National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis

The ability to specify geographic location is fundamental to many areas of science and many human activities. In addition to latitude/longitude, horizontal/vertical datums and rectangular coordinate systems such as UTM, new approaches to tessellating planets -- often involving triangulations, some of which are hierarchical -- have been developed by researchers in a variety of domains to satisfy a range of scientific objectives. The International Conference on Discrete Global Grids, organized by the U.S. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) brought 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 conference was held in the Radisson Hotel on the Santa Barbara waterfront from March 26-28, 2000.

Participants were asked to submit position papers along with their application. This document contains: 1) The original conference announcement; 2) The participant list; 3) All submitted abstracts (and full position papers where applicable); and 4) The conference agenda.