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CISG BOD: Chair (1-year): Chaowei (Phil) Yang, George Mason University

Vice-Chair (2-year): Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Secretary/Treasurer (1-year): Xuan Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology

Board (2-year): Rob Raskin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Board (1-year): Zhong Ren Peng, University of Florida

Board (2-year): Michael Finn, United States Geological Survey

Board (student, 1-year): Wenwen Li, George Mason University


Research and Technology [1]

Help define the vision of the Geospatial CI of the future, including its components. Produce a White Paper vision document that captures the CI needs of Geography (in all subdisciplines) and which can be presented to NSF and other stakeholders.

Chair: Shaowen Wang, University Illinois, <shaowen@ad.uiuc.edu>

Vice-Chair: Ningchuan Xiao, Ohio State University, xiao.37@osu.edu


Education/Outreach:[2]

Educate geographers as to what CI is and what it can do. Generate articles about CI for the AAG Newsletter. Gain buy-in from all components of the Geography community so that we can build up allies. Identify relevant educational resources.

Chair: Chaowei Yang, George Mason University, cyang3@gmu.edu

Michael Finn

James Wilson


Website and Electronic Communication:[3]

Be responsible for the content of our web site including the wiki. Establish an electronic communication forum that enables proposal teams and other teaming activities to emerge. Maintain a list of funding opportunities.

Chair: Hannes Wu, hwu8@gmu.edu , George Mason University

Email list Manager: Qunying Huang, George Mason University

Wiki Manager: Jing Li, George Mason University

Website Manager: Zhenlong Li, George Mason University


H PC Committee:

Chair: Qingfeng Guang, U.S. Geological Survey

Vice Chair: Eric Shook, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Application & Visualization Committee:

Chair: Ben Tuttle, University of Colorado at Boulder

Vice Chair: Michael Page, Emory University


Knowledge & Metadata Committee::

Chair: Rob Raskin, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab


SOA, SOC, Middleware Committee::

Chair: Xuan Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology


Free and Open Source Geospatial Software Committee:

Chair: Sung-Gheel Jang, Ohio Kleveland State University

Vice Chair: Eric Wolf, U.S. Geological Survey


Awards:[4] Establish and disseminate awards that recognize progress in CI. Organize student paper competitions. Look for partners willing to fund awards.

Chair: Dawn Wright, Oregon State University

Vice Chair Mike Finn, U.S. Geological Survey


CI Specialty Group

Chair: Chaowei Yang

Members: Rob Raksin

Wenwen Li (student position)

Zhong-Ren Peng

Shaowen Wang

Dawn Wright

Xuan Shi


Candidate Statements

Sung-Gheel Jang Cleveland State University

Wenwen Li George Mason University

Zhong-Ren Peng University of Florida

Rob Raskin Jet Propulsion Labratory

Xuan Shi Georgia Institute of Technology

Dawn Wright Oregon State University

James W. Wilson James Madison University

Shaowen Wang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chaowei Yang George Mason University


Planned Activities


Education and Outreach:

Educate other geographers about CI and its capabilities

Address what CI can do for Geography (and geospatial science)

Engage geographers to invite their insights into CI

Bring our experiences back to our communities

Educate GI scientists at GIScience 2008 Conference

Provide briefings to NSF that include inputs from the entire community, speaking with a single voice

Organize discussions with other Specialty Groups and with computer scientists


Products:

A vision document analogous to NSF Vision statement (the one that NSF should have created)

AAG Newsletter article that describes CISG and opens dialog with all geographers (high priority)

Working models and examples of CI spanning all of Geography

Talking points for geographers to take to their communities

Proposal to NSF for Workshop to engage entire community


AAG Meeting Activities:

Establish CISG as a featured Specialty Group at a future Meting

Organize illustrated paper session in conjunction with other Specialty Groups with invited noted geographers


Web Presence and Internal Communication:

Develop Web portal that captures CI capabilities (see GEON web site as a good example)

Use our Wiki discussion to define christmas gift ideas and identify CI expertise


Management:

Set short-term and long-tern goals

Establish budget and create reports

Setup ad hoc committees for each of the nine CI Components (see next page)


CI Components


High performance computing for large-scale geocomputation

o Grid enabling

o Wireless communication

o Distributed computing

o Supercomputers

o Clusters


Software

o Analytical tools/ software for spatial analysis

o Visualization

o Spatializaiton from non-spatial information


Services

o Registries/catalogs

o Interoperable Web services

o Standards/protocols of torrent files and relevant downloads.

o Specifications

o Digital Earth technologies


Knowledge

o GIS&T Body of Knowledge

o Ontologies

o Metadata

o Best practices Online estimating software


Data


Examples

o Google Earth

o GeoVista Studio


Applications

o Demonstrations of how CI supports domains


Education

o Learning modules to introduce CI

o Serious games (location-based)

o Educational support at all levels

seo service for google

Communication

o Virtual organization/community to facilitate communications with experts

o Facebook for geographers (who knows who)

o Social networking tools (LinkedIn, FOAF)

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