Acquisition and processing of remotely sensed data Analysis-oriented and standards-compliant WebGIS Applications of BeiDou navigation satellite system Automated object extraction and database updates from imagery Big Data analytics Cartographic theory and applications Climate changes and global environment Cyberinfrastructure and CyberGIS Data models in cartography Digital gazetteer Environmental criminology and crime simulation Environmental hazards and natural disasters Environmental health, disease, and wellbeing Errors and their measurements in spatial data Geo-event and geo-process Geographic information retrieval Geo-ontology Geospatial cloud computing Geospatial computation and simulation Geospatial data sharing and interoperability Geospatial education, such as virtual globes-based virtual education Geospatial intelligence Geospatial web portal and services GeoStatistics and applications GIS for environment and health GIS for Geosciences GIS for government and public services Indoors positioning and navigation Integration of RS, GIS and GNSS (3S) LIDAR technology for DEM generation and 3D modeling Land use and land cover change Map generalization Mobile data collection, management and analysis Monitoring of resources and environment Multi-dimensional (2D, 3D, and 4D) spatial data modeling and data quality New trends of technologies and research in GIS Processing and application of high-resolution imagery Representation and visualization of geospatial data Satellite positioning technology and location based service Semantic web and sensor web Smart city and sustainable development Space-time integration Spatial analysis of social web Spatial and spatiotemporal Big Data Spatial database Spatial data mining Spatial decision support systems Spatial and spatiotemporal uncertainties and data quality Spatial workflow Spatiotemporal dynamic analysis and simulation Spatiotemporal computing Surveying and mapping in geosciences Theories and algorithms in GIS Urban GIS and its applications Virtual Globes and their application to scientific research and daily life Wireless and mobile GIS solutions