Call for Papers

Special Issues on "Progressive Transmission of Spatial Datasets in the Web Environment"
Deadline: October 1, 2007
Location:  
URL: http://ees.elsevier.com/cageo
bshyang@whu.edu.cn

Computers & Geosciences
Call for Papers, Special Issue on
"Progressive Transmission of Spatial Datasets in the Web Environment"

The internet has become the primary tool for both information and data delivery in many fields, ranging from academia through industry to the home user. Contemporaneously geographic information, not just in the form of maps, but also data, has been transformed from the preserve of a small clique of "data keepers" to having widespread availability through web-based geographic information systems (Web-GIS) to an equally wide range of users. However, delivering spatial data exposes a dilemma between narrow network bandwidths and the large volumes of the spatial datasets to be delivered. To overcome this dilemma, one promising solution is to deliver spatial datasets at increasing levels of detail (LoD) from the server side to client side. The special issue will focus on recent developments of techniques, methodologies, algorithms, and applications of progressive transmission of spatial datasets in the web environment. Submissions may address, but are not limited to the following topics:

• Level-of-Detail models of spatial data
• Algorithms for multi-scale representation of spatial data
• Data models for on-line simplification of spatial data
• Lossy and lossless compression of spatial data
• Pattern recognition for multi-resolution representation of spatial data
• Web-based novel architectures for the progressive transmission of spatial data
• Evaluation of progressive transmission methods for spatial data

We seek original and novel contributions on such topics. All submissions will be peer-reviewed in line with the policy of Computers & Geosciences. Authors must prepare manuscripts according to the Instructions for Authors of Computers & Geosciences, available at ttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/398/authorinstructions. Manuscripts should be submitted via the Elsevier on-line submission system (http://ees.elsevier.com/cageo) by October 1, 2007. Please select the special issue "Spatial Datasets" when you reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. Publication is planned for October 2008.

Guest Editors:

Dr. Bisheng Yang
Associate Professor
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing
(LIESMARS)
Wuhan University
129 Luoyu road ,Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, CHINA
E-mail:bshyang@whu.edu.cn

and

Dr. Robert Weibel
|Professor
GIS Division, Department of Geography,
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstr. 190
CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
E-mail:weibel@geo.uzh.ch

Posted: 7/13/2007 9:41:36 AM