ISPRS Working Group V/2 Conference in York, UK

ISPRS Working Group V/2 Conference in York, UK

from 17th -19th August 2011.

All working group V/2 members, researchers, developers, practitioners and other interested parties are encouraged to submit abstracts for this working group conference using the submission link on the conference website- see www.isprs-york2011.org.  Please note the deadline for abstract submission is 31st March 2011.

As noted on the call for papers, the principal topics for the conference include:

    • Development of sensors & hardware for image & point-based survey

    • Static & mobile mapping solutions suitable for cultural heritage application

    • Aerial & low-level imaging approaches using UAV’s, UAS’s and KAP

    • Visible, multi & hyper-spectral image acquisition & processing

    • Data processing approaches including low-cost & open-source software

    • Three-dimensional analysis & presentation of cultural heritage survey data
    • Multi-light imaging techniques

    • Development of techniques & standards for cultural heritage survey

    • Best practise application of developing survey technologies within archaeology, architecture, conservation & cultural heritage projects

The registration link for the conference will open during February 2011.

Ph.D Research fellowship in Applied Geology & Geophysics

Title: Landslide hazard assessment: integration of multi-source remote-sensing data and development of probabilistic models at regional and local scales

A Ph.D fellowship is available financed by the European Community within the Marie Curie Initial Training Network 'Changes'. The objective of the fellowship is to advance the development and use of remote-sensing techniques for landslide characterization and to integrate the information into probabilistic models for hazard assessment at several spatial scales.

Research will focus on the development of (1) techniques for satellite and ground-based remote-sensing data analysis for a multi-dimensional characterization of landslide dynamics, and (2) of probabilistic models for hazard assessment over several spatial and temporal scales.

The work will include the following tasks:

• Application and improvement of a methodology for characterizing the dynamics of active mass movements using a multi-technique approach combining direct and remote measurements of displacement (GPS, extensometers, correlation of airborne and terrestrial images, satellite and ground-based SAR interferometry, airborne and terrestrial laser scanning), with the objective of creating series of displacement / runout maps;
• Development of a probabilistic framework for landslide hazard assessment (source area and runout analyses, intensity-frequency analyses) making extensive use of the available multi-source monitoring datasets and of physically-based hydrological and mechanical models.
• Development of a generic method for uncertainty estimation and for the validation of the assessment making use of the remote-sensing data.

The study sites will be the Barcelonnette Basin in the South French Alps, the Corvara di Badia region in the Italian Dolomites and the Buzau region in Romania where detailed databases and catalogues of multi-sources images are already available and organized.

The position is a research-only post, with no teaching obligations. CNRS will provide substantial support in a stimulating environment, and we expect the successful candidate to undertake high quality original research in his/her specific field.

Location: The work will be carried out at the School and Observatory of Earth Sciences (EOST), University of Strasbourg (UdS, France). Some months of secondment are scheduled at the CNR-IRPI in Padova (Italy) and at IGRA-Bucharest (Romania) as part of the transfer of knowledge activities within the network.

Supervision: The Ph.D will be formally supervised by Dr. Jean-Philippe Malet, Dr. Cécile Doubre and Prof. F. Masson at EOST / Strasbourg. At CNR-IRPI and at IGRA, the persons in charge will be Dr. Alessandro Pasuto, Dr. Paola Reichenbach and Prof. Dan Baltenau. The Ph.D will be enrolled in the doctoral school in Earth and Environmental Sciences of the University of Strasbourg. The Ph.D. thesis may be submitted in English.

Requirements: Recently obtained M.Sc. or 4-yr diploma degree in any earth sciences. Candidates with backgrounds in remote sensing data and technologies, and interest in process-based and stochastic modelling are strongly encouraged to apply. Interest in quantitative earth sciences and for mountain environments are also recommended. Experience in programming language (e.g. C++, C, Matlab or IDL), knowledge of GIS and use of Linux OS are requested.

Eligibility: As requested by the EC, applicants can not seek the position in her/his country of origin or residence.

Starting date: March/April 2011 (some flexibility is possible).

Conditions of employment: The appointment will be given in accordance with the French labour laws. Salary will be based on the French grid for PhD positions, corresponding to about 1700 € per month. The studentship duration is 36 months with a possible extension of 12 months. The applicant will benefit from supplementary allowances that will enable him/her to spend a substantial amount of his/her time at the secondment institute. These allowances are a mobility allowance which amount depends on the family charges of the applicant, a Career Exploratory Allowance and one visit per year to the home country.

Contact persons: Interested persons should contact and send their application (curriculum vitae, short statement of research interest and addresses of three referees) to Dr. Jean-Philippe Malet (jeanphilippe.malet@eost.u-strasbg.fr) and Dr. Cécile Doubre (cecile.doubre@unistra.fr). Selection of the applicant will be performed on a competitive basis.

Please note that the application deadline is 15 February 2011, so interested applicants should establish contact as soon as possible. 

Source: EarthWorks-Jobs.com

GEOCROWD Project: 13 Early Stage Researcher (ESR) positions are available

I would like to inform you that 13 Early Stage Researcher (ESR) positions are available at the following institutions:

• National Technical University of Athens, Greece – Prof. Timos Sellis
• Universität Bremen, Germany – Prof. Christian Freksa (Cognitive Systems Group)
• Freie Universität Berlin, Germany – Prof. Jochen Schiller and Prof. Agnes Voisard
• Aarhus Universitet, Denmark – Prof. Christian S. Jensen
• ETH Zürich, Switzerland – Prof. Gustavo Alonso
• National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland – Prof. Stewart Fotheringham (National Center for Geocomputation)
These positions are funded by the European Commission under the Marie Curie Initial Training Network Programme project GEOCROWD (http://www.geocrowd.eu).
The duration of the positions is 3 years with the possibility of an extension funded from other sources. Applications for smaller periods will be considered. Recruited ESRs will have the option to enroll as PhD students at the various institutions.

More information :
GeoWeb 2.0 is the geographic embodiment of the Web 2.0 moniker for
the next generation Web, that is, it is a term the next generation of
geographic information publishing, discovery and use.
The goal of the GEOCROWD project is to establish a fertile research
environment by means of a training network that will promote the GeoWeb
2.0 vision and advance the state of the art in collecting, storing,
analyzing, processing, reconciling, and making large amounts
of semantically rich user-generated geospatial information available on
the Web. Specifically,activities will be centered on (i) exploiting
user-contributed geospatial data, (ii) Web-geodata management, (iii)
efficient means for data collection and dissemination, e.g., mobile
computing,and (iv) innovative uses for such data. The project goal is to
 tame this data explosion, which applied to the geospatial domain
translates into massively collecting and sharing knowledge to ultimately
 digitize the world. This is the challenging research goal to be
undertaken by the recruited ESRs.
Junior researchers with an MSc in areas such as spatial databases,
query processing and indexing, mobile and pervasive computing, large
scale data management, distributed systems, AI, geographic information
science, geocomputation, and spatial and temporal reasoning are
encouraged to apply.

ELIGIBILITY
• The recruited ESR should be, at the time of selection, in the first
 four years of their research careers (measured from the date when they
obtained the degree which would formally entitle them to embark on a
doctorate).
ESRs should not already have a PhD, and they should have the
qualifications to embark on a PhD program (i.e., they should have an MSc
 by the time of the recruitment).

• ESRs must not have resided or carried out their main activities
(work, studies, etc.) in the host country for more than 12 months in the
 last 3 years. This requirement is irrespective of the applicant’s
nationality.

FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
Marie Curie fellows enjoy good salaries and working conditions,
career development opportunities and work-life balance. More
specifically, the financial support of Marie Curie ITN to
the ESR includes:
• a considerable monthly living and mobility allowance,
• a yearly travel allowance (i.e., a fixed amount of money based upon
 the direct distance between the location of origin of the researcher
and the place of work),
• a career exploratory allowance (i.e., a single payment for attending job interviews, additional courses, job fairs, etc.), and
• coverage of the expenses related to the participation of the ESR in
 research and training activities (contribution to research-related
costs, meetings, conference attendance, training actions, etc.).

HOW TO APPLY?
To communicate your expression of interest, please send (i) your
curriculum vitae and (ii) country/institution preference by email to
contact@geocrowd.eu.
While expressions of interest are accepted on a continuous basis,
applications received by February 25, 2011 will be considered in the
first evaluation cycle.

MORE INFORMATION
• About the project: http://www.geocrowd.eu
• Questions? Send an email to contact@geocrowd.eu

NERA Job Opening at CAR, Cambridge

Applications are invited for the post of  Research Associate on building inventory data capture. The RA will work with an interdisciplinary research team at Cambridge Architectural Research (CAR) Ltd (www.carltd.com) within a project to develop European building inventory data using remote sensing and other data sources. The work will contribute to the European Commission funded project NERA.

The candidate will have a PhD or equivalent experience in one of the following fields: engineering, architecture, remote sensing (image processing) and/or Geographical Information Systems or geostatistics. Experience in building inventory data collection, risk modelling and earthquake engineering or the use of remotely sensed data for building data extraction or crowd sourcing would be a plus, but is not required. 

For more information on the post please see: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACE430/research-associate/

Further information and application details can be obtained from Dr. Keiko Saito (keiko.saito@carltd.com) or  Robin Spence (rspence@carltd.com) tel +44-1223-460475

ESA Job Opportunity: Manager of the ThermoMag Project

Title: Manager of the ThermoMag Project
Reference: VN-ESTEC(2010)096, CORR. 2, REV.1
Issue Date: Fri, 28-Jan-2011
Directorate: Human Spaceflight
Grade: A2/A4
Duty Station: ESTEC
Closing Date: Fri, 11-Feb-2011
Description: http://www.esa.int/hr/PDF/ESAVN-ESTEC-2010-096-COR.2-REV.1.pdf

You can find all current ESA Job Opportunities on the Internet at:
http://www.esa.int/hr/vn.htm

Envisat's radar instrument, shows the Danube Delta

28 January 2011
This composite image, acquired by Envisat's radar instrument, shows the Danube Delta, Europe's best preserved river delta.

More at:
http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM19QBE8JG_index_0.html

 

Satellite data to improve flood forecasting

As the residents of Queensland, Australia, turn to the mammoth task of cleaning up after the devastating floods over the last weeks, data from ESA's Earth observation satellites are showing potential for delivering more timely warnings.

More at: http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMMP9BE8JG_index_0.html

ESA

Professorships - Autonomous Academic Staff, Ghent University - Faculty of Engineering and Architecture

Job Title: Professorships - Autonomous Academic Staff

Job Description: The faculty of Engineering has vacancies for professorships, starting from October 1, 2011.  It concerns the following positions:

(1) full-time position as Professor in the rank of Lecturer (Tenure Track) or Professor in the rank of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, charged with academic teaching, scientific research and carrying out scientific duties in the fi ...

Organisation: Ghent University - Faculty of Engineering and Architecture

Location: Ghent, BELGIUM

Job Ref. No.: J7890

To view the full advert and to apply for the job go to www.academicjobseu.com and enter the Job Ref. No. or click the following link: http://www.academicjobseu.com/content/jobsearch/job_advert.asp?id=J7890

GI Jobs in Canada

Ghostpine Environmental Services Ltd is looking for a  Intermediate to Senior GIS Technician

Altagas Utilities is looking for a Operator, GIS/CAD

 

Stewart Weir is looking for a CAD Technologist 

Stewart Weir is looking for a Plan Checker 

Stewart Weir is looking for a Survey Assistant 

Stewart Weir is looking for aCrew Chiefs 

Stewart Weir is looking for aSenior GIS Developer 

43rd International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics - Deadline Recall

43rd International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics Tracers of physical and biogeochemical processes, past changes and ongoing anthropogenic impacts, 2 - 6 May 2011.

Web site: http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/colloquium/

This Colloquium will investigate new developments and insights related to tracers and proxies (from temperature and salinity to gases and isotopes) with a particular attention on the use of TEI as tracers.

The deadline for the Abstracts sending has been extended until the 31st January 2011.

You will find all the usefull details concerning the Colloquium on the web site http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/colloquium/.

PhD Fellowships in GIS and RS

PhD Fellowships in GIS and RS:

http://www.findaphd.com/search/showproject.asp?projectid=31614&theorder=3&location=&univ=&disc=allsci&searchtype=b&keyword=remote+sensing&scip=13&scif=1&socp=2&socd=1&socf=0&pd=0&page=1

http://www.findaphd.com/search/showproject.asp?projectid=30248&theorder=3&location=&univ=&disc=allsci&searchtype=b&keyword=remote+sensing&scip=13&scif=1&socp=2&socd=1&socf=0&pd=0&page=1

http://www.findaphd.com/search/showproject.asp?projectid=31755&theorder=3&location=&univ=&disc=allsci&searchtype=b&keyword=remote+sensing&scip=13&scif=1&socp=2&socd=1&socf=0&pd=0&page=1

PhD Studenship: Physical Origins of Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Ocean Colour Imagery

PhD Studenship: Physical Origins of Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Ocean Colour Imagery

http://www.findaphd.com/search/showproject.asp?projectid=31761

Advertisement for UAS specialist

The Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) is an institute of the Berlin research association (FVB). The FVB is comprised of eight research institutes in Berlin, which are active in the fields of natural sciences, life sciences and environmental sciences. As research institutes of national scientific importance, they are jointly funded by the German federal and state governments. The institutes belong to the Leibniz Association.

The IGB is the principal German center for research of limnic ecosystems, and unites hydrologists, chemists, microbiologists, fish ecologists and fish biologists (www.igbberlin.de). The research focus of the Institute of Space Sciences at the Free University Berlin

(FU) is airborne and spaceborne remote sensing. Both institutes collaborate in different scientific projects. For future research projects we are looking for an "Unmanned Airborne system specialist" to start immediately.

The job will be remunerated according to TVöD and is at first limited to 2 years, with an extension currently being sought. There is the possibility for supplemental professional qualifications.

Duties:

• Technical supervision of an unmanned aerial helicopter (UAS)

• Transfer and preparation of the collected data (e.g. VIS, IR, LIDAR, CASI)

• Quality control and administration of the data

• Collaboration in the development of measurements programs (e.g. cameras, GPS/IMU

integration)

• Organization, coordination and execution of flight campaigns

• Maintenance and calibration of optical sensors

Requirements:

• Higher education in an appropriated technical profession

• Excellent computer skills

• Advanced knowledge of mechanic and electronic systems

• Willingness and ability to perform field work

• Versatility and engagement

• Interest in and aptitude for team work

• Experience with optical sensors (e.g. IR and VIS cameras, LIDAR, CASI) is welcome

• Experience in photogrammetry, remote sensing and GIS is welcome

• Private pilot license or license to operate big UAVs (25-150 kg) is advantageous

For supplementary information please contact Dr. Thomas Ruhtz (ruhtz@zedat.fu-berlin.de

+49 30 838 5 6662) or Mr. Diego Tonolla (tonolla@igb-berlin.de; +49 30 641 8 1709).

Please submit your complete application, including all usual documents, as single PDF before 15.02.2010 at personal@igb-berlin.de  or at

Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei

im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.

z.Hd. Frau Marlis Lange,

Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin

 

Post-Doc in Marie Curie's Project "Radiography of the Past" - Évora, Portugal

In the framework of the Marie Curie/People Academia Industry project “Radiography of the Past”, a recruitment is opened for a contract of 12 months of an experienced researcher in spatial and digital data management, CAD and visualization of topographical and structural data from archaeological sites.

As the recruitment is inserted in the Marie Curie Actions Mobility scheme, candidates can be all nationals, but Portuguese.

Following the guidelines of the European Commission's Roadmap for Equality between Women and Men (2007) and of the European Council's Pact for Gender Equality (2006), the management staff of the project Radio-Past committed to the effort of improving the representation of women in the European Research area, and therefore specifically invites applications by women.

Among equally qualified applicants women will receive preferential consideration.

REQUESTED ADDITIONAL SKILLS

English proficiency is required.

Working in a team based international environment, supporting your team in achieving the highest quality standards. Excellent inter-personal skills and a good team player. Problem solving and troubleshooting skills to resolution. Ability to work on own initiative and to adapt to change. Ability to meet strict deadlines and targets. Ability to work confidently without supervision.

CONTRACT TYPE : temporary; 12 months starting peremptorily on June 6th 2011.

SALARY: according to Experienced Researcher’s yearly allowance (53,000 euro per Portugal’s Country Correction factor (= 91,4%; taxes to be deducted); travel expenses, mobility allowance and career exploratory allowance are also provided. Relationships between Uevora and the Researcher will be ruled according to Annex III of the Grant Agreement of IAAP People Actions (Specific Provisions, downloadable at: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/fp7-mga-annex3iapp_en.pdf).

HOLIDAYS - 30 days/year.

RELOCATION Part of the work will be executed Ammaia, in the region Portalegre, the rest at the University of Evora. A suitable relocation scheme is provided.

APPLICATION: applicants to email CV to Prof. Cristina Corsi at the CIDEHUS centre of the University of Evora (cricorsi@uevora.pt) before March 18th, 2011.

Applicants should state that they are ready to start the contract on the fixed date, and to take up residence in Portugal.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/mariecurieactions/iapp_en.html

Semantics in High Resolution Earth Observation Imagery Call for Papers

http://www.grss-ieee.org/semantics-in-high-resolution-earth-observation-imagery-call-for-papers/

Call For Papers

Guest Editors: Roger L. King, Mihai Datcu, Chi-Ren Shyu, and Eric Miller

High resolution Earth Observation (EO) data has increased significantly over the last decades with orbital and sub-orbital sensors collecting and transmitting to Earth receiving stations several terabytes of data per day. This data acquisition rate is a major challenge to the existing data exploitation and dissemination approaches used by the various agencies (e.g., ESA, NASA, NOAA or national agencies) charged with extracting information from these images. And, with plans for more high resolution EO systems the challenge is increasingly going to be how to increase the usability of the millions of images being collected to a larger and larger group of end user applications (e.g., climate change, security, land use, weather)? To facilitate knowledge discovery from high resolution EO images, researchers around the world have begun to tackle the formidable challenge of developing concepts, tools, and applications for extracting information from the petabytes of high resolution EO images. This is a difficult challenge which will require cooperative solutions integrating a variety of methods of soft computing, information semantics and the semantic web, advanced statistics, and probabilistic reasoning. The ultimate goal is to have machines more closely interacting with end users at or near human conceptual levels (i.e. automate the human remote sensing analyst). Unlike the respective hard computing methods, soft computing may cope with problems which deal with imprecision, uncertainty and learning, and are better candidates to construct systems and models which are simple, applicable, user-friendly and fast.

The submitted papers should focus on the use of semantics for providing remote sensing analysts with new sources of information from high resolution imagery. Suggested areas of contribution for the issue include ontologies, knowledge representation, metadata, interoperability, and spatial queries to name a few. All contributions that meet the theme of the special issue will be considered. Sensing applications of Space

Publication Schedule

Call for Submissions: 1 October 2010
Deadline for Submissions: 1 December 2010
Special Issue Publication: February 2012
All submitted papers will be subject to the standard TGRS reviewing process.

Papers should be submitted through the TGRS web page
Questions concerning the submission process should be addressed to tgrseditor@ieee.org Other questions concerning the Special Issue should be addressed to the

Guest Editors:

Roger King
Mississippi State University
Email: rking@ece.msstate.edu
Mihai Datcu
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Email: mihai.datcu@dlr.de
Chi-Ren Shyu
University of Missouri
Email: ShyuC@missouri.edu
Eric Miller
Tufts University
Email: elmiller@ece.tufts.edu

2010 Earth Observation Handbook released

The 2010 edition of the Earth Observation Handbook – just released and available online – provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive overview of existing and upcoming satellite missions, their instruments and measurements of more than 30 space agencies worldwide.

Full contents of the 2010 EO Handbook are available on-line at www.eohandbook.com

GIS Tools for Ecologists - Introductory and Advanced Courses in Évora (Portugal)

GIS Tools for Ecologists - Introductory and Advanced Courses in Évora (Portugal)
http://www.catedra.uevora.pt/rui-nabeiro/

Fellowships Available for Students from the European Union: Erasmus Mundus Master of Science course on Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (GEM)

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION
The deadline for applications is on the 5th February 2011 so apply soon!!
www.gem-msc.org/application/general
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PROGRAMME
http://www.gem-msc.org/

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Remote Sensing and GIS for mapping abiotic stresses in rice systems

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Remote Sensing and GIS for mapping abiotic stresses in rice systems

http://www.warda.cgiar.org/warda/jobs/Remote%20Sensing%20and%20GIS-PDF.pdf

Call For Papers - Workshop On Information Systems For Interactive Spaces

Workshop On Information Systems For Interactive Spaces

6th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technology

June 15-18, Chaves, Portugal

Contributions can be in Portuguese, Spanish or English.

NASA Academy 2011 - Opportunities for European Students

The NASA Academy is a demanding 10-week internship programme in which selected students pursue a science or engineering-related research project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (near Washington DC) while developing their networking and leadership skills.

The ESA Education is offering two European students the unique opportunity to participate in this prestigious programme.

The application deadline is 30th January 2011!

For instruction on how to apply as well as for the list of available projects go to: www.esa.int/education>'Opportunity for European students to attend NASA Academy 2011'

ESA Education Office

studentparticipation@esa.int

Hyperspectral Imaging Conference (HSI 2011)

Hyperspectral Imaging Conference (HSI 2011)

http://www.strath.ac.uk/eee/research/events/hsi/

EFIDIR Spring School : Extraction and Fusion of Information for Displacement measurement from SAR Imagery

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

EFIDIR Spring School : Extraction and Fusion of Information for
Displacement measurement from SAR Imagery
May 1-6, 2011
Ecole de Physique des Houches, Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France
Program and registration : http://www.efidir.fr

This international spring school is aimed at young researchers in the domains of information processing (signal, image, data mining...) and geosciences using SAR images. The one week school will concentrate on tools and methods of SAR data analysis and applications in monitoring geophysical phenomena at the origin of observed displacements (earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciers...).

The programme stretches from electromagnetic backscattering to physical model inversion, including practical work and observation on the site Chamonix Mont-Blanc. The
school will allow PhD students, young scientists and experts to share their knowledge of recent advances linked to the new generation of radar satellites, and processing methods allowing effective exploitation of the resulting data.

Main lectures and speakers:

   * Eric Pottier (IETR) :
     /Ground electromagnetic response: from physical properties to SAR
     and //polarimetric SAR data/
   * Jean-Claude Souyris (CNES) :
     /InSAR D-InSAR processing: from raw data to displacement measures/
   * Andy Hooper (Delft University) :
     /Multitemporal D-InSAR: from SAR time series to displacement
     monitoring/
   * Didier Dubois (IRIT) :
     /Knowledge and information processing/
   * Bernard Valette (ISTerre) and Maelle Nodet (LJK) :
     /Inversion and data assimilation in geophysical models/

Scientific committee

   * Riadh Abdelfattah, Sup-Com Tunis
   * Valérie Cayol, Univ. de Clermont-Ferrand
   * Mohamed Chlieh, Univ. de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
   * Yves-Louis Desnos, European Space Agency (ESA)
   * Ireana Hajnsek, German Space Agency (DLR)
   * Steven Hosford, CNES
   * Thierry Koleck, CNES
   * Jean-Paul Rudant, Univ. Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée
   * Elisabeth Simonetto, Ecole Supérieure des Géomètres et Topographes
     (ESGT)
   * Ridha Touzi, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing

Οrganizing Committee

The meeting is organized by the EFIDIR project (ANR Masse de données  et connaissances 2008-2011), which gathers 6 laboratories: LISTIC  (Annecy), GIPSA-lab (Grenoble), LTCI (Télécom ParisTech) and IETR  (Rennes) which are also part of the GdR ISIS (Information, Signal, Image and viSion), and ISTerre (Chambéry-Grenoble) and the
 Laboratoire de Géologie (ENS Paris) which are part of the GdR G2 (Geodesy and Geophysics).

   * R. Fallourd, F. Ledo, G. Mauris, N. Méger, E. Trouvé, F. Vernier,
     Y. Yan
     LISTIC -- Polytech Annecy-Chambéry, Univ. de Savoie
   * C. Lasserre, F. Lodge, E. Pathier, V. Pinel
     ISTerre -- IRD, CNRS, Univ. Joseph Fourier / Univ. de Savoie
   * M. Gay, G. Vasile
     GIPSA-Lab -- CNRS, INP Grenoble
   * P. Briole, M.-P. Doin
     Laboratoire de Géologie -- CNRS, ENS
   * S. Allain, L. Ferro-Famil
     IETR -- CNRS, Univ. de Rennes 1
   * J.-M. Nicolas, F. Tupin
     LTCI -- CNRS, Télécom ParisTech
   * B. Fruneau, GTMC, Univ. Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée.
   * L. Moreau, EDYTEM -- CNRS, Univ. de Savoie

First Announcement and Call for Papers: Int. Conf. on FireBehaviour and Risk Modelling

the International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk Modelling, Alghero, Sardinia (Italy),4^th-6^th  October, 2011.

The Conference is organized by the Department of Economics and Woody Plant Ecosystems (DESA) of the University of Sassari and the Institute of Biometeorology of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IBIMET, Sassari). The Conference is organised within the "Proterina-C" Project ("A forecast and prevention system for climate change impacts on risk variability for wildlands and urban areas"), founded by the FESR Italia-Francia Marittimo Program of the European Union.

The aim of the Conference is to present the recent developments in forest fire research and to assess the contributions of the fire scientists to the analysis of this issue.
Further information regarding the Conference is provided at:
http://www.ss.ibimet.cnr.it/conference/ and in the attached file.

We hope that this Conference can be of interest for you and you will also be presenting a paper at the meeting. We would also be grateful if you would promote the Conference and inform your colleagues about this event.