sigspatial - Detailed Program

Detailed Program

Session details for the workshop day and the three main conference days. Sessions still being finalised are marked TBD.

Tuesday, November 3

Workshops

08:00 – 18:00

Coffee breaks 10:00–10:30 and 15:30–16:00 (MR7: 16:00–16:30); lunch 12:30–13:30. Individual workshop schedules will be added as they are confirmed.

Workshop	Room	Sessions
GeoAI 2026	RC B	Full day — 08:30–12:30, 14:00–18:00
GeoIndustry 2026	RC E	Full day — 08:30–12:30, 14:00–18:00
GeoSearch	RC F	Full day — 08:30–12:30, 14:00–18:00
OASIS 2026	MR10	Full day — 08:30–12:30, 14:00–18:00
Q-Spatial 2026	MR9	Full day — 08:30–12:30, 14:00–18:00
UMFM 2026	RC A	Full day — 08:30–12:30, 14:00–18:00
UrbanAI 2026	RC C	Full day — 08:30–12:30, 14:00–18:00
GeoSim 2026	MR7	Morning — 08:00–10:00, 10:30–12:00
HuMob 2026	RC D	Morning — 08:30–12:30
GeoHealth 2026	MR7	Midday — 12:00–12:30, 13:30–15:30
GeoAnomalies 2026	MR7	Afternoon — 15:30–16:00, 16:30–18:00
PolDS 2026	MR8	Afternoon — 14:00–18:00
SpatialConnect 2026	RC D	Afternoon — 14:00–18:00
PhD & Graduate Studies Workshop and SRC	MR1, M2	Full day — see the schedule below

PhD & Graduate Studies Workshop and SRC

09:20 – 17:30

Time	Session / Talk	Presenter
09:20–09:30	Welcome from the Chairs	Chiara Renso and Mehnaz Tabassum Mahin
09:30–10:30	Invited Talk: A (Personal) Recipe for Computer Science (Systems) Research	Prof. Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
10:30–10:50	Coffee Break

Graduate SRC

Sessions G1–G4

G1 · Mobility & Trajectories

10:50 – 11:30

10:50–11:00	#12 — Hyperprofiling: Understanding User Behaviour and Interests from Mobility Big Data	Luca Fantin
11:00–11:10	#6 — Drift or Deviation? Continual Detection of Anomalies Amid Changing Patterns of Life	Chanuka Ravishan Algama
11:10–11:20	#33 — Computational Models of Human Mobility for Resilient Transportation	Fernanda Ventorim
11:20–11:30	Q&A

G2 · Routing & Navigation

11:30 – 12:20

11:30–11:40	#16 — Towards Accurate Open-Source ETA	Areeg Mostafa
11:40–11:50	#30 — CareRoute: Constraint-Horizon-Aware Neural Routing for Accessible Urban Mobility	Riku Nakao
11:50–12:00	#34 — Natural-Language Constrained Route Planning: Early Results	Shahd Elmahallawy
12:00–12:10	#29 — Spatially Grounded LLM–NMPC Navigation for Human-Shared Environments	Xuqing Liu
12:10–12:20	Q&A

G3 · Urban & Environment

12:20 – 12:45

12:20–12:30	#27 — Interpretable Urban Heat Island Foundation Model	Wanyun Ling
12:30–12:40	#15 — Probabilistic Spatial Prediction Under Nonstationarity (Extreme PM Pollution)	Vince Caristo
12:40–12:45	Q&A

Mentor–Mentee Lunch (by invitation)

12:45 – 13:45

G4 · Spatial Systems, GeoAI & 3D

13:45 – 14:35

13:45–13:55	#11 — Quantum Spatial Regionalization	Yunhan Chang
13:55–14:05	#21 — Parallel Multiversion Spatial Index via Functional Data Structures	Bo Huang
14:05–14:15	#3 — Whose Map? A Player-Base Bias in Crowd-Sourced Geographic Salience	Pipob Puthipiroj
14:15–14:25	#32 — Semantic 3D City Model Reconstruction (Neuro-Symbolic AI + Knowledge Graphs)	Lukas Arzoumanidis
14:25–14:35	Q&A

Undergraduate SRC

Sessions U1–U2

U1 · Environment & Vision

14:35 – 15:13

14:35–14:45	#5 — Source-Based Interaction Modeling (Traffic Pollution Redistribution)	Darcy Van Pelt
14:45–14:55	#7 — Where Surface Heat Misses Apparent Heat: LST-Heat Index Mismatch	Yufei Zhou
14:55–15:05	#10 — Can Vision-Language Large Models Read Unconventional Maps?	Alhassan Alshareedah
15:05–15:13	Q&A

Coffee Break

15:30 – 15:50

U2 · Localization & Robotics

15:50 – 16:25

15:50–16:00	#23 — GraphFi: Zero-Shot Cross-Building Vertical Localization	Ebtsam Zyada
16:00–16:10	#25 — SkyWeave: Spatiotemporal Airspace Weaving for Urban Air Mobility	Ebram Hebesh
16:10–16:20	#35 — CropSelf: Self-Supervised Keypoint Learning for Under-Canopy Agri-Robot Navigation	Yasmina Mahdy
16:20–16:25	Q&A

SRC Graduate & Undergraduate Poster Session + judging

16:25 – 17:30

Wednesday, November 4

Opening

8:00–8:15

TBD

Lightning Talks 1

8:15–9:30

Please follow the order shown in the schedule when presenting.

#	Paper ID	Title
Application Short (11)
1	A-2	A Novel Convolutional Tsetlin Architecture for Classification of Satellite Images Under Limited Supervision
2	A-3	KumaWatch: A Multi-Method Wildlife Encounter Alert System toward Operational Municipal Deployment in Northern Japan
3	A-5	An Ensemble Approach to Text-Based Georeferencing of Historical Maps
4	A-7	Synthetic Wastewater Epidemiology Data Generation using Patterns-of-Life Simulation
5	A-15	Hydrogen Bond Prediction With Spatio-Temporal Evolution Awareness
6	A-22	Uncovering the Spatial Trilemma of Cost, Equity, and Resilience in Community Worker Allocation
7	A-24	Estimating Pedestrian Volumes from GIS-Derived Built-Environment Features: A Machine Learning Framework
8	A-37	MambaPop: From Pixels to Sequences for Census-Tract Population Estimation
9	A-39	Global Surface Coal Mine Segmentation with Multi-Spectral Sentinel-2 Imagery: Overcoming Spectral Dilution using Geospatial Foundation Models
10	A-43	Dual Spatial Priors for Fully Unseen-Node Traffic Kriging at Virtual Road-Network Locations
11	A-44	An Efficient Transportation Mode Detection System Using Limited Cellular Signals
Direct Short (49)
12	S-1	NADA-LA: A Benchmark for Spatial Address Data Quality Analysis
13	S-2	Toward A Data-driven Cyberinfrastructure Tool for Urban Micromobility-Friendly Path Planning: A Hartford Study
14	S-3	Uncertainty-Aware Multi-modality Spatio-temporal Wildfire and Smoke Prediction
15	S-5	MESSY STREETS: A benchmark for Geocoding Real-World Addresses.
16	S-7	SAMA: Spatial Question Answering over Maps of Attractions
17	S-12	Coordinate-Level Understanding of Geospatial Embeddings
18	S-13	Starlet: An End-to-End Python Library for Scalable Geospatial Tiling and Vector-Tile Serving
19	S-16	Interstate-Augmented County Graphs for Opioid Overdose Mortality Rate Prediction
20	S-19	Plan2PolySeq : Floor Plan Reconstruction with Token-Conditioned Refinement
21	S-21	Disentangling Neural Predictor Design and Domain Constraints in Multi-Agent Counterfactual Prediction
22	S-25	Benchmarking Geospatial Foundation Models for Agriculture Applications
23	S-27	A Permutation-based Non-sequential Diffusion Model for Solving Constrained VRP
24	S-30	Earth System World Model for What-If Simulations: A Case Study for Terrestrial Ecosystems
25	S-34	TEMPO: Physics-Informed Urban Flow Simulation via Velocity-Driven Latent Flow Matching
26	S-35	Topology-Aware Interpretable Diffusion Model for Metro Passenger Flow Prediction and Spatio-Temporal Attribution: A Case Study of the Taipei Radial Rail Network
27	S-40	Quantifying Space-Time Interaction with Predictive Dependence
28	S-43	Even Faster Geosocial Reachability Queries
29	S-44	SceneAdapter: Boosting Time Series Foundation Models for Atypical-Scenario Traffic Flow Forecasting
30	S-45	ShapeToVec+: A Memory and Query-Efficient System for Weighted-Jaccard Search over Large-scale Polygon Collections
31	S-47	Subregion-Calibrated Graph Neural Emulation for Transferable Soil Carbon Lateral Redistribution Modeling
32	S-48	Can LLMs Infer Spatial Distance Decay? A Distribution-Mediated Zero-Shot Approach
33	S-49	Electronic Navigational Chart Change Classification
34	S-50	Don't Learn Your Compression: A Random-Projection Control for Cross-Lingual OD Transfer
35	S-52	A Shared index for Heterogeneous Polar Datasets
36	S-57	BEACON: Behavioral and Semantic Enrichment of AlphaEarth Embeddings through Tri-Modal Contrastive Learning
37	S-59	Less is More? Evaluating Geospatial Foundation Models for Soil Geochemistry Prediction Under Limited Labels
38	S-60	Overhead Imagery as a Spatial Prior for Fine-Grained Hourly Stay and Movement Surfaces
39	S-65	3D Spatial Pattern Matching
40	S-66	Detection of Small Non-Distinctive Infrastructure Objects in Multi-Channel Remotely Sensed Images
41	S-67	Modality Contributions in National-Scale Multi-Label Land-Cover Classification: A Per-Class, Multi-Architecture Study
42	S-70	Loc-Erase: Spatially-Aware Federated Unlearning for Wi-Fi-Based Indoor Localization
43	S-71	When Cross-Modal Distillation Can’t Help: A Recoverability Diagnosis of WiFi RTT to RSS Positioning
44	S-74	Do Location Encoders Capture Spatial Effects? A GeoShapley Benchmark Across Scales
45	S-75	SYLVAN: A Multi-SensorSatellite Fusion System for Spatio-Temporal Anomaly Screening in Dense Forest Environments
46	S-76	Non-Parametric Spatiotemporal Trajectory Prediction via State-Conditioned Transition Sampling
47	S-77	GeoAI Platform for Natural Language Exploration of Multidimensional Flood Risk Scenarios
48	S-78	Fast-EcoDiffusion: Scalable Uncertainty-Aware Emulation of Ecosystem Processes via Latent Diffusion Models
49	S-79	When Edge Importance Disagrees: Resistance-Ranked versus Betweenness Pruning on Urban Road Networks
50	S-80	Structured Urban Airspace Design and Pre-Flight Path Planning for Scalable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Traffic
51	S-85	Multimodal Alignment and Uncertainty Quantification for Power Outage Forecasting
52	S-91	Geospatial Modeling of Noise-Induced Avian Habitat Resistance from Distributed Acoustic Sensing
53	S-94	LLM-enhanced agent-based modeling for mobility-based heat exposure assessment during mega events
54	S-96	SeisMamba: Low-Latency Single-Station Seismic Magnitude Estimation for Spatially Distributed Earthquake Early Warning
55	S-97	Evaluating Socioeconomic Bias in Flood Adaptation Generation with Large Language Models
56	S-106	An Empirical Evaluation of Cross-City POI Recommendation on a Large-Scale Benchmark
57	S-109	Epidemic Forecasting: Are We Seeing the Full Picture?
58	S-110	Adaptive Road Semantic Self-Learning for Kilo-metre level Vehicle Trajectory Prediction
59	S-112	Human Mobility Anomaly Detection via Activity Profiles
60	S-115	Distilling Aggregate Mobility Statistics into a Language Model Policy for Post-Event Crowd Simulation

Keynote 1

9:30–10:30

Scott Morehouse — The Heart of The Watermelon: Some Reflections on The Foundations of Spatial Computing. Abstract and biography

Research 1 · Human Mobility and Trajectory Analytics

11:00–12:30

Session chair: TBA

1	Massive-STEPS: Massive Semantic Trajectories for Understanding POI Check-ins Wilson Wongso (UNSW), Hao Xue (UNSW, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)) and Flora Salim (UNSW)
2	NextLocMoE: Enhancing Next Location Prediction via Location-Semantics and Personalized Mixture-of-Experts Liu Shuai (Nanyang Technological University), Ning Cao (Nanyang Technological University), Yile Chen (Nanyang Technological Unversity), Yue Jiang (Nanyang Technological Unversity) and Gao Cong (Nanyang Technological Unversity)
3	ScaleTraj: Scale-Decomposed Human Trajectory Generation Yulin Zeng (Santa Clara University), Yiheng Zhao (Concordia University), Jun Yan (Concordia University) and Yuhong Liu (Santa Clara University)
4	Graceful Degradation in Trajectory User Linking: A Regime-Adaptive Aggregation Framework Yi Xu (China University of Geosciences, Beijing), Shuhui Gong (China university of Geoscience, Beijing), Jia Wang (China university of Geoscience, Beijing), Tong Bian (University of Cambridge), Yuchen Yang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Jilin Hu (East China Normal University; Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Big Data Management) and Hongbin Pei (School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University)
5	TraBiMap: A Transition-Centric Probabilistic Binary Map of Trajectories for Privacy-Aware Analysis Paul Walther (Technical University of Munich), Florian Theimer (LMU Munich), Xuanshu Luo (Technical University of Munich), Matthias Schubert (Munich Center for Machine Learning, LMU Munich) and Martin Werner (Technical University of Munich)
6	IBAD: Interpretable Behavioral Anomaly Detection on Human Mobility Data Bita Azarijoo (University of Southern California), John Krumm (University of Southern California) and Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)

Application 1 · Urban Application 1

11:00–12:30

Session chair: TBA

1	Building Instance Usage Mapping in Cross-Cultural Urban Scenes from Street View Images using Multimodal Self-Supervised Deep Learning Shailesh Kachhi (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal), Vaibhav Kumar (IISER Bhopal, India) and Deeksha Arya (The University of Tokyo)
2	Simulating Mega-Event Spatial Demand: A Case Study of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan Xiaojie Yang (The University of Tokyo), Lifeng Lin (The University of Tokyo), Masahiro Sano (Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition), Takeaki Ohdake (Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition), Kazuma Hatano (The University of Tokyo), Noboru Koshizuka (The University of Tokyo) and Hangli Ge (The University of Tokyo)
3	PreSCAN: Fast NeRF Architecture Selection for Satellite Scene Reconstruction Devjyoti Chakraborty (University of Georgia), Zaki Sukma (University of Georgia), Rakandhiya Rachmanto (University of Georgia), Kriti Ghosh (University of Georgia), In Kee Kim (University of Georgia), Suchendra Bhandarkar (University of Georgia), Lakshmish Ramaswamy (University of Georgia), Nancy O'Hare (University of Georgia) and Deepak Mishra (University of Georgia)
4	From Footprints to Futures: Evaluating VLMs for Physical, Functional, and Temporal Urban Change Detection Tasmiah Tamzid Anannya (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology), Tanzima Hashem (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) and Mohammed Eunus Ali (Monash University, Melbourne)
5	pykci: A Compact Urban Knowledge Graph for Semantic and Spatial Queries using LLMs Huynh Duc An Son Nguyen (HafenCity University Hamburg), Lukas Arzoumanidis (HafenCity University Hamburg) and Youness Dehbi (HafenCity University Hamburg)
6	Double-Diffusion: Balancing Speed, Accuracy, and Uncertainty in Probabilistic Forecasting for Urban Sensor Networks Hanlin Dong (University of New South Wales), Arian Prabowo (University of New South Wales), Hao Xue (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)), Shuang Ao (Zhejiang University of Technology), Tianyi Zhou (University of Maryland), Yuxuan Liang (University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)) and Flora Salim (University of New South Wales)

Demo 1 + Posters

11:00–12:30

Paper ID	Title
Demo (15)
D-134	FastNSA: A High-Performance QGIS Plugin for Network Spatial Analytics
D-456	TangibleGeoAI: Touching Urban Form to Test Planning Scenarios
D-661	Accelerating Point-in-Polygon Predicates via Algebraic Hash-Joins and Discrete Global Grids at Scale
D-1181	En-AgentSociety: Observable and Reproducible LLM-Based Urban Simulation at Regional Scale
D-1192	Multi-Modal Geospatial Pattern Search
D-1271	CMAD-Vis: An Interactive Tool for Detecting Clusters of Anomalous Antarctic Sea Ice Melting Events
D-2232	CATALYST: CATalogue-driven LLM sYstem for Spatial Tiling
D-2499	TrajectoryLab: A Reproducible Sandbox for Evaluating Stay Detection under Noise and Uncertainty
D-3111	SPOT2Go: Robotic GeoAI for Real-Time Obstacle Detection Along Pedestrian Routes
D-3239	Datacube SDK: A Research Prototype for Constructing, Analyzing, and Serving Spatial DataCubes Based on a 3D Grid System
D-3577	GridMind: A DGGS-Grounded Multi-Agent System for Spatial Reasoning
D-4090	Modelling and Analysing Circular Moving Regions
D-5313	MMVAS: A Multi-Modal Visual Analytics System for Fine-Grained Land Tax Assessment
D-6275	Tesseract: Interactive Conversion of Building Floor Plans into Multi-Floor Navigable Graphs
D-7376	POIBench: An Interactive Benchmarking Platform for Multi-Source POI Dataset Evaluation
Direct Short (36)
S-2	Toward A Data-driven Cyberinfrastructure Tool for Urban Micromobility-Friendly Path Planning: A Hartford Study
S-5	MESSY STREETS: A benchmark for Geocoding Real-World Addresses.
S-7	SAMA: Spatial Question Answering over Maps of Attractions
S-12	Coordinate-Level Understanding of Geospatial Embeddings
S-13	Starlet: An End-to-End Python Library for Scalable Geospatial Tiling and Vector-Tile Serving
S-16	Interstate-Augmented County Graphs for Opioid Overdose Mortality Rate Prediction
S-19	Plan2PolySeq : Floor Plan Reconstruction with Token-Conditioned Refinement
S-21	Disentangling Neural Predictor Design and Domain Constraints in Multi-Agent Counterfactual Prediction
S-34	TEMPO: Physics-Informed Urban Flow Simulation via Velocity-Driven Latent Flow Matching
S-43	Even Faster Geosocial Reachability Queries
S-44	SceneAdapter: Boosting Time Series Foundation Models for Atypical-Scenario Traffic Flow Forecasting
S-45	ShapeToVec+: A Memory and Query-Efficient System for Weighted-Jaccard Search over Large-scale Polygon Collections
S-48	Can LLMs Infer Spatial Distance Decay? A Distribution-Mediated Zero-Shot Approach
S-49	Electronic Navigational Chart Change Classification
S-50	Don't Learn Your Compression: A Random-Projection Control for Cross-Lingual OD Transfer
S-52	A Shared index for Heterogeneous Polar Datasets
S-57	BEACON: Behavioral and Semantic Enrichment of AlphaEarth Embeddings through Tri-Modal Contrastive Learning
S-59	Less is More? Evaluating Geospatial Foundation Models for Soil Geochemistry Prediction Under Limited Labels
S-60	Overhead Imagery as a Spatial Prior for Fine-Grained Hourly Stay and Movement Surfaces
S-66	Detection of Small Non-Distinctive Infrastructure Objects in Multi-Channel Remotely Sensed Images
S-67	Modality Contributions in National-Scale Multi-Label Land-Cover Classification: A Per-Class, Multi-Architecture Study
S-70	Loc-Erase: Spatially-Aware Federated Unlearning for Wi-Fi-Based Indoor Localization
S-71	When Cross-Modal Distillation Can’t Help: A Recoverability Diagnosis of WiFi RTT to RSS Positioning
S-74	Do Location Encoders Capture Spatial Effects? A GeoShapley Benchmark Across Scales
S-75	SYLVAN: A Multi-SensorSatellite Fusion System for Spatio-Temporal Anomaly Screening in Dense Forest Environments
S-76	Non-Parametric Spatiotemporal Trajectory Prediction via State-Conditioned Transition Sampling
S-77	GeoAI Platform for Natural Language Exploration of Multidimensional Flood Risk Scenarios
S-79	When Edge Importance Disagrees: Resistance-Ranked versus Betweenness Pruning on Urban Road Networks
S-80	Structured Urban Airspace Design and Pre-Flight Path Planning for Scalable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Traffic
S-85	Multimodal Alignment and Uncertainty Quantification for Power Outage Forecasting
S-91	Geospatial Modeling of Noise-Induced Avian Habitat Resistance from Distributed Acoustic Sensing
S-94	LLM-enhanced agent-based modeling for mobility-based heat exposure assessment during mega events
S-97	Evaluating Socioeconomic Bias in Flood Adaptation Generation with Large Language Models
S-109	Epidemic Forecasting: Are We Seeing the Full Picture?
S-112	Human Mobility Anomaly Detection via Activity Profiles
S-115	Distilling Aggregate Mobility Statistics into a Language Model Policy for Post-Event Crowd Simulation
Application Short (12)
A-2	A Novel Convolutional Tsetlin Architecture for Classification of Satellite Images Under Limited Supervision
A-3	KumaWatch: A Multi-Method Wildlife Encounter Alert System toward Operational Municipal Deployment in Northern Japan
A-5	An Ensemble Approach to Text-Based Georeferencing of Historical Maps
A-7	Synthetic Wastewater Epidemiology Data Generation using Patterns-of-Life Simulation
A-15	Hydrogen Bond Prediction With Spatio-Temporal Evolution Awareness
A-22	Uncovering the Spatial Trilemma of Cost, Equity, and Resilience in Community Worker Allocation
A-24	Estimating Pedestrian Volumes from GIS-Derived Built-Environment Features: A Machine Learning Framework
A-37	MambaPop: From Pixels to Sequences for Census-Tract Population Estimation
A-39	Global Surface Coal Mine Segmentation with Multi-Spectral Sentinel-2 Imagery: Overcoming Spectral Dilution using Geospatial Foundation Models
A-94	GovEyes: A Spatial Analytics Workflow for Government Decision Support
A-109	Spatially-Counseled Graph Neural Networks for DayCent Surrogate Model
A-115	What Makes a City Noisy? A Multi-Source Feature Fusion for Urban Noise Prediction
Research Short (11)
R-63	SF-ANOMALIES: A Mobility Dataset for Behavioral and Contextual Anomaly Detection
R-172	Tri-Modal Calibration for Road Network Conflation: Four-State Labelling, Dirichlet Multi-Class Probabilities, and Conformal Coverage Guarantees
R-198	MOSAIC: Synthetic Trajectory Generation with Reinforcement Learning
R-177	Depth-Calibrated Crowd Visual Occupancy: A Depth-Aware Framework for Evaluating Crowd Impacts on Urban Streetscapes
R-155	Atmosphere-Aware Place Discovery: Semantic Urban Mapping with Multimodal Vibe Enrichment
R-263	GELATTO: Geospatial Relation-Aware Soft Target Learning for Multimodal Region Representation
R-41	Context-Aware Metric Differential Privacy for Vehicle Trajectory Data
R-217	Urban Land Use Planning with a Hierarchical Graph Generative Adversarial Framework
R-94	UrbanRouteBench: A Benchmark for Natural-Language Urban Multimodal Route Planning
R-290	Do Large Language Models Support Geospatial Reasoning?
R-176	Adaptive Information Masking for Scalable Uncertainty Estimation in Geospatial Foundation Models
TSAS (1)
T-5	Additive Compositionality in Urban Area Embeddings Based on Human Mobility Patterns

Research 2 · Best Paper Candidates

14:00–15:30

Session chair: TBA

1	Measuring Marketplace Dynamics in Peer-to-Peer Vehicle Rental Platforms — A Geospatial Longitudinal Study Hassan Khan (North Carolina State University) and Muhammad Shahzad (North Carolina State University)
2	Point Encoder Analysis and Design Best Paper Candidate John Krumm (University of Southern California)
3	SEAFormer: A Spatial Proximity and Edge-Aware Transformer for Real-World Vehicle Routing Problems Best Paper Candidate Saeed Nasehibasharzad (University of Melbourne), Farhana Choudhury (The University of Melbourne), Egemen Tanin (The University of Melbourne) and Majid Sarvi (The University of Melbourne)
4	LDP-DiffTraj: Diffusion Models under Local Differential Privacy for Personalized Human Mobility Trajectory Generation Best Paper Candidate Boyang Li (New York University), Shangyi Guo (New York University), Kota Tsubouchi (LY Corporation), Toru Shimizu (LY Corporation), Zhonghang Yuan (University of Science and Technology of China), Joseph Chow (New York University) and Takahiro Yabe (New York University)
5	SPOT: Spatially Preserving Object Detection with Transformers Best Paper Candidate Chan Young Koh (University of Rhode Island) and Abdeltawab Hendawi (University of Rhode Island)
6	CASTOR: A Coverage-Aware Framework for Spatio-Temporal Inference under Moving Observation Masks Best Paper Candidate Bharat Jayaswal (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) and Soumya K. Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)

Industry 1 · Best Paper Candidates

14:00–15:30

Session chair: TBA

1	Geospatial Support in AsterixDB: Holistic Integration of Spatial and Non-Spatial Data Ahmed Eldawy (UC Riverside), Mehnaz Tabassum Mahin (Amazon (work done while at UC Riverside)), Tomal Majumder (IBM (work done while at UC Riverside)), Akil Sevim (Teradata (work done while at UC Riverside)), Suryaa Charan Shivakumar (UC Riverside), Vassilis Tsotras (UC Riverside), Tin Vu (Microsoft (work done while at UC Riverside)), Ian Maxon (UC Irvine) and Michael Carey (Couchbase Inc. (academic affiliation: UC Irvine))
2	F1 Geo: Distributed Geospatial Support in F1 Query Ahmed Mahmood (Google LLC, Mountain View, California, USA), Ahmed Aly (Google LLC, Mountain View, California, USA), David Hinschberger (Google LLC, Mountain View, California, USA) and Petros Venetis (Google LLC, Mountain View, California, USA)
3	Scalable Conflation for Maps Data Replay between Heterogeneous Geospatial Data Sources Shaishav Maisuria (Last Mile, Amazon, WA, USA), Vishal Kumar (Last Mile, Amazon, WA, USA), Ravi Garg (Last Mile, Amazon, WA, USA) and Hesham Eraqi (Last Mile, Amazon, WA, USA)
4	Improving the Quality of LLM-Generated Code by Core Geospatial Concepts Zhangyu Wang (University of Maine, United States), Qianheng Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States), Chen Wei (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States), Yaron Kanza (AT&T Chief Data Office, United States) and Song Gao (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
5	GeoVec: A Hybrid Spatial–Vector Index Serving System for Web-Scale KNN at Bing Chun-Ting Wu (Microsoft, United States), Florin Sabau (Microsoft, United States), Jason Hong (Microsoft, United States), James Zhu (Microsoft, United States), Jun Ham (Microsoft, United States), Marc Aynés I Rulló (Microsoft, United States), Pavlo Vorontsov (Microsoft, United States), Yuhan Sun (Microsoft, United States) and Zhiming Yu (Microsoft, United States)
6	Semantic Search over Multi-View Aerial Imagery at Scale Sarik Ghazarian (AWS Generative AI Innovation Center), Gilbert V Lepadatu (AWS Generative AI Innovation Center), Taylor Jensen (AWS Generative AI Innovation Center), Negin Sokhandan (AWS Generative AI Innovation Center), Daniele Barilla (AWS Generative AI Innovation Center), Victor Ruiz (Vexcel Data), Steve Lombardi (Vexcel Data), Stephen Lawler (Vexcel Data), Erik Jorgensen (Vexcel Data) and Ryan Bank (Vexcel Data)

Tutorial 1 · Part A

14:00–15:30

Spatio-Causal Modeling and Applications
Fahim Tasneema Azad (Arizona State University), Ahmet Kapkiç (Arizona State University), Pratanu Mandal (Arizona State University), Abhinav Gorantla (Arizona State University), Shu Wan (Arizona State University), Maria Luisa Sapino (University of Torino), Huan Liu (Arizona State University) and K. Selçuk Candan (Arizona State University)

Research 3 · Spatiotemporal Forecasting for Urban Systems

16:00–17:30

Session chair: TBA

1	HeatCast: A Benchmark for Neighborhood-Scale LST Forecasting across 124 U.S. Cities Jesus Guerrero (University of Texas at San Antonio), Isaac Corley (Taylor Geospatial), Leon Najafirad (Independent Researcher), Maryam Tabar (University of Texas at San Antonio) and Paul Rad (University of Texas at San Antonio)
2	Traffic-IMC: An Urban Road-Network Traffic Forecasting Benchmark Seungbin Yim (Sungkyunkwan University), Hyungchai Park (Stanford Center at Incheon Global Campus) and Simon S. Woo (Sungkyunkwan University)
3	Impact of Incorporating Multiple Spatial Sources on Different Paradigms for Short-term Power Load Forecast Ce Li (Iowa State University), Qiang Gao (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics), Kunpeng Zhang (University of Maryland) and Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University)
4	RA-VP: Risk-Aware Pedestrian Traffic Violation Prediction at Signalized Intersections Nadeeshan Dissanayake (The University of Melbourne), Renata Borovica-Gajic (The University of Melbourne), Egemen Tanin (The University of Melbourne) and Shanika Karunasekera (The University of Melbourne)
5	TopoBrick: Agentic Topology Sampling of Exogenous Variables for Zero-Shot Building IoT Forecasting Xiachong Lin (UNSW), Du Yin (UNSW), Arian Prabowo (The University of New South Wales), Hao Xue (HKUST-GZ), Wen Hu (UNSW), Imran Razzak (MBZUAI), Matthew Amos (CSIRO), Sam Behrens (CSIRO) and Flora Salim (The University of New South Wales)
6	Latent Prediction-Anchored Multi-View Reconstruction for Cross-Network Spatiotemporal Forecasting Ryusei Iwasa (The University of Osaka), Zhi Li (The University of Osaka) and Takahiro Hara (The University of Osaka)

Application 2 · Disaster & Flood

16:00–17:30

Session chair: TBA

1	CoastCast: An AI Surrogate for Coastal Storm Surge and Water Level Prediction Saiful Islam (Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida), Zelin Xu (Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida), Maitane Olabarrieta (Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of Florida) and Zhe Jiang (Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida)
2	RAPID: A Reproducible Multi-Agent Pipeline for Interpretable Disaster Damage Assessment from Satellite and Street-View Imagery Yifan Yang (Department of Geography, Texas A&M University), Wenjing Gong (Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA), Kaili Zhang (Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA), Lei Zou (Department of Geography, Texas A&M University), Zhengzhong Tu (Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University), Hao Li (Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore), Zongrong Li (Department of Geography, Texas A&M University) and Xinyue Ye (University of Alabama)
3	Multi-Type Food Flow Prediction and Scenario Analysis between U.S. Counties using Graph Neural Networks Qianheng Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Amit Vyas (The Ohio State University), Carlos Guzman (The Ohio State University), Michelle Miller (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Alfonso Morales (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Yiqun Xie (University of Maryland College Park) and Song Gao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
4	EGCZ: Deriving Contextual Zones for Flood Susceptibility Mapping with a Multimodal Foundation Model Aswathi Mundayatt (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore), Hitanshu Seth (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore), Siddharth Anil (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore) and Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore)
5	DELUGE: Towards Continental-Scale Daily Pluvial Flood Damage Prediction via Interpretable Conditioning on Foundation Model Embeddings Yuya Kawakami (University of California, Davis), Daniel Cayan (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego), Dongyu Liu (University of California, Davis), Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis) and Tom Corringham (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego)
6	Reconstructing GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage with Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks: An Application to South America Lukas Arzoumanidis (HafenCity University Hamburg), Lara Johannsen (HafenCity University, Geodesy and Adjustment Theory), Annette Eicker (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Global Geomonitoring and Gravity Field), Youness Dehbi (HafenCity University Hamburg) and Klara Middendorf (HafenCity University, Geodesy and Adjustment Theory)

Tutorial 1 · Part B

16:00–17:30

Reception: All Posters and Demos

19:00–23:00

TBD

Thursday, November 5

Lightning Talks 2

7:50–9:00

Please follow the order shown in the schedule when presenting.

#	Paper ID	Title
Application Short (14)
1	A-45	Learning Geographic-Semantic Locality Priors from Structured Place Phrases for Urban Analytics
2	A-51	Hierarchical Two-Stage Framework for Environment-Aware Long-Horizon Vessel Trajectory Prediction
3	A-53	VegSim: A Geospatial World Model for Scenario-Conditioned Vegetation Simulation
4	A-60	Congestion Forecasting (Actionably) Revisited: Limitations of Deep Learning and Potential of LLM-as-Data-Scientist
5	A-70	ICL-Traffic Forecasting: Lightweight In-Context Learning for Pretrained Spatio-Temporal Foundation Models :
6	A-72	Seasonal GVI Estimation Without Seasonal Imagery: A Zero-Shot MLLM Framework for Urban Greenery Assessment
7	A-88	CDGL-H3: H3-Grid Reported Case Intensity Forecasting for U.S. Avian Influenza Surveillance
8	A-93	aviary: A Modular Framework for ML Inference on Geospatial Data
9	A-94	GovEyes: A Spatial Analytics Workflow for Government Decision Support
10	A-109	Spatially-Counseled Graph Neural Networks for DayCent Surrogate Model
11	A-115	What Makes a City Noisy? A Multi-Source Feature Fusion for Urban Noise Prediction
12	A-128	Calibrated District-Level Prediction Intervals for 2025 Paddy Yield Departure in Nepal's Madhesh Province
13	A-132	Motorcycle Taxis versus Public Buses: Counterfactual Evidence from Rwanda
14	A-133	Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Urban Environmental Feature Extraction Using Human-Annotated Semantic Segmentation
Research Short (35)
15	R-42	TrajectoryDiff: Trajectory-Conditioned Diffusion for Radio Map Generation from Sparse Crowdsourced Measurements
16	R-103	Intersection Is Not Enough: Bridging the Research–Practice Gap in Building Footprint Conflation
17	R-133	RectifiedTraj: Map-Free Causal GPS Trajectory Denoising with Rectified Flow
18	R-134	Bal-DC LULC Atlas: Toward a Foundation Model for Ultra-High-Resolution Urban Land Cover Classification
19	R-145	TS-Mob: Social and Geographical-Aware Time Series Foundation-Model Framework for Human Mobility Prediction
20	R-150	GeoOD-RAG: Probing Geographic Reasoning in Large Language Models for Origin-Destination Flow Prediction
21	R-163	Barometric-Assisted Real-Time Map Matching at Multilevel Venues
22	R-55	GraphWalker: Deployable Inertial-Based Indoor Localization via Trajectory to Graph Alignment
23	R-106	GeoNatureAgent Benchmark: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Environmental Geospatial Analysis Across Frontier and Open-Weight Foundation Models
24	R-110	Rethinking Amortized Neural Representations for High-Resolution Terrain Elevation Data
25	R-162	When Synthetic Wells Help and Hurt: A Spatial-Generalization Benchmark for Subsurface Pore-Pressure Prediction
26	R-97	Spatiotemporal Citywide Traffic Speed Estimation via Public Transit Bus Probes
27	R-108	FlowDistill: Autocorrelation-Aware Traffic Flow Prediction via Distillation from LLMs
28	R-130	COGENT: Continuous Graph Emulators with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations for Long-Term Physical Forecasting
29	R-23	GS-QA2:A Benchmark for Geospatial Question Answering over Vector and Raster Data
30	R-40	Spatial-Blocked Bloom Filters: Cache-Efficient Spatial Membership for Raster and Voxel Maps
31	R-58	The Influence of Agent Models on the Complexity of Bus Routing
32	R-274	MapGenie: A Formally Grounded LLM-Powered Agent System for Automated Multi-Step Geospatial Reasoning and Analysis
33	R-294	GeoFM2Flow: Generating Human Mobility Flows from Geospatial Foundation Model Embeddings
34	R-45	Dynamic Population Estimates from Ground Features
35	R-112	Think Before You Act: Intention-Guided Reasoning for LLM-Based Location Prediction
36	R-173	Stay Area Inference with Sparse Surveillance Information
37	R-63	SF-ANOMALIES: A Mobility Dataset for Behavioral and Contextual Anomaly Detection
38	R-120	An Ensemble Framework for Efficient Behavioural Choice Prediction with Fine-tuned Lightweight LLM on Demand
39	R-172	Tri-Modal Calibration for Road Network Conflation: Four-State Labelling, Dirichlet Multi-Class Probabilities, and Conformal Coverage Guarantees
40	R-198	MOSAIC: Synthetic Trajectory Generation with Reinforcement Learning
41	R-199	When Plausible Is Not Realistic: Evaluating Human Mobility in LLM-Based Urban Simulation
42	R-212	Multi-Task Vehicle Routing with Hierarchical Option Learning
43	R-59	CLIPPER: Replayable Shortlisted Optimization for Repeated Spatial Coverage Planning
44	R-72	Uncertainty-Aware UAV Trajectory Adaptation for Object-Centric Active 3D Reconstruction
45	R-95	Unlearning on Spatio-Temporal Graphs through Subgraph Virtual Edge Reconstruction
46	R-147	HALT: Human-in-the-Loop Data Acquisition for Supervised Traffic Causality Discovery
47	R-227	LIAD: Lightweight Interpretable Mobility Anomaly Detection via Agent-Adaptive Behavioral Deviations
48	R-46	Geo-ReAct: An Agentic AI Framework with Concept-Grounded Tools for Geospatial Question Answering
49	R-169	Spatial Reasoning for Semi-Automated Road Topology Correction Using Street-View Imagery

Keynote 2

9:00–10:00

Marta C. González — Complexity Science for Urban Planning: From Job Access to Climate Resilience. Abstract and biography

Research 4 · Geospatial LLMs and Agentic Systems

10:30–11:30

Session chair: TBA

1	SOCIA-∇: Textual Gradient Meets Multi-Agent Orchestration for Automated Spatially Grounded Simulator Generation Yuncheng Hua (School of Computer Science Engineering, University of New South Wales), Sion Weatherhead (School of Computer Science Engineering, University of New South Wales), Mehdi Jafari (School of Computer Science Engineering, University of New South Wales), Hao Xue (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)) and Flora Salim (School of Computer Science Engineering, University of New South Wales)
2	The Coordinates Were Always There: Detecting and Quantifying Pretraining Contamination from Geospatial Data in LLMs Naman Awasthi (University of Maryland, College Park), Saad Abrar (University of Maryland, College Park), Dea Bardhoshi (University of Maryland, College Park), Bhavika Buddi (University of Maryland, College Park), Eesha Kurella (University of Maryland, College Park) and Vanessa Frias-Martinez (University of Maryland, College Park)
3	Behaviorally Grounding Large Language Models with Revealed Choices for Human Mobility Prediction Boyang Li (New York University), Sizhe Xu (New York University), Donghak Lee (New York University), Shangyi Guo (New York University), Zhaonan Wang (New York University) and Takahiro Yabe (New York University)
4	GeoOutageBench: Benchmarking Ambiguity-aware, Ontology-grounded Geospatiotemporal KGQA for Multimodal Power Outage and Resilience Analysis Ethan D. Frakes (University of Central Florida), Amy Kvien (University of Central Florida), Rishabh Kundu (Case Western Reserve University), Redad Mehdi (Case Western Reserve University), Van D. Tran (Case Western Reserve University), Vibha S. Mandayam (Case Western Reserve University), Kristopher O. Davis (University of Central Florida), Erika I. Barcelos (Case Western Reserve University), Roger H. French (Case Western Reserve University), Yinghui Wu (Case Western Reserve University) and Mengjie Li (University of Central Florida)

Application 3 · Medical Applications

10:30–11:30

Session chair: TBA

1	Oncology-informed Super-colocation Detection for Hypothesis Generation in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy Shuai An (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), Caitlin Ward (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), Mingzhou Yang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Chen Wang (Mayo Clinic), Svetomir Markovic (Mayo Clinic) and Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
2	Geospatial Counterfactual Simulation of Intercity Patient Mobility: Medical Resource Interventions and Transport Accessibility Improvements Guohui Ding (Shenyang Aerospace University), Boyu Li (Shenyang Aerospace University), Chao Yang (Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, Peking University First Hospital) and Junbo Sun (Shenyang Aerospace University)
3	CARE-EMS: Towards Reliable Emergency Response Planning through Context-Aware Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning for EMS Demand Forecasting Md Ali Akber (Oakland University), Samik Bhattarai (Oakland University), Quinn Krommenhoek (California State University Monterey Bay), Dongji Feng (California State University Monterey Bay), Chen Jiang (Eastern Kentucky University) and Sai Deepthi Yeddula (Oakland University)
4	Inferring Locations and Correcting Bias in Infectious Disease Data Using Human Mobility Owen Tucker (Emory University), Lily Wang (Emory University), Ruochen Kong (Emory University), Haley Stone (The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)), Matthew Scotch (Arizona State University), Jing Du (The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)), Flora Salim (University of New South Wales), Taylor Anderson (George Mason University), Chandini Raina MacIntyre (University of New South Wales) and Andreas Züfle (Emory University)

Demo 2 + Posters

10:30–12:00

Paper ID	Title
Demo (16)
D-1951	RISE: A Real-time and Interactive Spatiotemporal Kernel Density Visualization System with Streaming and Static Data
D-2069	SurgiMatch: Matching Surgical Staff With Procedures Based On Expertise and Location-Awareness
D-3685	ReNUP: Scalable Non-uniform Graph Partitioning
D-4605	EV-SmartSim: An Interactive Playground for Simulating Electric Vehicles as Mobile Energy Storage
D-4670	Cross-Platform Spatial Analytics with Apache Wayang: Geometries Have Boundaries, Your Analytics Shouldn’t
D-5595	WalkAlong - A Conversational AI Agent for Crowdsourcing Real-Time Spatially-Explicit Pedestrian Experiences
D-5912	Event-Specific Knowledge Grounding for LLM-Driven Agent-Based Simulation of Planned Special Event Traffic
D-6229	AI-Assisted Generation of Synthetic Geospatial Data Streams
D-6605	Any Model, Any Place, Any Time: Get Remote Sensing Foundation Model Embeddings On Demand
D-6700	TAREEK-Vis: An Interactive Visualization Tool for Large-Scale MATSim Traffic Simulations
D-6847	Fangorn: A Conversational Platform for Geospatial Intelligence Analytics
D-8117	Aether : A System for Agentic Retrieval and Reasoning over Multimodal Earth Observation Data
D-8221	MapScout: An Agentic Harness for Map Editing and Geospatial Data Labeling
D-9062	The Anomaly Forge: Interactive, Self-Auditing Generation of Labeled Mobility Anomalies from Natural Language
D-9216	Real-time AIS common behavioral patterns
D-9358	UrbanAIDE: An Agentic Geospatial Workspace for Participatory Urban Event Management
Direct Short (5)
S-27	A Permutation-based Non-sequential Diffusion Model for Solving Constrained VRP
S-35	Topology-Aware Interpretable Diffusion Model for Metro Passenger Flow Prediction and Spatio-Temporal Attribution: A Case Study of the Taipei Radial Rail Network
S-40	Quantifying Space-Time Interaction with Predictive Dependence
S-65	3D Spatial Pattern Matching
S-78	Fast-EcoDiffusion: Scalable Uncertainty-Aware Emulation of Ecosystem Processes via Latent Diffusion Models
Application Short (9)
A-45	Learning Geographic-Semantic Locality Priors from Structured Place Phrases for Urban Analytics
A-51	Hierarchical Two-Stage Framework for Environment-Aware Long-Horizon Vessel Trajectory Prediction
A-53	VegSim: A Geospatial World Model for Scenario-Conditioned Vegetation Simulation
A-70	ICL-Traffic Forecasting: Lightweight In-Context Learning for Pretrained Spatio-Temporal Foundation Models :
A-72	Seasonal GVI Estimation Without Seasonal Imagery: A Zero-Shot MLLM Framework for Urban Greenery Assessment
A-93	aviary: A Modular Framework for ML Inference on Geospatial Data
A-128	Calibrated District-Level Prediction Intervals for 2025 Paddy Yield Departure in Nepal's Madhesh Province
A-132	Motorcycle Taxis versus Public Buses: Counterfactual Evidence from Rwanda
A-133	Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Urban Environmental Feature Extraction Using Human-Annotated Semantic Segmentation
Research Short (34)
R-42	TrajectoryDiff: Trajectory-Conditioned Diffusion for Radio Map Generation from Sparse Crowdsourced Measurements
R-103	Intersection Is Not Enough: Bridging the Research–Practice Gap in Building Footprint Conflation
R-133	RectifiedTraj: Map-Free Causal GPS Trajectory Denoising with Rectified Flow
R-134	Bal-DC LULC Atlas: Toward a Foundation Model for Ultra-High-Resolution Urban Land Cover Classification
R-145	TS-Mob: Social and Geographical-Aware Time Series Foundation-Model Framework for Human Mobility Prediction
R-150	GeoOD-RAG: Probing Geographic Reasoning in Large Language Models for Origin-Destination Flow Prediction
R-163	Barometric-Assisted Real-Time Map Matching at Multilevel Venues
R-55	GraphWalker: Deployable Inertial-Based Indoor Localization via Trajectory to Graph Alignment
R-106	GeoNatureAgent Benchmark: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Environmental Geospatial Analysis Across Frontier and Open-Weight Foundation Models
R-110	Rethinking Amortized Neural Representations for High-Resolution Terrain Elevation Data
R-162	When Synthetic Wells Help and Hurt: A Spatial-Generalization Benchmark for Subsurface Pore-Pressure Prediction
R-97	Spatiotemporal Citywide Traffic Speed Estimation via Public Transit Bus Probes
R-108	FlowDistill: Autocorrelation-Aware Traffic Flow Prediction via Distillation from LLMs
R-130	COGENT: Continuous Graph Emulators with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations for Long-Term Physical Forecasting
R-23	GS-QA2:A Benchmark for Geospatial Question Answering over Vector and Raster Data
R-40	Spatial-Blocked Bloom Filters: Cache-Efficient Spatial Membership for Raster and Voxel Maps
R-58	The Influence of Agent Models on the Complexity of Bus Routing
R-274	MapGenie: A Formally Grounded LLM-Powered Agent System for Automated Multi-Step Geospatial Reasoning and Analysis
R-294	GeoFM2Flow: Generating Human Mobility Flows from Geospatial Foundation Model Embeddings
R-112	Think Before You Act: Intention-Guided Reasoning for LLM-Based Location Prediction
R-173	Stay Area Inference with Sparse Surveillance Information
R-120	An Ensemble Framework for Efficient Behavioural Choice Prediction with Fine-tuned Lightweight LLM on Demand
R-199	When Plausible Is Not Realistic: Evaluating Human Mobility in LLM-Based Urban Simulation
R-212	Multi-Task Vehicle Routing with Hierarchical Option Learning
R-59	CLIPPER: Replayable Shortlisted Optimization for Repeated Spatial Coverage Planning
R-72	Uncertainty-Aware UAV Trajectory Adaptation for Object-Centric Active 3D Reconstruction
R-95	Unlearning on Spatio-Temporal Graphs through Subgraph Virtual Edge Reconstruction
R-147	HALT: Human-in-the-Loop Data Acquisition for Supervised Traffic Causality Discovery
R-46	Geo-ReAct: An Agentic AI Framework with Concept-Grounded Tools for Geospatial Question Answering
R-169	Spatial Reasoning for Semi-Automated Road Topology Correction Using Street-View Imagery
R-156	ROTATOR+HG: Representation Learning for Intermodal Routes with Hypergraph
R-161	Learning Context-Local Representation with Geospatial Foundation Model for Fine-Scale Spatial Prediction
R-31	LEMU: Personalized Urban Location Modeling through Mobility-Derived Temporal and Semantic Contexts
R-166	GeoGNN: Time Series Geo-Localization using Two-Tower Graph Neural Networks
TSAS (1)
T-7	CLIFT: Cross-City Mobility-Derived Lifestyle Pattern Transfer for Improved Multi-City Next Location Prediction

Research 5 · Spatiotemporal Inference and Statistical Analysis

11:35–12:35

Session chair: TBA

1	Causal-Flow SCM: Calibrated Forecasting and Counterfactual Prioritization for Airport Delay Propagation Yuteng Zhang (University of Washington) and Ekin Uğurel (New York University)
2	Spatially Aware Adaptive Experimentation Lixi Xu (UC Santa Barbara) and Peter Kedron (UC Santa Barbara)
3	Geo-Embeddings as Spatial Proxy Controls for Residualization-Based Effect Estimation Henrique Carvalho (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)), Renato Assunção (ESRI), Flavio Figueiredo (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)), Kevin Butler (ESRI), Zeping Liu (University of Texas at Austin) and Gengchen Mai (University of Texas at Austin)
4	Sampling for Region-Aggregated Spatial Scan Statistics Foad Namjoo (Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah), Drew McClelland (Taptap Send), Michael Matheny (Meta) and Jeff M. Phillips (Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah)

Application 4 · Environment

11:35–12:35

Session chair: TBA

1	GeoTALOS: A Geoscience Platform for Automated Landscape Observation and Spatial Analysis Suraj Prasai (Wake Forest University), Kangning Cui (City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan)), Temidayo Damoye (Wake Forest University), Rongkun Zhu (Hong Kong Baptist University), Zixiao Luo (Wake Forest University), David Lutz (Colby‑Sawyer College), Evan Dethier (Colby College), David Segurado (Wake Forest University), Ying Zhang (Wake Forest University), Miles Silman (Wake Forest University), Victor P. Pauca (Wake Forest University) and Fan Yang (Wake Forest University)
2	From Site Suitability to Site Evidence: A Non-Ranking Geospatial Evidence Framework for Environmental Review of U.S. Critical Mineral Project Rohit Venkat Gandhi Mendadhala (Idaho National Laboratory), Andreas S Berres (National Laboratory of the Rockies), Christopher J. Forsgren (Idaho National Laboratory), Sarah Inkseep (National Laboratory of the Rockies), Anastasia Bernet (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Cleve Davis (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Alison Peoples (Argonne National Laboratory) and Ruby Nguyen (Idaho National Laboratory)
3	Deploying and Evaluating a Smart-Agriculture Agentic Engine for Full-Season Soybean Farm Operations Ao Qu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Panagiotis Michelakis (National Technical University of Athens), Linyuan Han (Harbin Institute of Technology), Yiannis Hadjiyianni (National Technical University of Athens), Kun Ouyang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Konstantinos Siskos (National Technical University of Athens), Feng Li (Harbin Institute of Technology), Ran Meng (Harbin Institute of Technology), Jingchi Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Dimitrios Stamoulis (Harbin Institute of Technology) and Jie Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology)
4	Twilight: External Twin-assisted Data Imputation for Multivariate Polar Science Time Series Yuchuan Huang (University of Minnesota), Ziqi Yin (University of Colorado), Jiaying Zhou (University of Minnesota), Aneesh Subramanian (University of Colorado) and Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota)

Research 6 · Geospatial Foundation Models and Earth Observation

14:00–15:30

Session chair: TBA

1	How do Self-Supervised Remote Sensing Vision Models Transfer to Downstream Tasks? Julia Romero (University of Colorado Boulder), Qin Lv (University of Colorado Boulder) and Morteza Karimzadeh (University of Colorado Boulder)
2	A Benchmark Study of UNet and Embedding-Based Models for Greenland Coastline Segmentation Ahmet Talha Akgül (IT University of Copenhagen), Jason Joshua So (IT University of Copenhagen), Thorvald Sørensen (IT University of Copenhagen) and Maria Astefanoaei (IT University of Copenhagen)
3	WaterBench: Evaluating Geospatial Foundation Models for Coastal and Marine tasks Ayush Prasad (University of Rostock) and Stefan Oehmcke (University of Rostock)
4	Pixel-Level Transformers in Remote Sensing: A Canopy Height Case Study Sven Ligensa (University of Münster), Jan Pauls (University of Münster), Karsten Schrödter (University of Münster), Ibrahim Fayad (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL) and Fabian Gieseke (University of Münster)
5	SPECTRA: Band-Routed Embedding and Parameter-Efficient Cross-Sensor Fine-Tuning of Geospatial Foundation Models Xingyan Li (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Jordan A. Caraballo-Vega (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Jie Gong (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Mark L. Carroll (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) and Jianwu Wang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
6	Multi-Label Proportion Learning for Sea-Ice Type Prediction Samira Alkaee Taleghan (University of Colorado Denver), Younghyun Koo (National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder), Andrew P. Barrett (National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder) and Farnoush Banaei-Kashani (University of Colorado Denver)

Industry 2 · Logistics

14:00–15:30

Session chair: TBA

1	Placebo-Aware Measurement of Expo 2025 Transit Impacts Using Mobile Network Statistics Tomohiro Mimura (NTT DOCOMO, Tokyo, Japan), Ryo Yamada (NTT DOCOMO, Tokyo, Japan), Yusuke Nakamura (NTT DOCOMO, Tokyo, Japan) and Syou Kan (NTT DOCOMO, Tokyo, Japan)
2	DisasterNeedFinder 2.0: Reducing Latency in Location-Based Search Query Analysis for Disaster Response Shota Shimada (LY Corporation, Tokyo, Japan), Shuji Yamaguchi (LY Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) and Kota Tsubouchi (LY Corporation, Tokyo, Japan)
3	Unified Scene Segmentation, Reconstruction, and Conflation for Road Closure Mapping Abm Musa (Amazon, Last Mile, USA), Rohit Keshari (Amazon, Last Mile, USA), Amr Abdelraouf (Amazon, Last Mile, USA), Vaibhav Kango (Amazon, Last Mile, USA), Izzeddin Teeti (Amazon, Last Mile, USA) and Mohamed Moustafa (Amazon, Last Mile, USA)
4	Multimodal Road Closure Mapping via Cross-Modal Graph Attention Izzeddin Teeti (Amazon, US), Vaibhav Kango (Amazon, US), Nidhi Sridhar (Amazon, US) and Mohamed Moustafa (Amazon, US)
5	SCOUTCG: Scalable Outline of User Trajectories for Contextual Geocoding Arpit Tiwari (Meesho, Bengaluru, India), Hemanthkumar E (Meesho, Bengaluru, India), Karthik Sundar S M (Meesho, Bengaluru, India), Rishi Upadhyay (Meesho, Bengaluru, India), Anshu Aditya (Meesho, Bengaluru, India), Vinit Rongata (Meesho, Bengaluru, India) and Debdoot Mukherjee (Meesho, Bengaluru, India)
6	An Agentic Human-in-the-Loop Framework for Spatially-Aware Last-Mile Logistics Optimization Aryan Tiwari (Meesho, Bengaluru, India), Arpit Tiwari (Meesho, Bengaluru, India), Yuvraj Singh (Meesho, Bengaluru, India), Rachit Verma (Meesho, Bengaluru, India), Anshu Aditya (Meesho, Bengaluru, India), Vinit Rongata (Meesho, Bengaluru, India) and Debdoot Mukherjee (Meesho, Bengaluru, India)

Tutorial 2

14:00–15:30

Hardware Acceleration for Spatial Databases: Building Next-Generation Query Engines Using Ray Tracing Cores
Rubao Lee (Ohio State University), Liang Geng (Ohio State University) and Xiaodong Zhang (Ohio State University)

Research 7 · Spatial Query Processing and Search

16:00–17:30

Session chair: TBA

1	Do We Still Need Gazetteers in the Era of LLMs? Chaining Retrieval with a Spatial Neuro-Symbolic Index Alexis Horde-Vo (RMIT University), Matt Duckham (RMIT University) and Estrid He (RMIT University)
2	Pierce: GPU Ray Tracing for Spatial Joins over Complex 3D Data Anton Hackl (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam) and Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam)
3	geomGMD: Translation- and Rotation-Invariant Geometric Graph Mapping Distance for Building Footprint Similarity Laura Bülte (University of Bonn), Alexander Naumann (University of Bonn), Johanna Schlurmann (University of Bonn), Jan-Henrik Haunert (University of Bonn) and Petra Mutzel (University of Bonn)
4	HiFIVE: High-Fidelity Vector-Tile Reduction for Interactive Map Exploration Tarlan Bahadori (University of California, Riverside) and Ahmed Eldawy (University of California, Riverside)
5	GeoLogHash: Sparsity-Aware Exponential MinHashing for Top-k Polygonal Search Alima Subedi (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Md Arifuzzaman (Missouri University of Science and Technology) and Satish Puri (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
6	Spatial Inference Query with Spatial Model-Index Hybrids Avinaba Mistry (University of New Brunswick), Suprio Ray (University of New Brunswick), Mohamed Ahmed (ESRI Canada) and Jon Salter (ESRI Canada)

SRC + GIS Cup

16:00–17:30

SRC Finalist Presentations

16:00–16:45

The six SRC finalists (the bronze, silver and gold winners of each track) present their work. Winners will be announced on the evening of Tuesday, November 3.

Graduate Track
1	Bronze Winner
2	Silver Winner
3	Gold Winner
Undergraduate Track
4	Bronze Winner
5	Silver Winner
6	Gold Winner

GIS Cup

16:45–17:30

1	GISCUP 2026: Opening Remarks & Problem Introduction Aaron Lowe (Esri) and Ashwin Shashidharan (Esri)
2	Distributed Annealing with Exact Local Certification for Antenna Placement on Building Boundaries Christian Inhetveen (Technische Universität Dortmund), Mart Hagedoorn (Technische Universität Dortmund), Marcin Mennemann (Technische Universität Dortmund), Marius Maximilian Hille (Technische Universität Dortmund) and Kevin Buchin (Technische Universität Dortmund)
3	What an Observer Sees: Antenna Placement on Building Footprints at City Scale Chen Wei (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Qianheng Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Song Gao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
4	A Potential-Function-Based Approach to Antenna Placement Problem Haibei Wang (New York University Shanghai), Zhe Wang (New York University), Sizhe Xu (New York University) and Zhaonan Wang (New York University Shanghai)
5	Simulated Annealing for Antenna Placements Jacobus Conradi (University of Copenhagen), Asbjørn Lind (University of Copenhagen) and Mikkel Abrahamsen (University of Copenhagen)
6	Engineering Metaheuristics for a Visibility Coverage Problem Laura Bülte (University of Bonn), Daniel Faber (University of Bonn), Michael Kaibel (University of Bonn), Benedikt Kolbe (University of Bonn), Philip Mayer (University of Bonn), Lars Müller (University of Bonn), Petra Mutzel (University of Bonn) and Felix Roth (University of Bonn)
7	GISCUP 2026: Closing Remarks Aaron Lowe (Esri) and Ashwin Shashidharan (Esri)

Business Meeting

17:30–18:30

TBD

Conference Banquet

19:00–23:00

TBD

Friday, November 6

Lightning Talks 3

7:50–9:00

Please follow the order shown in the schedule when presenting.

#	Paper ID	Title
Research Short (35)
1	R-177	Depth-Calibrated Crowd Visual Occupancy: A Depth-Aware Framework for Evaluating Crowd Impacts on Urban Streetscapes
2	R-194	Indexicon: A Spatial Indexing Library
3	R-216	Reliable Spatial Generalization in Station-Guided Earth Observation: A Support-Aware Evaluation Protocol
4	R-252	Staypoint Detection from Noisy Trajectory Data
5	R-15	Hierarchically-Adaptive Global-Local Grouping for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Urban Mobility Resource Rebalancing
6	R-128	Spatially Resolved Wildfire Smoke AQI Forecasting with Physics-Informed Transformers
7	R-155	Atmosphere-Aware Place Discovery: Semantic Urban Mapping with Multimodal Vibe Enrichment
8	R-156	ROTATOR+HG: Representation Learning for Intermodal Routes with Hypergraph
9	R-205	A Biologically-Inspired Framework for Online Mining Spatio-Temporal Dependency Rules from Event Data Streams}
10	R-208	A Composition-Aware Pretraining Framework for Geospatial Foundation Models
11	R-263	GELATTO: Geospatial Relation-Aware Soft Target Learning for Multimodal Region Representation
12	R-302	Characterizing Multidimensional Landscape Discontinuities at Phantom Borders with Satellite Foundation-Model Embeddings
13	R-41	Context-Aware Metric Differential Privacy for Vehicle Trajectory Data
14	R-76	Measuring Spatial Hallucinations in Large Language Models through Urban Micro-scale Cognitive Mapping
15	R-161	Learning Context-Local Representation with Geospatial Foundation Model for Fine-Scale Spatial Prediction
16	R-213	SymNetPro: LOS-Aware Directional Multi-Transmitter Localization from Sparse Radio Observations
17	R-231	PlaceRep: Geospatial Place Representation Learning from Large-Scale Point-of-Interest Data
18	R-325	LiFDE: A Lightweight Server-Side Framework for Smartphone-Based Feature Localization
19	R-326	A Modular Multi-task Reasoning Framework Integrating Spatio-temporal Models and LLMs
20	R-26	City Editing: Hierarchical Agentic Execution for Dependency-Aware Urban Geospatial Modification
21	R-204	Event-Level Mobility Diffusion for Spatio-Temporal Interaction Order Prediction
22	R-49	Population Mapping with Functional Spatial Units and Hybrid Transformer–Graph Neural Networks
23	R-304	PlaceSeek: Human-Centered Geospatial Retrieval of Urban Outdoor Places via Semantic Grounding and Affective Alignment
24	R-264	Uncertainty-Aware Estimation of Ambient Population Demographics from Origin-Destination Mobility Data
25	R-111	Knowledge Graph Completion Methods Fail on Geographic Knowledge Graphs
26	R-31	LEMU: Personalized Urban Location Modeling through Mobility-Derived Temporal and Semantic Contexts
27	R-178	The Circuity of North American Rideshare Rides
28	R-215	SPiRe - Spatial Partitioning for Predictive Regimes
29	R-217	Urban Land Use Planning with a Hierarchical Graph Generative Adversarial Framework
30	R-234	Multiscale Physics-Informed Heterogeneous Inductive Graph Learning for Flood Infrastructure Impact Prediction
31	R-94	UrbanRouteBench: A Benchmark for Natural-Language Urban Multimodal Route Planning
32	R-290	Do Large Language Models Support Geospatial Reasoning?
33	R-118	A Framework for Analysing the Behavioral Patterns of Glacial Lake Dynamics Using Satellite Images and Semantic-SAM
34	R-176	Adaptive Information Masking for Scalable Uncertainty Estimation in Geospatial Foundation Models
35	R-166	GeoGNN: Time Series Geo-Localization using Two-Tower Graph Neural Networks
TSAS (12)
36	T-1	S2Vec: Self-Supervised Geospatial Embeddings
37	T-2	Neurosymbolic Inference on Foundation Models for Remote Sensing Text-to-image Retrieval with Complex Queries
38	T-3	STARD-Net: SpatioTemporal Attention for Robust Detection of Tiny Airborne Objects from Moving Drones
39	T-4	A Genealogy of Multi-Sensor Foundation Models in Remote Sensing
40	T-5	Additive Compositionality in Urban Area Embeddings Based on Human Mobility Patterns
41	T-6	Adversarial Multitask Learning for Accurate Change Detection in Multi-Temporal Satellite Images
42	T-7	CLIFT: Cross-City Mobility-Derived Lifestyle Pattern Transfer for Improved Multi-City Next Location Prediction
43	T-8	Multimodal and Multiscale Spatial-Temporal Semantic Search and Recommendation with Foundation Models
44	T-9	Emerging Flexible Designs for Geospatial Multimodal Foundation Models
45	T-10	DIRECT: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Tourist Route Generation
46	T-11	CRBF-Net: Convolutional RBF Network for Key Grid Cells Selection in Spatial-Temporal Flow Prediction
47	T-12	Retrieval Augmented Generation for Metric Spatial Reasoning

Vision

9:00–10:30

TBD

Research 8 · Spatial Representation Learning

11:00–12:30

Session chair: TBA

1	ImplicitTerrainV2: Wavelet-Guided Spatially Adaptive Neural Terrain Representation Haoan Feng (University of Maryland, College Park), Xin Xu (University of Maryland, College Park) and Leila De Floriani (University of Maryland, College Park)
2	Seeing Less in a Sparse World: Cross-View Geolocalization from Limited Field-of-View Observations Fahimul Aleem (University of Central Florida) and Shruti Vyas (University of Central Florida)
3	OSMGraphCLIP: Learning Global Location Representations from OpenStreetMap Graphs Dimitrios Michail (Harokopio University of Athens), Eleni Saka (National Technical University of Athens), Ioannis Giannopoulos (Vienna University of Technology) and Ioannis Papoutsis (National Technical University of Athens & National Observatory of Athens)
4	From Symbolic to Geometric: Enabling Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models Chen Chu (University of Southern California), Bita Azarijoo (University of Southern California), Li Xiong (Emory University), Khurram Shafique (Novateur Research Solutions) and Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)
5	Do Satellites See Commuters? A Critical Benchmark of Vision Foundation Models for Generative Urban Flow Networks Ashiq Shukoor Iqbal (The University of New South Wales), Wilson Wongso (The University of New South Wales) and Flora Salim (The University of New South Wales)
6	LocationBind: Coordinate-Pivot Alignment of Heterogeneous Urban Modalities in a Unified Latent Space Naoki Tamura (Nagoya University), Haru Terashima (Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University), Kazuyuki Shoji (Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University), Kenta Urano (Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan), Takuro Yonezawa (Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University) and Nobuo Kawaguchi (Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University)

Application 5 · Autonomous Driving, Traffic, and Road Networks

11:00–12:30

Session chair: TBA

1	Translating Diffusion-Based Image Editing to LiDAR Point Clouds for Critical Edge Case Generation in Autonomous Driving Systems Suchetan Uppur (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal), Hemant and Vaibhav Kumar (IISER Bhopal, India)
2	Quantifying the Impact of Traffic Condition Change using Proxy Label-based Graph Neural Networks Keiichi Ochiai (Yokohama City University) and Hiroyuki Toda (Yokohama City University)
3	MyCityMobility: A Scenario-Based Public Transport Evaluation Platform with GTFS and Synthetic People Flow Jue Ma (The University of Tokyo, Center for Spatial Information Science), Yanbo Pang (University College London), Hiroshi Omata (The University of Tokyo) and Yoshihide Sekimoto (The University of Tokyo, Center for Spatial Information Science)
4	TopoCell: Topology-Constrained Cellular Subsequence Alignment for Highway Entry and Exit Recognition Jiaqi Sun (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jialin Dai (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Haiyong Luo (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jiayi Gong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Xi Yan (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yiyang Lin (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Changhai Lin (Yibin Meijie Communication Technology Co., Ltd.)
5	TRASA: Topology-Preserving Road Network Extraction from Historical Topographic Maps Sofia Kirsanova (University of Minnesota), Zekun Li (University of Minnesota), Stefan Leyk (University of Colorado), Craig A. Knoblock (USC Information Sciences Institute) and Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Minnesota)
6	Closing the First Mile: Evaluating Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicle Fleets for Sustainable Transit Access Md Masum Mushfiq (Monash University), Muhammad Aamir Cheema (Monash University), Mohammed Eunus Ali (Monash University, Melbourne), Teresa Wang (Monash University) and Egemen Tanin (The University of Melbourne)

Posters

11:00–12:30

Paper ID	Title
Direct Short (8)
S-1	NADA-LA: A Benchmark for Spatial Address Data Quality Analysis
S-3	Uncertainty-Aware Multi-modality Spatio-temporal Wildfire and Smoke Prediction
S-25	Benchmarking Geospatial Foundation Models for Agriculture Applications
S-30	Earth System World Model for What-If Simulations: A Case Study for Terrestrial Ecosystems
S-47	Subregion-Calibrated Graph Neural Emulation for Transferable Soil Carbon Lateral Redistribution Modeling
S-96	SeisMamba: Low-Latency Single-Station Seismic Magnitude Estimation for Spatially Distributed Earthquake Early Warning
S-106	An Empirical Evaluation of Cross-City POI Recommendation on a Large-Scale Benchmark
S-110	Adaptive Road Semantic Self-Learning for Kilo-metre level Vehicle Trajectory Prediction
Application Short (4)
A-43	Dual Spatial Priors for Fully Unseen-Node Traffic Kriging at Virtual Road-Network Locations
A-44	An Efficient Transportation Mode Detection System Using Limited Cellular Signals
A-60	Congestion Forecasting (Actionably) Revisited: Limitations of Deep Learning and Potential of LLM-as-Data-Scientist
A-88	CDGL-H3: H3-Grid Reported Case Intensity Forecasting for U.S. Avian Influenza Surveillance
Research Short (25)
R-45	Dynamic Population Estimates from Ground Features
R-227	LIAD: Lightweight Interpretable Mobility Anomaly Detection via Agent-Adaptive Behavioral Deviations
R-194	Indexicon: A Spatial Indexing Library
R-216	Reliable Spatial Generalization in Station-Guided Earth Observation: A Support-Aware Evaluation Protocol
R-252	Staypoint Detection from Noisy Trajectory Data
R-15	Hierarchically-Adaptive Global-Local Grouping for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Urban Mobility Resource Rebalancing
R-128	Spatially Resolved Wildfire Smoke AQI Forecasting with Physics-Informed Transformers
R-205	A Biologically-Inspired Framework for Online Mining Spatio-Temporal Dependency Rules from Event Data Streams}
R-208	A Composition-Aware Pretraining Framework for Geospatial Foundation Models
R-302	Characterizing Multidimensional Landscape Discontinuities at Phantom Borders with Satellite Foundation-Model Embeddings
R-76	Measuring Spatial Hallucinations in Large Language Models through Urban Micro-scale Cognitive Mapping
R-213	SymNetPro: LOS-Aware Directional Multi-Transmitter Localization from Sparse Radio Observations
R-231	PlaceRep: Geospatial Place Representation Learning from Large-Scale Point-of-Interest Data
R-325	LiFDE: A Lightweight Server-Side Framework for Smartphone-Based Feature Localization
R-326	A Modular Multi-task Reasoning Framework Integrating Spatio-temporal Models and LLMs
R-26	City Editing: Hierarchical Agentic Execution for Dependency-Aware Urban Geospatial Modification
R-204	Event-Level Mobility Diffusion for Spatio-Temporal Interaction Order Prediction
R-49	Population Mapping with Functional Spatial Units and Hybrid Transformer–Graph Neural Networks
R-304	PlaceSeek: Human-Centered Geospatial Retrieval of Urban Outdoor Places via Semantic Grounding and Affective Alignment
R-264	Uncertainty-Aware Estimation of Ambient Population Demographics from Origin-Destination Mobility Data
R-111	Knowledge Graph Completion Methods Fail on Geographic Knowledge Graphs
R-178	The Circuity of North American Rideshare Rides
R-215	SPiRe - Spatial Partitioning for Predictive Regimes
R-234	Multiscale Physics-Informed Heterogeneous Inductive Graph Learning for Flood Infrastructure Impact Prediction
R-118	A Framework for Analysing the Behavioral Patterns of Glacial Lake Dynamics Using Satellite Images and Semantic-SAM
TSAS (10)
T-1	S2Vec: Self-Supervised Geospatial Embeddings
T-2	Neurosymbolic Inference on Foundation Models for Remote Sensing Text-to-image Retrieval with Complex Queries
T-3	STARD-Net: SpatioTemporal Attention for Robust Detection of Tiny Airborne Objects from Moving Drones
T-4	A Genealogy of Multi-Sensor Foundation Models in Remote Sensing
T-6	Adversarial Multitask Learning for Accurate Change Detection in Multi-Temporal Satellite Images
T-8	Multimodal and Multiscale Spatial-Temporal Semantic Search and Recommendation with Foundation Models
T-9	Emerging Flexible Designs for Geospatial Multimodal Foundation Models
T-10	DIRECT: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Tourist Route Generation
T-11	CRBF-Net: Convolutional RBF Network for Key Grid Cells Selection in Spatial-Temporal Flow Prediction
T-12	Retrieval Augmented Generation for Metric Spatial Reasoning

Research 9 · Road Networks, Routing and Multi-Agent Sensing

14:00–15:30

Session chair: TBA

1	STEP -- Stochastic Travel Execution Path Roy Levin (Microsoft)
2	Identifying Cascading Failures in Urban Road Networks from GPS-based Probe Vehicle Data: Evidence from Extreme Precipitation Events in Guangzhou Wanzhen Xu (Institute for environment and development (LESTARI), National University of Malaysia (UKM)), Shuya Xiao (School of Public Administration, Guangzhou Xinhua University) and Nuriah Abd Majid (Institute for environment and development (LESTARI), National University of Malaysia (UKM))
3	CoarseETA: Leveraging Coarse Data to Boost the Accuracy of Open-source ETA Queries Areeg Mostafa (University of Minnesota) and Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota)
4	Reinforcement Learning for UAV-based Participatory Sensing in Dynamic Environments Xin Ouyang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)), Songxin Lei (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)), Xusen Guo (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)), Yutian Jiang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)), Sijie Ruan (Beijing Institute of Technology) and Yuxuan Liang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))
5	An Empirical Survey and Benchmark of Learned Distance Indexes for Road Networks Gautam Choudhary (Purdue University), Libin Zhou (Purdue University), Yeasir Rayhan (Purdue University) and Walid G Aref (Purdue University)
6	Certified Multi-Agent Collaboration via Boundary Adaptation under Worst-Case Response Constraints Prabin Giri (Iowa State University) and Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University)

Application 6 + Industry · Ecology & Environment

14:00–15:30

Session chair: TBA

1	Adapting Bioacoustic Classification Models to Local Soundscapes via Spatiotemporal Routing Rhett Olson (National University of Singapore), Jinyu Cai (National University of Singapore) and See Kiong Ng (National University of Singapore)
2	A-UTE: Advection Informed, Uncertainty Aware Temperature Emulator Hira Saleem (UNSW), Cormac Purcell (UNSW), Steven Sherwood (UNSW) and Flora Salim (University of New South Wales)
3	CarbonTrust: Spatiotemporal Carbon Permanence Assessment via Physics-Aware Neural Networks with Monotonic Constraints Antonio Elia Pascarella (Latitudo 40), Diletta Chiaro (Latitudo 40), Angelo Furno (Univ. Gustave Eiffel, ENTPE), Paolo De Piano (Latitudo 40) and Giovanni Giacco (Latitudo 40)
4	Genesis: A Generative Engine for Hierarchical Satellite Image Synthesis Subash Khanal (Washington University in St. Louis), Yangzhi Cui (Washington University in St. Louis), Daniel Cher (Washington University in St. Louis), Eric Xing (Washington University in St. Louis), Brian Wei (Washington University in St. Louis), Srikumar Sastry (Washington University in St. Louis) and Nathan Jacobs (Washington University in St. Louis)
5	Zero-Shot and Semi-Supervised Learning with Noisy Labels for Scalable Urban Tree Mapping Using High-Resolution Aerial Imagery Mohanad Diab (University of Florida), Chang Zhao (University of Florida), Angelina Wu (University of Florida), Luca Pishos (University of Florida), Ziwen Zhu (University of Florida), Alina Zare (University of Florida) and Joel B. Harley (University of Florida)
6	MapReason-OSM: Can Vision-Language Models Make Graph-Verifiable Mobility Decisions from Street Maps? Srinivas Venkatanarayanan (NVIDIA; University of Central Florida, USA) and Clement Pakkam Isaac (NVIDIA; University of South Florida, USA)

Tutorial 3

14:00–15:30

Indigenous Knowledge and Geospatial Bias in the Era of Large Language Models
Nicole R. Schneider (University of Maryland), Nandini Ramachandran (University of Maryland), Kent O’Sullivan (University of Sydney) and Hanan Samet (University of Maryland)

Research 10 · Geospatial Scene Understanding and Map Extraction

16:00–17:30

Session chair: TBA

1	Modeling Subjective Urban Perception with Human Gaze Lin Che (ETH Zurich), Xi Wang (ETH Zurich), Marc Pollefeys (ETH Zurich), Konrad Schindler (ETH Zurich), Martin Raubal (ETH Zurich) and Peter Kiefer (ETH Zurich)
2	SIM 2.0: Floor Plan Vectorization via VLM Semantic Normalization with Pixel-Wise Self-Consistency Halleluyah Brhanemesqel (UCSC) and Roberto Manduchi (UCSC)
3	Temporally Consistent Aggregation of Building Footprints Philip Mayer (University of Bonn), Alexander Naumann (University of Bonn), Felix Roth (University of Bonn), Annika Bonerath (University of Bonn), Jonas Sauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Petra Mutzel (University of Bonn) and Jan-Henrik Haunert (University of Bonn)
4	TARF: Track-Aware Reliability Fusion for 3D Drone Tracking with Sparse Multi-LiDAR Point Clouds Md. Hasibur Rahman (Missouri University of Science and Technology) and Sanjay Madria (Missouri S & T)
5	Cross-domain Polygon Extraction from Historical Maps via Legend-guided Semantic Fusion Fandel Lin (USC Information Sciences Institute), Zekun Li (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) and Craig A. Knoblock (USC Information Sciences Institute)
6	Investigating the Multi-Scale Reproducibility of GeoAI Models for Urban Perception Yingjing Huang (University of Vienna), Krzysztof Janowicz (University of Vienna), Mina Karimi (University of Vienna), Zilong Liu (University of Vienna), Songlin Wang (University of Vienna), Annika Suess (University of Vienna) and Alexandra Fortacz-Lazan (University of Vienna)

Application 7 + Research · Urban Application 2

16:00–17:30

Session chair: TBA

1	PARA-FLOW: An Event-Based Framework for Modeling Accessible Multi-Modal Urban Mobility Fernanda Ventorim (Dept. of Computer Science - University of California, Irvine), Andrew Chio (Dept. of Computer Science - University of California, Irvine), Ruben Vescovo (International Research Inst. of Disaster Science - Tohoku University), Erick Mas (International Research Inst. of Disaster Science - Tohoku University), Shunichi Koshimura (International Research Inst. of Disaster Science - Tohoku University) and Nalini Venkatasubramanian (Dept. of Computer Science - University of California, Irvine)
2	Lexicographic Multi-Preference Routing for Priority-Aware Urban Navigation Abdallah Abdelwahab (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA), Ahmed Alsharif (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA) and Mahmoud Mahmoud (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)
3	Applying foundation model embeddings towards urban livability evaluation Ayush Khot (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Wen Zhou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Shaowen Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
4	Rapid Quantification of Outdoor Object Visibility in Urban Setting Using Connected-Vehicle Fields of View Artur Grigorev (University of Technology Sydney) and Adriana-Simona Mihaita (University of Technology Sydney)
5	Reliable Medical Condition Detection from Noisy Location-aware Multimodal Cardiovascular IoBNT Telemetry Davide Volpi (Fundació i2CAT), Filip Lemic (Fundació i2CAT), Guillermo Encinas (Fundació i2CAT), Ethungshan Shitiri (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Sergi Abadal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Eduard Alarcón (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and Xavier Costa-Pérez (Fundació i2CAT)
6	SAGE-Traj: Efficient Hierarchical Trajectory Generation via Distilled Semantic Reasoning Dimuthu Lakmal (University of Melbourne), Renata Borovica-Gajic (University of Melbourne) and Shanika Karunasekera (University of Melbourne)

Closing Remarks

17:30–17:45

TBD

Detailed Program

Tuesday, November 3

Workshops

PhD & Graduate Studies Workshop and SRC

Graduate SRC

G1 · Mobility & Trajectories

G2 · Routing & Navigation

G3 · Urban & Environment

Mentor–Mentee Lunch (by invitation)

G4 · Spatial Systems, GeoAI & 3D

Undergraduate SRC

U1 · Environment & Vision

Coffee Break

U2 · Localization & Robotics

SRC Graduate & Undergraduate Poster Session + judging

Wednesday, November 4

Opening

Lightning Talks 1

Keynote 1

Research 1 · Human Mobility and Trajectory Analytics

Application 1 · Urban Application 1

Demo 1 + Posters

Research 2 · Best Paper Candidates

Industry 1 · Best Paper Candidates

Tutorial 1 · Part A

Research 3 · Spatiotemporal Forecasting for Urban Systems

Application 2 · Disaster & Flood

Tutorial 1 · Part B

Reception: All Posters and Demos

Thursday, November 5

Lightning Talks 2

Keynote 2

Research 4 · Geospatial LLMs and Agentic Systems

Application 3 · Medical Applications

Demo 2 + Posters

Research 5 · Spatiotemporal Inference and Statistical Analysis

Application 4 · Environment

Research 6 · Geospatial Foundation Models and Earth Observation

Industry 2 · Logistics

Tutorial 2

Research 7 · Spatial Query Processing and Search

SRC + GIS Cup

SRC Finalist Presentations

GIS Cup

Business Meeting

Conference Banquet

Friday, November 6

Lightning Talks 3

Vision

Research 8 · Spatial Representation Learning

Application 5 · Autonomous Driving, Traffic, and Road Networks

Posters

Research 9 · Road Networks, Routing and Multi-Agent Sensing

Application 6 + Industry · Ecology & Environment

Tutorial 3

Research 10 · Geospatial Scene Understanding and Map Extraction

Application 7 + Research · Urban Application 2

Closing Remarks

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