Geomatics, as a multidisciplinary field made up of the means and procedures used to acquire and manage territorial information, covers a whole range of subjects and disciplines. Besides covering all of the scientific and technical aspects of the geomatic disciplines, the new edition will pay special attention to the high-resolution sensors and their applications.

The Scientific Committee solicits original and critical review papers with respect to the following interest areas, but not limited to:

PRINCIPAL AREA: HIGH RESOLUTION SENSORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

P1. STATE OF THE ART AND NEW CHALLENGES

- Current and coming satellite platforms: SPOT, IRS, IKONOS, QUIKBIRD, ORBVIEW-3, RADARSAT-2, etc.
- New space and airborne sensors
- Technical and comparative studies
- Economical aspects and price policy
- National and international programs

P2. USING HIGH RESOLUTION SENSORS AS AN OPTION OR COMPLEMENT TO AERIAL ORTHOPHOTOGRAPHY

- Aspects of cost-profit
- Aspects of geometry
- Aspects of radiometry
- Spatial and temporal ground cover
- Advanced software tools
- High resolution satellite images versus digital aerial orthophotography

P3. HIGH RESOLUTION SENSORS FOR CARTOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS

- Radar applications (ERS, RADARSAT, etc.)
- Interpherometric techniques and applications
- Publication and update of middle scale cartography: regional approach
- Publication and update of large scale cartography: local and urban approach
- Digital Terrain Models (DTM) generation: DEM, DSM

P4. ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY GLOBAL MONITORING USING HIGH AND MIDDLE RESOLUTION SENSORS. UNITED NATIONS AND EUROPEAN UNION ENTERPRISES

- Land use and Land cover
- Urban development
- Air and water quality
- Oil spill control and monitoring
- Global forest monitoring
- Evaluation and prevention of natural disasters

P5. SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS

- Urban planning
- Meteorology
- Oceanography
- Geology
- Forestry and agricultural monitoring
- Geodesy and Seismology

P6: LIDAR

- Airborne Laser Scanning Systems (ALSS): techniques and applications
- Acquisition of topographical data: comparison with terrestrial surveying and photogrammetry
- Fusion of Lidar data with optical and InSAR imagery
- Digital Terrain Models (DTM) generation: DEM, DSM
- Digital Terrain models in wooded areas
- 3D city models restitution and rendering for telecommunication applications
- Surveying power lines
- Monitoring mining activities

P7: AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS

- Current platforms: HYPERION, AVIRIS, AAHSI, CASI, HYDICE, ROSIS, etc.
- Hyperspectral technical analysis
- Forestry and vegetation studies
- Surface water quality monitoring
- Land cover and soil classification

P8: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY

- Advanced classification and high resolution imagery fusion
- Knowledge management, Data Mining and expert systems
- Multiangular sensor systems

GENERAL AREA

GN: GEODESY AND NAVIGATION

- Navigation, positioning Systems and satellite geodesy: GPS, GLONASS, EGNOS, GALILEO
- Reference system ETRS89
- Surveying and geodetic networks
- GNSS augmentation systems
- Terrestrial communications GSM, GPRS and 3G
- Inertial navigation
- Terrestrial and airborne gravimetry
- Geodynamics, Geophysics and applications

TF: REMOTE SENSING AND PHOTOGRAMMETRY

- Unified vision and treatment of remote sensing and photogrammetry
- Remote sensing of urban areas
- New high resolution sensors experiences
- Digital airborne systems
- Digital Terrain Models (DTMs)
- Synergy between navigation and earth observation systems
- Change detection and monitoring

CG: CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)

- Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Cartographic and GIS formats and standards
- Automated generalization algorithms and techniques
- Automated network control
- Location Based Systems (LBS)
- Geomarketing methods and applications
- Vector and raster techniques for mapping update

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