The 6th International Workshop on Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems: Environmental and Urban Challenges (IF&GIS' 2013)
May 12-15, 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia
Palace of Grand Prince Vladimir Romanov, now "House of Scientists"

Sponsored by

• Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
• Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
• U. S. Office of Naval Research Global (to be confirmed)
• Russian Foundation for Basic Research (to be confirmed)

Five previous Workshops were held in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 in St. Petersburg and 2011 in Brest, France. Information is available at the Workshops Archive

Program Overview

Workshop will consider Geographic Information Systems’ science and technologies in relation with Environmental and Urban Challenges. In this context we also expect discussion specifically focused on environmental issues, from global to local scales.

Workshop encourages presentation of scientific and technological innovations as well as application opportunities aimed at having environmental and global warming problems under control, as well as the monitoring, planning and simulation to sustain maritime presence in the Arctic. Also we expect to discuss traditional problems about heterogeneous data, information and knowledge arriving from different sources and accounting for geographic information systems’ area aimed at realizing decision-making in monitoring systems of heterogeneous purpose and level.

The proposed scope

GIS fundamentals (to the left); GIS application to urban and environmental challenges (to the right) include but are not limited to:

Workshop Venue

According to the preliminary agreement, the IF&GIS’2013 Workshop will be held in the historical building: "Palace of Grand Prince Vladimir Romanov", currently "House of Scientists", located in the heart of St. Petersburg, to the address: 26, Dvortsovaya emb., St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia. Workshop Language: English

IF&GIS program includes: (To be confirmed) - Tutorials; -Exhibitions; - Workshop; - Discussions; - Guided tours and other social events.

Paper publication: the Workshop Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in series Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. IF&GIS workshop offers a peer-review procedure for scientific papers.

Abstract: The abstract should summarize the contents of the paper and contain at least 70 and at most 150 words. It should be written using the abstract environment by EasyChair Conference System. Key words: Please list your keywords within the abstract section.

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Full papers:

The page limit for workshop papers is 14 pages. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or having more than 14 pages will not be reviewed and thus automatically rejected. A paper submitted to IF&GIS’ 2013 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the workshop. Submission to IF&GIS’ 2013 will be electronically only. Authors are asked to submit an abstract first, and then to upload the full paper formatted according the publisher’s formal requirements available at Springer web site: Book Manuscript Guidelines

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Proposed deadlines:
Abstracts submission: September 24, 2012
Full paper submission: October 12, 2012
Notification of acceptance: December 7, 2012
Final papers due: January 9, 2013
Workshop Dates: May 12-15th, 2013

Contact us
Organizing Committee
Yaroslav Shalamaiko
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Irina Podnozova
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