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2025 AAG-GISSG Student Honors Paper Competition Result

Posted on April 4, 2025 | Leave a comment

I hope you are having a fantastic time at the AAG 2024 Annual Conference. 


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


1st place:
– Yibo Zhao, University of Wisconsin- Madison; Paper title: “Enhanced Origin-Destination Flow Prediction via Community Detection and Graph Attention Networks for Diverse Mobility Patterns”


2nd place (tied): 
– Zhangyu Wang, University of California Santa Barbara; Paper title: “LocDiffusion: Identifying Locations on Earth by Diffusing in the Hilbert Space”
– Zhongfu Ma, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Paper title: “Gravity-Informed Deep Flow Inference for Spatial Evolution in Panel Data”


Honorable Mentions:
– Yifan Yang, Texas A&M University; Paper title: “Hyperlocal Disaster Damage Assessment Using Bi-Temporal Street-View Imagery and Pre-Trained Image Processing Models”
– Jasper Li, University of Southern California; Paper title: “StreetviewLLM: Extracting Geographic Information Using a Chain-of-Thought Multimodal Large Language Model”

Finalists:
– Dan Qiang, McGill University; Paper title: “Mobility Vitality: Measuring urban vibrancy through active and micro-mobility modes”
– Pawan Thapa, University of Alabama; Paper title: “Medial Axis Transform Method for River Centerlines Extraction and Width Estimation”
– Haoyu Wang, University of Texas at Austin; Paper title: “Search space reduction using species distribution modeling with simulated and sampled pollen signatures”
– Shiyan Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University; Paper title: “Enhanced urban PM2.5 prediction: Applying quadtree division and time-series transformer with WRF-chem”


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


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


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GISS Activities on Day 5 of AAG 2025

Posted on March 28, 2025 | Leave a comment

Day 5 – March 28 (Friday)

Welcome to Day 5 of AAG 2025! The GISS Specialty Group will sponsor the following sessions on Day 5! Enjoy the conference!

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Spatially Explicit Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence I

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22818

Symposium on Geospatial Approaches to Pressing Grand Challenges: Global Pandemic, Climate Change, and Food Security – Spatial Analysis for Social Good

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: Virtual 3

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22881

Digital Twins: A New Paradigm of Digital Transformation to Fill the Last Gap of Making Your Research Count

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 430A, Level 4, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24143

AAG 2025 Symposium on Spatial AI & Data Science for Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities of Spatial Accessibility

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 356, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23165

Symposium on Geospatial Approaches to Pressing Grand Challenges: Global Pandemics, Climate Change, and Food Security- Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) for Urban Challenges

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 330B, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23228

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Spatially Explicit Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence II

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23240

Using GIS for Impactful Research in Cities Across America

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 332, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24301

GIScience Advances in Climate Change and Environmental Health – I

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 321, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23001

Teaching Physical and Cultural Geography with Geotechnologies—Why and How? Best Practices.

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 142C, Level 1, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23253

Human Mobility, Vulnerable Population, and Homelessness Studies: Exploring Spatiotemporal Changes, Socio-Environmental Impacts, and GeoAI Applications I

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 259, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23254

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: AI and Remote Sensing for Polar and Sea Ice Monitoring and Forecasting

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23271

Applying deep learning and AI to imagery analysis

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 332, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23884

Human Mobility, Vulnerable Population, and Homelessness Studies: Exploring Spatiotemporal Changes, Socio-Environmental Impacts, and GeoAI Applications II

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 259, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23411

Symposium on Geospatial Approaches to Pressing Grand Challenges: Global Pandemics, Climate Change, and Food Security – Closing Plenary

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 330B, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23736

GIScience Advances in Climate Change and Environmental Health – II

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 321, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24055

Human Mobility, Vulnerable Population, and Homelessness Studies: Exploring Spatiotemporal Changes, Socio-Environmental Impacts, and GeoAI Applications III

Date: 3/28/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 259, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23494

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GISS Activities on Day 4 of AAG 2025

Posted on March 27, 2025 | Leave a comment

Day 4 – March 27 (Thursday)

Welcome to Day 4 of AAG 2025! The GISS Specialty Group will sponsor the following sessions on Day 4! Enjoy the conference!

UAS Symposium 2025: Advances in UAS Remote Sensing within Geography Paper Session 1

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 252B, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22686

Community Resilience Research of Past, Current and Future: A Panel Discussion on Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned.

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 260, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22754

Navigating the Urban Heat Crisis: Science, Solutions, and Social Equity

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 258, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23053

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Human-Centered Geospatial Data Science I

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23239

Reassessing Coastal Risk, Vulnerability, and Hazards in the Great Lakes Region

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 336, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23908

UAS Symposium 2025: Advances in UAS Remote Sensing within Geography Poster Session

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: Hall E, Level 1, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22690

Navigating the Urban Heat Crisis 2: Science, Solutions, and Social Equity

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 258, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23500

Spatial Optimization and Analysis

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 252B, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23637

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Human-Centered Geospatial Data Science II

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23922

UAS Symposium 2025: Advances in UAS Remote Sensing within Geography Paper Session 2

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 252B, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22688

Advancing agricultural monitoring through remote sensing I

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 420B, Level 4, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22811

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI for Spatial Analytics and Modeling

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22974

Towards a Sustainable Urban Climate: Confronting Heat and Air Pollution Challenges

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 250B, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23104

AAG 2025 Symposium on Spatial AI & Data Science for Sustainability: Deep Learning Approaches for Multi-Source Data Processing and Analysis

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 356, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23502

Symposium on Geospatial Approaches to Pressing Grand Challenges: Global Pandemics, Climate Change, and Food Security – International Geospatial Health Research Network (IGHRN)

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 330B, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23734

UAS Symposium 2025: Advances in UAS Remote Sensing within Geography Paper Session 3

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 252B, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22689

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Social Sensing and GeoAI for Public Health – Session Ⅰ

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22797

Advancing agricultural monitoring through remote sensing II

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 420B, Level 4, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23258

AAG 2025 Symposium on Spatial AI & Data Science for Sustainability: Harnessing Geospatial Big Data for Urban Studies

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 356, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23562

UAS Symposium 2025: Advances in UAS Remote Sensing within Geography Keynote Speaker Session

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 252B, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22691

Integrative future-oriented approaches for transformative socio-environmental change

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 330B, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22965

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Social Sensing and GeoAI for Public Health – Session Ⅱ

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23215

Geospatial Data Science to Enhance Community Resilience to Urban Environmental Hazards

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 412A, Level 4, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23295

Advancing agricultural monitoring through remote sensing III

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 420B, Level 4, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24136

Spatial epidemiologic methods in reducing disparities in health and HIV

Date: 3/27/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 411B, Level 4, Huntington Placehttps://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24158

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GISS Activities on Day 3 of AAG 2025

Posted on March 26, 2025 | Leave a comment

Day 3 – March 26 (Wednesday)

Welcome to Day 3 of AAG 2025! The GISS Specialty Group will sponsor the following sessions on Day 3! Enjoy the conference!

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI for Human Geography

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22837

AAG 2025 Symposium on Spatial AI & Data Science for Sustainability: Artificial intelligence and complex human-environment systems: Mutual linkages and benefits

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 356, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23616

AAG 2025 Symposium on Spatial AI & Data Science for Sustainability: Advances in multitemporal remote sensing for terrestrial ecosystems

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 356, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22813

Recent Advances in Computational Movement Analysis, Session 1 (of 2)

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 411A, Level 4, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22997

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI for Human Geography II

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23202

Past, Present and Future of GIScience: Reflections on Webinar Series and Path Ahead

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 420A, Level 4, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24013

Spatial perception, behavior, and cognition

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 411C, Level 4, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24127

Recent Advances in Computational Movement Analysis, Session 2

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 411A, Level 4, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23328

Advancing a Geographic Approach for Conservation Science

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 252B, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23476

UCGIS Future Directions: A Strategic Conversation about Geospatial in Higher Education and Beyond

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 142C, Level 1, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23520

Uncertainties in Big Data Analytics in Disaster Research

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 250C, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23629

Symposium on Geospatial Approaches to Pressing Grand Challenges: Global Pandemics, Climate Change, and Food Security – Opening Keynote

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 330B, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23735

AAG 2025 Symposium on Spatial AI & Data Science for Sustainability – Human-Environment Interactions and Spatial Data Science

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 356, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23756

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Generative AI – Opportunities and Challenges for GIScience Research

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22816

GIScience and Hazards I

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 250C, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23628

GIScience and Hazards – II

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 250C, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23686

Advancing a Geographic Approach for Conservation Science II

Date: 3/26/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 250A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24205

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GISS Activities on Day 2 of AAG 2025

Posted on March 25, 2025 | Leave a comment

Day 2 – March 25 (Tuesday)

Welcome to Day 2 of AAG 2025! The GISS Specialty Group will sponsor the following sessions on Day 2! Enjoy the conference!

GISS Specialty Group Paper Competition I

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 360, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22822

Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Micromobility Matters: Geospatial, Health, and Equity Perspectives in the Age of Smart Transport

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 357, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22834

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI for Cartography

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 250A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23150

AAG 2025 Symposium on Spatial AI & Data Science for Sustainability: GeoAI and Large Language Models: Tools, Techniques, and Sustainable Applications

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 356, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23443

GISS Specialty Group Paper Competition II

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 360, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22823

AAG 2025 CISG Robert Raskin Student Paper Competition

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 334, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23196

Using GIS to solve Real World Problems

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: Hall E, Level 1, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24321

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Generative AI in GIScience: opportunities and challenges towards autonomous GIS

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23157

AAG 2025 Symposium on Spatial AI & Data Science for Sustainability: Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, Remote Sensing, and Deep Learning

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 356, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23436

A Guide to the Geographic Approach

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 412B, Level 4, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24066

GISS Waldo Tobler and TGIS Distinguished Lecture in GIScience

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 360, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23554

Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Urban Environmental Intelligence and Human-Climate Interactions (1)

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 357, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23561

New Approaches in GIS Education

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 412B, Level 4, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24073

Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Urban Environmental Intelligence and Human-Climate Interactions (2)

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 357, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23718

GISS Award Ceremony and Reception

Date: 3/25/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 360, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24038

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GISS Activities on Day 1 of AAG 2025

Posted on March 24, 2025 | Leave a comment

Welcome to Day 1 of AAG 2025! The GISS Specialty Group will sponsor the following sessions on Day 1! Enjoy the conference!

Strengthening Community Resilience with Innovative Data, Techniques, and Models #1

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 320, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22753

Open Science in Geography I – Tools and Approaches

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 353, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23216

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium – Advancing GeoAI for Feature Extraction and Recognition

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23440

Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Exploring the Synergy Between Human Dynamics and GeoAI I

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 9:50 AM 
Room: 357, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23699

Open Science in Geography II – Remote Sensing

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 353, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23416

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium – Advancing GeoAI for Feature Extraction and Recognition – Part II

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23457

Strengthening Community Resilience with Innovative Data, Techniques, and Models #2

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM 
Room: 320, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23638

Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Advances in Dynamic Environmental  Exposure, Mobility Patterns, and Health Outcomes I

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 357, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23367

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium – Advancing GeoAI for Feature Extraction and Recognition – Part III

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23655

Open Science in Geography III – Directions in Research and Education

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 353, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23418

Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Advances in Dynamic Environmental Exposure, Mobility Patterns, and Health Outcomes II

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 357, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23473

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium – Advancing GeoAI for Feature Extraction and Recognition IV

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/24048

Transportation & Environmental Exposure

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 412B, Level 4, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22851

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Representing geographic locations in AI models: Methods and Applications

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 251A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22944

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Spatial Data Science and GeoAI Ethics: Bridging Research and Education

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 250A, Level 2, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23218

Panel: Open Science in Geography

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 353, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23551

Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Advances in Dynamic Environmental Exposure, Mobility Patterns, and Health Outcomes III

Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM 
Room: 357, Level 3, Huntington Place

https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/23560

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2024 AAG-GISSG Student Honors Paper Competition Result

Posted on October 15, 2024 | Leave a comment

I hope you are having a fantastic time at the AAG 2024 Annual Conference. 


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


Graduate Group


1st place ($700):


Nemin Wu, University of Georgia, Spatial-temporal Explicit Deep Gravity Model (STExDGM) for Origin-Destination Flow Generation


2nd place ($450):


Hao Tian, Texas A&M University, Unveiling Human Mobility Dynamics during Heat Waves Using Mobile Phone Location Data in the Houston Metropolitan Area


3rd place ($300):


Jacob Kruse, University of Wisconsin–Madison, The Spatially-Weighted Temporal Rich Club: Identifying Rich Clubs in Spatiotemporal Interaction Networks


Honorable mentions ($200 each):


Yifei Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara, An Advanced Time-geographic Approach for Analyzing Spatio-temporal Interactions between Turkey Vultures


Hanlin Zhou, University of Toronto, Associating Dynamic Built Environmental Exposures and Active Transport


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


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


AAG-GISS BOD

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2023 AAG-GISSG Student Honors Paper Competition Result

Posted on October 15, 2023 | Leave a comment

Dear GISS community, 

I hope you are having a fantastic time at the AAG 2024 Annual Conference. 

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

Graduate Group

1st place ($700):

Han Wang, Peking University, GWRBoost: A geographically weighted gradient boosting method for explainable quantifications of spatially varying relationships

2nd place ($450):

Meiliu Wu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Revealing Racial-Ethnic Segregation with Individual Experienced Segregation Indices Based on Social Media Data: A Case Study in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim

Binbin Lin, Texas A&M University, Sensing the Pulse of the Pandemic: Demographic Disparities of Public Sentiment toward COVID-19 through Social Media

Honorable mentions ($200 each):

Rongxiang Su, University of California, Santa Barbara, ORTEGA: An open-source Python package for context-aware interaction analysis based on movement data

Wenxin Yang, Arizona State University, Uncertainties in the geographic representation of landscape connectivity metrics for area-based conservation

Xiangyu Ren, San Jose State University, Street crime prediction using a spatial-temporal cokriging method

Jinwen Xu, University of South Florida, Human Dynamics in Natural Hazards – Mining Business Visitation Data during 2021 Winter Storm Uri in Texas

Yu Lan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, A Web-based Geographic Framework to Detect and Visualize Space-time Clusters of COVID-19

Devin Yongzhao Wu, University of Toronto-Mississauga, Micro-built environment and crime: An approach using street view images and machine learning methods

Undergraduate Group

1st place ($700):

Haoxuan Ge, University of Toronto-Mississauga, Spatial Non-Stationarity Effects of Unhealthy Food Environments and Green Spaces for Type-2 Diabetes in Toronto

2nd place ($450):

Stone Shi, University of California, Santa Barbara, Visualize Sustainable Land Use in the Tropical Maya Forest: Revitalizing the Old Tikal Map for New Geospatial Analyses

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

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