4^th International Conference on GIS and Remote Sensing September 27-28, 2018 Berlin, Germany

Dr. Petr Vaníček is a Czech Canadian geodesist and theoretical geophysicist who has made important breakthroughs in theory of spectral analysis and geoid computation. He received his degreein DrSc from the Czech Academy of Science. He is a Professor Emeritus from the University of New Brunswick. He initiated the establishing of the Canadian Geophysical Union in 1974, and served as the Union's president between 1986 and 1988. He was the first chairman of the United Nations committee for Geodetic Aspects of the Law of the Sea (GALOS), founded in Edinburgh, Scotland by the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) in 1989. His book Geodesy: The Concepts, now translated into several languages, is a standard text for both undergraduate and graduate courses in geodesy worldwide. He also served as Editor-in-Chief and a reviewer for several scientific journals as well as on numerous scientific boards and committees. One of his main contributions of general relevance is least-squares spectral analysis, also called the Vaníček method, a frequency spectrum computation method published in 1969 and 1971. The method is based on a least-squares fit of sinusoids to the data samples, and mitigates the drawbacks of applying Fourier analysis for analyzing long incomplete data records such as most natural datasets. His discoveries in theoretical geophysics, the "precise geoid solution" in particular, enable millimetre-to-centimetre accuracy in geoid computation, an-order-of-magnitude improvement from previous solutions. He was awarded the J. Tuzo Wilson Medal in 1996 for outstanding contributions to Canadian geophysics. He is a fellow of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, of the American Geophysical Union, and of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU). He was the first Canadian awarded the Senior Distinguished Scientist Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and was a Senior Visiting Scientist with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Over the course of his career, he taught or performed research at universities and labs across six continents, including the Royal Institute of Technology and the USGS.

Geodesy & Geophysics

Prof Shi is Head of Department and Chair Professor in Geographic Information Science (GISci) and remote sensing, for Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained his doctoral degree from University of Osnabruck in Vechta, Germany in 1994. Prof Shi's current research interests are in the areas of GISci and remote sensing, with focusing on uncertainty modelling and quality control for spatial data, object extraction and change detection from satellite images and laser scanning (LiDAR) data, 3D and dynamic modelling and spatial analysis in GISci. Prof Shi served as President of Commission on Theory and Concepts of Spatial Information Science, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2008-2012), President for Hong Kong Geographic Information System Association (2001-2003). He also serves as an editorial board member for a number of international journals, including IJGIS, the top journal in GISci. He has published more than 200 journal articles and over 10 books.

Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics

G.Q. Chen is a professor of systems ecology and sustainability science at Peking University, China and a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abudulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. He has a wide spectrum of research interests including climate thermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, systems ecological modelling, ecological economics, global and regional studies, systems input-output technique. With distinguished contributions as marked by around 300 publications in prestigious journals, Prof. Chen has won a series of awards and honors, including Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers Award, Thomson Reuters China Citation Laureate. He served as editor, associate editor or advisory member for 50 international journals.

Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science

Dr. Ching-Chuan HUANG is currently working as a Professor at Department of Civil Engineering in National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He received his post-doctoral research fellow from Delaware University, USA. He completed his Ph. D. of Civil Engineering from University of Tokyo, Japan. He completed his Master of Engineering from University of Tokyo, Japan and Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Chung -Yuan University, Taiwan.

Civil Engineering

Marika Tatishvili- Dr. of Physical and Mathematical Sciences since 2006. She is Head of Weather forecasting, natural and technogenic disaster modeling division of the Institute of Hydrometeorology of Georgian Technical University. She has published 78 scientific articles including high rated journals. She is the member of Scientific and Editorial Board of Institute of Hydrometeorology and Institute of Geophysics. Also she is the Scientific Committee Member of the International Scientific Conference on Environment and Renewable Energy (ICERE 2014,15,16.17). She collaborates with International Scientific Journals, as reviewer.

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Prof. Dr. Abd-Alla Gad is Currently working on Desertification Expert at Saudi Geologic Survey Authority, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is B. Sc. Specialized in Soil Sciences in 1976 with degree of "Very good with honor degree” from Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University Cairo Egypt. He did Scientific Degree of Graduate in Advanced Studies in Soil Sciences in July 1982 from Faculty of Sciences, State University of Ghent, Belgium. He did M.Sc. in Soil Sciences in October 1982 from Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, with Thesis title: "Manipulation of irrigation water and its effect on phosphorus movement in soils". He completed his Ph. D. in Soil Sciences, Using Remote Sensing Techniques, with the degree of " Greatest distinction" in October 1988 from Faculty of Sciences, State University of Ghent, Belgium with Thesis title "Study of desertification and soil conditions in the transition zones between the desert and the Nile-Valley, using remote sensing (Lower Nile - Valley,) Egypt. He Awarded State prize in advanced technical Studies (Agricultural Sciences), Year 2000, Egypt. Scientific Excellence Shield of the Euro-Arab Organization for Environment, Water and Desert Researches, March 2014. He has About 135 publications in International and local buletins and scientific reports.

Environmental Studies and Land Use Division, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences.

Responsible, “Informatics Unit for the Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences” (UNIATMOS) of the Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera of UNAM and Geomatics Professor at the Facultad de Ingeniería of UNAM. Recent publications: Digital Climatic Atlas of México; Climate change scenarios for studies on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation; Atmospheric and environmental observation networks in Mexico; Bioclimate, climate change and ecosystems in the State of Tabasco, México, as well as the Map of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In September 2014 received the international Latin America Geospatial Excellence Award granted by Geospatial Media and Communications.

Processing and quality control of continental and oceanic climatic-environmental data, GIS, marine and continental cartography, data bases, geospatial repositories and metadata, Open Data and interoperability and map servers in Internet.

Dr.P.Jagadeeswara Rao is working as a Professor and Chairman, Board of Studies, Department of Geo-Engineering and Centre for Remote Sensing, College of Engineering (A), Andhra University. Prior to join as faculty, he served as Hydrogeologist, CGWB, Govt. of India. He was an international member in IGU Disaster Risk and advisory member in RS & GIS, Forest Department, and advisory board member in APSDMA, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. He is a resource person to APHRDI and other state Govt. organizations, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh besides central institutions such as NIRD&PR, and IIRS. He is a focul point to M.Tech. programme being offered by IIRS, Dehradun. He obtained RS&GIS and Disaster Management courses affiliated to UNO. He has been trained in MDP (ALP) in IIM-Khozikhode. Visited USA, Japan, China, and he visited 650 years old University in Poland as part of his academic activity. Published research articles on HIV/AIDS and solid waste management. Guided 10 Ph.D and 120 M.Tech students. He published two books on Reservoir Sedimentation and Big data analytics. He is a consultant to private and Government organizations on water resources management, ore reserves estimation, remote sensing and GIS studies on various natural and cultural resources. He is a Chairman to ISRS, Visakhapatnam chapter and executive member of ISG-Visakhapatnam chapter as well.

Geospatial technologies of water resources management and Disaster risk reduction strategies.

Gloria Bordogna is a senior researcher of IREA CNR since 2001, is member of EUSFLAT and IFSA Fellow since 2017. Her research activity concerns the modeling and management of imprecision and uncertainty within information retrieval systems and database management systems by means of soft computing. Current interests are spatio-temporal analytics, quality assessment of crowdsourced geotagged information, and flexible fusion of geo big data.

Modeling and management of imprecision and uncertainty within information retrieval systems and database management systems

Valentina Janev is a Senior Researcher at the Mihajlo Pupin Institute, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and received the PhD degree in the field of Semantic Web technologies from the University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Since 1996, she has participated in design and implementation of many information systems including government applications as part of commercial and scientific projects including EU-funded project from FP6, FP7 and H2020. Recently, her research activity concerns Linked, Open and Big Data and implementation of EU policies in these domains. She serves as a reviewer of respectable international journals including International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IGI Global); International Journal of Digital Earth, Enterprise Information Systems, Knowledge Management Research and Practice, Information Systems Management (Taylor & Francis), Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer) and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley).

Semantic Web technologies, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Peter A. Shary has received his education as a physicist from Moscow Physico-Technical Institute (Russia) in 1975, completed his PhD on biology from Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science RAS in 2005, and proved his second dissertation in 2016. He developed methods of geomorphometry in 1995–2012, has written his own analytical GIS in 2002, and used it for soil science, vegetation, geomorphology, floods prediction, oil spills and some other topics. He has puplished more than 40 works in reputed journals.

Geomorphometry,Soil science, An analytical GIS as a tool for spatial data analyses.

Professor C. Providakis is serving as the Dean of the School of Architecture of the Technical University of Crete, Greece. He is the director of Applied Mechanics Lab, a premier smart materials and structural monitoring research lab. He has published more than 60 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Architecture, GIS-based seismic risk assessment