Spatial Data Handling in Big Data Era Select Papers from the 17th IGU Spatial Data Handling Symposium 2016

CHENGHU ZHOU received his PhD from the Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with a focus on Cartography and GIS. He is currently an Academician at the Chinese Academy of Science.

FENZHEN SU completed his PhD in GIS and Cartography at the Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He is currently Director of the State Key Lab of Resources and Environmental Information Systems, Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

JUN XU received his PhD in Geographical Information Systems from the Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research interests are in the fields of geographical ontology, spatial knowledge representation and qualitative reasoning, and spatial data mining. She is now an Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information Systems, Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.