2^nd International Conference on GIS and Remote Sensing October 2-3, 2017 Vienna, Austria

Wachowicz works in the development of spatio-temporal analytical processes based on the discovery and mapping of human mobility behaviour through the synergy between the physical and virtual worlds of Big Data. These analytical reasoning processes that can cope with Big Data are based on interaction, context, and content discovery. Why is this important? Because it is about building the next generation of maps with predictive capabilities for representing the un-mappable "real behaviour" of people in motion in a physical geographical space and their correspondent daily petabyte-scale streams of unstructured data in a virtual world. The greatest challenges and opportunities arise from socially-generated big data, observed as a result of human interactions within a specific context that is increasingly recorded via online transactions, mobile communication devices, and distributed sensors, or revealed through big data at rest. Her main research interests are on advancing the core techniques and technologies in space-time representation, data mining and mobility analytics to lead to new fields of inquiry and encourage ambient and living cartography.

GIS, Big data, Geography, Remote Sensing

Wachowicz works in the development of spatio-temporal analytical processes based on the discovery and mapping of human mobility behaviour through the synergy between the physical and virtual worlds of Big Data. These analytical reasoning processes that can cope with Big Data are based on interaction, context, and content discovery. Why is this important? Because it is about building the next generation of maps with predictive capabilities for representing the un-mappable "real behaviour" of people in motion in a physical geographical space and their correspondent daily petabyte-scale streams of unstructured data in a virtual world. The greatest challenges and opportunities arise from socially-generated big data, observed as a result of human interactions within a specific context that is increasingly recorded via online transactions, mobile communication devices, and distributed sensors, or revealed through big data at rest. Her main research interests are on advancing the core techniques and technologies in space-time representation, data mining and mobility analytics to lead to new fields of inquiry and encourage ambient and living cartography.

GIS, Big data, Geography, Remote Sensing

Mukesh Singh Boori is Senior Scientist in Samara University Russia (03/2015–Present, funded by Russian Federation), Visiting Professor in JKLU University India (10/2016-11/2016), Visiting Senior Scientist at University of Bonn, Germany (05/2016–07/2016), Visiting Scientist/Professor at Hokkaido University Japan (12/2015–02/2016) and Adjunct Professor in American Sentinel University Colorado USA (07/2015–Present). He was involved in European Union Project as well as Visiting Assistant Professor in Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic (04/2013–06/2015), Ruhr University Bochum Germany (09/2014–12/2014) and University of Leicester, UK (Honorary Fellow 2014) funded by European Union; at the same time he was Assistant Professor in JECRC University India (01/2013–06/2015). He was Scientist in Satellite Climate Studies Branch (NOAA/NASA) selected by National Research Council (NRC) Central Govt. of USA Washington DC. During that time he completed his Postdoc from University of Maryland USA (10/2012). He has done PhD (EIA & Management of Natural Resources) from Federal University – RN (UFRN) Natal –RN Brazil (08/2011) funded by Brazil–Italy Govt. fellowship. He has done Predoc (Earth & Environmental Science) from Katholieke University Leuven Belgium (08/2008) selected by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) New Delhi India and funded by Govt. of Belgium. He has done MSc (Remote sensing & GIS) from MDS University Ajmer (2004) and BSc (Bio-group) from University of Rajasthan Jaipur India (2002). In early career he was scientist in JSAC/ISRO (2006-2007) and before that Lecturer (PG) at MDS University Ajmer (2005-2007Sessions). He received international awards/fellowships from UK, USA, Brazil, Italy, Indonesia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, China, Japan and India. He known Six Language and visit four Continents for Awards, Meetings, Trainings, Field Trips, Seminars and Conferences. He is an active Organizing Committee Member in Earth & Space Science Conferences, Co-Chaired a session and gave Conference Opening Ceremony Speech as Reynold Speaker (08/2012) at Chicago USA. He is editor and member of more than 10 International Scientific Societies/Journals/Committees related to Earth & Space Science; which include organize conferences. His prime research interest is “EIA and Management of Natural Resources through Remote Sensing & GIS Technology”. He has more than 100 Peer-reviewed International Publications including Books as a first author on Vulnerability, Risk Assessment and Climate Change.

Remote Sensing & GIS, Vulnerability & Risk Assessment, Digital Image Processing, Thermal & Microwave remote sensing, Satellite Generate Brightness Temperature, Earth Observation, Land Use/Cover Change Trajectories, Geoscience/Geo-informatics, Bio-Geography, Biodiversity, Hydrology, Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Management of Natural Resources, Land Resources Management, Sustainable Development & Disaster Management, Remote Sensing Applications in: Forest, Agriculture, Ecosystem, Ecology, Urban & Desert Study

Dr. John P. Wilson is Professor of Spatial Sciences and Sociology in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC) where he founded and directs the Spatial Sciences Institute as well as the Geographic Information Science & Technology (GIST) Graduate Programs and GIS Research Laboratory, and also holds adjunct appointments as Professor in the School of Architecture and in the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Departments of Computer Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering. From 1998 to 2001 and 2007 to 2010 he was Chair of the Department of Geography at USC, and from 1992 to 1997 he was Professor of Geography in the Department of Earth Sciences, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Science, and Director of the Geographic Information and Analysis Center (GIAC) at Montana State University (MSU). His early career was as Assistant Professor (1984-1990) and then Associate Professor of Geography (1990-1994) with corresponding adjunct appointments in Plant and Soil Science at MSU. He founded GIAC at MSU in 1989 and the GIS Research Laboratory and GIST Graduate Programs at USC in 1997 and 2007, respectively. He has held several visiting appointments in environmental studies, geography, and planning at the Australian National University, University of Canterbury, University of Utrecht, University of Waikato, and most recently, in the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

GIS Software Tools, Fieldwork, Spatial Analysis Techniques, and Computer Models

Yongwei Sheng completed his PhD in 2000 from University of California, Berkeley. He currently is a professor at Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals and is currently serving in NASA Landsat Science Team and NASA SWOT Mission Science Team.

Monitoring lake dynamics in the context of global change, especially in the regions sensitive to climate change such as the Tibetan Plateau and the pan-Arctic, through several ongoing NSF, NASA, and USGS funded projects.

Petko Nenovski completed his Doctor of Sciences in 2000 from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgarian. He currently is a professor at Department of Geography, sofia university, California, USA. He has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals and is currently member in University Center for Space Research and Technologies

Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Atmosphere-Lithosphere System, Space Weather, Data processing; Satellite experiments − magnetometer measurements and energy/mass spectroscopy.

Shihong Du received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in cartography and geographic information system from the Wuhan University, Hubei, China, and the Ph.D. degree in cartography and geographic information system from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 1998, 2001, and 2004, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Peking University, Beijing, China. His research interests include qualitative knowledge representation, reasoning and its applications, and semantic understanding of spatial data including GIS and remote sensing data.

His research interests include qualitative knowledge representation, reasoning and its applications, and semantic understanding of spatial data including GIS and remote sensing data.

Valery Suleiman. Imaev (October 11, 1952) — doctor of geological-mineralogical Sciences, Professor, head of laboratory of seismogeology of the Institute of the Earth Crust Siberian Branch Russian Academy of sciences.In 1975 he graduated from the geological faculty of Moscow state University. After graduation was sent to the Institute of Geology of the Yakutsk, Siberian branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, where he passed the way from senior laboratory assistant to a leading researcher. In 1983 he defended his thesis "the Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonics, stress fields and seismicity of the South Yakutia" at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics SB RAS (Novosibirsk), in 1994 – doctoral thesis on "Active faults and seismotectonic North-East Asia" in the Institute of Geology and Geophysics SB RAS (Novosibirsk). In 1995 – head of the Department of Arctic studies, 1996-1998 – head of foreign relations Department of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic Sakha (Yakutia). Since 1999 – Professor of the Department of geophysical methods of prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits prospecting faculty of the Yakut state University. In 2002-2006 – senior researcher of the laboratory of seismology, and in 2006 head of the laboratory of seismogeologylogy of Institute of earth crust SB RAS. 2016- recent time the main researcher of the laboratory of ingineering seismology and seismogeology the Institute of the Earth Crust RAS. B. C. Imaev – specialist in the field of the geodynamics, neotectonics and seismotectonics. Established patterns of development of the active faults on the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and built a new scheme of seismic zoning of North-East Asia. The author and coauthor of more than 110 scientific papers.Awards and honours V. S. Imaev Laureate of the State prize of Russia (2003) for work (co-authored) "General seismic zoning of the territory of the Russian Federation: methodology and a set of maps GSZ-97".The full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (1996). He was awarded the prize of the Russian Federation for the creation of maps of seismic zoning of Russia (2003) and the prize of the Government of Yakutia for the study of seismotectonics of the Russian Arctic (2016)

Seismogeology, Remote Sensing

Sadiq Abdullahi Yelwa has completed his PhD from the department of Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, UK. He has been a Lecturer in the department of Geography Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto since 1997. He was seconded for two years to start the Department of Environmental Sciences, Federal University Dutse in Jigawa State between 2012 to 2014. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals. He has recently been appointed to serve as the Head of Department of the newly established department of Environmental and Resources Management, Faculty of Engineering at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria.

Geography, Remote Sensing

Khameis Alabdouli is an assistant professor at the Geography and Urban Planning Department. He attended the United Arab Emirates University where he received a B.S. in geographical information systems and remote sensing in 2006. He continued his graduate studies and earned his Masters from University of Arknsas in 2010. He joined NASA DEVELOP Internship program in NSSTC(The National Space Science Technology Centre) at NASA Marshall Space Flight Centre, Huntsville, AL, on summer 2012 where he worked closely with NASA scientists on different projects. He earned his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 2015. Khameis research focuses on the interactive relationship between human and environment specifically disaster management and evacuation.

Khameis research focuses on the interactive relationship between human and environment specifically disaster management and evacuation.

Arun B. Inamdar received his Ph.D. degree in Geology from IIT Bombay in 1986. Currently, he is a Professor at CSRE, IIT Bombay. His current research interests are Application of Remote Sensing and GIS to ICM and Climate Change studies; Coastal vulnerability studies along Indian coastline, LU/LC monitoring through satellite Remote Sensing.

Climate Change studies; Coastal vulnerability studies along Indian coastline, LU/LC monitoring through satellite Remote Sensing.