
Virtual 21Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: GeoAI for Social SensingPaperSong Gao
29643/117:20-18:40Virtual 18Geospatial Artificial Intelligence for Natural HazardsPaperBo Peng
28303/117:20-18:40Virtual 3Geospatial Health Symposium #8: Applications, Innovations, and Challenges to Explore Human Mobility and Environmental ContextsPaperHanlin Zhou
33183/117:20-18:40Virtual 57Symposium on Data-Intensive Geospatial Understanding in the Era of AI and CyberGIS: Harnessing Mobility Data for Spatial Knowledge DiscoveryPaperXiang Chen