Prof Helena Mitasova receiving Waldo-Tobler GIScience Prize 2018

On Oct 3, Prof Mitasova was received at the Austrian Academy of Sciences to deliver the annual Waldo-Tobler lecture, titled "Dynamic Surfaces and Geospatial Processes" - this distinguished honour has been awarded to her as the winner of this year's Waldo-Tobler GIScience Prize - Congratulations!

The audience was left impressed by the visionary combination of innovative spatial analysis and geovisualization methods, thanking Prof Mitasova for numerous contributions to the discipline of Geoinformatics, entirely available under open source frameworks.

Nomination letters for the 2019 Waldo Tobler GIScience Prize already can be sent to application@oeaw.ac.at, no later than October 31, 2018. Candidates shall be introduced with a cover letter justifying the nomination, a full scientific CV and list of publications.

GI_Forum Journal 2018/1 - open access to symposium papers

The Austrian Academy of Sciences Press is granting Open Access to all reviewed GI_Forum 2018 articles through its GI_Forum Journal.

GI_Forum Journal publishes high quality original research across the transdisciplinary field of Geographic Information Science (GIScience). The journal provides a platform for dialogue among GI-Scientists and educators, technologists and critical thinkers in an ongoing effort to advance the field and ultimately contribute to the creation of an informed GISociety.

This publication is included in Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index which can be accessed via the Web of Science™ and Web of Knowledge™.

The GI_Forum 2019 Symposium is scheduled for July 2-5, with papers invited for submission under http://www.gi-forum.org/call!