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ABSTRACT AND PAPER REVIEW PROCESS
The 7th Symposium on Digital Earth is being held in Western Australia. This Symposium traditionally attracts a large audience of academics, researchers and students with an expectation that accepted papers or posters may be peer reviewed.
ISDE7 is incorporating WALIS Forum and the State Natural Resource Management Conference. Audiences to these events have not expected a peer review process to be in place.
Given the range of interests at this event, the abstract and paper review process will be undertaken in two parts. First, all the abstracts will be considered by a small review group and a draft program developed, taking into consideration submitted abstracts, invited speakers, keynote speakers and proposed workshops.
Second, those papers and posters selected for peer review will be submitted to a Scientific Committee for consideration and allocation to reviewers. The draft program will also be submitted to the Scientific Committee for comment.
The timeline is as follows:
| Task | By Whom | By When |
|---|---|---|
| Call for papers concludes | Event Management | 28 February |
| Call for papers extension (if required) | Event Management | 7 March |
| Initial review of abstracts | Abstract review group | 19 March |
| Draft program set | Abstract review group | 19 March |
| Review of draft program | Scientific Committee | 27 March |
| Draft program finalised | WALIS Office | 28 March |
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Successful presenters contacted Presenters now expected to register for the event |
Event Management | 31 March |
| Deadline for full papers (peer reviewed) | Authors | 25 May |
| Consideration and allocation of reviewers | Scientific Committee | 1 June |
| Review process to be completed | Reviewers | 22 June |
| Finalisation of program and poster presentations | Scientific Committee | 29 June |
| Further contact with presenters/ authors, if required, following review process | Event Management | 6 July |
Scientific Committee
The role of the Scientific Committee will be to review the draft program set by the abstract review group; select appropriate reviewers for papers/posters requiring peer review; and, on receipt of the reviewers’ comments, finalise the event program.
The Committee is chaired by Dr Linlin Ge and comprises a range of experts covering the key topic areas of the Symposium.
Scientific Committee members:
| Dr Linlin Ge | Professor, School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, University of New South Wales |
| Professor Changlin Wang | Secretariat Director, International Society for Digital Earth |
| Dr Peter Woodgate | CEO, Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information; Member of ISDE Executive Council |
| Professor John van Genderen | Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, The Netherlands |
| Dr Phil Collier | Research Director, Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information |
| Professor Peter Teunissen | ARC Federation Research Fellow, Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology |
| Dr Renee Bartolo | Program Leader, CSIRO; Chair, SSSI Remote Sensing Commission |
| Dr Alan Forghani | Director, Natural Resources Information, Murray Darling Basin Commission |
| Professor Bert Veenendaal | Head of the Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology |
| Professor Geoff West | Professor of Spatial Information, Curtin University of Technology |
| Professor Abbas Rajabifard | Director, Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures, University of Melbourne |
| Professor Stuart Phinn | Director, TERN, University of Queensland |
| Professor Graeme Wright | Associate Dean, Curtin University of Technology
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Spatial Sciences |
| Dr Bruce Hamilton | Deputy Chair, Perth Region NRM |
| Dr Marnie Leybourne | Director, Western Australian Land Information System (WALIS) |
| Professor Armin Gruen |
Institute of Conservation and Building Research, ETH Zuerich |
| Professor Anthony Lewis |
Louisiana State University, USA |
Abstract Review Group
The abstract review group will undertake an initial review of all abstracts and provisionally allocate acceptable ones into a draft program for the Scientific Committee’s consideration. In addition to developing a draft program, the group will also consider abstracts that may be worth further consideration and those that will be invited to submit as poster presentations.
The draft program will include:
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Keynote presentations (mostly plenary sessions)
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Traditional Paper presentations (approximately 22 minutes)
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“Rapid fire emerging technology” presentations (approximately 7 minutes)
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Grouped paper suitable for shorter presentations and group discussions
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“Coffeehouse” sessions comprising very short (<5 minutes) overviews followed by in-depth discussions
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Poster presentations.
Each acceptable abstract will need to be considered within the context of these possible positions on the program.
The abstract review group will comprise:
Bruce Hamilton, Natalie Ladner, Marnie Leybourne and Mike Ridout.