Time: 8:00pm, Sept 20, 2021 (Beijing Time)
Venue: Online via Zoom
Attendees (Alphabetically ordered by last name):

1. Prof. Min Chen
2. Prof. Christophe Claramunt
3. Prof. Barry Croke
4. Dr. Manish Kumar
5. Prof. Xin Li
6. Dr. Xintao Liu
7. Prof. Guonian Lü
8. Mr. Zaiyang Ma
9. Dr. Erik Nixdorf
10. Prof. Paul Torrens
11. Prof. Rumiana Vatseva

1. The progress in member registration.
   • There are 88 scholars and students registered as IGU-MGSC members.
2. Review of important events
   • The 2nd national forum on geographic modeling and simulation (and the launch ceremony of the training course on Chinese geographical analysis models) supported by IGU-MGSC on January 16-17, 2021.
   • Start calling for new members from May 2021.
   • The first training course on Chinese geographical analysis models supported by IGU-MGSC on August 9-16, 2021.
   • IGU 19th International Conference on Spatial Data Handling and Geographic Intelligence co-organized by MGSC on August 13-14, 2021.
   • The 2nd International Geography and Sustainability Workshop (online) co-organized by MGSC will be held on November 23-24, 2021.
3. Special issues
   • Applied Energy | SI: Energy digitization with spatial intelligence
   • Transactions in GIS | SI: Virtual Geographic Environment
   • Frontiers in Public Health (Environmental Health and Exposome) | SI: Smart Urban Environmental Health from Multi-Scale, Multimedia, Multi-Exposure, Multi-Target Perspectives
   • Water | SI: Advances in Hydroinformatics for Water Data Management and Analysis
4. Calling for new members
   • Most of our members are from Asia and Europe. We should call for more members from other regions, like North America.
   • Inviting the people who attend the conference or webinar to be our members.
5. Collecting news on geographic modeling and simulation and spreading to our colleagues via our website and mail list
   • We are collecting messages regarding the topic of IGU-MGSC or any conferences, special issues, and job positions in the geographic modeling field. These messages will be posted on our website and spread to our members through group mails every 3 months.
   • We can post our news through Twitter/Facebook/Researchgate.
6. Hosting or organizing conferences, workshops, and webinar
   • Do we organize/co-organize a session during the IGU-UGI Centennial Congress in Paris (July 18-22, 2022) ?
   
   • The speakers of the webinar: the honorary advisory members, the board members, award winners.
7. Four awards by committee meeting: Best Paper, Excellent Young Scholar, Distinguished Scholar and Distinguished Service.
   • Calling for three awards this year: Best Paper Award (journal paper), Excellent Young Scholar Award, and Distinguished Scholar Award.
   • Award preparation: (1) calling for award nominations, (2) organizing award committee, and (3) announcing award winners.
8. Any other business?
   • Updating the activities and news on the website.
9. Online photo of all attendees was taken.
   

During August 13-14, 2021, the 19th International Conference on Spatial Data Handling and Geographic Intelligence was successfully held. The IGU Comission on Geographical Information Science and Commission on Modeling Geographical Systems co-organized this conference.

The 1st training session on Chinese geographic analysis models was successfully held during August 9th-16th, 2021. This training session was mainly organized by Nanjing Normal University, the Geographical Society of China (GSC), China Society of Natural Resources (CSNR), China Association for Geospatial Information Society (CAGIS), Chinese National Committee of International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE). Our Modeling Geographical Systems Commission of the International Geographical Union (IGU) was also one of the co-organizers to support the training session.

This training session focused on four hydrological models: Distributed Time Variant Gain Model (DTVGM) developed by the team of Prof. Jun Xia (Wuhan University, the Academician of CAS), Uncertainty Quantification Python Laboratory (UQ-PyL) developed by the team of Prof. Qingyun Duan (Hohai University), Geomorphology-Based Hydrological Model (GBHM) developed by the team of Prof. Dawen Yang(Tsinghua University), and Spatially Explicit Integrated Modeling System (SEIMS) developed by the team of Prof. Junzhi Liu (Nanjing Normal University, Lanzhou University). There were 1280 students from 384 universities, institutes, and companies in 10 nations attending the online training session.

The success of this training session can promote the construction of the Chinese geographic model ecosystem and the open and sustainable geographic model community. It can also facilitate the model reusing, knowledge sharing, and collaborative geographic research.

Time: 7:00PM, Jan 27, 2021 (Beijing Time)
Venue: Online via Zoom
Attendees(Alphabetically ordered by last name):

1. Prof. Michael Batty
2. Prof. Min Chen
3. Prof. Tao Cheng
4. Prof. Christophe Claramunt
5. Prof. Barry Croke
6. Prof. Andreas Koch
7. Dr. Manish Kumar
8. Prof. Mei-Po Kwan
9. Prof. Xin Li
10. Dr. Xintao Liu
11. Prof. Antonio Paez
12. Dr. Karel Stanek
13. Prof. Josef Strobl
14. Prof. Jinfeng Wang

1. The website of MGSC has been launched at http://www.igu-geomodeling.com. Prof. Min Chen went through the website and introduced the main functions.
2. Four awards by committee meeting: Best Paper, Excellent Young Scholar, Distinguished Scholar and Distinguished Service.
3. Membership of MGSC: renew annually, free of charge, list on website.
4. Objectives to achieve for four years.
5. Events (workshop, conference, etc.) to be organized in 2021.
6. Regular meeting for every half year. Reasonable (Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan). To be scheduled in due course.
7. Other related stuff?
   N/A
8. Online photo of all attendees was taken.
   

    The 2nd national forum on geographic modeling and simulation (and the launch ceremony of the training course on domestic geographical analysis models) was successfully held in Nanjing Normal University during Jan 16th-17th, 2021. This forum was mainly organized by Key Laboratory of the Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC and School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University with several co-organizers including the Geographical Society of China (GSC), China Society of Natural Resources (CSNR), China Association for Geospatial Information Society (CAGIS), Chinese National Committee of International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), Modeling Geographical Systems Commission of International Geographical Union (IGU), Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of International Cartographic Association (ICA), Young Geographer Working Group of Asian Geographical Association (AGA), Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, and Yangtze River Delta State Sub-center of National Earth System Science Data Center. Due to the prevention and control measures of COVID-2019, the forum was synchronously conducted in the onsite and offsite way with the support of Tencent Meeting, ZOOM, and Bilibili Live.

    The forum began with the opening ceremony hosted by Prof. Linwang Yuan (the Dean of the School of Geography) on Jan 16th. Prof. Guoxiang Chen, the President of Nanjing Normal University, Prof. R. B. Singh, the Secretary General and Treasurer of IGU, Prof. Stefan Reis, the President of iEMSs, Prof. Guoyou Zhang, the Vice President and Secretary General of GSC, Prof. Shengkui Cheng, the President of CSNR, Prof. Zengning Wang, the Secretary General of CAGIS, and Prof. Jiantao Bi, the Deputy Secretary General of Chinese National Committee of ISDE were invited to give speeches. Moreover, Prof. Huijun Wang, the Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prof. Huayu Lu, the Vice President of GSC, Prof. Lijie Pu, the Vice President of CSNR, Prof. Guonian Lv, the Academic Leader of Geography Sciences of Nanjing Normal University and Prof. Min Chen, the Chair of Modeling Geographical Systems Commission, IGU presented the opening ceremony.
    During the forum, four Academicians of CAS, Prof. Huijun Wang from Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Prof. Peng Cui from Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE), CAS, Prof. Bojie Fu from Beijing Normal University, Prof. Jun Xia from Wuhan University, as well as Prof. Jia Wang from Division I, Department of Earth Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Prof. Jinshui Wu from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture (ISA), CAS, Prof. Yao Huang from the Institute of Botany, CAS, Prof, Wenjie Dong from School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Prof. Bin Wang from Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Prof. Xiangzheng Deng from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Prof. Xia Li from School of Geography Sciences, East China Normal University, Prof. Tianxiang Yue from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Prof. Jinfeng Wang from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Prof. Weimin Ju from the International Institute of Earth System Science, Nanjing University, Prof. Xin Li from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, Prof. Chunmiao Zheng from School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Prof. Dawen Yang from School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Prof. Qingyun Duan from College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, and Prof. Chuanhai Wang from College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University were invited to attend the forum. They gave presentations to share their work and achievements in the related domains of geographic modeling and simulation together with Prof. A-Xing Zhu and Prof. Min Chen who are from School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University. Because of these brilliant presentations, a large number of researchers and students (Up to 20 thousand people) are attracted to watch the forum live on the web.
    In addition, the training course on domestic geographical analysis models was launched in this forum. President Guoxiang Chen, Prof. Huijun Wang, Prof. Huayu Lu, Prof. Lijie Pu, Prof. Zengning Wang and Prof. Jiantao Bi attended the unveiling ceremony. Then, academician Prof. Xia’s team Jun, Prof. Qingyun Duan’s team, Prof. Dawen Yang’s team, and Dr. Junzhi Liu were invited as tutors of the first training course and attended the appointment ceremony.

    The National Geographic Modeling and Simulation Forum, which was founded in 2017 by Nanjing Normal University, aims to explore cutting-edge progress and scientific breakthroughs in the field of geographic modeling and simulation and to provide a unique platform for sharing scientific research achievements, exchange academic ideas, and strengthening academic cooperation among Chinese geographical modelers. Focusing on the development of domestic geographical analysis models and modeling platforms, this forum calls on Chinese geographical modelers to work together to develop domestic geographical analysis models and to build an ecological circle of autonomous model systems for the target of constructing Chinese autonomous geographical simulators and promoting the international researches in the fields of geographic modeling and simulation.

    The centennial congress of the International Geographical Union (IGU) will be held in Paris from June 18 to 22, 2022. Around the theme "Time for Geographers" of the congress, the Modeling Geographical Systems Commission (MGSC) of IGU will organize a virtual session–Geographic information modelling and simulation in the era of big data–to promote idea exchange and achievement sharing in this field.

Session description

    In the age of Internet, big data has become an important resource of human society. It is growing exponentially and rapidly affecting the development and transformation of human society. There are new opportunities that have also been taking place in the development of geography. In this context, the stage of "measurement revolution" and the application of geographic information system in geographic models and geographic information analyses have been past, and now they are stepping into the era of big data.
    On one hand, we need to find a way to invert the process of changes in the earth’s surface and establish a geoscience information map through the spatiotemporal digital construction based on computational science. On the other hand, with the support of big data and artificial intelligence, we need to explore the complex laws of earth surface changes relying on the professional knowledge of geosciences, through which we can discover new geoscience knowledge and realize holographic intelligent planning and prediction of the future. For example, there has been COVID-19 spreading globally since early 2020 until nowadays. To tackle the pandemic, spatiotemporal big data analysis and geographic modelling have been put forward with higher requirements in terms of geographic detection of epidemic risk, spatiotemporal diffusion laws, dissemination of early warnings, medical resource analysis, online public opinion monitoring, etc..
    This session aims to discuss and explore related theories, methods and potential practices, facilitating communication between experts from different domains, encouraging extensive discussion regarding the potential directions of the field, and promoting further research for a bright future.

Abstract submission

• Abstracts should be submitted in English.
• Please follow the instructions below for writing your abstract in the submission form:
  1. Title: maximum of 255 characters (spaces included);
  2. Resume: Text should be a maximum of 2000 characters (spaces included);
  3. Keywords: maximum of 5.
  4. References: maximum of 5.
  
• Website: https://www.ugiparis2022.org/en/abstracts-submission/29.

Now, the call for abstracts is open! You are invited to submit your abstracts for oral presentations.Abstract submission

The deadline for the abstract proposals is January 11th, 2022.
The announcement of the accepted abstracts is expected by January 21st, 2022.
For other information about the centennial congress, please refer to:
https://www.ugiparis2022.org/en/scientificinformation/1.