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I-GUIDE Forum 2023
Harnessing the Geospatial Data Revolution for Sustainability Solutions
October 4 – 6, 2023
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As part of its data-driven mission, I-GUIDE (the Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment, https://i-guide.io) tackles fundamental scientific and societal challenges focused on sustainability, from climate change and biodiversity loss to food and water insecurity.
Our I-GUIDE Forum is a new conference series designed to bring together domain science researchers, data scientists, cyberinfrastructure experts, and educators from across academia, government, and industry. The Forum provides a cross-disciplinary venue for sharing and promoting artificial intelligence (AI), cyberinfrastructure, and data-intensive approaches to a variety of pressing sustainability and resilience challenges the world is facing.
The I-GUIDE Forum 2023 will feature presentations and discussions about cutting-edge geospatial AI and data science advances for enabling sustainable development solutions through pushing convergence science frontiers. The themes for I-GUIDE Forum 2023 focus on (1) Frontiers in Synergizing Convergence and Sustainability Sciences; (2) Geospatial AI and Data Science for Sustainability; (3) Innovation of CyberGIS and Cyberinfrastructure; and (4) Inclusive Education, Training, and Workforce Development.
1. Frontiers in Synergizing Convergence and Sustainability Sciences: Papers in this track focus on scientific advances that combine distinct knowledge domains synergistically with geospatial AI and data science approaches to address complex sustainability and community resilience challenges across various spatial and temporal scales. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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- Aging infrastructure
- Climate risk
- Food, energy, and water nexus
- Global to local analysis of sustainability
- Hydroclimate extremes
- Telecoupling
2. Geospatial AI and Data Science: Papers in this track focus on new algorithms, methods, models, and theories for harnessing heterogeneous geospatial data to enable novel applications for solving sustainability problems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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- Data-intensive geospatial analytics
- Explainable AI in convergence and sustainability sciences
- Geoethics
- Geospatial data fusion
- Geospatial foundation models
- Intelligent geospatial decision support
- Uncertainty quantification in geospatial AI
3. Innovation of CyberGIS and Cyberinfrastructure: Papers in this track focus on innovative cyberGIS and cyberinfrastructure software, systems, and tools developed to enable scalable solutions to sustainability problems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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- Geospatial cloud and edge computing
- Geospatial decision support systems
- Geospatial middleware
- Geospatial problem solving environments
- High-performance geospatial computing
- New frontiers in cyberGIS
- Reproducibility and replicability of data-intensive geospatial analysis
4. Inclusive Education, Training, and Workforce Development: Papers in this track explore how to incorporate the recent advances in convergence science, cyberinfrastructure, geospatial AI and data science into new learning modalities and resources. Innovative ideas for supporting the development of a proficient workforce to help realize the potential of people across the diverse demographic groups are especially sought. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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- Approaches to engaging underrepresented groups in data-intensive fields
- Convergence science curriculum focused on AI for sustainability
- Education advances in geospatial data-intensive sciences
- Challenges and opportunities in developing countries and underserved communities for data-intensive learning
- Geospatial AI and data science curriculum
- Open educational resources
Submission Requirements for I-GUIDE Forum 2023
I-GUIDE Forum 2023 invites short papers addressing one or more of the aforementioned themes. Each paper should not exceed six pages in the single-column publication format, including references. Short papers will be published in the proceedings of the Forum. Additionally, a set of papers will be invited for submission to special issues of multiple journals such as the Environmental Research Letters (ERL), Geography and Sustainability, International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Short Papers must be submitted through the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iguideforum2023 by July 17th, 2023. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by August 4th, 2023.