Working Groups

WG IV/1 - Geospatial Data Infrastructure
WG IV/2 - Automatic Geospatial Data Acquisition and Image-Based Databases
WG IV/3 - Mapping from High Resolution Data
WG IV/4 - Virtual Globes and Context-Aware Visualisation/Analysis
WG IV/5 - Distributed and Web-Based Geoinformation Services and Applications
WG IV/6 - Global DEM Interoperability
WG IV/7 - Planetary Mapping and Databases
WG IV/8 - 3D Spatial Data Integration for Disaster Management and Environmental Monitoring

ICWG IV/VIII - Updating and Maintenance of Core Spatial Databases
ICWG IV/II - Geo-Sensor Networking and GeoGrid
ICWG II/IV - Semantic Data Interoperability and Ontology for Geospatial Information
 

Our mission

To transport traditional 2D mapping and digital geodatabase development by specialists using tried and true technologies to an era where 4D, multimodal data are created, stored, manipulated, displayed, visualized, analyzed and distributed over the World Wide Web (www) by and for a global community.

Data are no longer limited to vector, raster or image. They are spatial data infrastructures, spatio-temporal image databases, LiDAR, thermal, geosensor networks, virtual globes, virtual reality, location-based, digital camera, high resolution satellite, small satellite and unmanned aerial systems imagery. Geoinformation services are open source, web-based and distributed from the global scale to the convenience of our personal hand-held devices.

Citizens of the world expect current and historical geodata to be available at all times with no wait and minimal cost. Our daily lives and our global economy depend on accurate and accessible geographic data and is it up to us as professionals, experts and visionaries in our fields of geospatial science to guide the development and automatic acquisition of these data. We will shape the future of our interaction with geodata, create contextual knowledge and improve user understanding and awareness of integrated geodata. 

We must observe our Earth as its climate and biophysical process change over time.  We must direct our sights to space, gather information on the planets and expand our scale from global to the universe. We will make our mark in history if we can make progress during the next four years to ensure geoinformation is equally accessible to all, ethically employed for societal benefits, respectful of individual privacy, ever ready for deployment during times of disaster and suitable for environmental monitoring. Geodata must feed into decision making processes for the betterment of human kind, nature and quality of life.

Terms of Reference:

• Development, access and management of spatio-temporal databases
• Spatial data infrastructures
• Image-based geo-spatial databases
• Data libraries, data clearinghouses, data warehouses, distributed archives and access toremote data sources, including metadata and digital data standards
• Web based access, retrieval and dissemination of spatial data, including web-based location-based services
• Integration of spatial information systems and image analysis for database-driven change detection, data capture and updating
• Dynamic spatial information systems, spatial data revision and versioning
• Interfacing 3D models with facility management systems
• Database generation for digital topographic and thematic mapping including orthoimages and DTMs
• Digital landscape modelling and visualization, and large scale urban models
• Global environmental databases and mapping
• Extraterrestrial mapping and spatial information systems
• Analysis of systems and their components for automated and semi-automated digital mapping and geoinformation systems
• Analysis of industry needs and design of systems for production and update of Geo-information

   

• Manual of Geographic Information Systems
• Professor Jianya Gong's, Chair of WG IV/4, award

NEW from ASPRS

Manual of Geographic Information Systems
Marguerite Madden, Editor

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Professor Jianya Gong, Chair of WG IV/4 Virtual Globes and Context-Aware Visualisation/Analysis   Received a ISPRS Scientific Initiative Award March 2009   Entitled:   Integrating Virtual Globe and Web Service Technologies for ISPRS Higher-Education Teaching and Research   This proposed research addresses the subtopics “Database of images, test material for education and research, global databases” and “Computer-aided teaching” of ISPRS initiatives. Objectives are to integrate Virtual Globes and geospatial Web Services to provide analysis-enhanced Virtual Globes for in-classroom teaching and scientific research.  The research will enhance the common good of all ISPRS members in that they will have a platform that is easily accessible and help them perceive and explore world space and geo-scientific processes. The results will be tested through a GeoGlobe system.   Amount Awarded: CHF 10,000

Figure 1. The integration architecture of analysis-enhanced Virtual Globes

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Technical Commission Officers:

President	Secretary
Marguerite Madden Professor and Director Ctr. for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS) Dept. of Geography University of Georgia  Athens, Georgia, 30605 USA Tel: +1-706-542-2379 Fax: +1-706-542-2388 Email: mmadden@uga.edu	Thomas Jordan Associate Director Ctr. for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS) Dept. of Geography University of Georgia Athens, Georgia, 30602 USA Tel: +1-706-542-2372 Fax: +1-706-542-2388 Email: tombob@uga.edu