Invitation

The Austria-Central Asia Centre for GIScience, together with the Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi and the Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), University of Salzburg, Austria are proud to announce the:

5th GIS-in-Central-Asia Conference - GISCA 2011

The main objectives of this English language conference are to bring together GIS academics, researchers and practitioners in the Central Asian countries and encourage international cooperation and knowledge exchange in GIS education.

In 2011, GISCA is focused on the theme of "Geoinformatics: Managing Environment, Resources and Risk". GIScience as a conceptual foundation, Geoinformatics as a methodology and GIS as software are powerful instruments for linking information from different sources by location. This is exactly what is needed to manage our environments and natural resources, and to assess risks arising from natural, technical and social factors.

Additional key themes of the conference are:
  • GIS for Environmental Management
  • GIS for Disaster and Emergency Management in Central Asia
  • Health GIS
  • Educational programmes in Geoinformatics
  • Development of Spatial Data Infrastructures
  • New trends and technologies in GIS&T
  • International networking in teaching and use of GIS technologies for Environment and Emergencies
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