The Asia GIS Conference was first held
in Hong Kong in 1994. Since then, it has been held in Bangkok, Taipei,
and Tokyo. After the Asia GIS 2001 Conference in Tokyo, China hosted
the Asia GIS 2003 Conference which was held in Wuhan, China, from
16-18 October 2003. In addition to GIS scholars and experts in the
Asia-Pacific region, well-known international scholars were invited
to deliver thematic lectures.Year by year the conferences grew in
attendance, number of exhibits, and the variety and number of sessions.
It became apparent that the biennual conference had grown too large
to be handled in the somewhat informal way we were following. A
group of people who have been active in putting on the conferences
met and agreed to take a more formal approach. Thus was born the
Asia GIS Association (AGISA), incorporated as a not-for-profit professional
association.
The Association will take overall responsibility
for the future biennual conferences in the Asian area as well as
offer other services to members.
The Preparatory Committee of Asia GIS Association
was comprised of experts and professionals from universities and
other research institutes with active GIS involvements. The founding
memberswere:
- LI,
Deren (Co-Chairman), LIESMARS, Wuhan University, China
- YEH,
Anthony (Co-Chairman), Hong Kong GIS Association and GIS Research
Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
- SHI, Lite (Secretary), LIESMARS, Wuhan University,
China
- CHEN, Jun, China GIS Association, China
- CHEN, Xiaoyong, Asian Institute of Technology,
Thailand
- GONG, Jianya, LIESMARS, Wuhan University, China
- LI, Zhilin, Department of Land Surveying and
Geoinformatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
China
- HAYASHID,A. Sachiko, Faculty of Science, Nara
WomenĄŻs University, Japan
- SHIBASAKI, Ryosuke, Center for Spatial Information
Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
- SUN, Chih-Hong, Department of Geography, National
Taiwan University, China-Taipei
- PARK, Chong-hwa, Department of Landscape Architecture,
Seoul National University, Korea
- YAAKUP, Ahris, Department of Urban and Regional
Planning, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- ZHOU, Chenghu, The State Key Lab of Resources
and Environmental Information System, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China
- ZHOU, Qiming, Department of Geography, Hong
Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR China
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