Sunday, June 13, 1999

5:00 - 7:00 Registration
7:00 Icebreaker  Reception (Top of the East Lounge)

Monday, June 14, 1999

8:45 - 9:00 Welcome (Organizers)

Session 1 (Moderator: Peggy Agouris)

9:00 - 9:30 Zarine Kemp, Univ. of Kent, UK "A Framework for Integrating GIS and Digital Images"
9:30 - 10:00 Amarnath Gupta, Richard Marciano, Ilya Zaslavsky and Chaitanya Baru, UC San Diego and San Diego State U., USA "Integrating GIS and Imagery through XML-Based Information Mediation"
10:00 - 10:30 David McKeown, Carnegie Mellon University, USA "Compilation of Large Scale Geospatial Databases: Integration and Visualization of Disparate Data"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Session 2 (Moderator: Timos Sellis)

11:00 - 11:30 Max Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA "Computational Models for Assessing Geometric and Semantic Similarity"
11:30 - 12:00 Thomas Bittner and Stephan Winter, TU Vienna, Austria "On Ontology in Image Analysis"
12:00 - 12:30 Anusha Malwatte, Menaka Kaggoda, and Arcot Sowmya, UNSW, Australia "Digital Map Comparison using Spatial Reasoning"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

Session 3 (Moderator: Marc van Kreveld)

2:00 -2:30 Joern Moeltgen, Benno Schmidt, and Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany "Landscape Editing with Knowledge-Based Measure Deductions for Ecological Planning"
2:30 - 3:00 Christopher B. Jones, J. Mark Ware, and David R. Miller, University of Glamorgan, UK "A Probabilistic Approach to Environmental Change Detection with Area-Class Map Data"
3:00 - 3:30 Nikos Lorentzos, Nectaria Tryfona, and J.R. Rios Viqueira, Agricultural Univ. of Athens Greece, and Aalborg University, Denmark "Relational Algebra for Spatial Data Management"

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break

Session 4 (Moderator: Anthony Stefanidis)

4:00 - 4:30 Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece "CHOROCHRONOS - Research on Spatio-Temporal Database Systems"
4:30 - 5:00 Kate Beard, Peggy Agouris and Anthony Stefanidis, University of Maine, USA "A Spatio-Temporal Model for Integrated Information Management"

Tuesday, June 15, 1999

Session 5 (Moderator: Silvia Nittel)

9:00 - 9:30 H. Schultz, D. Slaymaker, C. Holmes, F. Stolle, A. Hanson,  Ed Riseman, M. Delaney and M. Powell, University of Massachusetts, USA "Cost-Effective Determination of Biomass from Aerial Images"
9:30 - 10:00 Shashi Shekhar, Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Thomas E. Burk, Marvin Bauer, University of Minnesota, USA "Information Extraction Issues in Remote Sensing and Forest Resources Spatial Databases"
10:00 - 10:30 Ben Gorte, ITC, The Netherlands "Change Detection by Classification of Multi-Temporal Images"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Session 6 (Moderator: Zarine Kemp)

11:00 - 11:30 Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA "Spatial Databases and Geographic Information Systems"
11:30 - 12:00 Silvia Nittel, Kenneth Ng, Richard Muntz, UCLA, USA "CONQUEST: CONcurrent QUEries over Space and Time"
12:00 - 12:30 Yongjian Fu and Jackson Teng, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA "Improving High-Dimensional Indexing with Heuristics for Content-Based Image Retrieval "

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

Sessions 7&8 (Moderator: Stephan Winter)

2:00 -2:30 Roberto Lattuada, Oracle, USA "Building a Very Large Image Database using Oracle and the GeoImage Component"
2:30 - 3:00 Andy Wilson, Dinesh Manocha, and Ming C. Lin, University of North Carolina, USA "Representation and Interactive Manipulation of Massive CAD Databases"
3:00 - 3:30 Michael Freeston, Mike Hoerhammer, UC Santa Barbara, USA, and Univ. of Aberdeen, Scotland "A Balanced Index Structure for Multi-Resolution Pan and Zoom over Large Raster Images"
3:30 - 4:00 Christopher Jaynes, Univ. of Kentucky, USA "View Alignment of Aerial and Terrestrial Imagery in Urban Environments"

4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break

Wednesday, June 16, 1999

Session 9 (Moderator: Chris Jaynes)

9:00 - 9:30 Volker Walter, University of Stuttgart, Germany "Comparison of the Potential of Different Sensors for an Automatic Approach for Change Detection in GIS Databases"
9:30 - 10:00 Pete Doucette, Peggy Agouris, Mohamad Musavi, and Anthony Stefanidis, University of Maine, USA "Automated Extraction of Linear Features from Aerial Imagery using Kohonen Learning and GIS Data"
10:00 - 10:30 Uwe Stilla, Research Inst. For Information Processing and Pattern Recognition (FGAN-FIM), Germany "Reconstruction of Building Models from Maps and Laser Altimeter Data"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Session 10: General Discussion / Concluding Remarks

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch