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EARSeL Newsletter September 2002 - Number 51
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Considering the objectives of this series of
conferences, and the unique way of thinking
it developed, an innovative synergy
with EARSeL activities would bring an
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS AND COURSES
6.1 4th Symposium on RS of Urban
Areas, Germany
The 4th International Symposium "Remote
Sensing of Urban Areas" will be held in Regensburg,
Germany, on 27-29 June 2003.
The Symposium is part of a series of conferences
devoted to remote sensing (RS) of
urban areas. Starting in 1997, it continued in
2001 with an international audience from
over twenty countries and around 130 participants.
In addition to the oral and poster
presentations an exhibition with company
presentations was established. From 2001
onwards the Symposium will be held on an
annual basis. This year (2002) it was hosted
by Istanbul Technical University in Turkey.
Due to a rising awareness of urban areas,
agglomerations and mega-cities, an increased
number of participants were welcomed
to Istanbul for the 3rd Symposium.
As a result of the overwhelming success of
the first three Symposia, and due to the support
from ISPRS, which in 2000 initiated a
new working group "Human Settlement and
Impact Analysis" (ISPRS-WG VII/4) during
the ISPRS Congress in Amsterdam, it is a
pleasure to announce the 4th Symposium
devoted to RS of urban areas. The rapid advances
in image acquisition and image
analysis techniques call for the continuation
of the discussions from the earlier Symposia.
Urban growth and its associated problems
are a very challenging task and suitable RS
and GIS applications could possibly assist in
a wide range of applications for the benefit
of urban areas. You are cordially invited to
participate in a Symposium with challenging
topics, and feel free to submit your individual
input and to share your experiences
with others from around the world.
According to the thematic focus of the symposium
possible presentations should be
added value to both sides. So, I can only
conclude by inviting EARSeL to look beyond
the Ural Mountains for a fruitful and
exciting top-level scientific co-operation.
within the following topics: monitoring of
urban and suburban growth; RS and GIS
for urban sustainability; quantification /
estimation of sealed surfaces in urban /
suburban areas; digital photogrammetric
applications in urban / suburban areas;
differentiation of the inner structure of
cities / agglomerations; national and international
urban projects with RS and GIS;
high-resolution airborne digital sensors for
urban applications; human settlements and
impact analysis; RS for urban / suburban
information systems / urban land administration;
mega-cities; monitoring of informal
settlements; new observation systems for
urban monitoring; RS of urban vegetation;
ecological aspects of urban / peri-urban
landscapes; RS of contaminated land in
urban areas; radar applications in an urban
environment; thermal RS of urban areas
The Symposium language will be English.
It is intended to publish reviewed and accepted
manuscripts of oral presentations in
the ISPRS International Archives of the
Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial
Information Sciences. Please submit abstracts
(maximum 750 words) by electronic
e-mail, before 1st March 2003, to the Symposium
Chairman (see below). For further
information, please visit the Symposium
web-site (www-urs2003.uni-r.de), or contact
the Symposium Chairman: PD Dr.
Carsten Juergens, Associate Professor,
Dept. of Geography, University of Regensburg,
D-93040 Regensburg, Germany (telephone:
+49-941-9433630; fax: +49-941-943
4933; e-mail: carsten.juergens@geographie.
uni-regensburg.de).
6.2 Urban RS workshop (URBAN
2003), Germany
The Second Joint Workshop on Remote