SIGSPATIAL - Special Interest Group on Spatial Information
The ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners in all applications that involve spatial information. SIGSPATIAL will encourage fundamental research in handling spatial information, participation in standardization activities including terminology, evaluation, and methodology, interdisciplinary education among spatial information researchers, students, and practitioners.
SIGSPATIAL benefits for FY 2025
Member Benefits:
- Access to the content of the SIGSPATIAL Conference as well as associated workshops in the ACM Digital Library
- Reduced registration at conferences sponsored by SIGSPATIAL
- Subscription to the SIGSPATIAL Newsletter in electronic format issued twice a year
- Travel support for selected student members in USA to attend the SIGSPATIAL Conference and co-located workshops (e.g., through NSF and other sponsorships)
Community Benefits:
- 10-Year Impact Award at the SIGSPATIAL Conference
- Best Paper Award at the SIGSPATIAL Conference
- Best Demo Award at the SIGSPATIAL Conference
- Best Poster Paper Presentation Award at the SIGSPATIAL Conference
- Host graduate and undergraduate Student Research Competition (SRC)
- Programming contest at the SIGSPATIAL Conference with awards to the contest winners
- Reduced student registration at the SIGSPATIAL Conference
- Maintenance of the SIGSPATIAL.org web site
- Special issue of Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS) journal with best papers from SIGSPATIAL Conference
- Job-seekers exposure to sponsor companies recruiting at SIGSPATIAL Conference, including resume pool for higher-level sponsors