Announcements

On June 28, Clarivate released its 2022 Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR). The impact factor of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI, ISSN: 2220-9964) increased from 3.099 (2021) to 3.4 this year, marking seven consecutive years of growth! In addition, the journal’s CiteScore (Scopus) increased from 5.0 (2021) to 6.2 (2022), achieving five years of continuous growth! IJGI would like to thank the Editor-In-Chief, Editorial Board, Guest Editors, reviewers, authors, and readers for their active contributions and support.

Impact Factor

In the first half of 2023, the ISPRS IJGI journal has gained momentum, which you can see from the highlights of IJGI’s work detailed below. In the future, IJGI will continue to provide a high-quality academic exchange platform for scholars in related fields to share the most cutting-edge research results.

Editor-in-Chief’s Introduction:

Name: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz

Affiliation: Department of Geography and Area Studies, University of Vienna, Austria

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz holds a graduate degree in technical mathematics and a Ph.D. in geoinformation science from the Graz University of Technology, Austria. Since 1981, he has been active in research, development, and education in the GIS and cartography fields. His professional career includes full professor positions at academic institutions in the Netherlands and Austria. Currently, he is a professor emeritus at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a visiting professor at Wuhan University, China. In addition, he has held visiting professor positions in the United States of America, Brazil, Kuwait, Qatar, Taiwan, and the Czech Republic. His scientific interests lie in the mathematical foundations of GIS and cartography.

Highlights Review

2023 Feature Papers:

“GeoGraphVis: A Knowledge Graph and Geovisualization Empowered Cyberinfrastructure to Support Disaster Response and Humanitarian Aid”
by Wenwen Li, Sizhe Wang, Xiao Chen, Yuanyuan Tian, Zhining Gu, Anna Lopez-Carr, Andrew Schroeder, Kitty Currier, Mark Schildhauer and Rui Zhu
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2023, 12(3), 112; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12030112

The framework of the GeoGraphVis interactive visualization system

“Mapping with ChatGPT”
by Ran Tao and Jinwen Xu
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2023, 12(7), 284; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12070284

The process of creating thematic maps using ChatGPT

“Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Geographical Data—A Systematic Literature Review”
Padraig Corcoran and Irena Spasić
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2023, 12(2), 64; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12020064

A taxonomy of geographical data types

2023 Special Issues:

1. “Application of Geographical Information System in Urban Design, Management or Evaluation”
Edited by Jiangfeng She, Jun Zhu and Min Yang
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2023

2. “Unlocking the Power of Geospatial Data: Semantic Information Extraction, Ontology Engineering, and Deep Learning for Knowledge Discovery”
Edited by Christos Chalkias, Marinos Kavouras, Margarita Kokla and Mara Nikolaidou
Submission Deadline: 15 February 2024

3. “Innovative GIS Models and Approaches for Large Environmental and Urban Applications in the Age of AI”
Edited by Peng Peng, Shu Wang, Maryam Lotfian, Feng Lu and Yunqiang Zhu
Submission Deadline: 20 March 2024

4. “Human-Induced Disaster and Conflict Analysis, Prediction, and Prevention by Geospatial Analytics and Information Systems”
Edited by Maria Antonia Brovelli and Songnian Li
Submission Deadline: 30 September 2023

5. “Harnessing the Geospatial Data Revolution for Promoting Sustainable Transport Systems”Edited by Xiao Li, Xiao Huang and Zhenlong Li
Submission Deadline: 30 November 2023

6. “Trustful and Ethical Use of Geospatial Data”
Edited by Maria Antonia Brovelli, Songnian Li and Ivana Ivánová
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2023

Visiting the Editor-in-Chief in the first half of 2023:

The IJGI publisher and Managing Editor visit the Editor-In-Chief, Wolfgang Kainz

Conference Cooperations:

Conference: The 9th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications, and Management

Website: https://gistam.scitevents.org/Home.aspx

Conference: 2023 AAG Annual Meeting

Website: https://www.aag.org/events/aag2023/

Conference: PHEDCS 2023, ALMATY—Geoeducation for Mining, Architecture, and Civil Engineering

Website: https://www.phedcs.com/

Conference: Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial

Website: https://2023.foss4g.org/

Webinars:

Webinar: EO&GEO Series: Drones in Geographical Applications

Website: https://topics-7.sciforum.net/

Webinar: EO&GEO Series: GIS in the Management of Sustainable and Smart Cities

Website: https://topics-8.sciforum.net/

Webinar: EO&GEO Series: New Milestones in Drones—From New Drones Designs to Real-Time and Artificial Intelligence Applications

Website: https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/5637

Webinar: EO&GEO Series: UAV Remote Sensing for LULC, Landscape, Citizen Sciences

Website: https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/6375

2023 Journal Awards:

The Jack Dangermond Award, sponsored by MDPI and ESRI, was established to encourage and stimulate the submission of high-quality scientific papers by individual authors or groups to the journal, to promote and advertise the journal, and to honor the outstanding contributions of Jack Dangermond to research on and the development of geospatial sciences. The best paper of 2022 has been selected by the Jack Dangermond Award Committee, which will compete for the final Jack Dangermond Award, along with three other best papers produced between 2023 and 2025.

“A Forest of Forests: A Spatially Weighted and Computationally Efficient Formulation of Geographical Random Forests”
by Stefanos Georganos and Stamatis Kalogirou
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2022, 11(9), 471; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11090471

The 2023 Young Investigator Award will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of geoinformation. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI 2023 Travel Award:

Ms. Dorothee Stiller, a Ph.D. student at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Wessling, Germany, focusing on new methodologies and experimental data sources for urban transportation research in the context of remote sensing and deep learning.

Ms. Yue Lin, a Ph.D. student at the Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. Her research and teaching interests include geographic information science, geospatial data science, geocomputation and machine learning, urban informatics, data privacy and digital justice, technology, and society.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The IJGI Editorial Board and editorial team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained. The winners are as follows:

Name: Dr. Fernando P. Fonseca
Affiliation: Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Research interests: environmental planning and management

Name: Dr. Polina Lemenkova
Affiliation: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Research interests: cartography; programming; data analysis; statistics; mapping; marine geology

Name: Dr. Alexandre B. Gonçalves
Affiliation: University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Research interests: spatial analysis; optimization; geographical information systems; computational geometry; geographic modeling; spatial data algorithms

Name: Prof. Marcin Kulawiak
Affiliation: Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland
Research interests: geographic information systems; geovisualization; remote sensing; spatial analysis; geoinformation; web mapping; mapping; geoprocessing; spatial statistics; satellite image analysis

Name: Dr. Dennis Edler
Affiliation: Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Research interests: remote sensing; spatial memory; multimedia; experimental psychology; environmental psychology; GIS; human geography; education; virtual and augmented reality

We are pleased to announce the winners of the IJGI 2021–2022 Best Cover Award:

“A Critical Comparison of 3D Digitization Techniques for Heritage Objects”
by Efstathios Adamopoulos, Fulvio Rinaudo and Liliana Ardissono
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10010010

“Mapping Inuinnaqtun: The Role of Digital Technology in the Revival of Traditional Inuit Knowledge Ecosystems”
by Brendan Griebel and Darren Keith
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(11), 749; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10110749

“Historical Vltava River Valley–Various Historical Sources within Web Mapping Environment”
by Jiří Krejčí and Jiří Cajthaml
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2022, 11(1), 35; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11010035

Final remarks

The editorial department of IJGI sincerely thanks all the teachers and students for their support and contribution. IJGI will uphold its original intention and work with all the scholars to do a good job in publishing services and contribute to the geographic information science research field.