Dear all CPGISers,

The 18th International Conference on Geoinformatics (Geoinformatics 2010) was successfully held on June 18-20 at Peking University, Beijing.

The conference consists of plenary session, 1 student paper competition session, 6 special sessions, 34 general sessions, 3 poster sessions, and two workshops. In the plenary session, there are 5 professionals from academia and governments given the welcome addresses and 9 keynote speakers gave excited high-level professional speeches. The student paper competition session, chaired by Prof. Xun Shi, chose four students as the first, second and third (2) place awardees.

The conference received more than 600 submissions, and about 550 professionals and students who come from 18 countries and districts participated in the conference. Lots of our CPGIS members came to the conference and played very important roles in the conference. For example, the workshop for Junior and Future Faculty, organized by Prof. Lin Liu, has attracted a wide interest.

The conference program and detailed information about the conference is available online at the conference website (http://cn.geoinformatics2010.org/). All accepted papers will be published by IEEE eXplore.

On behalf of the local organization committee of Geoinformatics 2010 and CPGIS annual conference committee, I would like to take this opportunity to thank chairs and members of International Steering Committee, Program Committee and Local Organization Committee for their selfless contribution to the conference, thank all authors for their contribution, thank all sessions’ chairs for their dedicated work to hold the sessions, thank CPGIS members for their continuous support to the annual conference.

Cheers,

Yu Liu, Ph. D.

Chair of CPGIS annual conference committee

Institute of RS and GIS, Peking University