10th Digital Earth Summit (DES-10) + Locate26 konferencia Melbourne-ben

Az ISDE pekingi titkárságától érkezett figyelemfelhívás. Érdeklődés esetén fel lehet venni a kapcsolatot a titkársággal. 

"Dear Colleagues,

The 10th Digital Earth Summit + Locate26 will be held from 24 to 26 November 2026 in Melbourne, Australia. The Summit will bring together experts and scholars from research institutions, education, government departments and industry to conduct in-depth exchanges on the theories, technologies and applications of Digital Earth, and continuously promote the expansion and development of relevant fields.

The Digital Earth Summit, initiated and organized by the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), is a flagship conference with a strong global profile in the Digital Earth field. Since its inaugural event in New Zealand in 2006, ISDE has convened 9 Summits across 8 countries, including Germany, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Japan, China, Morocco, Russia, and India.

Over the years, the Summit has brought together tens of thousands of leading experts and scholars, alongside representatives from international organizations, governments, academic institutions, and industry, serving as a premier platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration.

The 10th Digital Earth Summit will be co-organized with Locate26, Australia and New Zealand’s flagship geospatial conference. It will offer unparalleled opportunities to explore the latest trends and real-world applications of Digital Earth, while connecting with leading experts from across Australia and around the world.

Theme: Unlocking the Potential of Digital Earth for a Sustainable World

Date: 24 - 26 November 2026
Venue: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia

Organized by
International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE)

Hosted by
Australian Chapter, International Society for Digital Earth
Geospatial Media & Events (GME)

Media Partner
Spatial Source

Call for Sessions
The 10th Digital Earth Summit invites proposals for thematic sessions exploring the theory, technologies, and applications of Digital Earth, as well as related fields.

Experts interested in organizing a session are invited to submit proposals via the conference website by 1 June 2026.

Submission guidelines:

https://willorganise-locate26-isde.eventsair.site/abstracts

Session proposal submission portal:
https://willorganise.eventsair.com/PresentationPortal/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FPresentationPortal%2F2026-locate-conference%2Fsessions


Call for Abstracts
Abstract submissions are open to all participants and welcomes the ongoing discussion of how technology developed within the spatial, surveying and Digital Earth communities can be used to improve the way we work, live and play in smarter societies.

Please submit your English abstract via the “Digital Earth Abstract Submission” stream on the conference website by 30 June 2026. All abstracts are to be submitted for oral presentation. Each oral presentation (except for YEP Symposium abstracts) will be allocated 20 minutes in length which will include questions. Presentations may have more than one speaker.

Topics for abstract submission are (not limited to):

Digital Earth Theories and Platforms, Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, GeoAI, Spatial Data Infrastructure, Digital Twins, Geospatial Analytics, 3D/4D Mapping, Modeling and Visualization, Applied Digital Earth Systems in Society, Geospatial Big Data, Smart Cities, Climate Monitoring, Environmental Sustainability, Disaster Risk Reduction, BIM–GIS Integration, UAV Mapping, Interoperability Standards, IoT Sensing Networks, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Earth System Modelling, Geospatial Digital Transformation, Spatial-Temporal Analysis and Modeling, Urban Studies and Planning, Location Based Service, Geospatial Governance, Geospatial Data and Analysis, Citizen Science, Global Geospatial Ecosystems, Big Earth Data for SDGs.

Submission guidelines:
https://willorganise-locate26-isde.eventsair.site/abstracts

Abstract submission portal:
https://willorganise.eventsair.com/PresentationPortal/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FPresentationPortal%2F2026-locate-conference%2Fcall-for-digital-earth-papers

Sponsorship Opportunities Available
The Digital Earth Summit + Locate26 will have more than 700 spatial professionals, 50 industry exhibitors and Australian and international delegates from government, academia, commercial and not-for-profit sectors. If you're interested in partnering, contact sponsorship@locateconfererence.com.au for more information.

Important Dates

• July 2026: Blind abstract and session proposal review process to be completed
• August 2026: Presenters notified outcome of their submission and successful authors must register by asset deadline
• End-August 2026: Official conference program released

Contact
Website: https://willorganise-locate26-isde.eventsair.site/
Tel.: +61 2 4319 8519
Email: info@locateconference.com.au

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Best regards,

Secretariat of International Society for Digital Earth
No.9 Dengzhuang South Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100094, China"

Forrás: Google Groups "ISDE Publication Community" group.

PLATIAL'26 tudományos konferencia Salzburgban (2026.09.16-18)

A hely megközelítése

https://platial26.platialscience.net 

Elérhetőek a korábbi PLATIAL konferenciák előadáskötetei: 

https://platialscience.net/proceedings-of-platial23
https://platialscience.net/proceedings-of-platial21
https://platialscience.net/proceedings-of-platial19
https://platialscience.net/proceedings-of-platial18 

Forrás: az AGILE levelezőkörben érkezett figyelemfelhívás Simon Schneidertől: 

"Dear all,

The Fifth International PLATIAL'26 Symposium will take place in Salzburg, Austria, on 16-18 September 2026! The event aims to put forward the notion of place in geographical information science. The symposium accepts short paper submissions, which will be published with separate DOIs online in high-quality proceedings. In addition, submitting proposals for 1-2-hours mini workshops is encouraged.

Best wishes,
Simon

PS: Please spread the word to your personal networks and forward this call to anyone for whom it might be interesting and relevant.

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# PLATIAL'26 Symposium on Platial Information Science

Motto: Platial information practices between idealization, cliché, and
        stigmatization

16-18 September 2026
Salzburg, Austria

Short Papers (3-5 pages)
Mini Workshops (1-2-hours each)
Submission Deadline: 29 May 2026

Confirmed keynote by Alice Butler-Warke (see below for details)

https://platial26.platialscience.net/

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# PLATIAL'26 Symposium on Platial Information Science

Places can be experienced and conceptualized in very different ways.
Personal preferences and behavioural patterns, recurring misunderstandings, and varying influences from institutionalized interests are only some of the reasons for this variation. Not only exist significant differences between places but also in how they are represented. Places are commonly idealized to attract tourists, films frequently reimagine places, faraway places are subject to becoming clichés, and social hotspots are often stigmatized. Salzburg - where
PLATIAL'26 will take place - is a prime example of such a place. Loved by tourists, experienced as a place of everyday living and working, and having been subject to an eventful history, Salzburg is often portrayed as a cliché in North American films and idealized in tourist guides due to its Alpine location. Such distortions are not exceptions but the rule when it comes to the communication of place.

PLATIAL'26 invites researchers from a wide range of disciplines to explore the various facets inherent to place and platial information.
Among other aspects (see below), our chosen theme particularly invites submissions on differences in place perception, forms of place representation in media and art, and ways in which such representations can be unintentionally or deliberately distorted. Submitted research may concern both fundamental, theoretical considerations as well as methodological advances and practical examples.

Additional to this year's theme, we welcome submissions on the following
topics:

* Which approaches of place representation exist in different fields,
   and how can these be integrated?
* What are suitable strategies for addressing subjectivity in platial
   information?
* In what ways can platial information theories accommodate the
   complexity of places?
* How can we account for dynamics, change, and fluidity in platial
   information?
* What is the role of scale in platial information?
* In which ways can places be visualized, or conveyed in other forms?
* In what ways could platial information inform future applications and
   technologies, such as question answering systems, scenario-based
   planning, and virtual/augmented reality?
* Which novel perspectives could a platial lens enable in geographical
   information science, geography, the (non)digital humanities,
   philosophy, planning, and cognate fields?

Further topics that fit the overall scope of the symposium are welcome.

## IMPORTANT DATES

29 May 2026           Submission deadline for both short papers and
                       mini workshops
16-18 September 2026  PLATIAL'26 Symposium

## VENUE

University of Salzburg, Austria

## HOW TO CONTRIBUTE

We are seeking high-quality contributions on the topics proposed. For this, we offer two different formats: compact mini workshops possibly accompanied by citable, joint recap papers; and short papers that will be orally presented in the regular track of the symposium.

### SHORT PAPERS

Regular short papers submitted to PLATIAL'26 should not exceed 3-5 pages, including abstract, figures, and references. Your papers should be prepared in adherence to the guidelines found in the Overleaf template:
   https://platialscience.net/overleaf26
Submission of your paper (i.e., the PDF) should be done via EasyChair:
   https://platialscience.net/submission26
We will only approach you upon paper acceptance to ask for submission of all finalized files (including the compiled PDF, LaTeX source files, figures). All submissions will be reviewed double-blind by at least two members of the programme committee. Therefore, please prepare your documents in anonymized form (see instructions given in the template and on the submissions page on the PLATIAL website). Submissions prepared using a Microsoft Word-based template are also possible:
   https://platialscience.net/word26
Please note, however, that this format entails a higher downstream
(unpaid) editorial effort for both authors and organizers, as ultimately all contributions are to appear in a single collected volume. Submissions using our LaTeX template are therefore strongly encouraged.

### MINI WORKSHOPS

PLATIAL'26 offers the innovative format of mini workshops. Being concise and to the point, these will allow peers to discuss specialized cutting-edge topics in a laid-back, intimate atmosphere. The idea is to have 1-2-hours sessions dedicated to specific platial topics. These sessions will be prepared, organized, and conducted by the workshop convenors who proposed the respective sessions. The format can be chosen freely and purposefully to allow for fruitful and creative interaction.
For each mini workshop, the results achieved will ideally then lead to a joint paper of all attendees that will be given a suitable deadline for submission after the event. These contributions will undergo the same rigorous peer review by members of the programme committee as regular short papers. If you are interested in proposing a mini workshop on your topic of choice, please submit an informal one-page proposal in PDF format to mail@platialscience.net by 29 May. You may want to get in touch with the organizers prior to submission in case of any questions about topics you want to propose. We especially encourage early-career researchers to take this opportunity to discuss their ongoing research.

### LONG-TERM CITABILITY

We value your contributions! Therefore, your work should be visible and sustainably citable long-term after the symposium. All short paper contributions will be published online with individual DOIs as ZENODO Symposium Proceedings, an outlet funded by the European Commission to support publication of high-quality proceedings.

Please find the proceedings of the previous PLATIAL events here:
https://platialscience.net/proceedings-of-platial23
https://platialscience.net/proceedings-of-platial21
https://platialscience.net/proceedings-of-platial19
https://platialscience.net/proceedings-of-platial18

## HOW TO REGISTER?

Please find information on the registration procedure as well as further information about the event online:
   https://platial26.platialscience.net/

## KEYNOTES

Naming, shaming and blaming: the formation and production of place-based stigma Alice Butler-Warke  (University of Reading, UK)

Where culture takes place - perspectives from cultural geo-analytics Andrea Ballatore  (King's College London, UK)

## PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

* Andrea Ballatore  (King's College London, UK)
* Thomas Blaschke  (University of Salzburg, Austria)
* Susanne Bleisch  (FHNW, Switzerland)
* Dirk Burghardt  (TU Dresden, Germany)
* Rachel Franklin  (Harvard University, US)
* Michael F Goodchild  (University of California Santa Barbara, US)
* Grant McKenzie  (McGill University, Canada)
* Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi  (Université Laval, Canada)
* Bill Palmer  (University of Newcastle, Australia)
* Alenka Poplin  (Iowa State University, US)
* Simon Scheider  (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
* Kathleen E Stewart  (University of Maryland, US)
* Thora Tenbrink  (Bangor University, UK)
* Cosima Werner  (Kiel University, Germany)

## PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

The programme committee will be announced at a later date.

## FOLLOW US

LinkedIn:  @PLATIAL'X
Bluesky:   @platialx.bsky.social
Mastodon:  @platial_x@mastodon.social

## SYMPOSIUM CONVENORS

Franz-Benjamin Mocnik
University of Salzburg, Austria
franz-benjamin.mocnik@plus.ac.at

René Westerholt
TU Dortmund University, Germany
rene.westerholt@tu-dortmund.de

Do not hesitate to post your questions to mail@platialscience.net.

https://platial26.platialscience.net/ "
 

Előadásanyag a GISopen 30 konferenciára

A nagy kedvvel és felelősségtudattal végzett munka eredményeiről készült előadásanyagot Dr.Mihály Szabolcs adta elő a 30. GISopen konferencia első napján. A pdf linkje hamarosan itt is megtalálható lesz.