34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment
Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
10-15 April 2011
The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring

We are proud to invite International Airborne Science Community Researchers and Platform Users to participate in the symposium as well as the annual meeting of ISPRS WG I/1: Standardization of Airborne Platform Interface which will be convened in conjunction with ISRSE34.

Invitation

The Organizing Committee of the 34th International Symposium for Remote Sensing of the Environment (ISRSE) cordially invites you to visit Sydney and participate in what promises to be an excellent high quality Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment.  The first of these Symposia was held in 1962 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA under the direction of the Willow Run Laboratories of the University of Michigan and it has continued in a similar form ever since.  The Symposia series is now guided by the international committee (ICRSE) comprising experts in the field of remote sensing who represent most of the world’s national space agencies.  ISRSE has become one of the main forums for programmatic discussions on remote sensing components of the ‘Global Earth Observation system of Systems- GEOSS”, currently being implemented through the Group on Earth Observation GEO, which (at the time of preparation) is composed of 80 member countries, 58 participating organizations and 5 observers. 

Sydney, Australia’s largest city is strategically positioned with excellent access to Asia Pacific countries. This ensures that a significant number of remote sensing scientists from this region will be able to attend.  The Symposium will provide a platform for countries with established and emerging earth observation programs to report on their progress, as well as new initiatives in the remote sensing arena.  As well, the 10-year Implementation Plan of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) is well underway and therefore the Symposium provides an important opportunity for GEO members and task teams to present details of progress of their work. The local organising committee will aim to host key people from GEO. 

Attendances at past ISRSE have been increasing with a large attendance of over 800 at the 2009 meeting in Stresa Italy.  It is expected that a large contingent from overseas will attend this conference.  Key topics covered in the Symposium are listed on the Call for Abstracts page .

April is mid-autumn in the southern hemisphere, and therefore it is an excellent time to visit Sydney and other parts of Australia.    We invite you to come to Sydney and benefit from participating in this excellent remote sensing conference, as well as enjoying a visit to Sydney and Australia.

John Trinder & Alex Held
For the 34th ISRSE Organizing Committee

Conference Organizing Committee

• John Trinder UNSW, Sydney
• Per Erik Skrovseth Space Centre, Norway
• Alex Held CSIRO, Canberra
• Jim Weber ICRSE, USA
• Chuck Hutchison University of Arizona, USA
• Tony Milne UNSW, Sydney
• Kim Lowell CRC-SI, Melbourne
• Alfredo Huete UTS, Sydney
• Renee Bartolo Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Darwin
• Simonetta Cheli ESA, Italy
• Winnie Humberson Wylie/NASA, USA
• Gary Shelton SAIC, USA
• Carol Meyer Foundation for Earth Science/ESIP Federation, USA
• Brian Donnelly UNSW, Sydney retired

Technical Program Committee

• Alex Held, CSIRO
• Per Erik Skrovseth Space Centre, Norway
• Tony Milne, CRC for Spatial Information
• Ake Rosenqvist, soloEO
• Alfredo Huete, UTS
• Kim Lowell, University of Melbourne
• Brent Smith, NOAA
• Doug Muchoney, USGS
• Michael Hill, University of North Dakoda
• Lindsay Hutley, Charles Darwin University
• Roger Sayre, USGS
• Gary Shelton, Science Applications International Corporation
• Jack Kaye, NASA Earth Science Division
• Waqar Ahmad, CSIRO
• Francesco Gaetani, GEOSEC
• Vittorio Brando, CSIRO
• Tiit Kutser, Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu
• Shahid Habib, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Jeff Walker, University of Melbourne
• Marc Imhoff, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Jeff Luvall, NASA Hydrology and Climate Center
• Jim Huning, Science Applications International Corporation
• Jay Pearlman, IEEE
• Gunter Schreier, German Aerospace Centre
• Yves-Louis Desnos, ESA
• Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters
• Carol Beaton Meyer, ESIP Federation
• Stefan Maier, Charles Darwin University
• Charles Ichoku, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Vince Ambrosia, NASA Ames/California State University
• Barbara Harrison, CSIRO

 

Key Dates

Call for Abstracts: Now Closed
Registration Open: August 2010
Standard Registration Ends: 6 April 2011
Abstract Submission Deadline: Now Closed
Workshop Submission Deadline: Now Closed
Acceptance Notification: December 2010
Author Registration Deadline: 28 January 2011
Final Paper Deadline: 11 April 2011
Symposium Opens: 10 April 2011
Symposium Closes: 15 April 2011

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Address for Communications

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ISRSE 2011 Symposium Managers
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GPO Box 128
SYDNEY NSW 2001 AUSTRALIA
Telephone (61) 2 9265 0700
Fax: (61) 2 9267 5443
Email: isrse34@arinex.com.au