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March 2014
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
Advances and New Perspectives in Geographic
Object-Based Image Analysis
Guest Editors
Dr. Ioannis Gitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Email:
Dr. Giorgos Mallinis, Democritus University of Thrace
Email:
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: August 1, 2014
Tentative publication date: June 1, 2015
Call for Papers
A Special Issue oin “Advances and New
Perspectives in Geographic Object-Based Image
Analysis” will focus on recently introduced
theories and innovations as well as future
research trends in Geographic Object-Based
Image Analysis (GEOBIA) by remote sensing
scientists and professionals.
Since emerging early in the 21st century,
GEOBIA has incorporated and further upgraded
established concepts in remote sensing and
interrelated spatial sciences. It has gained wide
popularity and attracted the interest of both
the scientific and professional communities, for
its efficiency to provide enhanced and reliable
geospatial intelligence. The growing interest
in GEOBIA is demonstrated by the increasing
number of high-quality manuscripts appearing
in the literature and the recent development
of GEOBIA-related (open source/commercial)
software packages. Towards that end, the bi-
annual GEOBIA conferences held in Salzburg
(2006), Calgary (2008), Ghent (2010), Rio de
Janeiro (2012) and Thessaloniki, Greece (2014),
have provided the impetus for much progress in
Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis.
Specifically, this special issue aims to bring
together articles that report advances and set up
new perspectives in GEOBIA theory, methods
and innovative applications including but not
limited to the following:
• Image segmentation algorithms
• Integration with novel classification
algorithms
• Classification/error assessment, uncertainty,
statistical analysis
• Object-based change detection
• Multi-scale and multi-temporal classifications
strategies and representations,
• Multi-sensor data integration and information
fusion
• Complex geospatial feature detection
• Ontologies
• Synergies with GIScience
• Open source software
• Local, regional and global scales applications
• Web-based GEOBIA services and semantics
• Future developments
All submissions will be peer-reviewed in line
with
PE&RS
policy. Because of page limits, not
all submissions recommended for acceptance by
the review panel may be included in the special
issue. Under this circumstance, the guest editors
will select the most relevant papers for inclusion
in the special issue. Papers that are reviewed
favorably, but will not fit within the Special
Issue, can be revised and submitted for review
as a new paper to the PE&RS Editor-in-Chief
for possible publication in a future regular issue
of
PE&RS
. Authors must prepare manuscripts
according to the
PE&RS
Instructions to
Authors, published in each issue of
PE&RS
and
also available on the ASPRS website at http://
-
Guidelines/blog.html.
Important Dates:
Manuscripts Due:
August 1, 2014
Notification to Authors:
November 1, 2014
Final Papers Due:
December 1, 2014
Publication:
June 1, 2015
Please submit your manuscript by email directly to the
Guest Editor:
Dr. Ioannis Z. Gitas
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Email:
