Student Support for 2017 International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017)

该奖项为美国学生参加2017年11月7日至10日在加利福尼亚州雷东多海滩举行的第25届ACM SIGSPATIAL国际地理信息系统进展会议提供支持（http：//sigspatial2017.sigspatial.org/）。除了常规的研究/演示论文和行业论文外，ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017还为年轻研究人员举办了几场会议：博士研讨会，SIGSPATIAL杯和学生研究竞赛。在过去的四年中，博士研讨会还组织了小组讨论和著名研究人员的主题演讲，以帮助年轻的研究人员提高他们的工作重点。空间信息在工业和学术界的许多分支中都是必不可少的，企业和政府机构正在利用它来改善新战略的结构，提高整体生产力。空间信息处理的应用可以在移动商务行业的基于位置的服务、军事机构的战略评估、气候学研究（例如，确定海啸的潜在影响），计算机辅助设计和计算机辅助制造（CAD/CAM）应用，医学成像和地图集（例如，3D脑图谱）、城市规划中卫星图像的土地使用分类、交通网络中局部不稳定性的检测、流行病学模式预测（预测疾病传播）、分析犯罪热点以供执法、根据卫星图像创建高分辨率三维地图以供情报应用等，再加上对空间数据处理的需求增加，空间信息系统在工业、政府和学术部门的范围内获得了相当大的份额。ACM空间信息特别兴趣小组（SIGSPATIAL）是一个由研究人员，学生，开发人员，从业人员和专业人员组成的协会，他们对研究，开发和部署空间数据，空间操作，空间信息处理和空间知识提取问题的解决方案感兴趣。成员利益的范围从更多的理论方面（例如，几何算法）非常集中的面向应用的方面，并在过去的十年中产生了大量的研究。ACM SIGSPATIAL的章程致力于促进研究和开发活动，特别是因为它涉及空间相关信息的获取，管理和处理，重点是算法，几何和视觉考虑，并且是地理信息系统（GIS），导航系统等使能技术的核心。ACM SIGSPATIAL会议旨在通过激励和支持新一代科学家和工程师来增强其作用和影响力，以应对在这一多学科领域追求研究生职业生涯及以后的挑战。ACM SIGSPATIAL会议已成为世界上首屈一指的空间信息和地理信息系统（GIS）研究会议。会议为原创研究贡献提供了一个论坛，涵盖GIS的所有概念，设计和实施方面，从应用程序，用户界面和可视化到存储管理和索引问题。它汇集了研究人员，开发人员，用户和从业人员，他们在基于地理空间数据和知识的新系统中进行研究和开发，并促进跨学科的讨论和研究。ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017会议论文集将在ACM数字图书馆（http：//dl.acm.org/）上发布。

This award provides support for U.S-based students to attend the 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, November 7-10, 2017 in Redondo Beach, CA (http://sigspatial2017.sigspatial.org/). In addition to regular research/demo papers and industry papers, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017 features several sessions dedicated to young researchers: PhD Symposium, SIGSPATIAL Cup, and Student Research Competition. PhD Symposia in the past four years have also organized panels and keynote talks by prominent researchers, to help young researchers in improving the focus of their work. Spatial information is essential in many branches of industry and academia, and businesses as well as governmental agencies are utilizing it their daily operations to improve the structuring of new strategies, and increase overall productivity. Applications of spatial information handling can be found in location-based services in the mobile-commerce industry, strategic assessments in the military agencies, climatology studies (e.g., determining the potential effects of a tsunami) in meteorological research, computer-aided design and computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) applications, medical imaging and atlases (e.g., 3D brain atlas), land-use classification of satellite imagery in urban planning, detection of local instability in transportation networks, epidemiological pattern forecasting (predicting the spread of disease) in the health-care field, analyzing crime hot spots for law enforcement, creation of high resolution three-dimensional maps from satellite imagery for intelligence applications, etc. Combined with the increased demand for spatial data processing, spatial information systems are gaining a substantial share across the spectrum in the industrial, government, and academic sectors. The ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (SIGSPATIAL) is an association for researchers, students, developers, practitioners, and professionals interested in research, development, and deployment of solutions to spatial data, spatial operations, spatial information handling, and spatial knowledge extraction problems. The scope of members' interests spans from more theoretical aspects (e.g., geometric algorithms) to very focused application-oriented aspects, and has generated a significant body of research in the past decade. The charter of ACM SIGSPATIAL is dedicated to fostering research and development activities especially as it pertains to the acquisition, management, and processing of spatially-related information with a focus on algorithmic, geometric, and visual considerations, and is at the heart of enabling technologies for geographic information systems (GIS), navigation systems, etc. Given the relative importance of the field of spatial and geographical data, ACM SIGSPATIAL conference aims to augmenting its role and impact by motivating and supporting a new generation of scientists and engineers to take on the challenge of pursuing their graduate careers and beyond in this multidisciplinary area. The ACM SIGSPATIAL conference has established itself as the world's premier research conference in Spatial Information 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. Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017 Conference will be published in the ACM Digital Library (http://dl.acm.org/).