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ASPRS Meetings & Workshops
November 2008
The William T. Pecora Memorial Symposium
Adams Mark Hotel
Denver, Colorado
November 17-20
http://www.asprs.org/pecora17
March 2009
ASPRS Annual Conference
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel,
Baltimore, Maryland
March 8 - 13
November 2009
ASPRS/MAPPS 2009 Fall Conference
Crowne Plaza Hotel
San Antonio, Texas
November 16 – 19
April 2010
ASPRS Annual Conference
Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, California
April 26-30
May 2011
ASPRS 2011 Annual Conference
Midwest Airlines Center/Hyatt Hotel
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
May 1 - 5, 2011
General Calendar
May 14-15, 2008. Sixteenth Annual Pennsylvania GIS Conference Announced.
The Pennsylvania GIS Conference will convene again for the 16th year at the Radisson Penn Harris Hotel and Convention Center in Camp Hill, PA. This year’s theme is “Sustaining and Leveraging Our Geospatial Investment.”
Geospatial technology moves ahead, offering us more and more methods and tools for geospatial analysis and information management. Our geospatial assets continue to grow as local governments and private industry invest in data, people, and services. And the Commonwealth continues to build the framework of a Spatial Data Infrastructure through programs like PAMAP. The 2008 PA GIS Conference will explore the challenges and benefits of these continuing trends.
On-line conference registration opens on February 1, 2008. Exhibitor registration opened December 1, 2007. Interested parties should check the website often as the conference agenda evolves over the winter.
Website: http://www.pagisconference.org
For information contact Jennifer Wootsick, Conference Operations, at jlw61@psu.edu.
May 20 - 21, 2008. MAPPING AND MONITORING LAND
RESOURCE CHANGE:
BRIDGING THE GEOSPATIAL DIVIDE. University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky. http://tfce.uky.edu/gis_conference.htm
May 21-22, 2008. Second National Lidar Strategy Meeting, USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA. For more information, visit: http://lidar.cr.usgs.gov/registration.php
June 2-5, 2008. Full programming details and registration for the 2008 GeoTec Event are now online at www.geoplace.com/gt.
Sponsored by GeoTec Media, publisher of GeoWorld magazine and developer of the Web portal geoplace.com, the event is scheduled for June 2-5, 2008, at the Ottawa Congress Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Programming Highlights
The four-day conference includes eight full-day workshops, seven half-day workshops and more than 80 technical sessions.
- Data
- Interoperability
- Web-Based Mapping
- Emerging Technologies
- Executive Decision Support
- Executive Management
- Public Policy
- Research and Education
- Opening Keynote, Tuesday, June 3, 9-10 a.m., Brian Maloney, director, Geographic Information Branch for the Ministry of Natural Resources
- Luncheon Keynote, Wednesday, June 4, 12-1:30 p.m., Jim Geringer, director, policy and public sector strategies, ESRI
- More than 23,000 square feet of exhibition space in Congress Hall
- Expanded non-compete exhibit time
- Internet café located on show floor
- Map Gallery competition
- Vendor sessions on show floor
- GeoRally and Win-a-Wii Contests at Booth 511
- View the latest list of exhibitors and the show floor plan at geoplace.com/gt
- Exhibit Reception and "Beers of the World" Tasting, Tuesday, June 3, 5 - 7 p.m.
- Casino Royale, Wednesday, June 4, 7 - 10 p.m. - A James Bond Casino Night complimentary to all registrants
- International Geospatial Job Fair, open during conference exhibit hours and located near entrance to the exhibit hall floor.
Accommodations
The host hotel, Fairmont Château Laurier, located in the heart of Canada’s capital, is across the street from the 2008 GeoTec Event conference and exhibition at Ottawa Congress Centre. Attendees of the 2008 GeoTec Event will receive discounted rates on rooms.
For further conference information, visit www.geoplace.com/gt or contact Kathleen Hastings at 225-218-9025. For information about the exhibition, contact Sutton Annas at 760-318-7000 ext. 360.
June 2-5, 2008. 28th EARSeL Symposium "Remote Sensing for a Changing Europe", Istanbul, Turkey
More information: www.earsel28.itu.edu.tr or
E-mail: secretariat@earsel.org.
Presentations can be related to all fields of geoinformation and remote sensing applications and especially those listed below:
- Geoinformation and remote sensing
- new sensors and instruments
- Image processing techniques
- Data fusion
- Imaging spectroscopy
- Radar remote sensing
- Land use and land cover
- LIDAR
- Urban remote sensing
- Land degradation and desertification
- Hydrology, land ice & snow
- Coastal Zone
- Forestry
- Agriculture
- 3D spatial analysis
- Remote sensing for archaeology and heritage
- Time series analysis
- Hazards and disasters
- Education and training
- World Heritage- Special EARSeL/ASTER session dealing with the use of ASTER data in general and/or in particular focusing on ASTER thermal bands.
URL: http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/
June 4-7, 2008. 4th Workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group on Developing Countries in conjunction with GISDECO 8, 8th workshop of the GIS in Developing Countries network: "Integrating GIS and Remote Sensing in a Dynamic World".
, Istanbul, Turkey.
http://www.earsel-dc.uni-hannover.de/ or http://www.earsel.org/?target=announce/earselevents.
E-mail: secretariat@earsel.org.
This workshop brings together experts from EARSeL and GISDECO networks.
Especially for developing countries, integration of Remote Sensing and GIS offers unique access to primary data on the status of land surfaces, as well as possibilities for analysis, visualisation and development of possible solutions of problems, which due to dynamic changes both nature and humanity are exposed to. Global urbanisation, climate change and its effects on natural and human systems, land use and land cover changes, and salinisation are imminent dangers.
The workshop provides a forum for presenting and discussing results, and to exchange expertise and experience among researchers and users engaged in solving the problems of developing countries.
June 25-27, 2008. Spatial Accuracy 2008.
Accuracy 2008 will be held in Shanghai, China
25th through 27th June, 2008. It is organized and
hosted jointly by Wuhan University, the Institute of
Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai
Jiaotong University, Beijing Normal University,
Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, and the
Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping. Further
information including call for papers can be found
at http://2008.spatial-accuracy.org.
Contact: accuracy2008@spatial-accuracy.org.
June 24 - July 4, 2008. ENEREGION - Summer School 2008 on "Regional Potentials for Renewable Energy Generation", in Salzburg, Austria. The International Summer School ENEREGION is dedicated to the theme of "Regional Potentials for Renewable Energy Generation" and is hosted by Salzburg University's Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS http://www.uni-salzburg.at/zgis). In a set of lectures, group work and practicals participants focus on using Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis techniques to model spatial patterns of demand as well as regional potentials of solar, thermal and photovoltaic, wind, biomass, geothermal and hydropower resources. In order to assess the current state of the art regarding the technologies of renewable energy generation for a sustainable development in Europe, the Summer School will provide an insight into leading edge developments of regional potentials for energy generation.
Participants have the opportunity to attend sessions at the Geoinformatics Forum 2008 <http://www.gi-forum.org/> symposium dedicated to "Energy for the Future". Applications are accepted until May 15, 2008. Due to limited places we strongly recommend an early registration!
For registration and further details please visit our webpage at http://www.edu-zgis.net
Please contact us if you have any questions and please relate this information to your colleagues or interested students.
For information on the Summer school in Salzburg please contact Hermann Klug (Hermann.klug@sbg.ac.at) or Petra Jenewein (Petra.Jenewein@sbg.ac.at).
June 26 - July 1, 2008. The LBS Summer School 2008 on "Mobile and Location Based Services", Slazburg, Austria. The International Summer School on Mobile and Location Based Services
(LBS) is hosted by Salzburg University's Centre for Geoinformatics (ZGIS). LBS are used to innovate business and safety but also to disclose original ideas in community services, urban planning or new media. Large companies such as Nokia or Google offer LBS solutions to their professional or consumer customers. Organisations such as BP (British Petroleum) or FedEx (Federal Express Mail Service) use location aware applications for safety and business efficiency. The Summer School addresses foundations, technology and adoption issues in location-aware solutions. It includes user and business demands, case studies, technical architectures, RFID and non-traditional location technologies, as well as the ethical dimension of LBS together with implications for privacy and labour relations. Applications are accepted until May 15, 2008. Due to limited places we strongly recommend an early registration!
For registration and further details please visit our webpage at http://www.edu-zgis.net
Please contact us if you have any questions and please relate this information to your colleagues or interested students.
For information on the Summer school in Salzburg please contact Hermann Klug (Hermann.klug@sbg.ac.at) or Petra Jenewein (Petra.Jenewein@sbg.ac.at).
July, 1-4, 2008. Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg (GI_Forum2008), Salzburg University, Austria. More information: www.gi-forum.org, Contact: office@gi-forum.org
July 7-11, 2008. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.igarss08.org.
July 13 - 20 2008. 37th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research and Associated Events - COSPAR 2008 - “50th Anniversary Assembly”, Montreal, Canada
Contact: COSPAR Secretariat, c/o CNES, 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris Cedex 01, France
Tel: +33 1 44 76 75 10
Fax: +33 1 44 76 74 37
cospar@cosparhq.cnes.fr
http://www.cospar2008.org/ or http://www.cospar-assembly.org
Scientific Program Chair: Prof. Jean-Pierre St.-Maurice, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Abstract Deadline: Mid-February 2008
Topics: Approximately 85 meetings covering the fields of COSPAR Scientific Commissions (SC) and Panels:
- SC A: The Earth's Surface, Meteorology and Climate
- SC B: The Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System
- SC C: The Upper Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets Including Reference Atmospheres
- SC D: Space Plasmas in the Solar System, Including Planetary Magnetospheres
- SC E: Research in Astrophysics from Space
- SC F: Life Sciences as Related to Space
- SC G: Materials Sciences in Space
- SC H: Fundamental Physics in Space
- Panel on Satellite Dynamics (PSD)
- Panel on Scientific Ballooning (PSB)
- Panel on Potentially Environmentally Detrimental Activities in Space (PEDAS)
- Panel on Radiation Belt Environment Modelling (PRBEM)
- Panel on Space Weather (PSW)
- Panel on Planetary Protection (PPP)
- Panel on Capacity Building (PCB)
- Panel on Education
- Special events: 50th anniversary lectures, interdisciplinary lectures, space agency round table, session on “EGY - Towards an Earth and Space Science Commons”
Papers Published in Advances in Space Research, a fully refereed journal
July 21-25, 2008. GeoWeb 2008: Infrastructure:
Local to Global, Vancouver, Canada.
GeoWeb 2008 conference organizers are issuing
a call for papers for presentations and
workshops. For more information, visit www.geowebconference.org.
For media inquiries, please contact:
Stephanie Hughes-White, Galdos Systems Inc.
+1.604.484.2768 or
shugheswhite@galdosinc.com
August 4-9, 2008. GEOBIA, 2008 - Pixels, Objects, Intelligence: Geographic Object Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) for the 21St Century. GEOBIA 2008 will be held at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada on August 6-7, 2008 with workshops August 4-5 and 8-9 ( www.ucalgary.ca/GEOBIA)
Call for Papers (Adobe PDF 24Kb)
Contact information for the conference is:
Geoffrey J. Hay (Ph.D)
GIScientist, Landscape Ecologist
Department of Geography, University of Calgary
Dept web: www.geog.ucalgary.ca
Email: gjhay@ucalgary.ca
GEOBIA 2008: http://www.ucalgary.ca/GEOBIA
Wiki: http://wiki.ucalgary.ca/page/GEOBIA
Phone: 403-220-4768 Fax: 403-282-6561
September 8-11, 2008. The Tenth International Symposium on High Mountain Remote Sensing Cartography. http://www.icimod-gis.net/news/showdetail.php?id=193
FIRST Announcement:
The Tenth International Symposium on High Mountain Remote Sensing Cartography (HMRSC X) will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal from 8 to 11 September 2008. The HMRSC is not new to this Himalayan region as in 1992, when the Second Symposium on High Mountain Remote Sensing Cartography (HMRSC II) was held in Beijing and Lhasa, the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) had the opportunity to host the oral presentation in Kathmandu. However, this is the first time when HMRSC will be solely held in this southern part of the Himalayas in Nepal. ICIMOD in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA) will be organizing this HMRSC X with an objective to promote and exchange the experiences on the development and application of remote sensing techniques on high mountainous regions. Keeping up with the trend in the past, the symposium will have two parts. The first part will have oral and panel expositions of scientific contributions and the second part will be a field excursion to one of the mountainous destination in Nepal.
The topics that will be treated in the HMRSC X are diverse that include remote Sensing (RS) techniques, environmental studies, morphological mapping, monitoring of environmental and global change biodiversity, geology and mining, glacier and glacial lake investigations, ecotourism, mountain cartography, etc., which are the fields of direct application of remote sensing techniques.
Organiser(s): ICIMOD in Cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA)
Venue: ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tentative Schedule
Abstract Deadline: February 1, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 2008
Early Registration Deadline: May 1, 2008 (Open from April 1)
Late Registration Deadline: June 1, 2008
Camera ready paper: September 8, 2008
Symposium: September 8- 11, 2008
Field Excursion: September 12- 19, 2008
Abstract Guideline: One page, A4 size, Arial 10, Simple Spacing
Versions in Microsoft WORD can be sent by e-mail to papradhan@icimod.org, bdangol@icimod.org or pmool@icimod.org
Hard copies must be addressed to: HMRSC X, MENRIS, ICIMOD, GPO BOX 3226, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Note: The organizer(s) are also seeking for sponsors and potential partners for this event.
September 8-11, 2008. SPIE Europe Remote Sensing 2008,
SPIE, London, UK. For more information,
visit: http://spie.org/remote-sensing-europe.
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September 22-24, 2008. First International Conference on Remote Sensing Techniques in Disaster Management and Emergency Response in the Mediterranean Region,
Zadar, Croatia
http://www.earsel.geosat.hr or: http://www.earsel.org/?target=announce/earselevents.
E-mail: secretariat@earsel.org.
The subject is a high-priority topic in the Mediterranean region. Risk reduction using remote sensing techniques can be very helpful in various applications. Identification of relevant space-based and airborne information for Disaster Management Support and Emergency Response is a major issue..
The conference is to provide an international forum bringing together experts from different remote sensing and GIS branches as well as from disaster management. The conference will cover several stages in risk management, such as knowledge, prevention, warning, management of emergency situations, post-analysis of crisis, environmental rehabilitation, etc.
September 22-26, 2008. CARIS 2008 - Come make a Spatial Connection.
The 12th International User Group Conference and Educational Sessions will take place on September 22 - 26, 2008 at the Hilton Bath City Hotel in Bath, United Kingdom.
CARIS 2008 recognizes that it is only when people, data and systems simultaneously connect that we can achieve the interoperability upon which spatial data infrastructures will succeed.
CARIS 2008 will be of specific interest to those working in the areas of Geospatial Standards, Land Information Management, Hydrographic Survey Operations, Electronic Charting, Ports and Waterways and Law of the Sea
Come Make a Spatial Connection! To find out more please visit www.caris.com/caris2008
September 29 - October 3 2008. Free and Open Source Geospatial 2008 (FOSS4G2008). Cape Town, South Africa
www.foss4g2008.org
October 5-9 2008. The 2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM. Hosted by the Houston Geological Society. Houston, Texas George R. Brown Convention Center. Registration deadline: Early Bird, 14 July 2008, Standard, 15 July thru 2 September 2008 Abstract deadline: 3 June 2008. http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/
October7 to 9th, 2008. VIII Seminar on Remote Sensing and GIS applications in Forest EngineeringData, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil. www.8seminarioflorestal.com.br. For more information, contact: disperati@avalon.sul.com.br
October 27-31, 2008. 7th AARSE Conference, Accra, Ghana. APPLICATION OF EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOINFORMATION FOR GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA. Call for Papers http://www.aarse2008.org
March 8-13, 2009. ASPRS 2009 Annual Conference,
ASPRS, Baltimore, Maryland.