Call for Papers

Call for Papers
Agro-Geoinformatics 2018

The Seventh International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics (Agro-Geoinformatics 2018) will be held in Hangzhou, China on August 6-9, 2018. This conference is organized and hosted by Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University and Zhejiang University.

Agro-geoinformation is critical for the agricultural sustainability, food security, environmental research, bioenergy, natural resource conservation, land use management, carbon accounting, global climate change, health research, agricultural industry, commodity trading, economy research, education, agricultural decision making and policy formulation, etc. The annual Agro-Geoinformatics conferences have been successfully held since 2012. The Agro-Geoinformatics conferences have provided and will continue to provide an ideal venue for researchers, scientists, engineers, professors and students to exchange their ideas, research results, professional experiences, the latest developments and future vision of agro-geoinformatics. The Agro-Geoinformatics 2018 conference will continue covering the recent advances in the life cycle of agro-geoinformatics, from data collection (including field surveys and remote sensing), processing, storing, archiving, preservation, retrieving, transmitting, accessing, visualization, analyzing, synthesizing, presenting and dissemination to decision makers. This conference encourages the submission of papers which include: original research, work in progress, new findings, new methods, new ideas and new applications.

The conference will include plenary and oral sessions. The topics of the conference are listed HERE. 

Selected paper will be published in Agro-Geoinformatics special issue at “Remote Sensing”, a SCI-indexed journal.

All abstracts must be 400-500 words long and written in English. Abstracts must include title and authors (first name surname), and indicate the presenter by underlining the name and providing that author’s contact details: affiliations, department, full address (street, city, state/province, and country), telephone, fax, and Email. Selected keywords are also required to be included in submitted abstract. This would be beneficial for your papers to be assigned to proper conference sessions. Submission format for full paper shall be following the instructions published at: https://cloud.csiss.gmu.edu/agro2018. All submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed to maintain high quality presentations. Conference proceedings will be published in the IEEE Xplore database. The accepted papers presented at the conference by the duly registered author will be included in the conference proceedings. One author may present a maximum of two papers as the first author. Important dates are listed as follows:

  • March 15, 2018: Invited Session Submission Deadline
  • March 31, 2018: Abstract submission deadline
  • April 30, 2018: Notification of abstract acceptance
  • June 1, 2018: Early Registration Deadline
  • June 25, 2018: Author Registration Deadline
  • June 30, 2018: Full paper submission Deadline
  • August 06-09, 2018: Agro-Geoinformatics 2018

All submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed to maintain high quality presentations. Conference proceedings will be published in the IEEE Xplore database. Only papers, presented at the conference by one of the listed authors and duly registered for the conference, will be retained in the conference proceedings.

For further information regarding Agro-Geoinformatics 2018, please contact: info@cloud.csiss.gmu.edu