Student Travel and Activities Support: ACM SIGSPATIAL 2012 International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

这项旅行支持使美国的学生能够参加2012年11月6日至9日在美国加利福尼亚州雷东多海滩举行的第20届ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012会议（http://acmgis2012.cs.umd.edu/）。ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS会议已成为世界上促进空间数据和分析以及地理信息系统（GIS）领域研究的首要会议。会议为原创研究提供了一个论坛，涵盖了GIS的所有概念、设计和实现方面，从应用程序、用户界面、可视化到存储管理和索引问题。它将研究人员、开发人员、用户和实践者聚集在一起，开展基于地理空间数据和知识的新系统的研究和开发，并促进GIS各个方面的跨学科讨论和研究。这是ACM空间信息特别兴趣小组（ACM SIGSPATIAL）的首要年度活动。会议旨在不断推进空间数据管理和空间数据分析方面的最新技术，并扩大其影响。该补助金为30-35名合格的美国研究生和有前途的本科生参加者提供部分旅行支持和会议注册。参加本次会议的学生将受益匪浅，因为他们将能够参与当前地理空间系统和应用领域的最新技术，展示他们的工作，并有可能为研究合作和研究指导建立联系。过去参加ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS的总人数超过250人，其中大多数来自美国，其次是欧洲和亚洲。由于地理信息的重要性日益增加，过去几年来参加会议的人数稳步增加。在ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS中，美国研究生的强大代表有助于保持美国在重要研究领域的竞争力，这些领域对美国的基础设施和应用至关重要，这些基础设施和应用严重依赖地理参考信息。获奖者将出现在联合海报、演示和博士展示会议的NSF学生支持研究特别部分，这是会议的主要活动，所有会议参与者都将参加。

This travel support enables U.S.-based students to attend the 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012 Conference, held in Redondo Beach, CA, USA, November 6-9, 2012 (http://acmgis2012.cs.umd.edu/). The ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference has established itself as the world's premier conference to foster research in the areas of Spatial Data and Analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The conference provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of GIS ranging from applications, user interfaces, and visualization to storage management and indexing issues. It brings together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners carrying out research and development in novel systems based on geospatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of GIS. It is the premier annual event of the ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL). The conference seeks to continuously advance the state of-the-art in spatial data management and spatial data analysis and broaden its impact.This grant provides partial travel support and conference registration for 30-35 qualified U.S. based graduate and promising undergraduate student participants. The students will greatly benefit from attending this conference, as they will be able to partake in the current state-of-the-art in the area of geospatial systems and applications, present their work, and potentially make connections for research collaborations and research mentoring. The total number of ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS participants in the past has been in excess of 250 participants, with a majority of the participants from the U.S., followed by Europe and Asia. The conference participation has shown a steady increase in the past few years due to the growing importance of geographic information. A strong representation of U.S.-based graduate students at ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS is useful in maintaining U.S. competitiveness in the important research areas crucial for U.S. infrastructures and applications that critically depend on geo-referenced information. Those who receive the award will be featured in the NSF Student Supported Research special section of the combined Poster, Demo, and PhD Showcase Session, a major event in the conference that is attended by all conference participants.