The Waldo Tobler and TGIS Distinguished Lecture in GIScience and Reception at AAG 2025

Dear geographers, colleagues, and friends,

We are very excited to invite you to join the Waldo Tobler and TGIS Distinguished Lecture in GIScience and Award Ceremony & Reception at AAG 2025, co-organized by the Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group (GISS-SG) and Transactions in GIS journal (Editor: Dr. John Wilson). 

This year, we are honored to host Dr. Kathleen Stewart (University of Maryland – College Park) and Dr. Song Gao (University of Wisconsin-Madison) as keynote speakers. The keynote and reception will take place in Room 360, Level 3, Huntington Place, on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM.

Event Details: 

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

Keynote Speaker:

·       Dr. Kathleen Stewart (University of Maryland – College Park): “Analyzing human mobility using mobile device trajectory data: A multi-year study across the US

·       Dr. Song Gao (University of Wisconsin – Madison): “Artificial GIS Analyst: From Spatial Questions to Geospatial Intelligence

GISS Award Ceremony and Reception

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

RSVPhttps://forms.gle/jpRZD7y272pkSVrv8 (First 100 RSVPs Receive a Free Drink Ticket!)

Do not hesitate to contact me (lzou@tamu.edu) if you have any questions. Feel free to share this event widely and encourage more geographers to join us. Thanks! 

We look forward to seeing you at AAG 2025 in Detroit!

Lei

GISS-SG Student Honors Paper Competition at AAG 2025

Dear colleagues and friends, 

I am pleased to invite you to attend the GISS-SG Student Honors Paper Competition at AAG 2025 (Lead Organizer: Dr. Yingjie Hu from the University at Buffalo). This year’s competition features presentations from ten outstanding students showcasing their innovative research on cutting-edge GIScience methods and applications.

Event details:

Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Location: Room 360, Level 3, Huntington Place

Session Schedule:

We look forward to welcoming you to this exciting event and seeing you at AAG 2025 in Detroit!

Best regards,

Dr. Lei Zou

on behalf of the 2024-2025 GISS-SG BOD (Gengchen Mai, Song Gao, Yingjie Hu, Yi Qiang, Nan Ding, Samantha Arundel, Binbin Lin)

GISS Specialty Group is Sponsoring 90 Sessions at AAG 2025!

Dear GISS Specialty Group Members,

We are thrilled to announce that the GISS Specialty Group is sponsoring 90 sessions at the 2025 AAG Annual Meeting in Detroit! 

These sessions showcase cutting-edge advancements in GeoAI, human dynamics, remote sensing, spatial data science, health and environmental resilience, and GIScience education, reflecting interdisciplinary innovations that tackle global challenges.

Below is the list of our sponsored sessions organized by day:

Day 1 – March 24

Day 2 – March 25

Day 3 – March 26

Day 4 – March 27

Day 5 – March 28

We look forward to your participation and engaging discussions at AAG 2025!

If you have any questions or need further information, please feel free to reach out. Thank you for being a part of the GISS community; we appreciate your continued support!

Best regards,

Binbin Lin on behalf of

AAG GISS-SG BOD

2024 AAG-GISSG Student Honors Paper Competition Result

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

GISS Activities on Day 5 of AAG 2024

Welcome to the last day of AAG 2024! The GISS Specialty Group will sponsor the following sessions on Day 5! Enjoy the conference!

GeoAI Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI for Feature Detection and Recognition – Part III

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

Geospatial AI and Informatics for Urban & Ecosystems Analytics 1

Digital geographies: Migration. Method. Policy.

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoHealth Data Science

Geospatial AI and Informatics for Urban & Ecosystems Analytics 2

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: Advances in multitemporal remote sensing for terrestrial ecosystems 1

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: Advances in multitemporal remote sensing for terrestrial ecosystems 2

GISS Activities on Day 4 of AAG 2024

Welcome to Day 4 of AAG 2024! The GISS Specialty Group will sponsor the following sessions on Day 4! Enjoy the conference!

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: A repeatable, reproducible, and expandable (RRE) framework integrating GeoAI and spatiotemporal simulation – Series II

Diverse Perspectives in Geography: Examining Space Through the Lenses of Disability

Geography and Data Science for Public Good II: Data-Driven Evidence and Solutions to Social and Spatial Inequalities.

Advancing health research: Harnessing geospatial big data and geoanalytical techniques

Environmental Data Deserts 1: Understanding the Causes and Consequences of the Unequal Coverage of Environmental Monitoring Networks

Geography and Data Science for Public Good III: Data-Driven Evidence and Solutions to Social and Spatial Inequalities.

Error and Change Analysis in GIS and Remote Sensing

Geospatial Approaches to Mobility and Health Issues: Under-examined Cities (Symposium on Geospatial Approaches to Pressing Grand Challenges: Global Pandemics, Climate Change, and Food Security)

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: A repeatable, reproducible, and expandable (RRE) framework integrating GeoAI and spatiotemporal simulation – Series I

Environmental perception and spatial behavior

Geography and Data Science for Public Good: Data-Driven Evidence and Solutions to Social and Spatial Inequalities.

GISS Activities on Day 3 of AAG 2024

Welcome to Day 3 of AAG 2024! The GISS Specialty Group will sponsor the following sessions on Day 3! Enjoy the conference!

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: Navigating Cities – Exploring Human Mobility through Innovative Geospatial Science Approaches

Exploring Geospatial Methods and Human Dynamics to Address Challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3: Methods to Support the SDGs

Place & the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health Symposium 2

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: Geospatial Platform for Sustainability Research and Education

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI for Sustainable and Computational Agriculture I

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI for Sustainable and Computational Agriculture II

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: The Geospatial Component in the Decarbonization of Net-zero Emissions Energy Systems

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium – Responsible GeoAI I: Privacy and Fairness

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: Multiscale Mapping That Works: Harnessing Intelligent Methods for Cartographic Display and Analysis

Exploring Geospatial Methods and Human Dynamics to Address Challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2: Sustainable Development

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium – Responsible GeoAI II: Justice and Accuracy

GISS-SG Student Honors Paper Competition

Place & the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health Symposium 1

GISS Activities on Day 2 of AAG 2024

The GISS Speciality Group is thrilled to sponsor the following exciting sessions on Day 2 of AAG 2024! Please join these sessions and enjoy the conference!

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: Data-intensive Geospatial Understanding for Sustainability Solutions

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI for Science and the Science of GeoAI

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: Embedding Ethics in Geospatial Data Science and AI

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: Ethics in Geospatial AI and Data Science

Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group Business Meeting

GIS&S Reception

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: Convergence Curriculum for Geospatial Data Science

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: AI for Earth Observation

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI for Feature Detection and Recognition — Part I

Characterizing Urban Human-Environment Interactions across Space and Time using Geospatial Big Data

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium – GeoAI for Feature Detection and Recognition — Part II

GIScience and Hazards

GISS Activities on Day 1 of AAG 2024

Welcome to Day 1 of AAG 2024! The GISS Specialty Group will sponsor the following sessions on Day 1! Enjoy the conference!

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities of Spatial Accessibility 2

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

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI and Social Sensing for Human-Pandemic Dynamics Ⅰ

Geospatial Monitoring of Natural and Managed Ecosystems

Mapping and Analyzing Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazil

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: CyberGIS and Spatial Decision Support System

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI and Social Sensing for Human-Pandemic Dynamics Ⅱ

GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: GeoAI Foundation Models

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: Harnessing Mobility Data for Spatial Knowledge Discovery

Actionable Ethics in Cartography

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

Lifecourse and Exposome-Based Research in Geospatial Health Applications I

AAG 2024 Symposium on Geospatial Data Science for Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities of Spatial Accessibility 1

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

Lifecourse and Exposome-Based Research in Geospatial Health Applications II

Panel: Spatial Data Science in an Age of Scientific Disruption – A Curriculum

GIS&S Sponsorship for Organizing Sessions at AAG 2024

Dear GIS&S community,

As AAG 2024 is approaching and we are enthusiastically assembling sessions for AAG 2024, the GISS BOD is happy to announce that we are delighted to sponsor any sessions organized by GISS members to advance GISS knowledge, technology, and applications.

If you need any help organizing and promoting your sessions, feel free to contact us anytime 

(Communication Director: Yuhao Kang, yuhaokang@sc.edu). 

We look forward to seeing you at Honolulu!

Best regards,

AAG-GIS&S BOD