Journal of Geographic Information System (JGIS) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancements in geographic information system. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields:

• · Cartography and Geodesy
• · Computational Geometry
• · Computer Vision Applications in GIS
• · Distributed, Parallel, and GPU Algorithms for GIS
• · Earth Observation
• · Environmental Geomatics — GIS, RS and Other Spatial Information Technologies
• · Geographic Information Retrieval
• · Geographical Analysis for Urban and Regional Development
• · GIS and Cloud Computing
• · GIS and High Performance Computing
• · Human Computer Interaction and Visualization
• · Image and Video Understanding
• · Location Privacy, Data Sharing and Security
• · Location-Based Services
• · Performance Evaluation
• · Photogrammetry
• · Similarity Searching
• · Social Networks and Volunteer Geographic
• · Spatial Analysis and Integration
• · Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Information Acquisition
• · Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• · Spatial Data Quality and Uncertainty
• · Spatial Data Structures and Algorithms
• · Spatial Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Decision Support
• · Spatial Information and Society
• · Spatial Modeling and Reasoning
• · Spatial Query Processing and Optimization
• · Spatial Semantic Web
• · Spatio-Temporal Data Handling
• · Spatio-Temporal Sensor Networks
• · Spatio-Temporal Stream Processing
• · Spatio-Textual Searching
• · Standardization and Interoperability for GIS
• · Storage and Indexing
• · Systems, Architectures and Middleware for GIS
• · Traffic Telematics
• · Transportation
• · Visual Languages and Querying
• · Wireless, Web, and Real-Time Applications

We are also interested in short papers, as in the form of a letter, that clearly address a specific narrow problem and in papers that survey problems and new results pertaining to a certain topic. Authors may be invited to write short papers on the same topic in more than one successive issue of JGIS.