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:
ID
Date
Time
Room
Session
Type
Chair/Organizer
3708
2/25
09:40- 11:00
Virtual 5
Panel
Peter Kedron
3102
2/25
08:00-09:15
Virtual 38
Advances in Agricultural Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence 1
Paper
Zijun Yang
3389
2/25
14:00-15:20
Virtual 7
Advances in Agricultural Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence 2
Paper
Zijun Yang
2643
2/25
15:40-17:00
Virtual 5
Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Mining Human Dynamics with Big Data
Paper
Guiming Zhang
4935
2/25
17:20-18:40
Virtual 69
Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group Business Meeting
Panel
Bandana Kar
3276
2/25
17:20-18:40
Virtual 67
Disaster Disruptions and Displacement
Paper
Laura Siebeneck
2724
2/26
08:00-09:20
Virtual 39
Paper
Atsushi Nara
2911
2/26
08:00-09:20
Virtual 16
Emerging Vehicle Technologies and Services: Geographies of Diffusion
Paper
Scott Kelley
2890
2/26
08:00-09:20
Virtual 3
Paper
Ziqi Li
4916
2/26
08:00-09:20
Virtual 52
Information Session: Welcome to Summer Series
Panel
Julaiti Nilupaer
2738
2/26
09:40-11:00
Virtual 4
Paper
Atsushi Nara
2913
2/26
09:40-11:00
Virtual 40
Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Space-Place GIScience Framework Panel Session
Panel
Ling Bian
2847
2/26
09:40-11:00
Virtual 34
Paper
Yi Qiang
3545
2/26
11:20-12:40
Virtual 5
Paper
Atsushi Nara
3388
2/26
14:00-15:20
Virtual 3
Paper
Nattapon Jaroenchai
2945
2/26
14:00-15:20
Virtual 28
Paper
Jinwen Xu
2656
2/26
15:40-17:00
Virtual 46
Urban Computational Paradigms with Shareable Data, Models, Tools, and Frameworks
Paper
Xiao Huang
2957
2/26
15:40-17:00
Virtual 2
Paper
Jin Xing
3394
2/26
17:20-18:40
Virtual 1
Paper
Rebecca Vandewalle
3743
2/26
17:20-18:40
Virtual 45
Tobler Lecture and Transactions in GIS Plenary Presentations
Paper
John Wilson
3401
2/27
08:00-09:20
Virtual 6
Paper
Rebecca Vandewalle
3034
2/27
08:00-09:20
Virtual 3
Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scale and Spatial Associations (Part I)
Paper
Yongze Song
3435
2/27
09:40-11:00
Virtual 4
Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scale and Spatial Associations (Part II)
Paper
Yongze Song
2919
2/27
11:20-12:40
Virtual 11
Uncertainties in Big Data Analytics in Disaster Research
Paper
Edwin Chow
3749
2/27
14:00-15:20
Virtual 9
Is Artificial Intelligence good for Geography?
Panel
Jeremy Crampton
3390
2/27
14:00-15:20
Virtual 63
Panel
Shaowen Wang
3391
2/27
15:40-17:00
Virtual 64
Panel
Rebecca Vandewalle
2707
2/27
15:40-17:00
Virtual 58
Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Human mobility in Big Data Era I
Paper
Yuqin Jiang
3093
2/27
17:20-18:40
Virtual 59
Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Human mobility in Big Data Era II
Paper
Yuqin Jiang
2970
2/28
08:00-09:20
Virtual 50
New GIS Service Models for Higher Education
Panel
David Cowen
3382
2/28
08:00-09:20
Virtual 62
Panel
Shaowen Wang
2891
2/28
08:00-09:20
Virtual 2
Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scaling and Analysis on Urban Big Data
Paper
Qunshan Zhao
3234
2/28
08:00-09:20
Virtual 56
Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Emerging Themes in a Post-pandemic Era
Paper
Hui Luan
3107
2/28
09:40-11:00
Virtual 61
Paper
Alexander Michels
3463
2/28
09:40-11:00
Virtual 3
Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scale and Spatial Associations (Part III)
Paper
Yongze Song
3451
2/28
09:40-11:00
Virtual 46
Spatiotemporal disease mapping and analysis (II)
Paper
Eric Delmelle
3468
2/28
11:20-12:40
Virtual 59
Paper
Rebecca Vandewalle
3843
2/28
14:00-15:20
Virtual 48
GI Science & Systems Student Honors Paper Competition (Hybrid)
Paper
Song Gao
2921
2/28
14:00-15:20
Virtual 14
Risk Communication and Resilience
Paper
Joslyn Zale
2920
2/28
15:40-17:00
Virtual 13
GIS methods to analyze land change
Paper
Joslyn Zale
3064
2/28
15:40-17:00
Virtual 46
Land change detection, quantification, and modeling
Paper
Aiyin Zhang
2678
2/28
17:20-18:40
Virtual 50
Methods to analyze a time series of land cover maps
Paper
Thomas Bilintoh
3464
2/28
17:20-18:40
Virtual 56
Paper
Rebecca Vandewalle
2594
3/1
08:00-09:20
Virtual 21
Role of GIS in planning smart and resilient cities I
Paper
Avipsa Roy
3019
3/1
08:00-09:20
Virtual 35
Paper
Di Zhu
3804
3/1
09:40-11:00
Virtual 24
Paper
Manzhu Yu
3033
3/1
09:40-11:00
Virtual 16
Geospatial Health Research Symposium: Geography, Substance Use and Addiction 1
Paper
Kathleen Stewart
2973
3/1
09:40-11:00
Virtual 14
Role of GIS in planning smart and resilient cities II
Paper
Avipsa Roy
3076
3/1
09:40-11:00
Virtual 36
Paper
Xiaopeng Song
3357
3/1
11:20-12:40
Virtual 21
Paper
Yingjie Hu
3274
3/1
11:20-12:40
Virtual 17
Geospatial Health Research Symposium: Geography, Substance Use and Addiction 2
Paper
Kathleen Stewart
3094
3/1
14:00-15:20
Virtual 20
Paper
Yuhao Kang
3392
3/1
14:00-15:20
Virtual 2
Panel
Zhe Zhang
3288
3/1
15:40-
17:00
Virtual 21
Paper
Song Gao
2964
3/1
17:20-18:40
Virtual 18
Geospatial Artificial Intelligence for Natural Hazards
Paper
Bo Peng
2830
3/1
17:20-18:40
Virtual 3
Paper
Hanlin Zhou
3318
3/1
17:20-18:40
Virtual 57
Paper
Xiang Chen