The International Association of Aquatic and Marine Information Centers
(IAMSLIC) is interested in promoting participation in the new peer-reviewed
African Journal of Geoinformation.  See details, below.    --Sue Ann
Gardner

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Sue,   Yes, certainly.   Linda
Linda--  This announcement is likely to be of interest to readers of
MAPS-L.  May I forward it to them?  --Sue Ann
Sue,   Yes, certainly.   Linda


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Subject: [IAMSLIC:4182] First Issue of the African Journal of
Geoinformation-Call for Papers

Notice Especially for our AFRICAN Regional Group:

AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOINFORMATION (AJG)

THE NEW OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE REMOTE
SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT (AARSE)

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE MAIDEN ISSUE

The African Association for the Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE)
has previously called for papers for its maiden issue of the African
Journal of Geoinformation (AJG) to be published in October 2004. This is
its final call to give opportunity to all those who have not submitted
manuscripts. The new AJG will be the official journal of AARSE. The
purpose of the journal is to stimulate debate on the development of ideas,
methods, and techniques in geoinformation and related disciplines; and to
discuss how these techniques are being used for the benefit of humankind.



The maiden issue of the journal will be in October, 2004, and thereafter
the journal will be published in one volume with two issues per year in
March and October. Manuscripts reaching the editors by July 30, 2004, peer
reviewed, and re-submitted by August 30, 2004 will be considered for
publication in the maiden issue. Authors are encouraged to submit
manuscripts beyond these dates for subsequent issues of the journal.
Electronic submissions should be sent to: [log in to unmask]

The Editors of AJG welcome submissions of manuscripts that contribute to
the scientific knowledge that is generally of interest to researchers,
professionals and other practitioners interested in any field related to
geoinformation. They particularly welcome submissions of broad scientific
interest; manuscripts of an interdisciplinary nature; and theoretical and
conceptual papers with innovative applications. While all submissions in
any field of geoinformation will be considered for publication, those that
relate to prevalent problems in Africa and attempts to use geoinformation
to overcome them will be given priority. The maiden issue will be published
just before AARSE's bi-annual conference in Nairobi, October 8-12, 2004 (
http://www.itc.nl/~aarse/aace/) whose theme will be "Geo-Information
Sciences in Support of Africa's Development".



Manuscripts submitted related to this theme will be particularly welcome
for the maiden issue. Submissions might be in the form of completed
research papers, brief commentaries, or book reviews (see Guide for Authors
attached to this Call for papers). Submission of any manuscript is taken to
imply that the
manuscript submitted is original and that it is not being considered
elsewhere for publication.

All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least three reviewers.
To facilitate publication of high quality articles, the AJG has an
Editorial Board of eminent scientists in the field of geoinformation who
review manuscripts in their areas of specialization. Other scientists
outside the Editorial Board are also requested to assist in reviewing
articles from time to time.

GUIDE TO AUTHORS

A Guide to Preparing Manuscripts for the AJG
1. Introduction
Authors are advised to consult these instructions for authors as the only
full version. Abbreviated instructions will appear in each issue of the
AJG. Once publications of the journal start, authors may get more visual
information by following the format of the published articles, except for
spacing which should be double in submitted manuscripts.

The Editors of AJG expect to receive manuscripts of high quality. Poor
submissions will be returned to the authors without review. The author(s)
must state, in the cover letter accompanying the submission of the
manuscript, that the paper submitted is original and has not been, is not
being, and, until the review process of the AJG is completed, will not be
submitted for publication elsewhere.

2. Paper length
A manuscript presented for a paper article should normally be less than
8000 words or about 31 pages including all tables, figures and
references. Short discussions of less than 3000 words may be submitted as
Research Notes. Editors will also welcome short comments on papers
published in earlier issues under the title Debate. Book Reviews of any
recently published book in the field of geoinformation, should be about
1000 words.

3. Structure of the paper
The paper should have the following structure
· Title page, (with the text center justified) to include the Title of
the paper, author(s') name(s) and affiliations (list multiple affiliations
one below the other, and mark each with a superscript "a", "b", etc.).
In addition the name of the corresponding author, in a case where there are
more than one author, should be marked with an asterik superscript (*).
A footnote should then be given on this page as, for example " *
Corresponding author: E-mail: [log in to unmask]; Tel.: (256) 41 345678;
Fax: (256) 41 345679"
· Abstract page (at least 200 words) with 4-6 keywords
· Introduction (including motivation, aims, overview, and references to
related works ;
· Main body (explanation of methods, algorithms, data used, results and
their critical discussion;
· Conclusions;
· Acknowledgements
· Appendices
· References
· Tables
· Figures
· Glossary (if any is considered necessary)

4. General format
The paper should be one column. Leave on all sides a 2.5 cm margin and use
12 pts font, Roman Times or Helvetica throughout the manuscript (including
Tables and Figures). Double spacing should be used throughout the
manuscripts (including Tables). Pages should be numbered at the bottom
center. Metric (S.I.) units should be used. Use units instead of words,
e.g. "10 m" instead of "10 meter(s)" with a space between numbers and
units. Do not abbreviate units (e.g. no "pi" or "pels" instead of
"pixel(s)"). Also present units as 1% and 4%, not 1 and 4 %; or 2 mm to 5
mm, not 2 to 5 mm; or 3 km x 3 km, not 3 x 3 km.

Only the paper title and main sections titles should be in bold. All
subsections titles and "Keywords:" should be in italics. No title should be
in capital letters. In section/subsection titles, only the first letter
should be capital. All text, with the exception of text on the Title Page
(which should be centre justified), should be left justified. To highlight
something in the text use italics, never bold. Bold can be used, however,
in equations or with symbols in the text.

Do not use bullets. Instead use numbering as (1) (2) etc. and treat
each numbered item as a new paragraph. Sections and subsections can be
numbered up to 3 decimal figures, e.g. 3.3.2.1. All section and subsection
numbers should be followed by a period (.), e.g. "4.1. Analysis of the
results."

Quote sections in text as "Section 4.2" etc., without a (.) after the last
number. "Abstract", "Keywords", "Acknowledgements" and "References" should
not be numbered.

Do not leave one empty line between paragraphs. Indent paragraphs by 0.4
cm. In the "References" do not indent the first line, but all remaining
ones of each reference should be indented by 0.3 cm.

Footnotes should only be used, if absolutely essential. If used, footnotes
should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript, indicated by
superscript arabic numbers, and kept as short as possible.

5. Presentation, language
The paper should be in English. The text must be well structured and
understandable. English should be grammatically correct. Set the language
paper to UK English.

6. Figures and Tables
All figures should be of good quality (sharp, good contrast) with letter
size large enough to be clear if reduction is necessary before printing.
Figures should be laser prints (at least 400 dpi printer) or for images,
original glossy prints. Bar scales must be used and all maps must have a
north and a clear coordinate system (e.g. latitude and longitude)
indicated.

In formatting Tables, do not separate columns with vertical lines but use
extra space between the columns. Number Figures and Tables sequentially
(e.g. Table 1 etc.) each on a different page.

Each Table and Figure should have a brief and clear title. Put all Table
titles on one page (marked "Captions for Tables") and insert this at the
beginning of the "Tables" section as indicated in Section 3 above.
Similarly, put all Figure titles on one page, (marked "Captions for
Figures") and insert this at the beginning of the "Figures" section as
indicated in Section 3 above. Indicate in the main text of the paper the
position where each Figure and Table should be placed e.g. Table 3 here.
Ideally immediately after the first position in text where each is quoted.

7. Colour
Colour figures cannot be printed in the journal at this time.

8 References
In selecting references to quote, give preference to those which are easily
accessible to many readers. All references must be quoted in the text and
those quoted in the text must appear in the "References" list. The letter
font in the reference should be regular. Do not use bold italics. Only the
first letter of the title should be capital. Give the full information for
a reference as follows:

Quote references in text as: (a) ..has been extensively studied (Woldai,
2001a, 2001b; Adeyemi, 2002, p.23); or (b) as reported in Otim (1999)
....List multiple references in parentheses in chronological, not
alphabetical, e.g. (AbaNyanba, 1998; Omalanga, 2001; PapaEwusi, 2002;
Zikusooka and Zikuvannyuma, 2003). Use et al. in quoting a reference only
for more than two authors e.g. (Omara-Ojungu et al., 2004).

In the "References", references should be listed in alphabetical order.
Where two or more references for the same year are listed for one
author(s), these may be differentiated as in the example:
Munene, J., 1998a ...
Munene, J., 1998b ...
Munene, J., Smith, W., and Chou, D., 1997a. ...
Munene, J., Smith, W., and Chou, D., 1997b. ...

Up to 20 names of all authors should be listed in the reference list; for
more than 20 names, use only the first author name and then et al.).

For journals, do not abbreviate journal names. Quote journal articles as
in the example:
Abudelsalam, M. G., Stern, R. J., Shandelmeier, and Sultan, M., 1995.
Deformation history of the Neoprotererozoic Keraf Zone in north east
Sudan. Journal of Geology, 103, 473-491.


For proceedings of conferences quote as in the example:
Chanda, M.W., 1998. Caring about the environment or personal survival?
Mapping neighbourhood differences in attitudes towards environmental
quality in Gaborone. Proc. Int. Conf. Permafrost, 3-4 June, Hakodate,
Japan, pp. 18-23.

For books give the edition if applicable: For example:
Gavin, E., and Gymfi-Aidoo, J., 2004. Environmental information systems
development in sub-Saharan Africa. Bosala Books, Johannesburg, 3rd
Edition.

For URL sites, add, at the end, accessed date, where date is the last
date that the site was accessed by you. For example:
June 9, 1999. As author give either the author(s) name, if the site has a
publication, followed by the publication title, or the title of the page
(e.g. product name).

For edited books, edited proceedings etc list references as: .."In:
Mutendaggulu, S., (Ed.) 2001. The declining importance of Lake Malawi,..p.
38-49."

For proceedings and books quote as: In: Kyaka, B.R., Wilson , R., (Eds)..

9. Paper submission
Send 4 good quality hardcopies by fast mail (airmail or courier if you
wish), or the electronic form (as described below) of the paper.
Electronic submissions are preferred because they reduce the time between
submission and publication. In the latter case send your paper in A4
format as RTF, Word 97 or Word 2000 file. Files may be compressed by
zip. Send hardcopy manuscripts to:

Professor Musisi Nkambwe
Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Geoinformation
Department of Environmental Science
University of Botswana
Private Bag 00704
Gaborone, Botswana.

Electronic submissions should be sent to
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10. Submission of revised manuscripts
Normally, a manuscript will be returned to the author(s) with comments from
the referees. The author(s) will be expected to return revised manuscripts
where appropriate to the Editor-in-Chief within the shortest possible time.
They should submit two high quality hardcopies AND the electronic files on
a DOS-formatted 1.4 MByte high density diskette(s) or a CD. The electronic
files should include one file with all paper information. If the file
(after compression, if necessary) is too large or if the quality of the
figures, in the view of the author(s) is better with individually delivered
files, then the authors can deliver one file for each figure in a common
format like GIF, JPEG etc.

11. Paper proof ,and reprints
One set of page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author to be
checked for typesetting/editing. The author is not expected to make
changes or corrections that constitute departures from the article that was
accepted by the editor. Proofs should be returned within 3 days, preferably
by fax. E-mail may be used to return corrections where this is appropriate.

The authors will receive two copies of the issue of the AJG in which their
article, debate or book review appears. Reprints for articles can be
ordered on a reprint order form which will be sent to the corresponding
author of the accepted article by the publisher.

12. Copyrights
Upon acceptance of an article by the journal, the author(s) will be asked
to transfer the copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer
will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. The author
is responsible for obtaining permission to use any copyrighted material or
any rights of any company or institute etc which may have copyrights to
materials used in writing the manuscript. Once the paper has been prepared
in publication format by the publisher, the permission of the publisher is
required for any use of the paper.

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