Conference Themes

The papers will be scheduled by conference theme; these themes or tracks are listed in the table on the next page. The "Short Name" appears in the interface of the Scientific Sub Committee's Submissions System. The "Full Title" is the complete name of the theme. The Submissions System and also the conference web site provide descriptions of each theme that defines the scope of each one of these.

Authors should propose a classification of their work associating their abstract to one of these themes when submitting it in the Submissions System. Nevertheless, authors whose papers do not necessarily fit into a classification under these themes are also invited to participate; in this case they should choose theme N 31, "Others". The definitive classification of a paper into its respective track and technical session in the programme will be confirmed at an appropriate stage.

Nº	Short name	Full title of the themes
1	Production systems	Map production systems, economic, management and technological aspects.
2	Basic Cartography	Marine cartography and hydrographic charting, aeronautical cartography, military mapping.
3	Infrastructures (SDI)	Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI, GSDI and SDI) at national, regional and world levels. Spatial data handling and the development and use of geospatial standards. Spatial databases, updating, versioning, and spatial querying.
4	Hazards and disasters	Cartography for early warning, crisis management, disaster relief and poverty eradication.
5	GIS	Digital cartography and GIS for sustainable development of territories.
6	Satellite imagery	Cartography and satellite imagery for the management of natural resources and the environment.
7	History	The history of cartography and the cartography of history.
8	Physical handicap	Maps for the blind and visually impaired.
9	Research and development	Research and development: new products and cartographic systems.
10	Map Projections	Cartographic Projections.
11	Geospatial analysis	Geospatial analysis, modelling and geoinformation science
12	Toponymy	Toponymy and Geographic Names.
13	Internet	Cartography and the Internet, mobile devices, ubiquitous computers, and location-based services. Navigation.
14	Atlases	National, regional and electronic atlases. Multimedia, thematic and census cartography.
15	Multimedia	Multimedia and multidimensional cartography.
16	Copyright	Copyright, access to data, and intellectual property management in cartography.
17	Users	Use and user issues in cartography.
18	Education	Education and training in cartography. Delivery of online courses.
19	Generalization	Cartographic generalization and multiple representation.
20	Geovisualization	Geovisualization. Visual analytics, mapping space and time, 3D mapping.
21	Virtual Reality	Virtual and augmented reality for cartography. Animated and temporal mapping.
22	Maps and society	Maps and society. Mapping by non-cartographers. Under-represented groups in cartographic practice.
23	Tourism	Tourist and recreational cartography. Maps in the media and in advertising.
24	Art	Map design.Art and cartography. Creativity, symbolisation and representation of space.
25	Cartographic Heritage.	Digital technologies for cartographic heritage.
26	Planets and Space	Planetary & outer-space cartography.
27	Critical Cartography	Critical cartographies and Criticism of Maps.
28	Montains	Mountain cartography.
29	Children	Cartography and Children.
30	Theory	Theoretical cartography.
31	Others	Other themes linked to cartographic sciences.