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CISG Committee Descriptions, Chairs and Members:
Research and Technology:
Help define the vision of the Geospatial CI of the future, including its components. Produce a White Paper vision document fairly soon that captures the CI needs of Geography (in all subdisciplines) and which can be presented to NSF and other stakeholders.
Chair: Shaowen Wang, U. Illinois, <shaowen@ad.uiuc.edu>
Vice-Chair: James Wilson, James Madison U., wilsonjw@jmu.edu
Sung-Gheel Jang, Cleveland State U., s.jang75@csuohio.edu
Xuan Shi, Ga.Tech, Xuan.Shi@coa.gatech.edu
Ningchuan Xiao, Ohio State U., xiao.37@osu.edu
Chaowei Yang, George Mason U., cyang3@gmu.edu
Shashi Shekhar, U. Minnesota, shekhar@cs.umn.edu
Rob Raskin, JPL, raskin@jpl.nasa.gov
Zhong-Ren Peng, U. Florida, zpeng@dcp.ufl.edu
Education/Outreach:
Educate geographers as to what CI is and what it can do. Generate an article about CI for the AAG Newsletter. Gain buy-in from all components of the Geography community so that we build up allies. Identify relevant educational resources.
Interim Chair: Rob Raskin, JPL, raskin@jpl.nasa.gov
Sung-Gheel Jang, Cleveland State U., s.jang75@csuohio.edu
Xuan Shi, Ga.Tech, Xuan.Shi@coa.gatech.edu
Ningchuan Xiao, Ohio State U., xiao.37@osu.edu
Chaowei Yang, George Mason U., cyang3@gmu.edu
Website and Electronic Communication:
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: Chaowei Yang, George Mason U., cyang3@gmu.edu
Wenwen Li, George Mason U., wli6@gmu.edu
Rob Raskin, JPL, raskin@jpl.nasa.gov
Awards:
Establish and disseminate awards that recognize progress in CI. Organize student paper competitions. Look for partners willing to fund awards.
Interim Chair: Dawn Wright, Oregon State U.
Michael P. Finn, USGS, mfinn@usgs.gov
Election Results
Here are the results of the CI Specialty Group election. Winners are marked with an asterisk. They will choose amongst themselves a Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary/Treasurer. Thanks to Tim Nyerges for counting the votes.
23 *Rob Raskin
22 *Chaowei Yang
20 *Wenwen Li (student position)
19 *Zhong-Ren Peng
18 ^Shaowen Wang
15 *Dawn Wright
15 *Xuan Shi
13 James T. Wilson
6 Sung-Gheel Jang
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 CI 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
o Specifications
o Digital Earth technologies
Knowledge
o GIS&T Body of Knowledge
o Ontologies
o Metadata
o Best practices
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
Communication
o Virtual organization/community to facilitate communications with experts
o Facebook for geographers (who knows who)
o Social networking tools (LinkedIn, FOAF)
o CloseBy that supports geographic communities
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