Harvey F., Leung Y. (Eds.) Advances in Spatial Data Handling and Analysis

Springer, 2015. — 319 p.
Select Papers from the 16th IGU SpatialData Handling Symposium.
The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH) continues as the biennial international research forum for Geographic Information Science (GIScience), again co-organized by the Commission on Geographic Information Science and the Commission on Modeling Geographical Systems of the International Geographical Union (IGU). The conference brings together scholars and professionals from a wide range of disciplines, including (but not limited to) geography, computer science, information science, engineering, statistics, and geostatistics, with a broad range of applications in others sciences that contribute to the development of the theory of GIScience. The 2014 SDH conference jointly organized with the ISPRS Technical Commission, offered additional possibilities for exchange during the conference. The SDH proceedings are, however, independent and reflect a distinct focus on traditional SDH contributions that connect science with applications. Indeed, since the first conference in 1984, the SDH conference has developed through a long tradition and evolved in parallel with the discipline of GIScience. As a well-known international meeting place for GIScience, it remains a leading scientific meeting in the field. After the conference’s third appearance in Australasia 2 years ago (held in Hong Kong, after Sydney 1988 and Beijing 2000), the 2012 SDH in Bonn, Germany, the 2014 SDH conference took place in Toronto, Canada. While retaining tradition, again, following the lead of the 2012 SDH organizers, we again opened two different submission tracks making the distinction between long and short paper formats that reflect different publication cultures. Even with these changes, the SDI review process continues to retain high standards. Over 52 paper proposals were submitted to the initial abstract review. 28 papers were submitted to a second double-blind peer review for publication in the SDH proceedings. Only 17 of the papers were revised and went through further editorial processing in preparation for the proceedings you have now.