Am 15. August 2014 endet die angekündigte Frist für die Einreichung von Abstracts als ersten Schritt fü reinen Beitrag zum Journal „ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information“.

Mögliche Themengebiete sind:

The use of open source geospatial software and data, in and for scientific research
Academic endeavors to conceptualize, create, assess open source geospatial software and data, and teach such usage.
Use of Open Data and Big Data
Data quality, software quality
Open source implementations
Open SDI
Community building
Assessment of costs and benefits of open source applications and open source business models
Architectures and frameworks for open source software and data
Teaching geospatial sciences with open source solutions and open data
Open Source GIS application use cases: government, participatory GIS, location based services, health, energy, water, climate change, etc.
Human computer interfaces and usability in and around Open GI systems

Details unter http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications.