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The Geospatial Information and SDG Nexus: GI4SDGs<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n

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In September 2015, the United Nations adopted \u201cTransforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development\u201d as a new ambitious global development plan with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets. Recognizing the complex and diverse challenges the world is facing today, this agenda aims to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and combat climate change. In order to ensure its successful implementation, the United Nations has been devoting to establishing a systematic follow-up and review of the progress towards SDGs at national, regional and global levels, through an indicator-based and data-driven monitoring approach.<\/h5>\n

Reliable and up-to-date geospatial data plays a fundamental role in the monitoring process, and the utilization of geospatial tools in SDGs monitoring has become a critical task for ISPRS and international geospatial communities. In the year 2019, ISPRS council has decided to set up a scientific program on \u201cGeospatial Information-enabled SDGs Monitoring for the 2030 Agenda\u201d, jointly with other international organizations. Its overreaching goal is to promote the best use of geospatial information in supporting SDGs monitoring and analysis through mobilizing and integrating all possible resources from ISPRS members and other stakeholders. The first ISPRS workshop on Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development Goals (GI4SDGs) was successfully organized in Changsha, China from Nov.19-20, 2019.<\/h5>\n

This second GI4SDGs workshop will provide an interdisciplinary platform to present the latest development and progress in the area of geospatial-enabled SDG monitoring and application. It will bring together people of different communities and disciplines, such as geomatics and remote sensing, environmental and urban studies, deep learning and service computing. Experts and users will present their novel and innovative methods to highlight successful case studies and to explore possible collaboration.<\/h5>\n

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The workshop will concentrate on the following topics:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\u2981 Opportunities and challenges of geospatial information-enabled SDGs;<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u2981 SDGs monitoring examples with geospatial perspective;<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u2981 Definition and modeling of geospatial essential variables for SDGs monitoring;<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u2981 Algorithms and methods for deriving geospatial essential variables, e.g., machine learning, big data analytics, cloud computing and other technologies;<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u2981 Global mapping initiatives and progresses at national and international levels;<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u2981 Integrating crowd-sourced data and VGI with geospatial data for SDGs monitoring;<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u2981 Developments and applications of geospatial knowledge service and collaborative platforms to meet SDGs assessment and monitoring;<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u2981 Ethical use of geospatial data and SDGs<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u2981 Other related topics.<\/strong><\/h6>\n

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The workshop plans to have the following four technical sessions:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\u2981 Session 1: Assessing SDGs progress by integrating geospatial and statistical information<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u2981 Session 2: Extracting Geospatial Information for SDGs<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u2981 Session 3: Monitoring SDGs with geospatially essential variables<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\u2981 Session 4: ISPRS Scientific Program GI4SDGs: Progress and Collaboration<\/strong><\/h6>\n

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Workshop Chairs<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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