GeoWeb 2010 3D City Modeling - Academic Track Call for Papers

3D city modeling is becoming an increasingly important area of research and development with a wide array of applications including urban visualization, planning and navigation, infrastructure design and development, community awareness, defense and homeland security, emergency response, and resource development. Important research problems arise from data capture and processing (e.g., LiDAR data processing or image fusion), 3D model construction, automatic feature extraction, interactive navigation, data streaming, compression, and many more.

3D models of cities are a critical area for CAD/GIS/games integration, and offer significant benefits to urban planners and developers, especially related to issues such as pollution, heating, lighting, noise abatement and crime. Future city design will need to take a more holistic approach to these issues rather than simply focusing on isolated buildings or even neighborhoods. This demands broader and more flexible sharing of information across multiple jurisdictions and disciplines. Recently, 3D city models have been incorporated as "eye candy" in both Microsoft Bing and Google Earth/Maps, and one can anticipate greater use of these models than they are already now, such as on mobile devices.

The 3D City Modeling Academic track is part of the GeoWeb 2010 conference. It is one of two academic tracks featured at GeoWeb 2010, the other being the Sensor Web Track. In addition, the GeoWeb 2010 conference will feature more than 50 paper presentations from industry, government and academia, 16 workshops, panels, invited and keynote speakers.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Data Capture (LiDAR, photography, video, CAD systems)3D model construction (photogrammetry, LiDAR point cloud processing, mathematical modeling)
• 3D model navigation paradigms GPU acceleration
• Model encoding (offline versus streaming formats)
• Spatial queries and indexing
• Applications - advertising, urban weather, wind engineering, emergency response, urban planning and design

GeoWeb 2010 - Going Real Time is a special conference that brings together academia, industry and government to focus on the GeoWeb - the integration of data and systems that deal with the world around us, the world of geography. For 2010 we subtitle the conference "Going Real Time" to emphasize the importance of aggregating, integrating and distributing information fast enough for effective decision making. 3D City Modeling forms a key component of the GeoWeb.

Internet: http://geowebconference.org/