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.

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

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

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.

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 versha.carter@lidarmap.org

Kind regards
ILMF Team

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

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