The GeoInformatics Conference series was initiated by the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS) in 1992, and has been held also under the name of CPGIS Annual Conference every year since then. This international conference series has provided a unique forum for exchanging novel ideas and cutting-edge knowledge on geographic information […]

Xiao Huang was selected as the second place winner of the 2019 AAG Robert Raskin Student Competition sponsored by the AAG Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group. His paper title is “Identifying disaster related social media for rapid response: a visual-textual fusion approach” .

We have a new paper “Identifying disaster related social media for rapid response: a visual-textual fused CNN architecture” accepted by International Journal of Digital Earth. Abstract: In recent years, social media platforms have played a critical role in mitigation for a wide range of disasters. The highly up-to-date social responses and vast spatial coverage from millions of […]

Geography doctoral student Xiao Huang was recently awarded three travels grants — one by the United States National Committee (USNC) of the International Cartographic Association, one by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) itself, and one by the Japan Local Organizing Committee — to attend the the 29th International Cartographic Conference in Tokyo, Japan, July 15-20, […]