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áWhat is SIGâ
@This is the acronym for Special Interest Groups. It is in the SIG that deep and detailed discussions in the various research fields in GIS take place.

áSIG at glanceâ


Spatial IT sub-committee
Representative Masatoshi Arikawa
Contact address University of Tokyo
Center for Spatial Information Science
Tel: +(81)-3-5453-5693
Fax: +(81)-3-5453-5699
E-mail: arikawa @ csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Forestry Planning sub-committee
Representative Tatsuo Itoh
Contact address Kyoto Prefecture University
Department of Agriculture, Forestry Division
Tel: +(81)-75-781-3131@Ext. 264
Fax: +(81)-75-722-8277
E-mail: t_ito @ kpu.ac.jp

Business GIS sub-committee
Representative Hiroyuki Takasaka
Contact address

Nihon University
College of Humanities and Sciences,
Department of Geography,
Tel: +(81)-3-3304-2051
Fax: +(81)-3-5317-9429
E-mail : kohsaka @ chs.nihon-u.ac.jp

Local Government sub-committee
Representative Toru Oba
Contact address

Ichikawa City Planning Division,
Aging Society Counter-measure Section,
Ichikawa City, Chiba, Japan
Tel: +(81)-47-334-1111@Ext. 2143
E-mail: BZH06512 @ nifty.ne.jp

Land-use and Land Price GIS sub-committee
Representative Teroko Usui
Contact address

Kansai Institute of Information Systems & Industrial Renovation, General Affairs Division.
Osaka Ekimae First Building,8th Floor
1-3-1-800,Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka,
530-0001 Japan
Tel: +(81)-6-6346-2441(General Affairs)
Fax: +(81)-6-6346-2443
E-mail: mako @ kiis.or.jp@souda @ kiis.or.jp

BioGIS sub-committee
Representative Kazuhiro TanakaiKyoto Pref. Univ.j
Contact address Tel: +(81)-75-703-5629
E-mail: tanakazu @ kpu.ac.jp

Disaster Management GIS
Representative Michinori HatayamaiKyoto Univ. Disaster Prevention Research Institute)
Contact address Tel: +(81)-774-38-4333
E-mail: hatayama @ imdr.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Mobile and Virtual GIS
Representative Shinoaki Sakura (Ohtsuma Women's Univ.)
Contact address Tel: +(81)-42-339-0061
E-mail: shinoaki @ otsuma.ac.jp

Space-Time GIS
Representative Koji Yoshikawa
(Osaka Sangyo University)
Contact address Tel: +(81)-72-875-3001
E-mail: yoshikawa @ due.osaka-sandai.ac.jp

LIS/GIS sub-committee
Representative Yasuyuki Shinsen (Osaka Tochikaoku Chosashi Kai)
Contact address Tel: +(81)-724-32-5955
E-mail: hk2000 @ dream.com

Maps ESpatial Representation Sub-committee
Representative Takashi Morita (Hosei University)
Contact address Tel: +(81)-423-87-6270
E-mail: morita @ k.hosei.ac.jp

Security
Representative Hiroshi Kawazoe (Research Institute of Geographic Information System)
Contact address Tel: +(81)-6-6464-7077
E-mail: kawazoe @ gissoken.org

Autonomous Distributed Architecture
Representative Haruhiro Fujita (Toyo Univ.)
Contact address Tel: +(81)-276-82-9157
E-mail: fujita-hi @ toyonet.toyo.ac.jp

Spatial Thinking Interest Group
Representative Osamu Imai(Tokyo Univ.)
Contact address Tel: +(81)-04-7136-4297
E-mail: oimai @ csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

áSIG participation: Requirements and Methodsâ


Anyone can participate in the activities of the SIG .Details on the requirements and how to participate can be obtained from the SIG sub-committee representative.

áForming an SIGâ


A list of ten people and above who are members of the GISA should be submitted with complete set of application forms to the SIG committee member representative.
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