The GeoInfo series of scientific conferences is an annual forum for exploring ongoing research, development and innovative applications on geographic information science and related areas. Papers should describe original research, ongoing (preferably) or recently completed and are reviewed by an international scientific committee.

The GeoInfo conferences also aim to bring to Brazil leading GIScience and spatial database researchers, to present to the local community a perspective of the state-of-the-art in the area. Past speakers have included Max Egenhofer, Gary Hunter, Andrew Frank, Roger Bivand, Mike Worboys, Werner Kuhn, Stefano Spaccapietra, Ralf Guting, Shashi Shekhar, Christopher Jones, Martin Kulldorff, Andrea Rodriguez, Max Craglia, Stephen Winter, Edzer Pebesma and Fosca Giannotti.

GeoInfo 2011 will have as keynote speakers Dr. Christian Freksa, from University of Bremen, Germany and Dr. Gilberto Câmara, from National Institute for Space Research - INPE, Brazil.

The following papers were choosen as the best papers preseted at GeoInfo 2011:

1 - Using Linked Data To Extract Geo-knowledge
Matheus Mota, João Longo, Daniel Cugler, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros

2 - CLASS-CHASE: Um Algoritmo para Classificação de Tipos de Padrões de Perseguição em Trajetórias de Objetos Móveis
Fernando Siqueira, Vania Bogorny
2 - Identificando Comportamentos Anômalos em Trajetórias de Objetos Móveis
Eduardo Carboni, Vania Bogorny

3 - Divide And Segment - An Alternative For Parallel Segmentation
Thales Korting, Emiliano Castejon, Leila Fonseca