Acquisition and processing of remotely sensed data
Analysis-oriented and standards-compliant WebGIS
Applications of BeiDou navigation satellite system
Automated object extraction and database updates from imagery
Big Data analytics
Cartographic theory and applications
Climate changes and global environment
Cyberinfrastructure and CyberGIS
Data models in cartography
Digital gazetteer
Environmental criminology and crime simulation
Environmental hazards and natural disasters
Environmental health, disease, and wellbeing
Errors and their measurements in spatial data
Geo-event and geo-process
Geographic information retrieval
Geo-ontology
Geospatial cloud computing
Geospatial computation and simulation
Geospatial data sharing and interoperability
Geospatial education, such as virtual globes-based virtual education
Geospatial intelligence
Geospatial web portal and services
GeoStatistics and applications
GIS for environment and health
GIS for Geosciences
GIS for government and public services
Indoors positioning and navigation
Integration of RS, GIS and GNSS (3S)

LIDAR technology for DEM generation and 3D modeling
Land use and land cover change
Map generalization
Mobile data collection, management and analysis
Monitoring of resources and environment
Multi-dimensional (2D, 3D, and 4D) spatial data modeling and data quality
New trends of technologies and research in GIS
Processing and application of high-resolution imagery
Representation and visualization of geospatial data
Satellite positioning technology and location based service
Semantic web and sensor web
Smart city and sustainable development
Space-time integration
Spatial analysis of social web
Spatial and spatiotemporal Big Data
Spatial database
Spatial data mining
Spatial decision support systems
Spatial and spatiotemporal uncertainties and data quality
Spatial workflow
Spatiotemporal dynamic analysis and simulation
Spatiotemporal computing
Surveying and mapping in geosciences
Theories and algorithms in GIS
Urban GIS and its applications
Virtual Globes and their application to scientific research and daily life
Wireless and mobile GIS solutions