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RSPSoc Annual Conference 2009, Leicester
8th September, 2009 – 11th September, 2009
The venue and dates for the 2009 RSPSoc Annual Conference can now be confirmed.
The conference will be hosted by Leicester University, and held at their Oadby Campus (http://www.le.ac.uk/conference/) from 8th-11th September 2009
The local organising committee, headed up by Dr Kevin Tansey, will include staff from the Department of Geography and the Space Research Centre at Leicester University.
Further details will follow shortly.
Location: John Foster and Gilbert Murray Halls, Oadby, Leicester
Contact: Dr Kevin Tansey,
Conference Convenor
Alternatively you may contact:
Dr Kevin Tansey,
Exhibition for Construction and Engineering Surveying (XCES)
22nd April, 2009 – 23rd April, 2009
SURCO Limited, the trading company of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, presents XCES, an exhibition dedicated to the construction and civil engineering industry. The exhibition will encompass all the latest surveying, mapping and imagery technology available in today’s marketplace.
Specialisms
•Land, building and engineering surveying
•Hydrographic surveying
•Photogrammetry and remote sensing
•Geographic information systems
•Cartography/visualisation
•Laser scanning
XCES will be staged at the popular York Racecourse on 22nd and 23rd April 2009, which offers the latest facilities, set in a very attractive environment.
XCES will unite all aspects of the surveying industry in one place and has already attracted numerous exhibitors, with the industry’s leading professional bodies (ICE, RICS, TSA, AGI, RSPsoc, CIAT, IHIE and ABE) co-sponsoring the event.
See attached press release for further details.Press_Release.doc
Location: York Racecourse
Contact: Alan Lees,
Media Sales Manager, SURCO Ltd
+44 (0)161 972 3122
http://www.ices.org.uk/xces.php
Alternatively you may contact:
Niccola Dodd,
Business Development Manager
+44 (0)161 972 3112
EARSeL Special Interest Group Imaging Spectroscopy Workshop
16th March, 2009 – 19th March, 2009
IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY: “An Innovative Tool for Scientific and Commercial Environmental Applications” March 16-19, 2009
1stcall_TelAviv.pdf
The workshop will be held at Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel and will bring together scientists, students, decision makers, end users, industries, and commercial companies that are using this key technology.
The focus of the workshop will be on environmental applications based on inter- disciplinary research making use of different data sources. Other IS applications are also welcome.
Please visit the active URL address of the conference at http://www.earsel6th.tau.ac.il
The topics of the workshop are:
Potential applications of satellite IS sensors
Existing and future IS missions (e.g., CHRIS, EnMAP, Hyperion)
Existing and future airborne IS sensors (e.g., ARES, AVIRIA, APEX)
Lessons learned from 20 years of IS remote sensing
Terrestrial ecosystem remote sensing
Commercial utilization of IS technology for geology and agriculture applications
Limnology and hydrology using IS technology
Ecology and Environmental issues using IS technology
Climate change and IS technology
Requirements for different applications (spatial resolution, radiometric performance, spectral and temporal coverage,…
IS data fusion with other sensors (e.g., LIDAR)
All kinds of economic aspects of the IS technology
Methods and data processing
Atmosphere
Electro-optics and technical issues
Toward commercialization of the IS technology for environmental applications
New algorithms for IS image processing
Data compression
On-board processing
Global cal/val activities
Coordination of global data archival and distribution
Near real-time analysis
Basic and advanced spectroscopy
Quantitative mapping applications
Moving from pure science to active business
Ground (laboratory and field) Imaging spectroscopy applications
Others
Student scholarships
A limited number of scholarships for students to attend the workshop will be available. Eligibility: students who will present a paper (oral or poster).
Workshop program
The program of the workshop will include invited and free sessions, field trips, and social events. The workshop will be dedicated to honor Prof. Klaus Itten for his outstanding contribution to the European IS community over the years; a special session devoted to that end will be organized. Two field trips are planned at the end of the workshop: to the Dead Sea and Makhtesh Ramon, Southern Israel.
Abstracts
You are invited to submit an abstract (200 words) electronically through the website of the conference, which will be available soon. Please indicate in your abstract your presentation preference: oral or poster.
Important dates:
First announcement: November 9, 2007
Abstract submission deadline: October 11, 2008
Notification of acceptance: December 12, 2008
Early registration: January 17, 2009
Final submission of full paper: March 16, 2009
Location: Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Contact: Prof. Dr. Eyal Ben-Dor,
Workshop Chair
972-3-6407049
http://www.earsel6th.tau.ac.il
Map World Forum
10th February, 2009 – 13th February, 2009
GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABLE PLANET EARTH
The upcoming ‘Map World Forum’, will bring together responsible stakeholders of this beautiful planet from diverse fields like environment, finance, management, technology and governance, to share and explore the need and utility of geospatial technologies to resolve the issues in a non-confrontationist form, simultaneously letting humankind to pursue its perennial quest for development.
Location: Hyderabad, India
Contact: Map World Forum Secretariat,
+91 120 4260800-808
International Mapping Forum - LiDAR 09
26th January, 2009 – 28th January, 2009
Call for Papers for the International LIDAR Mapping Forum
Deadline September 1, 2008
The International Lidar Mapping Forum is the premier event for the LiDAR industry attracting professionals from all over the world looking to invest in and benefit from LiDAR technology and services. The next event is scheduled for January 26 – 28, 2009 in New Orleans, USA.
The last ILMF, in February 2008, saw record growth in attendance which reflects the growing importance of LiDAR to the world’s mapping industries as the key way to acquire massive amounts of high resolution digital data in an extremely cost effective manner. More than 580 delegates registered from 32 countries (up from approximately 250 the year before).
The Conference Technical Committee is seeking papers and work-in-progress reports on all aspects of airborne and bathymetry LiDAR with a particular emphasis on papers that address the key commercial and technical issues facing the industry.
To submit a paper visit http://www.lidarmap.org/papers
If you are interested in exhibiting, please email
Kind regards
ILMF Team
Location: New Orleans, USA
Contact: Versha Carter,
GIS Ostrava 2009
25th January, 2009 – 28th January, 2009
Seamless Geoinformation Technologies are one of the current key goals of Geoinformation society. Existing differences in organization charts, as well as differences in technological development, created a lot of barriers between particular
platforms, solutions, data structures and organization rules.
Instead of digging special tunnels connecting just two individual systems we can employ brand new technological-organisational approaches to deflate these barriers.
New technological tools allow us to combine various data sources and SW tools throughout the net regardless of platform, place and time. The leading methods and its implementations can be shared in such heterogeneous systems. Web services, GeoWeb, Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Open Source, Mobile Geoinformation Technologies and Telematics represent fundamental technical solutions for this goal whereas a
standardization and an implementation of INSPIRE directive are main organisational instruments.
The symposium offers a platform to present and discuss the current state-of-the-art in such (but not only) technological and organisational geoinformation topics.
Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU in the 1st half of 2009 selects a central priority motto “Europe without Barriers”, where the four freedoms (the free movement of goods, services, persons and capital) play central roles.
Seamless Geoinformation Technologies (Geoinformation Technologies without Borders) mirrors these priorities in the geoinformation pool and hopes to contribute
for the elimination of constraining barriers.
Jiri Horak
Chairman of programme committee
Location: VSB - Technical university Ostrava
Contact: Ing. Katerina Peskova,
conference secretariat
+420 595 227 121
http://www.gis2009.com/Indexe.html
The 4th CISSE International Conference
5th December, 2008 – 5th December, 2008
CISSE 2008 provides a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of the-art research on computers, information and systems sciences and engineering. CISSE 2008 is the fourth conference of the CISSE series of e-conferences. CISSE is the World’s first Engineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference. CISSE 2005 was the first high-caliber Research Conference in the world to be completely conducted online in real-time via the internet. CISSE 2005 was the first high-caliber Research Conference in the world to be completely conducted online in real-time via the internet.
Location: University of Bridgeport, USA
Contact: Khaled Elleithy, Ph.D,
CISSE 2008 General Co-Chair
7th AARSE International Remote Sensing Conference, Accra, Ghana
27th October, 2008 – 31st October, 2008
Conference Theme: Application of Earth Observation and Geoinformation for Governance in Africa
Abstract submission deadline March 31, 2008
Sub-Theme 1: Ecosystem Assessment
Coastal and Marine Ecosystem
Water Resources
Oceanography
Forestry
Grassland /Savanna /Semi-arid Ecosystem
Agricultural and Pastoral Systems
Urban Ecosystems
Sub-Theme 2: Non-Renewable Resources Exploitation
Geology
Mineral Exploration
Mining and Sustainable Development of the Communities
Mining Landscape Renewal
Earth Resources Data Integration and Modelling
Sub-Theme 3: Disaster Management & Early Warning Systems
Desertification and drought
Floods
Earthquakes
Volcanic Eruption
Landslides
Biodiversity degradation
Waste management
Coastal erosion
Early warning systems
Users needs requirements and technology Development
Data integration and knowledge Discovery
Disaster Risk Reduction
Sub-Theme 4: Monitoring Human Security Mapping and GIS:
For improving Primary Education
For Food Security
For Improving Health and combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other parasitic Disease
For water and Sanitation Improvement
To support peace keeping operations
To facilitate humanitarian action
Sub-Theme 5: Land Administration and Sustainable Development
Urban Land Administration
Rural Land Administration for improving Long-term investment
Mapping for Land use and Conflict Resolution
Sub-Theme 6: Capacity Building, Global Trade and Partnerships/Regional Co-Operation
Capacity building initiatives in Earth Observation and Geoinformation Science
Partnerships and Regional/Sub-Regional Cooperation for Mapping and GIS Capacity Building
Trade Issues: GIS for Meeting Export Standards
Sub-Theme 7: Earth Mapping Systems and Governance
Integrating Spatial Data Infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology
Global Earth Observation Systems
Emerging Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Equipment and Techniques
Sub-Theme 8: Micro-Satellites: Case Studies and Experiences
Mapping Applications
Feature Extraction and Data Fusion
New Advances and Users
See attached flyer and the conference website for more details.
AARSE_call_for_Abstract.pdf
Location: Accra International Conference Centre, Ghana
Contact: Dr. Emmanuel Amamoo-Otchere,
Conference Chairman
233-21-500301/501796
Ocean Optics XIX
6th October, 2008 – 10th October, 2008
Registration will begin on November 1, 2007, with a short abstract deadline of June 1, 2008.
Location: Il Ciocco, Tuscany, Italy
Contact: Kenneth Voss,
Co-Chairman
Alternatively you may contact:
David Antoine,
Co-Chairman
59th International Astronautical Congress and Exhibition (IAC)
29th September, 2008 – 3rd October, 2008
IAC 2008 will provide an international focus through the presentation of the latest ideas, current activities and future ambitions across a diverse range of space-related topics.
A hugely important element to the Congress is the International Exhibition. The exhibition offers a global business and networking forum bringing together international buyers and suppliers creating an opportunity for interaction, relationship building and business generation.
The centrepiece of the Exhibition will be a HOST NATION ZONE, an opportunity for British industry, research establishments and academia to promote their achievements and to market their activities and capabilities as a UK entity.
The_Biggest_Space_Conference_and_Trade_Show_comes_to_the_UK_flyer.pdf
Location: Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre and Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow.
Contact: Jeremy Crisp,
Exhibition Organiser
01344 467444
Infoterra GeoImaging User Group Conference 2008
29th September, 2008 – 30th September, 2008
Infoterra Ltd, a leader in the provision of geospatial products and services, is pleased to announce the first in a new series of GeoImaging User Group Conferences. The 2008 residential conference will run from 29th to 30th September at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University.
As Infoterra is the sole distributor for ERDAS imaging software across the UK and Ireland, the conference will include ERDAS product development updates and on-site training, as well as new software demonstrations and industry specific case study presentations. Also the conference will feature speakers from the military, oil and gas, central government, environmental and commercial arenas, together with application focused breakout sessions and workshops.
Register before June 30th and receive a special early bird rate of £65.00pp, which includes a full 2-day conference pass, all meals and overnight accommodation. After this date the standard rate of £100.00pp will apply. For more information or to register for this event, please e-mail the conference organiser –
Location: Oxford, UK
Contact: Sharon Dean,
Conference Organiser
+44 (0)116 273 2300
Remote Sensing Techniques in Disaster Management and Emergency Response in the Mediterranean Region
22nd September, 2008 – 24th September, 2008
EARSeL First International Conference on Remote Sensing Techniques in Disaster Management and Emergency Response in the Mediterranean Region
The subject is a high-priority topic in the Mediterranean region. Risk reduction using remote sensing techniques may 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.
For further announcements visit http://www.earsel.geosat.hr or http://www.earsel.org/?target=announce/earselevents
Location: Zadar, Croatia
Contact: Gesine Boettcher,
EARSeL Secretariat
+49-511-762 2482
International Conference on Remote Sensing Techniques in Disaster Management
22nd September, 2008 – 24th September, 2008
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION
22-24 September 2008
Zadar, Croatia
On behalf of the Organisers, we invite you to participate in the above mentioned conference, organised by the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL), the Scientific Council for Remote Sensing of the Croation Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), the University of Zagreb, and GEOSAT Ltd., Zagreb.
The organisers of the conference would be grateful if you would note and forward on, as appropriate, the following information:
The new abstract deadline date for the conference is
29th FEBRUARY 2008
The conference subject “Disaster Management and Emergency Response” 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 covers risk management, such as knowledge, prevention, warning, management of emergency situations, post-analysis of crisis, environmental rehabilitation, etc.
Papers are welcome for the following topics: – Forest Fires – Earthquakes – Floods – Land Degradation (soil erosion, desertification) – Landslides/mudflows – Storm Damage – Sea pollution/Oil-spill detection – Man-made and other relevant aspects
***IMPORTANT DATES:*****
– Deadline for submission of abstracts: 29th February 2008 – Notification of abstracts acceptance: 31st March 2008 – Preliminary Programme: 15th May 2008 – Deadline for receipt of full abstracts: 22nd September 2008 (at theconference)
The conference will offer paper presentations and poster sessions, and provide an international forum for sharing your ideas, exploring the on-going research, future development, including the state-of-the-art applications, and networking with the professionals from academies, industry and government, who are interested in Disaster Risk Reduction in the Mediterranean Region.
After the conference, a study boat trip to the fire site on the Kornati islands is planned.
For further information please visit
Looking forward to receiving your contributions and to welcoming you in Zadar,
Location: Zadar, Croatia
Contact: G. Boettcher,
EARSeL Secretariat
+49-511-762 2482
SilviLaser 2008
17th September, 2008 – 19th September, 2008
SilviLaser 2008 will be the 8th international conference in a series focussing on applications of laser systems for forest assessment and inventory
Background:
In recent years there has been rapid development and use of laser systems in inventorying, assessing, and monitoring of forests. Applications of laser technology have included the estimation of forest biophysical parameters (including carbon) at the individual tree or stand level as part of local, regional and even national forest inventory. In addition, laser data have been used to monitor forest change, model susceptibility to wind or fire damage, and map wildlife habitat. Laser systems can operate on ground-based, airborne and satellite platforms. They are categorised as scanning or profiling systems supplying range or waveform information per laser pulse. This distinction is, however, becoming increasingly blurred as laser systems evolve.
Aims of Silvilaser 2008:
SilviLaser 2008 will be the 8th international conference in a series focussing on applications of laser systems for forest assessment and inventory. Previous conferences have taken place in Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany, USA, Japan and Finland.
SilviLaser 2008 aims to bring together research scientists and practitioners from around the world to share their experience in the development and application of LiDAR for forest assessment and inventory. We strongly encourage presentations across all forms of laser system, from all possible platforms, and across a full range of forest applications. The conference will discuss the state-of-the-art in laser systems and data processing techniques in order to meet a range of information needs. The conference aims to encourage new and stronger linkages between LiDAR practitioners, and in particular between researchers, data providers and end-users of derived products.
Topics for presentation:
The conference will encourage papers on terrestrial, airborne and space-borne LiDAR data (discrete return and waveform) for the following forest related topics:
• Forestry applications & inventory
• Forest monitoring & change detection
• Ecological applications & habitat mapping
• LiDAR data fusion (ground-based, airborne, satellite)
• Data fusion (in-situ, aerial photos, hyper-spectral)
• Algorithm & techniques development
• System & intensity calibration
• Large-scale & operation applications of LiDAR
• New technologies
There will be a special session on ecological applications for forest habitat assessment, sponsored by the British Ecological Society.
Keynote speakers are Professor Ralph Dubayah (University of Maryland), Dr Wesley Newton (U.S. Geological Survey) and Dr Richard Lucas (University of Wales Aberystwyth).
For further information please see: http://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/Silvilaser2008
Conference Co-Chairs
Ross Hill (Bournemouth University)
Juan Suárez (Forest Research)
Location: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Contact: Ross Hill (Bournemouth University),
Reader in Geoinformatics
+44 (0)1202 966786
http://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/Silvilaser2008
Alternatively you may contact:
Juan Suarez (Forest Research)
RSPSoc Annual Conference 2008
15th September, 2008 – 17th September, 2008
Theme:
The interdisciplinary theme of the conference, “Measuring change in the Earth system”, will bring together researchers and practitioners from across the discipline, and will facilitate discussion of key issues in remote sensing and photogrammetry, in relation to wider questions in science.
Highlights:
First class social events in the idyllic surroundings of the Cornish coast
High-quality, research-led technical programme
On-site accommodation
Commercial sessions and exhibition
Technical sessions will include:
Remote sensing and climate change
Data assimilation and uncertainty
Water quality in inland and coastal waters
Spatial-spectral-temporal signatures in RS data
Calibration & validation of Earth observation data
Plus we welcome input from the wider community on other special sessions of interest
The first call for papers was made in January 2008.
For the latest news on the conference and registration please visit: http://www.rspsoc2008.org
Please feel free to distribure this flyer. RSPSoc2008flyer1.pdf
Location: Corwall Campus, University of Exeter, UK
Contact: Dr Karen Anderson,
Convenor
http://www.rspsoc.org/annual-conference/
International aerial archaeology conference
9th September, 2008 – 12th September, 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS *
International aerial archaeology conference
AARG 2008 LJUBLJANA
9 – 11 September 2008
Hosted by the
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts
University of Ljubljana
- Proposals for sessions, papers and posters are invited**
The following sessions have been proposed, for which offers of papers are welcome:
Aerial Archaeology in the Mediterranean; New Projects; Postgraduate research;
Airborne Thematic Mapping/Airborne Laser Scanning; An archaeology of natural places … from the air; Aerial photography in context – recording landscape and urban areas.
11 September Conference Day 3
Field Trip
Note: session titles are provisional and all papers and session proposals are welcome.
Oral papers should usually be 20 minutes duration, and equal weighting is given to poster presentations.
Closing date for abstracts is 31st May 2008.
Address for conference correspondence:
Dave Cowley
RCAHMS
16 Bernard Terrace
Edinburgh, EH8 9NX
Scotland
Email
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STEFANO CAMPANA
LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF SIENA
WEB SITES http://www.lapetlab.it but also http://www.3darchaeology.org
http://www.pavaproject.org; http://www.space2place.orgDirector of the LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY & REMOTE SENSING LABORATORY-LAP&T
SIENA LAB
Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena – Italy
Phone/Fax ++(0)577-234733/234601
GROSSETO LAB
Convento Clarisse, via Vinzaglio 28, 58100 Grosseto – Italy
Phone/Fax ++(0)564-441212/13
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Location: University of Ljubljana
Contact: Dave Cowley,
Alternatively you may contact:
STEFANO CAMPANA,
Director of Landscape Arch. & RS Lab
++(0)577-234733/234601
WAC-6 World Archaeological Congress 2008
29th June, 2008 – 4th July, 2008
WAC-6 First Announcement
The organising committee of the Sixth World Archaeology Congress (WAC-6) are delighted to now invite colleagues from across the globe to come to University College Dublin, Ireland from June 29-July 4, 2008 for this spectacular archaeological conference. We are planning a varied and engaging thematic programme and a wide range of social events that will provide opportunities to experience the cultural and social life of Dublin and Ireland and to sample this island’s
outstanding archaeological heritage.
WAC is committed to diversity and to redressing global inequities in archaeology through conferences, publications and scholarly programs. It has a special interest in protecting the cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples, minorities and peoples from a range of countries. WAC-6 will continue the established practice of previous international congresses in facilitating the participation and empowerment of indigenous peoples and researchers from economically disadvantaged countries.
This first announcement is a call for themes, sessions, papers and posters. See http://www.ucd.ie/wac-6 for details of application, programme, accommodation, costs and grant opportunities.
Deadline for theme proposals: September 30 2007
Deadline for session proposals: November 1 2007
Final announcement: early December 2007
Confirmation of acceptance of paper & posters: March 14 2008
Early registration: up to March 30 2008
NB: join WAC for cheaper registration!
Location: University College Dublin, Ireland
Contact: Dr Helen Lewis,
Deputy Academic Secretary, WAC-6, WAC-6 organising committee
+353-1-716-8163 (tel), +353-1-716-1184 (fax)
Young Geo Professional Magazine
19th June, 2008 – 4th August, 2008
The geomatics and hydrographics field is flourishing as never before; nevertheless, it is experiencing a shortage of personnel. Companies and governments simply cannot attract sufficient qualified personnel to get all the work done. Furthermore, universities and educational institutions all over the world are suffering from a lack of new students.
How can we turn the tide? How can we interest people in starting a career in, for example, land surveying, electronic charting, remote sensing, positioning or hydrographic surveying? As a publisher, we think this can be accomplished with a magazine, and associated website, focussed on young people at precisely that time when they are making decisions about their future career.
The central question addressed is: What makes Geomatics so appealing? And why is a career in Geomatics so interesting?
The magazine hopes to achieve this through easy accessible and entertaining articles on a variety of topics: e.g. experiences of students from all over the world, exciting and adventurous internships/jobs, interesting facts about geomatics, etc.
We are currently looking for students or young professionals who have (or had) an interesting internship or job (such as surveying the Chinese Wall, Dredging the Amazon River, etc.) and
who would like to write about these experiences.
Furthermore, we would like an article about the “tips and tricks” of choosing the right school. In other words, the article should answer questions like why should a student choose a career in geomatics, how do you choose the right university, how do you choose the right Major, how do you know whether geomatics is right for you? What can you expect at school (which courses? Which courses are important/fun/adventurous, etc…? Is it a very practical study?)
The question to you is, would you be interested in writing a story for us? Or do you perhaps have any other interesting article suggestions? Do you want to participate?
Then contact:
Victor van Essen:
Marjan de Vries:
The magazine and website will be available for students at the start of the study year (September 2008).
Young Geo Professional Magazine is published by Reed Business Geo.
Contact: Boukje Vreman,
Alternatively you may contact:
Alex Koh,
ESRI student sponsorships for SilviLaser 2008 Conference
17th June, 2008 – 4th August, 2008
ESRI have kindly offered five student bursaries worth £275 each to cover the costs of conference registration and three nights accommodation at Heriot-Watt University for attendance of SilviLaser 2008 (September 17-19, 2008, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh). Please note that these bursaries do not cover travel costs to and from the conference.
SilviLaser 2008 will be the 8th international conference in a series focussing on applications of laser systems for forest assessment and inventory
Post-graduate students researching a relevant topic are encouraged to apply for an ESRI student sponsorship by submitting the following details to Dr Ross Hill () before the closing date of July 31:
•your name and affiliation
•your supervisor(s) name and details
•research project title
•500 word project description.
In addition your application should be supported by an email submitted by your supervisor.
For further information on SilviLaser 2008 please see: http://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/Silvilaser2008
Download SilviLaser_2008_student_sponsorship.doc
Contact: Ross Hill,
Conference Co-Chair
http://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/Silvilaser2008
FIG Working Week 2008, Stockholm, Sweden
14th June, 2008 – 19th June, 2008
The theme of the Working Week is “Integrating Generations”, which addresses many of the issues facing surveyors in the next years. These include questions related to the need of getting young people interested in surveying and geomatics, how to keep the professional qualifications up to date, need for capacity building – all issues of great interest for FIG and the organisers. The theme can also be read more closely related to the profession itself: what is the role of modern technology in GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), geoinformatics, laser scanning etc. This fast growing technology will change the way of our profession.
All ten FIG technical commissions will attend the conference and papers are therefore requested to all the following topics:
Professional Standards and Practice
Professional Education
Spatial Information Management
Hydrography
Positioning and Measurement
Engineering Surveys
Cadastre and Land Management
Spatial Planning and Development
Valuation and the Management of Real Estate
Construction Economics and Management.
As Swedish surveyors are very successful in the fields of real estate management and valuation we are happy to announce that FIG together with UN-Habitat will organise a special seminar in conjunction to the Working Week. This is also a showcase how Swedish surveyors have a strong interest in assisting surveyors and land related professions in developing countries.
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Contact: Per Wilhelm Pedersen,
FIG Office Manager
+ 45 3886 1081
New Sensors and Perspectives in Data Policy
12th June, 2008 – 12th June, 2008
Thursday 12th June, 2008, 09.30-16.15
The last 12 months has seen the launch of a number of new satellites and the advent of EO data sources that will need to underpin GMES services pre-Sentinels. This workshop presents an opportunity to consider the merits of these new satellites, their contribution to the expansion of the EO value added services portfolio and whether the data policy meets the breadth of needs of traditional users both commercial and scientific as well as the emerging GMES User.
Further details and registration form are attached.BARSC_Workshop_2008_First_Announcement_vFinal.pdf
Location: BERR Conference Centre, 1 Victoria Street, London
Contact: Jane Curtis,
BARSC Administrator
020 8810 0994
http://barsc.org.uk/news_&_events.htm
FIG Workshop e-learning 2008
11th June, 2008 – 13th June, 2008
We would like to draw your attention to the following invitation for the International Workshop Sharing Good practices: e-learning in Surveying, Geo-information Sciences and Land Administration, taking place from 11-13 June 2008 in Enschede, The Netherlands, organized by FIG, Commission 2 and Commission 7, and the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC).
Some news from the secretariat:
The deadline for submission of abstracts is extended to
15 February 2008. If you were not able yet to submit your abstract you can still do! You can easily submit your abstract through the workshop website: http://www.itc.nl/fig_elearning2008
Please consider a demonstration of new challenging e-learning tools, digital courseware, interesting instruction videos or interactive educational tools in Surveying, Geo-information Sciences and Land Administration. You can use the abstract-form to submit a proposal for a demonstration.
The workshop website has been updated with information on the recommended hotels under “accommodation”. You are encouraged to contact the hotel directly for your room bookings.
This Commission 2/Commission 7 Workshop takes place just before the FIG Working Week 2008 that will take place in Stockholm, Sweden from 13 to 19 June 2008. So you can easily combine the two events and visit both The Netherlands and Sweden.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts (presentation and/or demonstrations), papers and to welcoming you in Enschede, The Netherlands.
Location: ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands
Contact: Saskia Tempelman,
Local Organising Committee
+31-53-4874333
Mike Barnsley Lecture and Conversazione
6th June, 2008 – 6th June, 2008
6th June 2008, 6PM at UCL, London
RSPSoc and UCL are pleased to announce an evening event in memory of the late Professor Mike Barnsley. The evening will begin with a Lecture from former colleagues outlining some of the groundbreaking contributions Professor Barnsley made to the Earth observation research community, and how that work is being taken forward. This will be followed by a Conversazione with buffet and wine refreshments, and tributes to Professor Barnsley. We look forward to welcoming Mike’s many friends and colleagues from across the discipline and beyond for this evening of celebration.
18:00 Welcome drink
18:30 Lecture 1 – Dr Philip Lewis [UCL] – BRDF-Varying perspectives on land surface monitoring
19:00 Lecture 2 – Dr Stuart Barr [Newcastle University] – Earth observed urban form, function and engineered cities
19:30 Conversazione
20:00 Tribute to Professor Barnsley
The registration fee is £25. This fee will cover the catering costs.
Any resulting surplus will be donated to the Mike Barnsley Memorial Fund for Cancer Research and Footsteps. Deadline for registration is 21st May 2008.
Registration forms and transort details can be found in the April 2008 Newsletter or the attached PDF.
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Location: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT
Contact: Karen Laughton,
RSPSoc Office
Tel. +44 (0)115 951 5435 Fax. +44 (0)115 951 5249
Integrating GIS and Remote Sensing in a Dynamic World
4th June, 2008 – 7th June, 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.
Integrating GIS and Remote Sensing in a Dynamic World
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: January 11th 2008
For the first time, 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.
Further details can be found at the EARSel Developing Countries SIG website http://www.earsel-dc.uni-hannover.de/
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Contact: Dr. Gurcan Buyuksalih,
+90 216 4749915 ext.300
http://www.earsel-dc.uni-hannover.de/
Alternatively you may contact:
Mrs. Gesine Böttcher,
EARSel Secretariat
+49 511 762 2482
EARSeL 28th Symposium and Workshops - Remote Sensing for a Changing Europe
2nd June, 2008 – 7th June, 2008
2-7 June 2008
Following a successful first call we would like to let you know that, due to some requests, the organising committee decided to extend the due date for abstract submission for the forthcoming 28th EARSeL Symposium “REMOTE SENSING FOR A CHANGING EUROPE” 2-5 June 2008, Istanbul, Turkey to:
Friday, 11 JANUARY 2008.
Please submit your one page abstract via the website interface, available at http://www.conferences.earsel.org.
For details on the conference please visit http://www.earsel28.itu.edu.tr.
Presentations can be related to all fields of geoinformation and remote sensing applications and especially to those listed below, since sessions will be organized according to these topics:
⇒ 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
In addition, you are cordially invited to contribute to three workshops to be held back-to-back with the Symposium:
1) 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, with field excursion to the Black Sea, 4-7 June 2008, Istanbul, Turkey, http://www.earsel-dc.uni-hannover.de/
Due date for abstract submission: 11 January 2008
2) 3rd Workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group Geological
Applications: “SEISMIC HAZARDS”, 6-7 June 2008, Istanbul, Turkey, with field excursion to the Gulf of Izmit area, http://www.earsel.org/?target=announce/earselevents
EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DATE: 11 January 2008
3) 1st Workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group Education and Training, “EARTH OBSERVATION: From Research to Teaching in Schools and Universities, 6 June 2008, Istanbul Turkey, http://las.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/SIG-ET/1st-workshop/
Due date for abstract submission: 17 March 2008
Important Dates
• Deadline for submission of abstracts (Symposium) – extended to 11 January 2008
• Notification of acceptance of abstracts (Symposium) 31 January 2008
• Preliminary Programme 30 March 2008
• Deadline for full papers (Symposium) 2 June 2008
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Contact: Gesine Böttcher,
EARSeL Secretariat
+49 511 762 2482
http://www.earsel28.itu.edu.tr
3D Archaeology Summer School 2008
9th May, 2008 – 14th May, 2008
3D_Archaeology_CALL.pdf3D_Archaeology_COVER.pdf
The School will face the problem of the modern technologies in the heritage field, giving participants the opportunity to obtain a detailed overview of the main methods and applications to archaeological and conservation research and practice. Furthermore, our School will give the chance to participants to enter in a very short time the kernel of the scientific discussion on 3D technologies – surveying methods, documentation, data management and data interpretation – in the archaeological research and practice.
The School will be open to ca 60 participants at graduate level, to those carrying out doctoral or specialist research, to established research workers, to members of State Archaeology Services and to professionals specializing in the study and documentation, modeling and conservation of the archaeological heritage.
The grant application and registration form are available online
The deadline for the grant application is 15st February, 2008: http://www.3darchaeology.org/school_grant_application.pdf
Grants provided by UNESCO and ISPRS will be available for students with limited budgets and travel possibilities.
The deadline for the registration is 31st March, 2008: http://www.3darchaeology.org/school_registration.pdf
The School is to be held in the congress centre Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland. The centre is an ETH-affiliated seminar complex located in a superb botanical park on the historic and cultural Monte Verità area, which will also be the residence of the participants with its integrated hotel and restaurant.
See attached flyer and call for papers for further details.
Location: Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland
Earth Observation for Hazard & Risk Research - an International Workshop
9th April, 2008 – 9th April, 2008
Wednesday 9th April 2008 International Workshop on the theme “Earth Observation for Hazard & Risk Research”
Sponsored by the Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society with Institute of Hazard & Risk Research and Department of Geography, Durham University
This is a one-day meeting 11 am to 4.30 pm including morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea. There will be a small registration fee of £15.
Speakers will include Stuart Marsh, (UK) Ground subsidence; Alex Densmore, (UK) Debris flows; Wolfgang Kainz (Austria), GIS for Hazard analysis; Orhan Altan (Turkey) Earthquake damage assessment; Ian Dowman (UK) Earthquakes and tectonics; Stanley Morain (USA), Health & Risk.
This workshop arises from coincidence of a meeting of the ISPRS Council in the UK and the imminent launch of the Durham University’s Institute of Hazard & Risk Research. Council members have kindly agreed to give state-of-the-art seminars on the topic of hazard & risk research. RSPSoc members are welcome to submit and present posters; there will be time for discussion and circulation around research posters.
To book a place please e-mail the organiser Dr Donoghue
Location: Institute of Hazard & Risk Research and Department of Geography, Durham University, UK
Contact: Dr Daniel Donoghue,
Meeting Organiser
+44 (0) 191 3341867
GEO-8, World of Geomatics
9th April, 2008 – 10th April, 2008
GEO-8 – World of Geomatics will take place between 9th – 10th April 2008 at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK. Geo-8 is the new umbrella event that combines the well established World of Geomatics with GIS innovations.
The GEO-8 exhibition will focus solely on all aspects of geospatial information from measurement and data collection to the many uses of geographical information.
Location: Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK
Contact: Sharon Howard,
+44 (0)1438 352617
http://www.pvpubs.com/exhibition.asp
Intergraph Earth Imaging Update
5th April, 2008
This free Seminar will cover the latest technologies from Intergraph, including:
• New applications in project management, orthophoto QC/QA
• New integrated visualisation and elevation analysis
• New automated ingest & dissemination of data
• Demonstrations of latest software
• Update on development trends and projects
• Latest developments in digital sensor technologies
• New solutions for the ‘digital workflow’
In addition, there will be informative User Presentations, demonstrations and hands on opportunities.
To register for this event, please contact Intergraph UK on 01793 492567
Location: Intergraph UK Ltd, Great Western Way, Swindon
Contact: Richard Goodman,
Application Support
07977256846
Alternatively you may contact:
Derek Ireson,
General Manager
01793 492709
HYDROLOGICAL OPTICS
28th March, 2008 – 28th March, 2008
Hydrological_Optics_Call_for_papers-v2.doc
To be held from: 9.30 am to 4.30 pm
Co-chairs: Alex Cunningham (University of Strathclyde) & Samantha Lavender (University of Plymouth)
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite contributions on any aspect of Hydrological Optics, including
• Radiometry
• Light field modelling
• Remote sensing
• Underwater visibility
• Measurements of optical properties
• Novel instrument development
• Underwater holography.
Oral presentations will be of 15 minutes duration, with an additional 5 minutes for discussion.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: (100 words max): 14th March 2008
Location: 76 Portland Place, London W1N 3DH
Contact: Alex Cunningham,
Notification of Interest and Registration
0141 548 3474
Alternatively you may contact:
Samantha Lavender,
01752 232460
Expert Workshop - Lima - 13.3.2008
13th March, 2008 – 13th March, 2008
Please, find in attachment the announcement of the Expert Workshop that will take place in Lima, March 13th, 2008, on “Surface Energy Balance Models of Agricultural Areas from Earth Observation Data”.
This initiative, hosted by the National Agricultural University of La Molina, is organised by the CIGR Working Group on “Earth Observation for land and Water Engineering” in the context of PLEIADES project (http://www.pleiades.es).
In the case you would like to give a presentation, please send me an abstract within February 19th,
Best regards
Guido D’Urso
P.S.: I apologize for possible duplicate sendings!
Prof. Ing. Guido D’URSO, PhD
Chair of the Working Group CIGR
(International Comm. Agric. Engineer.)
“Earth Observation for Land and Water Engineering”
Dept. Agricultural Engineering and Agronomy
University of Naples Federico II – Italy
E-mail:
Location: National Agricultural University - La Molina, Peru
Contact: Prof. Ing. Guido D'URSO, PhD,
Chair of the Working Group CIGR
Annual Student Meeting 2008 at Foxlease, New Forest
10th March, 2008 – 11th March, 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline for the RSPSoc ASM’08 has now closed. However, there are still places available for attending the event. Contact the meeting organiser.
Introduction
The ASM’08 will be held at Foxlease Activity Centre near Lyndhurst in the beautiful New Forest from 10-11 March 2008. Once again the event will be packed with presentations, keynote speakers and social activities. Download our Flyer!
Call for Abstracts
You are invited to participate in the RSPSoc Annual Student Meeting. This event provides a platform for young researchers to present their work from all sectors of remote sensing and photogrammetry. The range of topics include scientific and technical issues as well as applications in a number of disciplines, such as:
- Polar
- Forestry
- Geomorphology
- Vegetation
- Heritage
- UAVs
- SAR
- Close range photogrammetry
- Classification
- GIS
- Laser scanning
- Operational remote sensing
All PhD and Masters students as well as undergraduates are encouraged to submit abstracts. Participants of ASM’08 will learn about the diversity of currently ongoing research projects and receive feedback on their research in a constructive and informal atmosphere.
Poster Session
There will also be a poster session which provides a forum for all participants to present and discuss their current research. Posters can be submitted by any participant by sending in a 250 word abstract.
Dates & Deadlines
- 18 DEC 07 – Submission deadline for all abstracts – closed.
- 28 JAN 08 – Registration deadline for the event – closing soon.
- 10-11 MAR 08 – The event takes place.
Submission and Registration
- All abstracts (please adhere to a maximum of 250 words) must be submitted directly via email to as a MS word or PDF document. Please state in your email if you intend to submit for a poster or oral presentation.
- All submission must adhere to these formatting guidelines for Microsoft Word.
- Thanks to the event’s sponsors the registration fee is only £38 (this may vary if you are not a RSPSoc member). This includes one night shared accommodation, all food, outdoor activity, abstract booklet (both printed and on memory stick), and transportation to and from Ordnance Survey (see highlights).
- The registration form is available for download here.
Highlights of the Meeting
- A visit to Ordnance Survey’s Photogrammetric Services Department and Research Labs. Download the agenda of the visit.
- Prizes for best oral and poster presentations include cash (kindly sponsored by Infoterra) and a 12-month ENVI software licence (sponsored by ITT VIS).
- The venue’s grounds and location are great for outdoor activities such as archery, high ropes courses, kayaking and much more.
- An interesting line-up of keynote speakers including Intergraph, a leading provider of spatial information management software, Alex Koh, Director of Geotechnologies and Principal Lecturer at Bath Spa University, Paul Aplin, Chairman of RSPSoc and associate Professor at University of Nottingham, and Ian Dowman, President of ISPRS and Professor at University College London. Download keynote abstracts here.
Programme
- Final programme of the conference. Download
- Presentation instructions. Download
- Travel instructions. Download
Journal of Maps Student Edition Special Issue
Together with the Journal of Maps Student Edition (JoM SE) we would like to bring out a special issue dedicated to the Annual Student Meeting. This gives you the opportunity to publish your work by submitting a map along with its associated abstract (1000-2000 words). The abstract should describe the broad research area, the data presented in the map, any pertinent techniques used during the collection/mapping process, and a brief statement about the conclusions to be drawn from the work, as well as relevance and importance. Your work will be reviewed by two internal referees, and constructive feedback will be returned to you. If your submitted material is successful, it will be published online at www.journalofmaps.com, where you can also find more information about the journal itself, submission guidelines and examples. For the special issue we require a minimum of 5 abstracts. So, if this is relevant to you and you have map data to publish from your work, then please get in touch with the meeting organiser as soon as possible. The deadline for submission is set for 30th May with review over the summer and publication in the latter half of 2008. Please submit your material to the conference organiser who will forward the submission directly to the Journal’s editor. Additional information on this will be made available at the conference. In case there isn’t enough interest for a special issue, you can always submit directly to the JoM SE individually.
More Information
Please visit www.mkthomson.net/activities/ASM08-intro.html for more detailed information.
Many thanks go to the following sponsors of this event:
Contact: Tina Thomson,
RSPSoc Student Representative and Meeting Organiser (2007-2008)
http://www.mkthomson.net/activities/ASM08-intro.html
Last updated 26.02.2008
EARSeL Joint Workshop “Remote Sensing - New Challenges of High Resolution”
5th March, 2008 – 7th March, 2008
This workshop is jointly organized by EARSeL SIG´s:
SIG Urban Remote Sensing
SIG 3D Remote Sensing
SIG Developing Countries
SIG Radar
Location: Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Contact: Prof. Dr. Carsten Jürgens,
++49-234-32-23376
ILMF2008: International LIDAR Mapping Forum conference
21st February, 2008 – 22nd February, 2008
The ILMF is the premier event for the LIDAR industry attracting professionals from all over the world. This 8th annual summit is the focal gathering of industry leaders, pioneers, experts from government, academia and professionals from industries looking to invest in and benefit from LIDAR technology and services.
This two day technical conference will present work-in progress reports on all aspects of airborne and bathymetry LIDAR with a particular emphasis on papers that address the key commercial and technical issues facing the industry.
Visit http://www.lidarmap.org for full details
Location: Denver, USA
+1 (303) 332 5407
+44 (0)1453 839228
12th Annual International Symposium: “Space Solutions to Earth’s Global Challenges”
20th February, 2008 – 22nd February, 2008
Organised by the International Space University (ISU). This ISU symposium will emphasise the benefits of the space program for society. In early 2008, proclaimed by the United Nations as The International Year of Planet Earth, we will be asking how space can address Earth’s global challenges in the 21st century, these ‘challenges’ including key issues such as climate change and environmental degradation, impending energy crises and resource depletion.
The program will include invited contributions from leading experts plus presentations and posters selected on the basis of abstracts submitted in response to the Call for Papers by the deadline date of 05 October 2007.
See full details at the RAeS Space Group web site http://www.raes.org.uk/space/ and click on “Future events”.
CFP.pdf
Location: International Space University, Strasbourg, France
IET Radar Clutter Modelling Seminar
19th February, 2008 – 11th March, 2008
Register before Friday 18 January 2008 to save £50 on your delegate fee
As radars become more complex, with higher resolution spatial and temporal processing, adaptive processing and agile antenna beams, it becomes necessary to model their interaction with the environment with ever greater fidelity. For this reason, the study of radar clutter continues as an essential aspect of the development of new radar systems.
This seminar will address recent progress in the analysis and modelling of radar clutter and the application of these models to understanding and improving the performance of radar systems for surveillance, targeting and remote sensing. The event will bring together engineers working on a wide range of radar types and applications, for whom clutter may be a source of interference to be removed, or a source of information about the environment.
Who should attend?
Radar Engineers and Technologists from Radar, Defence, Security and related Industries
Procurement Executives including Equipment Buyers, Suppliers, Manufacturers, Business Planners, Product Directors and Managers
Regulators, Researchers and Scientists
Representatives from Government Laboratories , Product Users and Consultants
Marketing and Business Development Managers
Topics include
Hydrographic Sea Clutter Modelling
The Clutter SIRP and Gaussian Models: A Brief Overview and a Comparison
Clutter Mapping for Airborne Pulse Doppler Radar
Adaptive Clutter Models
Use of Models for the Design, Specification and Measurement of Radar Performance
Clutter Modelling for Space-Time Adaptive Processing
Modelling Clutter in Airborne Radars Including Radom Effects
Modelling of the Impact of Antenna Rotation on Clutter Improvement Factor in Naval Radars Operating in Littoral Environments
Simulation of Coherent Clutter
See http://www.theiet.org/events/2008/clutter-modelling.cfm for further details, and registration forms.
RSPSoc is an official supporter of this event.
Location: The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Savoy Place, London
Contact: Simon Timmis,
Events Marketing Executive, IET
+44 (0) 1438 767383
http://www.theiet.org/events/2008/clutter-modelling.cfm
5th Workshop of EARSeL Special Interest Group Remote Sensing of Land Ice and Snow
11th February, 2008 – 13th February, 2008
5th Workshop of EARSeL Special Interest Group Remote Sensing of Land Ice and Snow: “Remote Sensing of Snow and Glaciers: Changing Climate – Changing Cryosphere”
ABSTRACT DEADLINE 16th NOVEMBER 2007
Presentations are encouraged on all fields of environmental research with the focus on snow and ice as proxy for changing cryosphere, methods for retrieving cryospheric parameters from various types of remote sensing data, theoretical basis of inversion methods and their application, state of the art of retrieval algorithms, data assimilation of remote sensing data and in situ observations in process models, current and planned sensors for snow and ice, etc. The workshop also offers the possibility for sessions covering preparations of and results from field campaigns in mountainous and polar regions with special emphasis on IPY.
Full details and registration forms can be found at the conference website:
http://www.geography.unibe.ch/lenya/giub/live/research/remotesensing/Forschung/earselworkshop_en.html
Location: University of Bern, Switzerland
Contact: Dr. Stefan Wunderle,