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IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS Barcelona 2007
Technical Program Overview
Technical Program Overview
Organizing the Technical
Program of IGARSS 2007 has
been an exciting opportunity to
better understand the wide
variety of fields that Remote
Sensing embraces. This year
submission has been very high,
reaching about 2400 abstracts
received. In an attempt to
ensure a high quality program,
each abstract was assessed by at least two reviewers. We would like to thank the 560 reviewers for
their generous support, the invited session organizers, and the theme coordinators/session organizers
and for their help in setting up the program and to act as backup reviewers in the few cases needed.
A dedicated Technical Program Committee processed and organized the nearly 2000 accepted
presentations that compose the Program in a meeting kindly organized by Prof. Werner Wiesbeck in
Karlsruhe, Germany, on February 23 rd .
The Program presentations are arranged into 99 oral sessions and 62 interactive sessions, covering
nearly all aspects of Remote Sensing: from the physics of the measurements to the most advanced
data processing techniques, through the electromagnetic modeling and the technologies and
techniques that allow to develop and build new and more powerful instruments. In addition to the
general topics, this year we have tried to promote some such as lidar and radar altimetry in order to
improve the IGARSS coverage of techniques and applications. We have also tried to emphasize
present-day space missions (TerraSAR-X, Cosmo-Skymed, SMOS, etc. ), emerging techniques (GNSS-
R, sensor web, advanced sensor concepts, etc.), and other topics of special interest such as remote
sensing activities in Africa, educational activities and disaster prevention and monitoring. Finally the
Program also includes two sessions dedicated to Prof. Tanos Mikhaël Elfouhaily (Tuesday afternoon)
and Prof. Mikio Takagi (Thursday afternoon) for their significant contributions to our field.
In an attempt to give more importance to the Interactive Sessions, posters will be posted during the
one day, from 9 AM until 7:30 PM, after the oral sessions, and presenting authors are asked to stay by
their posters at least after the afternoon sessions from 6 PM to 7:30 PM. The poster area has been
closely located to the rooms to facilitate the interaction. We expect that poster sessions will play a
central and sustained role in the technical discussions and participants interaction.
Chairs of oral sessions are encouraged to keep the schedule despite any no-show that may happen to
allow people to move from one session to another one. Attendees to a session where there is a noshow
are kindly invited to make a backup or an extended presentation. Please keep in mind that the
chairs of both the oral and interactive sessions have been requested to keep track of the
communications that are actually presented to include them in IEEE Xplore.
The program also includes eight tutorials given by experts in their fields and the IEEE GEOSS
workshop. The program that you have in your hands has meant a lot of work for many people. In
addition to the Technical Program Committee chairs and members, the invited session organizers, and
the abstract reviewers, we would like to mention the incredible amount of work and patience put by
the CIMNE staff (see picture on next page). We want to express our public recognition to these hidden
faces for their commitment and hard work.
We wish you enjoy a high quality technical program and the warmth of the Mediterranean life style of
the city of Barcelona. In addition to that, a number of social activities have been prepared so that your
IGARSS 07 memories will be unforgettable. Enjoy!
A. Camps, A. Broquetas, A. Comerón
Technical Program Committee Chairs
Barcelona, July 2007
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