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MAT SIG Annual Report 2003-2004
This year, MATSIG supported the conference GeoComputation 2003, held at the School of Geography, University of Southampton (SoG, UoS) and the Ordnance Survey on 8-10th September 2003. This was the seventh in a series of successful international meetings concerned with solving geographical problems through the use of computers. The conference was organised by Peter Atkinson, Giles Foody (both MATSIG Committee members) and David Martin. However, to take full advantage of the enthusiasm and interest of the large number of quantitative geographers in the institution, the conference was advertised both as a whole and as a series of special interest sessions organised by individual staff at the SoG, UoS. One of those special interest sessions was on “Remote Sensing of Change” (Giles Foody). The sessions were sculpted to develop academically strong, but focused collections of research papers. The result was a lively and interesting conference.
Reflecting the increasing interest in the use of modelling and advanced techniques within Earth Observation, a UK meeting on modelling and EO Assimilation in land surface science was held at CEH Wallingford in March 2004, organised by the Royal Meteorological Society with participation from MATSIG members. A number of relevant themes are also represented in the forthcoming NERC EO conference hosted by Plymouth University.
Currently there are no commitments for meeting support in the coming year, and proposals are invited from MATSIG members.
Nick Drake and Peter North
