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 2027
Member Benefits:
- Reduced registration at the main SIGSPATIAL conference and conferences sponsored by SIGSPATIAL
- Subscription to the SIGSPATIAL Newsletter in electronic format
- Travel support for selected student members to attend the SIGSPATIAL Conference and co-located workshops (e.g., through NSF and other sponsorships)
- Voting in elections for SIGSPATIAL executive committee
Community Benefits:
- Lifetime Impact Award at the SIGSPATIAL Conference
- 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
- Broadening participation event at SIGSPATIAL conference