The U.S. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis is holding an international conference concerning discrete global grids. The conference will be held in the Radisson Hotel on the Santa Barbara waterfront in California. It will begin with a reception and keynote presentation on Sunday evening March 26, and continue through Tuesday March 28, 2000. This conference will bring researchers together from many different disciplines to share advances in the rapidly developing fields of discrete global grids, global coordinate systems, and global georeferencing, and their applications. The program will include keynote presentations, contributed papers, demonstrations, and informal discussions.
Many disciplines are interested in methods for gridding the curved surface of the Earth.
Papers are invited that address any aspect of global grids. Application of discrete global grid systems in survey designs for environmental and natural resources. Alternative discrete global grid systems based on platonic polyhedra. Discrete global grids in atmospheric and ocean modeling. Spatial analyses using hierarchical structures in discrete global grids.