Wednesday June 29
03.30 – 05.00 pm Session 1: Designing Geospatial Web Systems
Moderator: Tim Nyerges
Timberline One
 

1.1 Design and Implementation of WebGD Framework. Surya Halim, Oregon State University

 
 
1.2 Removing Syntatic Barriers for Semantic Geospatial Web Services. Xuan Shi, West Virginia University
 
 
1.3 Deliberations among Experts and Laity. Nikhil Kaza, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
 
03.30 – 05.00 pm Session 2: Space-Time Movement Analysis
Moderator: Robert Edsall
Timberline Three
 
2.1 U-Access: A Web-Based Spatial Decision Support System Routing Pedestrians of Different Abilties. Adam Sobek, University of Utah
 
 
2.2 Choice-Based Estimation of Alonso’s Theory of Movement: Methods and Experiments. Guoxiang Ding, Ohio State University
 
 
2.3 Indexing Design for Correlation Queries on Spatial Time Series Databases: A Summary of Results. Pusheng Zhang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
 
Thursday June 30
10.30 – noon Session 3:  Improving Geospatial Datasets
Moderator: Dawn Wright
Timberline One
 
3.1 A Slope- and Elevation-based Filter to Remove Non-Ground Measurements from Airborne LIDAR Data. Xuelian Meng, Texas State University, San Marcos.
 
 
3.2 The Nature and Classification of Unlabelled Neurons in the Use of Kohonen’s Self-Organizing Map for Supervised Classification. Zhe Li, Clark University
 
 
3.3 Updating Spatial Datasets Using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Techniques. Justin Shedd, North Carolina State University
 
10:30 –  noon Session 4: Geospatial Knowledge Representation
Moderator: Greg Elmes
Timberline Three
 
4.1 Neural Representation of Polygon Layers. Jose Silvan, Texas State University, San Marcos
 
 
4.2 Knowledge Discovery from Mining the Spatial Associations between Cancer Morality and Socioeconomic Characteristics. Srinivas Vinnakota, Louisiana State University
 
 
4.3 Spatial Knowledge Discovery through an Integration of Visual Data Exploration with Data Mining. Cristiano Giovando, San Diego State University
 
Friday July 1
10.30 – noon Session 5: Seeking Better Approaches to Geospatial Data Analysis
Moderator: Marguerite Madden
Timberline One
 
5.1 A Comparison of Thiessen-polygon, Kriging, and Spline Models of UV Exposure. Zaria Tatalovich, University of Southern California
 
 
5.2 A Three-step General Map Matching Method in the GIS Environment: Travel/Transportation Study Perspective. Jianyo (Jack) Zhou, University of California, Santa Barbara
 
 
5.3 GeoMatchMaker Automatic and Efficient Matching of Vector Data with Spatial Attributes in Unknown Geometry Systems. Mohammad Kolahdouzan, University of Southern California
 
10:30 –  noon Session 6: Forecasting Populations in Space and Time
Moderator: David DiBiase
Timberline Three
 
6.1 Analyzing Urban Spatial Structure with GIS Population Surface Models. Jun Luo, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
 
 
6.2 Small-Area Population Forecasting: A Spatio-Temporal Regression Approach. Guangqing Chi, University of Wisconsin, Madison
 
 
6.3 Developing the Adaptive Components of the SPEEDGOAT (Suitable Pronghorn Environment Envelope, Determined by GIS Outputs, Arrays, and Transformations). Shawn Lanning, University of Wyoming