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Special Joint Session on Remote Sensing and Natural Disasters: Remote Sensing 2012
Conference RS11
This conference has an open call for papers:
Conference Chairs
Shahid Habib, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA); David Messinger, Rochester Institute of Technology (USA); Antonino Maltese, Univ. degli Studi di Palermo (Italy)
Program Committee
Harold Annegarn, Univ. of Johannesburg (South Africa); Charles R. Bostater, Jr., Florida Institute of Technology (USA); Safwat Dayem, Arab Water Council (Egypt); Ayman El-Dessouki, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (Egypt); Ahmed Erraji, Centre Royal de Teledetection Spatiale du Maroc (Morocco); Diego Fernández-Prieto, ESRIN (Italy); Mario Hernandez, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (France); Steve Iris, Canadian Space Agency (Canada); Umar Khatick, National Univ. of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan); Claire Kfouri, The World Bank (USA); Rachael McDonnell, Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); Dimitar P. Ouzounov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA); Mutlu Ozdogan, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA); Imran Saloojee, Group on Earth Observations (Switzerland); Ramesh P. Singh, Chapman Univ. (USA); Si-Chee Tsay, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA); Tsehaie Woldai, Int'l Inst Geo-Information Science & Earth Observation (Netherlands)
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Remote sensing technology and data are being used in support of societal needs in support of natural and technologically related disasters. Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and landslides, fires, tropical cyclones, heat waves, tornados, volcanic eruptions, droughts and famines, large scale disease and epidemics, as well as large scale chemicals released into the environment are all examples phenomena that require information in order to recover and/or remediate the impacts upon human land and water use activities.
An important aspect of remote sensing science is the ability to monitor complex environmental media (air, land, water) and their interfaces (air-water, water sediment, air-land and their respective internal interfaces and environmental media in order to provide timely information to support decision making needs - both public and private. In addition, understanding small scale as well as regional scale complex environmental systems is central to increasing our scientific understanding of the global atmosphere, land, and ocean systems that provide the climate for life to exist on our planet. Remote sensing data is the most robust form of basic information sources used to provide necessary environmental monitoring and surveillance as well as safety related information during disaster events.
With the increase in human activities as population increases, these disaster events are impacting not only personal lives but have far reaching economic impacts that influence all forms of global interactions. Recognizing the information needs to help manage and recover from these natural and manmade events, the organizers of SPIE's European Remote Sensing symposium and conferences will hold a special joint session in 2012. This call for papers requests papers and presentations in the special session in order to encourage recognition of the existing and future role of sensing systems and data to assist in societal decision making in support of managing human activities during disaster events.
This joint session will offer a forum for oral presentations as well as a poster session papers during the European Remote Sensing Symposium sponsored by RS01 and RS02 Conferences, and emphasis in the following areas are encouraged:
improving predictions of tornado and tropical cyclones using remote sensing data and models derived from remote sensing data and related geophysical variables
disaster monitoring of land & water surface features for post disaster planning and safety response activies using existing as well as future sensors and the needed sensing requirements
flood modeling, forecasting and mapping
mapping and early warning of landslides, glacier movements
volcanic activity early warning and plume tracking
utilizing operational aspects of existing satellites and future systems for "pointing" and orbital changes in order to image critical areas during disaster events, as well as using dedicated nanosatellite systems
characterization of earth surface and subsurface geophysical systems in order predict the future or onset of events such as famines, droughts and disease, and earthquakes
littoral zone and harbor remote sensing in order to determine impacts after tropical cyclones and tsunamis
single and multiband sensing and signatures that can be used to target different types of disaster needs
studies of climate change at the mesoscale to global scale that can utilize remote sensing data for change detection and related modeling
multi-sensor integrations that can help provide needed first response to disasters
data fusion techniques using sensor data in order to assist in producing higher spectral and spatial remote sensing signatures
past as well as ongoing remote sensing in support of disaster short term planning; response, and recovery efforts
the role of coupling remote sensing data as input to hydrological models in order to better predict the on set and magnitude of floods in population centers as well as in agricultural areas
Questions concerning the session and topics can contact the session co-chairs and technical committee members: shahid.habib@nasa.gov, messinger@cis.rit.edu, malteseantonino@gmail.com
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Important Author Dates
Abstract Deadline
2 April 2012
Author Notification
18 June 2012
Manuscripts Due
27 August 2012
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