Geographic Information Technologies and the New Challenges of Globalization in a Changing Environment

Dear Colleagues,

The Iberoamerican Conference of Geographical Information Systems (CONFIBSIG) is the scientific–technological meeting with the greatest scope of specialties in Latin America. During these conferences, ideas are shared and issues related to theoretical, methodological and application developments corresponding to the advances made from different disciplines that have found in geography as a science and, particularly, in geoinformation a fundamental dimension for their studies are discussed.

Researchers, professors, consultants, technicians and students approach the most modern developments from different research centers and institutions in different countries to learn about, analyze and discuss new models of solutions to spatial problems on different scales.

It is considered that geographic information technologies (GIT), particularly geographic information systems (GIS), become fundamental theoretical–methodological tools to make rational decisions and actions that try to find useful paths for future development.

From 1989 to 2017, these conferences have been organized by the Ibero-American Society of Geographic Information Systems (SIBSIG, Sociedad Iberoamericana de Sistemas de Información Geográfica), and from 2019 by the Ibero-American Network of Geographic Information Systems (REDISIG, Red Iberoamericana de Sistemas de Información Geográfica (REDISIG)) together with various Ibero-American and Spanish universities hosting the event.

Thus, the CONFIBSIG are a space for these tasks in the search for the best use of GIS technology, so that support is provided from various disciplines to address the socio-spatial problems of our national realities.

This Special Issue will not only collect the extended conference abstracts from the conference, but will also gather papers by interested experts worldwide. It aims to publish the latest international research on the application of GIT to show different challenges: a global pandemic, a climate crisis, social inequalities or increasingly complex humanitarian emergencies that transcend borders. We encourage authors to submit contributions in the following priority areas to this Special Issue of Land:

• Geoinformation: Big Spatial Data; Collective mapping, voluntary geographic information (IGV) and geolocation of agents and activities on social networks; Spatial Data Infrastructure; Gis Web, Mobile Gis, Cloud Gis and Open Gis.
• Remote Sensing: Methods and Techniques for Earth Observation in the 21st Century.
• GITs for spatial decision support: Physical-natural applications of GIT (risks, global change, ODS, etc.); Urban and rural applications of GITs (Smart cities, Smart territories, etc.; Socioeconomic applications of GITs (population, development, health, education, social interaction, mobility and transport, tourism, geomarketing, commerce, etc.).
• The use of GITs in teaching and in the dissemination of geographic knowledge: GITs applications for teaching Geography; Geographic dissemination activities.’

Papers extended from the abstracts accepted at the conference will receive a 10% discount on the article processing charge upon submission to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Ana Nieto Masot
Prof. Dr. Gema Cárdenas
Dr. José A. Gutiérrez Gallego
Guest Editors

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