C Vincent Tao Editor

Dr. C. Vincent Tao is Director of Microsoft Virtual Earth Business Unit. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was Canada Research Chair in Geomatics, Professor and the Director of the GeoICT Lab at York University in Toronto, Canada. He was the Conference Chair of MMT’2004. He is currently serving as Chair for the ISPRS WG III/3 (2004-2008). His research interest ranges from on-line mapping, 3D web, local search, Lidar and image based feature extraction and 3D modeling. Dr. Jonathan Li is Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Waterloo, Canada. From 2001-2006, he was Assistant/Associate Professor and the Director of GeoVELab at Ryerson University in Toronto. He was the Conference Secretary of MMT’2004. He is currently serving as Co-Chair for the ISPRS WG IV/8 (2004-2008). His research interests include remote sensing, 3D urban modeling, intelligent object extraction from imagery, spatial data integration for disaster management, and WebGIS.