Workshop on GeoSpatial and GeoTemporal Informatics

地理空间和地理时间信息学讲习班(GSTI‘08)的重点是地理空间和地理时间信息学。举办这一讲习班的动机来自新技术设备、人工制品和方法的出现对传统地理信息学构成的重大挑战，包括(但不限于)传感器和传感器部署技术(例如，地球传感器网络、无人驾驶飞行器上的摄像机、手持设备等)。这些创新代表了传统的静态和集中式地球计算范例的快速演变。它们正在极大地改变收集、分析和传播的数据类型，它们正在拓宽使用这些数据集的应用，它们还在扩大相应的用户社区。为了应对这一演变及其对科学和工程研究未来以及最终对社会需求的影响，研讨会将汇集来自美国和海外的多名顶尖研究人员。目标是查明地理空间和地理时间信息学方面新出现的主要挑战，并预测未来的需要和需求，向科学界提出相关建议。GSTI‘08解决的研究挑战扩展了传统地理空间研究的前沿，解决了计算机科学问题，如对各种数据馈送的时空查询、移动计算、基于位置的服务、流数据集成和挖掘、地理空间数据库的自动更新、虚拟现实建模和计算机视觉。GSTI‘08研讨会将于2008年秋季在华盛顿特区举行。讲习班预计将产生重大影响，确定需要开展的研究领域，以支持和应对新出现的和预测的社会需求。讲习班的结果，包括一份报告，将通过(http://www.ggs.cos.gmu.edu/workshops/GSTI-08/)网站和其他场所广泛传播。

The Workshop on GeoSpatial and GeoTemporal Informatics (GSTI'08) focuses on geo-spatial and geo-temporal informatics. The motivation for the organization of this workshop comes from the substantial challenges posed to traditional geoinformatics by the emergence of novel technological devices, artifacts and methodologies, including (but not limited to) sensors and sensor deployment techniques (e.g., geosensor networks, video cameras on-board unmanned aerial vehicles, hand-held devices and more). These innovations represent the rapid evolution of the traditional static and centralized geocomputational paradigm. They are drastically changing the types of data that are collected, analyzed, and disseminated, they are broadening the applications in which these datasets are used, and they are also expanding the corresponding user community. In order to address this evolution and its impact on the future of science and engineering research and ultimately on the needs of society, the workshop will bring together a number of leading researchers from the US and overseas. The objective is to identify the emerging major challenges in geospatial and geotemporal informatics, and to make relevant recommendations to the scientific community, anticipating future needs and demands. The research challenges addressed by GSTI'08 extend the frontiers of traditional geospatial research, addressing computer science issues such as spatiotemporal queries over diverse data feeds, mobile computing, location-based services, streaming data integration and mining, automated updating of geospatial databases, VR modeling, and computer vision. The GSTI'08 Workshop is to be held in the Washington, DC metropolitan area in the fall of 2008. The workshop is expected to have significant impact by identifying research areas that need to be pursued in order to support and respond to emerging and predicted societal needs. The workshop results, including a report, will be widely disseminated via the Web site (http://www.ggs.cos.gmu.edu/workshops/GSTI-08/) and other venues.