‘Digitality For Future’? – The Potential of Digital Practices for Transformative Education in the Area of Climate Change | Digital Geomedia and their Use in Education for Sustainable Development: Status Quo and Opportunities for Improvement | Embedding Geomedia as Innovation in the Classroom: A Theory-based Discussion of Innovation Discourse in Educational Systems | Ethics in GIS: A Systematic Analysis focusing on Privacy and Surveillance

GI_Forum Journal is an international, peer reviewed Open Access journal that provides a forum for the critical examination of spatial enquiry. It publishes high quality original research across the transdisciplinary field of Geographic Information Science (GIScience), Media Geographies and Geomedia Education. The journal provides a platform for dialogue among GI-Scientists and educators, technologists, social scientists, and critical thinkers in an ongoing effort to advance the field and ultimately contribute to an informed GISociety.

Submissions focus on innovation in education, science, methodology, technologies and communication in the spatial domain and their role towards a more just, ethical, and sustainable science and society. The journal explicitly welcomes contributions that emphasise efforts to address spatially relevant issues from an inter- and transdisciplinary, theoretical as well as empirical perspectives.

GI_Forum Journal is a journal of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 

Journal for Geographic Information Science

GI_Forum 2024, Volume 12

GI_Forum 2024, Volume 12 2024 12 12 

Environmental Data Sensing Through Participatory Urbanism. A best-practice Analysis and City-Administration Perspective | Detection of Urban Expansion Using the Indices-Based Built-Up Index Derived from Landsat Imagery in Google Earth Engine | Airborne LiDAR Enables Measurements of “Greenness” Observed from the Human Perspective | Tracing Individual Experiences of Everyday Greenness: Initial Results from the SpaceLog Mobile app | Assessing the Applicability of Sentinel-1 SAR Data for Semi-automatic Detection of Snow-avalanche Debris in the Southern Tyrolean Alps | Remote Sensing Methods Combined with Anti-collision Systems to Reduce Avian Collisions with Wind Turbines, Facilitating the Energy Transition | Monitoring the Evolution of the Kaiwhata Landslide in New Zealand Using Object-based Image Analysis and Sentinel-2 Time Series | Lava Flow Mapping Using Sentinel-1 SAR Data at the Fagradalsfjall Volcano, Iceland | Simulating the Effects of Increased Ski-lift Capacities on Waiting Times | Extending Rural Public Transport Based on Mobility Demand. A Case Study about Planning a Transport-on-demand System in Leogang (State of Salzburg, Austria) 

“GI_Forum” publishes high quality original research across the transdisciplinary field of Geographic Information Science (GIScience). The journal provides a platform for dialogue among GI-Scientists and educators, technologists and critical thinkers in an ongoing effort to advance the field and ultimately contribute to the creation of an informed GISociety. Submissions concentrate on innovation in education, science, methodology and technologies in the spatial domain. “GI_Forum” implements the policy of open access publication (CC-BY-ND-License) after a double-blind peer review process through a highly international team of established scientists for quality assurance. Special emphasis is put on actively supporting young scientists through formative reviews of their submissions. 



Issue 2023-2 includes papers by researchers from a variety of disciplines, most of whom presented their work at the GI_Salzburg 2023 conference (2023 Archive - English - GI_Salzburg (https://gi-salzburg.org/en/2023-archive-english/). Topics range from best-practice analysis and city-administration perspective on how environmental data is sensed and collected in urban areas, to the study of urban growth and highlighting the importance of monitoring and managing urban expansion for sustainable development, to the use of advanced GI-technology to measure "greenness" especially in urban environments, or to detect, map and monitor natural hazards such as avalanches, landslides or lava flows. 

GI_Forum 2023, Volume 11, Issue 2 

GI_Forum 2023, Volume 11, Issue 2  2023 11 11,2 2

The BioWhere Project: Unlocking the Potential of Biological Collections Data | Above-Ground Forest Biomass Estimation using Multispectral LiDAR Data in a Multilayered Coniferous Forest | Application of Object-Based Image Analysis for Detecting and Differentiating between Shallow Landslides and Debris Flows | SAR Change Detection to Evaluate Flood Event Characteristics, Pre- and Post-Restoration of a Floodplain | Mapping Spatiotemporal Changes of Evergreen Forest Patches that are Heritage Sites in Southern Mozambique using Google Earth Engine | Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Location and Usage of Public Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in the United States | Promoting Active and Sustainable Commuting: A Tool for Analysing Location-specific Conditions and Potentials for Walking, Cycling and Public Transport | A Comparative Study of Geocoder Performance on Unstructured Tweet Locations | Urban Green for Child- and Youth-Friendly Cities | Ch(e)atGPT? An Anecdotal Approach Addressing the Impact of ChatGPT on Teaching and Learning GIScience

“GI_Forum” publishes high quality original research across the transdisciplinary field of Geographic Information Science (GIScience). The journal provides a platform for dialogue among GI-Scientists and educators, technologists and critical thinkers in an ongoing effort to advance the field and ultimately contribute to the creation of an informed GISociety. Submissions concentrate on innovation in education, science, methodology and technologies in the spatial domain. “GI_Forum” implements the policy of open access publication (CC-BY-ND-License) after a double-blind peer review process through a highly international team of established scientists for quality assurance. Special emphasis is put on actively supporting young scientists through formative reviews of their submissions. 



The 2023-1 Issue comprises work of researchers from different disciplines, most of whom presented their work at the GI_Salzburg 2023 conference (https://gi-salzburg.org/en/). The articles address diverse collections of spatiotemporal data such as multispectral LIDAR, SAR or biology-related datasets, and advanced concepts, methods and tools applied for their analysis like OBIA or Google Earth Engine. Applications range from natural resources management, natural phenomena and hazards to green spaces, urban place perception, mobility, and infrastructure. The impact of ChatGPT on teaching and learning GIScience based on an anecdotal approach contributes to the overall discourse in the scientific and educational community respectively.

 

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GI_Forum 2023, Volume 11, Issue 1

GI_Forum 2023, Volume 11, Issue 1 2023 11 11,1 1

Investigation and Evaluation of a Transport Index for a Healthy Ageing Society | Framework and Use Case for a Web-Based Interactive Analysis Tool to Investigate Urban Expansion and Sustainable Development Goal Indicators | Analysing and Identifying Geospatial Key Factors in Smart Cities – Model Enhancements in the Use Case of Carpark Occupancy | Towards an Ontology of Urban Green Spaces | Development of a Standardized, Interdisciplinary Approach for Evaluating the Impact of Infrastructural Interventions on Sustainable Mobility | Methods for Georeferencing Linear and Non-Linear Media Content | The State of Trajectory Visualization in Notebook Environments

The 2022-2 Issue comprises work of researchers from different disciplines, some of whom presented their work at the GI_Salzburg 2022 conference (https://gi-salzburg.org/en/). The articles address aspects of modelling, sustainability, and SDGs in the context of Smart Cities, especially urban expansion, mobility, aging society, green spaces, and discuss methods for georeferencing linear and non-linear media content as well as the state of trajectory visualization in Notebook environments. 

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GI_Forum 2022, Volume 10, Issue 2

GI_Forum 2022, Volume 10, Issue 2 2022 10 10,2 2

“GI_Forum” publishes high quality original research across the transdisciplinary field of Geographic Information Science (GIScience). The journal provides a platform for dialogue among GI-Scientists and educators, technologists and critical thinkers in an ongoing effort to advance the field and ultimately contribute to the creation of an informed GISociety. Submissions concentrate on innovation in education, science, methodology and technologies in the spatial domain. “GI_Forum” implements the policy of open access publication (CC-BY-ND-License) after a double-blind peer review process through a highly international team of established scientists for quality assurance. Special emphasis is put on actively supporting young scientists through formative reviews of their submissions.  

GI_Forum 2022, Volume 10, Issue 1

GI_Forum 2022, Volume 10, Issue 1 2022 10 10,1 1

“GI_Forum” publishes high quality original research across the transdisciplinary field of Geographic Information Science (GIScience). The journal provides a platform for dialogue among GI-Scientists and educators, technologists and critical thinkers in an ongoing effort to advance the field and ultimately contribute to the creation of an informed GISociety. Submissions concentrate on innovation in education, science, methodology and technologies in the spatial domain. “GI_Forum” implements the policy of open access publication (CC-BY-ND-License) after a double-blind peer review process through a highly international team of established scientists for quality assurance. Special emphasis is put on actively supporting young scientists through formative reviews of their submissions. 



The 2021-1 Issue is the Special Issue on “Digital Earth for Sustainable Society”. It comprises work of researchers from various research areas who presented their contributions to the creation of the Digital Earth society at the International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE12, https://digitalearth2021.org/ ) from 06-08 July 2021 hosted by the University of Salzburg and its Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS. This Special Issue includes the 28 best papers in the category “Best practice papers for Sustainable Development Goals” guest edited by Josef Strobl, Thomas Blaschke and Julia Wegmayr.



 

Special Issue: 12th International Symposium on Digital Earth

GI_Forum 2021, Volume 9, Issue 1

GI_Forum 2021, Volume 9, Issue 1 2021 9 2021/9/Issue 1 1

Digital Data and Tools in Archaeology: The ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD) | PAN (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands): Harnessing Geospatial Technology for the Enrichment of Archaeological Data | Explorative Spatial Analysis of Neandertal Sites using Terrain Analysis and Stochastic Environmental Modelling | Analysing the Medieval Landscape of the German Palatinate | Creating Meaningful Narratives in Collections of Historical Lexical Data | Mapping as Making Space: The Case of a Nature–Culture Hybrid | Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Early Printed Music using Interactive Maps – A Templating Approach | Spatialities, Social Media and Sentiment Analysis: Exploring the Potential of the Detection Tool SentiStrength | Diversity and Transparency in (Volunteered) Geoinformation Practices | Geomedia: Manifestations of Power as Mediatized Communication Practices – A Foucauldian Approach | Analysing Digital Maps Online: A Reverse Engineering Approach | Spatial Citizenship and Service Learning – Breaking the Mould of Geography Teacher Education | Re-Reading Spatial Citizenship and Re-Thinking Harley’s Deconstructing the Map | Collaborative Innovating – The Potential of Street Art to Shape Spaces | Reflecting on the Smart City: How Student Teachers Learn to Teach Smart Pupils | Using the Geographies of Learning. An Exploratory Categorization for Spatially Enabled Learning | Fostering Holocaust Education and Remembrance Culture using Geomedia | Bringing Digital Urban Models into the Classroom – Potentials and Constraints for Web GIS and Collaborative Learning | Integrating Spatial Technology into Fieldtrips within Elementary Geography Education | Open Source Foundations for Spatial Decision Support Systems | Creating Models of Custom Image Classification Workflows Using Softmax Regression and Support Vector Machine | Travel-Mode Detection Based on GNSS Trajectories and Heart-Rate Data from Fitness Watches | Connecting Citizens and Housing Companies for Fine-grained Air-Quality Sensing | Assessment of Recreational Green Space Quality and Supply | Critical Infrastructure Analysis (CRITIS) in Developing Regions – Designing an Approach to Analyse Peripheral Remoteness, Risks of Accessibility Loss, and Isolation due to Road Network Insufficiencies in Chile | Multi-criteria Based Readiness Assessment for Developing Spatial Data Infrastructures in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran

Digital Humanities: Spatial Perspectives 



Learning with Geomedia 



Advances in GIScience Digital Humanities: Spatial Perspectives 



Learning with Geomedia 



Advances in GIScience

GI_Forum 2018, Volume 6, Issue 2

GI_Forum 2018, Volume 6, Issue 2 2018 6 2018/6/Issue 2 2

Geospatial Innovation for Society 

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GI_Forum 2014, Volume 2

GI_Forum 2014, Volume 2 2014 2 2014/2/Issue 1 1

Geospatial Minds for Society

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GI_Forum 2015, Volume 3

GI_Forum 2015, Volume 3 2015 3 2015/3/Issue 1 1

Improved Cropland Mapping in Ethiopia | Landsat Time Series Analysis for Modelling Temporal Probability for Landslide Occurrences in Curvature Subcarpathians, Romania | How to Map Audio Data with Students after Doing Fieldwork Using Mobile Devices? | Frontmatter II | Editorial | Advances in Geographic Information Scienc and Geographic Information Technology | EURAC SDI: A Near Real Time and Offline Automatic Metadata Generation Processing Chain | IDE-OTALEX: The First Crossborder SDI Between Portugal and Spain | Finding the Right Approach for a National Underground Infrastructure Register Object | SUNSHINE: Smart UrbaN ServIces for Higher eNergy Efficiency | shareOGD: An Approach for Integrating Semantic Information in Open Government Data | Building Restoration: A GIS Task? | Development and Completeness of Points Of Interest in Free and Proprietary Data Sets: A Florida Case Study | User Experiences with Voice-Based Descriptive Map Content in a Hiking Context | An Extension of an Ontology-Based Land Cover Designation Approach for Fuzzy Rules | Modelling the Spatial and Temporal Resolution of a Sensor Observation | Landspotting: A Serious iPad Game for Improving Global Land Cover | Evaluating Global Land Cover Datasets: Comparing VGI on Cropland with Formal Data | Using Crowdsourcing to Examine Land Acquisitions in Ethiopia | The Ecosystem Approach as a Means to Characterise Urban Green Spaces | An Adaptive Sampling Approach for Trajectories Based on the Concept of Error Ellipses | Where Do Critical Thinking and Spatial Citizenship meet? On the Importance of Avoiding Maps without Meaning | BIO_SOS Modelling Activities: Modelling Runoff-Sediment Connectivity | Relationship of Canopy Cover with TanDEM-X Features in a Tropical Peat Swamp Forest | Geographical Information System “Meets” Environmental Data Management: Exemplified at Practical Projects | Driving Forces of Non-Violent Crime in Houston, TX: A Spatially Filtered Negative Binomial Model | Analyzing the Impact of One Important Unplanned Exceptional Event, Hurricanes, on Crime in Louisiana, U.S. Using a Visual Analytics Approach | Excess Heat-Related Mortality in Micro-Urban Heat Islands: A Case-only Study in Barcelona | Using GIS Methods in Spatial Modelling of Climatic Water Balance Index | A Spatially Explicit Approach for Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of GIS-Multicriteria Landslide Susceptibility Mapping | A Spotlight on Mobility and Interconnection in Rural vs. Urban Areas | Extracting River Features from Remotely Sensed Data: An Evaluation of Thematic Correctness | Simplifying and Exchanging 3D Utility Network Objects Using City Models | Evacuation Routing Out of Tsunami Hazard Zones | A Proposal for Mapping Historic Irrigation Channels to Reveal Insights into Agro-Climatic Systems: A Case Study in Upper Austria | Creating a Geodatabase for Tourism Research in the Sultanate of Oman | The Influence of Distance and Neighbourhood Surroundings on Children’s Travel Mode to School | Implementation of a Web-based NASA World Wind Tool for the Visualization of Climate Data | A New Cloud-based Deployment of Image Analysis Functionality | Tracking Quality of Low-Cost GNSS-Receivers | Spatial Citizenship | Section Editorial: Geoinformation and Society: Practising and Comprehending Geomedia | A New Age of Discovery: The Post-GIS Era | Spatial Citizenship: The Concept of Competence | Spatial Thinking or Thinking Geographically? On the Importance of Avoiding Maps without Meaning | Providing Geomedia Skills beyond (Post)Secondary Education | Gamification of Geographic Data Collection | The Uses of Geomedia: An Object-Centered and Situated Approach | Irreductionally Real Information Infrastructures: Practices beyond Universals | Gender Dimensions in UGC and VGI: A Desk-Based Study | Visualising the Re-Production of Space with Multi-Layer Maps | Education for Digital Earth | Promoting Spatial Thinking and Learning with Mobile Field Trips and eGeo-Riddles | Assessing the Usability of WebGIS for Schools | Rethinking Urban Space: GPS Drawing as a Tool to Examine Spatial Patterns and Relationships | Using Versatile Cartographic Means in a Virtual Field Trip to Cologne | Preparing a Vienna Project Week in Web 2.0 (from Approved Forms of Preparation to E-Learning Resulting in E-Content) | What Happens when Teacher Training in Digital Geomedia is over? Case Studies Analyzing Levels of Pedagogical Integration | Experience with the GIS Mobility Project at KOGEKA: An Example of Co-operation between Primary and Secondary Schools on School Mobility and Traffic Safety | Tools and Learning Management Functions for a Competence-Oriented Integration of Remote Sensing in Classrooms | Mathematics and Geography with Digital-Earth | Spatial Orientation, Geomedia and Learning: The design of a Comparative Empirical Study | I-Use Statistics in Education | Ecosystem and Biodiversity Monitoring: Best Practice in Europe and Globally (EO4Hab) | Earth Observation for Habitat and Biodiversity Monitoring | Exploitation of Remote Sensing Data for Land Cover to Habitat Map Translation: A Case Study | An Introduction to the BIO_SOS Project: BIOdiversity Multi-SOurce Monitoring System – from Space to Species | An Ontological Indicator System Based on MODIS Images to Detect Changes in Habitats Functioning in Sierra Nevada (Spain) Natura 2000 Site | Novel Tools to Improve the Management of Spatial Data Quality in the Context of Ecosystem and Biodiversity Monitoring | Mapping Natural Habitats Using Remote Sensing and Sparse Partial Least Square Discriminant Analysis | Modelling the Connectivity of Natura 2000 Sites and Their Integration in the Wider Landscape | Comparing Habitat Classification Schemes for Assessing Landscape Diversity | Land Cover and Habitat Classification from Earth Observation Data: A New Approach from BIO_SOS | LiDAR as a Valuable Information Source for Habitat Mapping | Towards Semantic Interoperability in Biodiversity Monitoring | Forest Disturbance Information Layer for Alpine Forest Habitats | TerraSAR-X Based Monitoring of Mangrove Reforestation in Senegal: A Feasibility Study | Mapping Habitats in Alpine Regions Using Multi-Temporal RapidEye Data | Habitat Quality Analysis of Natura 2000 Riparian Forests | Validation of Habitat Assessment Services in Natura 2000 Sites: Streamlining the Role of Stakeholders from User Needs to Conservation Status Evaluation | Hybrid Pixel- and Object-Based Approach to Habitat Condition Monitoring | BIO_SOS´ EODHaM System Towards an Operational Habitat Monitoring Service | Comparison of Land Cover/Land Use and Habitat Classification Systems for Habitat Mapping from Space: Strengths and Weaknesses Evidenced in Mediterranean Sites of Natura 2000 Network | Acknowledgement

GIS as a technology has come a long way, from the early adoption of technical wizardry to the ubiquitous, if unconscious use by the masses. The creation of the GISociety is on its way through technological development, theoretical and empirical scientific research and inclusion of technology into education with increasing pedagogical justification. Defining new dimensions of hard- and software, brainware and orgware are all needed to further develop the GISociety.



The Geoinformatics Forum (www.gi-forum.org) held in Salzburg from July 2-5, 2013, links into these research areas. We are pleased to present work by researchers who actively contribute to the creation of the GISociety in theoretical, technical, and educational terms. This reflects that a GISociety can only be created though close interaction among the domains of science, technology and education. Topics of the 2013 proceedings therefore include:

• Advances in Geographic Information Science

and Geographic Information Technology

• Spatial Citizenship

• Education for Digital Earth

• Ecosystem and Biodiversity Monitoring: Best Practice in Europe and Globally (EO4Hab)



The book is aimed at researchers and practioners in the field geoinformation with an academic, industrial or educational background. 

Creating the GISociety – Conference Proceedings

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Josef Strobl

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