Things to think about:

• A publication enhances your CV and sets you apart from others on the job market
• Where to publish? To some extent this is determined by what you want to get out of the publication. The normal route for academic publication is a refereed journal. Go for the ones with the highest ranking (impact factor). You may wish to aim for a wider readership, enhance your career prospects or give yourself an easier job by submitting an article to the professional press (eg. GIS Professional or Geoconnexions). These articles are much shorter and don't use academic language, so a rewrite of your research paper will be required. However these are much more digestible in the context of a job interview and you can illustrate the article with nice photos. The school offers a cash prize for those getting published in refereed academic journals (with supervisors as co-author).
• Discuss with your supervisor (Remember them?) After the marking process is complete they will be able to give you detailed advice on structure and content that may have been inappropriate before. They will also be able to advise on appropriate journals and the process of submission. Do remember your supervisor is busy, although the pressure is off for you, we are into a new cycle of students - so regular reminders are a good idea! In return for the help a supervisor has given you (during your project and now editing your text ready for publication), the normal expectation is that they would share authorship of a paper
• It might be more appropriate to publish in a core GI-science journal (eg. International Journal of GIS, Transactions in GIS, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Computers & Geosciences etc.) or in a journal relating to the application-area in which you have worked. Again your supervisor can advise.
• Think about Open Access - your supervisor will know what this means and the implications
• Distinction-level dissertations should need very little work for submission to an academic journal. But even those dissertations which were not quite so successful will often contain work which is potentially publishable. It may take a bit more effort on your part. Professional magazines are often a better route for technical developments of general interest, which are perhaps lacking the academic rigour or detailed argument which an academic journal would seek.
• Academic journals will require referees, who independently address your work as being novel, valuable and suitable for the journal in question. A double-blind system is used to avoid bias - they do not know who you are and you don't get to know their names either. Although referees are anonymous, you are often asked to make suggestions - here your supervisor will be of great help. But it is always a challenge to ensure referees understand the value of what you have written
• Try, try and try again. Academic journals are fickle because of their desire to maintain quality. If you get bounced from one, then try another - but remember the referees might be the same, so a strategic repositioning might be needed at some point. Yes, take account of the referees comments to improve the paper, but keep trying
• However, avoid 'vanity' journals, who will publish anything regardless of quality. Publishing in these just leads to embarrassment :-)
• There are lots of examples of past success (although not as many as there could be), see the list below

• Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
• Cartographica
• Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS)
• Computers & Geosciences
• Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
• Environment and Planning B
• Environmental Modelling & Software
• GIScience & Remote Sensing
• Geographical Analysis
• Geoinformatica
• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
• IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• IEEE Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
• ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI)
• ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
• International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG)
• International Journal of Digital Earth
• International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)
• International Journal of Remote Sensing
• Journal of Geographical Sciences
• Journal of Geographical Systems
• Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
• Remote Sensing
• Remote Sensing of Environment
• The Cartographic Journal
• The Photogrammetric Record (TPR)
• Transactions in GIS