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Geomatics covers the science and technology of gathering different sources of geospatial data, which after storing, interpreting, analyzing, modelling and distributing, can be turned into useful geographic information. Geomatics involves the tools and techniques used in surveying, cartography, photogrammetry, remote sensing, satellite navigation systems, geographical information systems and other earth-related disciplines.
January 31, 2012
January 25, 2012
MERIS Biophysical products available in near real time over Europe
The Core Mapping Service BioPar of the geoland2 project announces the availability of a set of biophysical variables derived over Europe from the MERIS Full Resolution data. It includes the leaf area index, the fraction of absorbed PAR (see image in attachment), the content of chlorophyll, the fraction of green vegetation cover, the fraction of brown vegetation cover, the fraction of soil, the canopy shade factor, the fraction of water, and the fraction of snow. These variables are provided as 10-days products, per country, at 300m resolution from March 2011 to the present and the production is continuing with the near-real time generation of new maps every 10 days.
The MERIS biophysical products can be discovered and downloaded freely through the geoland2 web portal following the link http://www.geoland2.eu/core-mapping-services/biopar.html. A Product User Manual and a Validation Reports are also available.
These products are generated by Astrium Services in the framework of the FP7/geoland2 project (http://www.gmes-geoland.info).
R. Lacaze
Geoland2/BioPar Task Manager
January 22, 2012
CliChaMoR Summer School 2012
The Z_GIS Summer School 2012 is dedicated to the theme of "Climate Change in Mountain Regions: meta-disciplinary impacts, causes, consequences and mitigation and adaptation strategies" and is hosted by Salzburg University's Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS).
The vital importance of climate change for the existence of life on Earth is more and more recognised by society and meanwhile also underpinned by the work of numerous scientists. Coping with and adapting to climate change are key challenges to a sustainable and balanced territorial development in the European mountain environment that requires joint transnational cooperation and action. Climate change implies the increase of Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and temperature as well as changed precipitation patterns. Any change of these important climate parameters has implications on the frequency and extent of water availability, natural hazards, tourism activities, ecological conditions of rivers and lakes, shifts of vegetation zones, etc. These impacts, uncertainties, risks, and vulnerabilities resulting from climate change have not only been analysed in various Alpine Space projects but also in other international mountain projects (e.g. from successive European Commission Framework Programmes, e.g. BramaTWinn, KultuRisk). However, there has been little synthesis work on impacts of climate change on tourism, water scarcity, spatial planning, forests, neither on permafrost environments nor on rivers and lakes. Moreover, a thorough interdisciplinary cross mountain analysis requires spatially and temporally concerted management actions in mountain regions. This process has only recently been started with the EEA Report for the Alps coordinated by Martin Price, our contact person at the Perth College, Scotland, and the Clim-ATIC initiative (http://www.clim-atic.org).
Participants with an interest in GIS, Remote Sensing and Landscape Ecology are welcome to attend this short intensive course from June 25 - July 06, 2012 in the world cultural heritage city of Salzburg. Please note that a number of seats are reserved for Erasmus Lifelong Learning partners.
Online registration is possible from February 1 until May 15, 2012.
Participants have also access to the Geoinformatics Forum / AGIT conference from July 03 - 06, 2012. Conferences are included in the course fee.
January 16, 2012
ESA Earth Observation Summer School on Earth System Monitoring & Modelling, 30-July 10 August 2012
Deadline for applications: 30 January 2012
The European Space Agency (ESA) organizes a series of summer schools on Monitoring of the Earth System to promote the exploitation of Earth Observation EO data across disciplines, with a specific focus on their assimilation into Earth System models.
January 15, 2012
The 4th International Summer School on Radar/SAR (Haus Humboldtstein, Germany)
One of Europe’s most renowned radar institutes Fraunhofer FHR cordially invites you to join us for our 4th International Summer School on Radar / SAR. We offer the unique opportunity to gain an in-depth education on radar and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) techniques by distinguished international lecturers. Our programme covers a wide range from radar fundamentals over state-of-the-art Radar/SAR systems to sophisticated array signal processing techniques.
As a student at the International Summer School you are welcome to a stimulating academic environment in a vibrant atmosphere among international radar specialists and experts. Our intellectually rewarding courses (< 35 students) are accompanied by excursions as well as cultural and social events, introducing you to UNESCO’s World Heritage, the Upper Middle Rhine Valley and to the famous city of Cologne.
The 4th International Summer School on Radar/SAR takes place at Haus Humboldtstein in Remagen-Rolandseck (Germany), which is located about 15 km south of Bonn.
Address:
Haus Humboldtstein (Location in Google Maps)
Am Humbodtstein
53424 Remagen
Germany
Phone: ++49 (0) 2228 / 932-0
Fax: ++49 (0) 2228 / 932-100
Web: www.haus-humboldtstein.
E-mail: humboldtstein@awobu.
http://www.radarsummerschool.
"Open Call for Contributions for a new IGI-Global book: 'Technologies in Urban and Spatial Planning: Virtual Cities and Territories.'"
Dear Colleagues
We kindly remind you that there is an open Call for Contributions for a new IGI-Global book ?Technologies in Urban and Spatial Planning:
Virtual Cities and Territories?.
Proposals for contributions are now due on January 31, 2012.
Please visit and bookmark www.vctbook.dec.uc.pt for detailed information about this editorial project.
This book aims to present the state-of-the-art of the development and application of all kinds of new virtual technologies based on the use of hardware and software developed to represent and simulate virtual environments, built spaces, and buildings, and the interactions of these new technological solutions with policy making and design.
We look forward to receiving your proposal for a contribution.
The Editors
Nuno Norte Pinto, José António Tenedório, António Pais Antunes and Josep Roca
We kindly remind you that there is an open Call for Contributions for a new IGI-Global book ?Technologies in Urban and Spatial Planning:
Virtual Cities and Territories?.
Proposals for contributions are now due on January 31, 2012.
Please visit and bookmark www.vctbook.dec.uc.pt for detailed information about this editorial project.
This book aims to present the state-of-the-art of the development and application of all kinds of new virtual technologies based on the use of hardware and software developed to represent and simulate virtual environments, built spaces, and buildings, and the interactions of these new technological solutions with policy making and design.
We look forward to receiving your proposal for a contribution.
The Editors
Nuno Norte Pinto, José António Tenedório, António Pais Antunes and Josep Roca
January 06, 2012
32nd EARSeL Symposium "Advances in Geosciences" Mykonos, Greece, 21-24 May 2012
Dear Colleagues,
Time flies!
Are you aware of the final date for submission of abstracts - 10th JANUARY 2012 - for
1) the 32nd annual EARSeL Symposium "Advances in Geosciences" Mykonos, Greece, 21-24 May 2012,
see http://www.earsel.org/symposia/2012-symposium-Mykonos/,
and
2) the 4th International Workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group Geological Applications "Remote Sensing and Geology",
24-25 May 2012,see http://www.earsel.org/SIG/Geology/workshop.php, held in conjunction with the Symposium.
Time flies!
Are you aware of the final date for submission of abstracts - 10th JANUARY 2012 - for
1) the 32nd annual EARSeL Symposium "Advances in Geosciences" Mykonos, Greece, 21-24 May 2012,
see http://www.earsel.org/symposia/2012-symposium-Mykonos/,
and
2) the 4th International Workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group Geological Applications "Remote Sensing and Geology",
24-25 May 2012,see http://www.earsel.org/SIG/Geology/workshop.php, held in conjunction with the Symposium.
Just in case it slipped your mind here is a little reminder to submit your abstracts in time, if not already done so, to: http://www.conferences.earsel.org for both the Symposium as well as the workshop.
In addition, you are invited to submit your abstracts for the 1st International EARSeL Workshop on Temporal Analysis of Satellite Images, 24 - 25 May 2012, Mykonos Island, Greece, http://www.earsel.org/SIG/timeseries/workshops.php, until 29th February 2012.
Please be so kind as to forward this message to other interested colleagues.
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
The Organisers
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