Technologies for Earth systems, environmental health monitoring reported at SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing

Upendra Singh (NASA Langley Research Center), left, and Jiancheng Shi (State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science) served as symposium chairs for SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing 2014.

BEIJING, China, and BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -- The latest advances in remote sensing technologies and applications to monitor the Earth's atmosphere, water, and land were presented during SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, on 13-16 October. Sponsored by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, the event drew policy makers, scientists, and engineers to the Beijing International Convention Center for topical conferences and networking opportunities.

Themed "Remote Sensing for Earth Systems Science and Environmental Health Monitoring," the event showcased more than 560 papers in seven conferences addressing global changes resulting from natural factors and human activities, and recent advances in remote sensing technologies to study Earth's atmosphere, water, and land. Conferences covered active and passive remote sensing technologies, data processing techniques, applications of remote sensing data, and the societal benefits of global environmental health monitoring.

Huadong Guo

Hiroshi Murakami

"The relationship between human activities and the Earth's systems and environment are substantial, cumulative, and accelerating," said Upendra Singh (NASA Langley Research Center), who along with Jiancheng Shi (State Key Lab of Remote Sensing Science) served as symposium chair.

The meeting's four plenary talks illustrated the societal benefits of global environmental health monitoring. 

• George J. Komar, NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) Program Manager reviewed the National Research Council's Earth Science Decadal Survey.
• Huadong Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Director-General, introduced six satellites for global change research including an atmospheric carbon satellite and an ocean salinity satellite.
• Shailesh Nayak, Indian Academy of Sciences and International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Fellow, outlined the agenda for earth system science in India.
• Hiroshi Murakami, Global Change Observation Mission Product Developer at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, discussed how innovative space science technology can solve environmental issues.

Conference proceedings are being published online in the SPIE Digital Library as manuscripts are approved, with CD and print publication to follow when all manuscripts are in.

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Organizers and presenters take the stage together at SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing.

Poster sessions at SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing offer an opportunity to discuss work one-on-one.

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