Welcome to the DMGIS'05 page!
The 4th ISPRS Workshop on Dynamic and Multi-dimensional GIS will take place at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, from the 5 to the 8 September 2005. It is a continuation of the three previous ones held in Hong Kong (1997), Beijing (1999) and Bangkok (2001). The 2003 conference was cancelled because of SARS.
The workshop itself will be held on September 6-8, 2005, but a free tutorial entitled "Two- and Three-dimensional Topological Methods in GIS" will also be given on September 5. Further details will be available soon.
The workshop series was started because of the perceived need for an emphasis on the future directions of GIS, in particular dynamic GIS and 3D GIS, which were not adequately emphasized elsewhere. It is meant to be an interdisciplinary forum for leading researchers in related areas to present the latest developments and applications, to discuss cutting-edge technology, to exchange research ideas and to promote international collaboration in this field. Key issues include:
- Current GIS data models and modelling methods are basically designed to handle 2D static spatial objects. It is difficult for them to represent dynamically changing 3D spatial scenarios.
- The maintenance of topological relations and data access for multi-dimensional data is much more complicated than for 2D data.
- For multi-dimensional spatial data, new methods need to be developed for data interpolation, analysis, visualization and human-computer interaction.
The proceedings of the workshop will be published in the International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences of the ISPRS.
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