PORSEC Newsletter 3,
January, 2006
To all of you from the Executive Committee of your Association
A Happy New Year, 2006!
Letter from the President:
Dear Members of PORSEC Association,
We have now opened up the PORSEC web-page. Have a look:
porsec.nwra.com
It has a secure members only section. You will get separate login instructions for that page.
We must all thank our Executive Secretary, Dr. Gad Levy, and his colleagues at Northwest Research Associates in Bellevue, Washington, for their diligence and use of their talents to prepare this web-page for us (all volunteer effort). Others have helped provide material and we are grateful for those contributions also. If you want to add something about PORSEC’s previous meetings, its history or any other information regarding remote sensing for the Association’s membership, please send a message to gad at porsec.nwra.com with a copy to me, katsaros at porsec.nwra.com . Between the two of us we will see how we can be fit it into the web-page.
Our good news is that the hosts for the PORSEC 2006 in Busan, Korea, November 7-10, have a good plan. There is a link on our web-page to their call for papers. The deadline is in June, 2006, but we should all start thinking about our participation now. A first call for papers was sent directly to the membership and can be accessed also through our web-page as well as at the bottom of this newsletter. Professor Yoon, who is the Technical Chair of the Local Organizing Committee, is soliciting suggestions for special symposia (see below) . Please contact him directly at : yoonhj at pknu.ac.kr
Courses before and after the Conference are being planned with support from the European Space Agency and UNESCO likely. We shall soon approach several U.S.A , Canadian and other agencies as well. Let us encourage young people in the region of the meeting (East Asia) to apply for support to come and take advantage of these special opportunities. Matching support from the home country is often expected, if at all possible. Prof. Werner Alpers (Germany) and Dr. Pascal Lecomte (Italy/France) (both well known from earlier PORSEC’s) will provide more information about the courses they are organizing in the next few months. There will be at least one course on Synthetic Aperture Radar, possibly a cruise on a Russian ship with lectures. All information will be posted on the web-page, but it will take some time to get all the details worked out.
Hoping to see many of you at the PORSEC 2006 in Korea.
Yours truly,
Kristina Katsaros,
PORSEC Association President
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Below you ‘ll find a first announcement about PORSEC 2006 received from Prof. Yoon via email (but without the nice images and graphics—go to the listed web references to see proper announcement). It may NOT be the final version, but is a so-called “heads-up”. Be sure to check on the PORSEC web-page later on for more symposia announcements.
Space of East Asia
ISRS 2006 PORSEC
Joint Conference of International Symposium on Remote Sensing and
Pacific Ocean Remote Sensing Conference
http://www.isrs2006porsec.com http://www.isrs2006porsec.com
Deadline for abstracts submission: 15 June 2006
Notice of paper acceptance : 30 July 2006
Deadline for full papers submission : 1 September 2006
The Korean Society of Remote Sensing
PORSEC Association
Standing Committee of Environmental Monitoring
from Space of East Asia
The Korean Society of Remote Sensing
Call for Papers
ISRS 2006 PORSEC
The joint organizing committee of International Symposium of Remote Sensing and The international Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference (PORSEC) Association invites all remote sensing academics, scientists, researchers, engineers and students to ISRS 2006 PORSEC which will take place in BEXCO Busan, Korea on 7-10 November, 2006. Ever since the first symposium was held in 1992, the ISRS has grown as one of very successful remote sensing conference internationally. No country alone can adequately provide the observations required to understand, monitor, and predict the complex workings of the global atmosphere, oceans, and terrestrial systems. A concerted integrated and international effort is essential to organize global observations, and to derive benefits for all humankind. The PORSEC Association is paving the road to accomplish this objective. The international scientific community is actively communication on how to best derive scientific information and applications based on remote sensing including Earth observing satellites from various space agencies. This has led to the creation of PORSEC, a prestigious international society in ocean and atmospheric remote sensing. We would like to ask you to participate in this unique and exciting opportunity to share and to experience the latest information regarding all aspects of remote sensing and related spatial information technologies.
Suggested Topics
Please indicate on your abstract the most appropriate topic from the list below to your paper. In addition to the suggested topics listed below, we also encourage submissions on research and applications of the new technologies in the remote sensing and spatial information fields that you may want to share with.
Schedules
Deadline for abstracts submission :
15 June 2006
Notice of paper acceptance :
30 July 2006
Deadline for full papers submission:
1 September 2006
ISRS Sessions
New Generation of Sensors and Applications
Data Processing
Microwave Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing of Atmosphere
Remote Sensing of Ocean
Remote Sensing of Land
Lidar
GIS
Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS
GPS and Photogrammetry
KOMPSAT
COMS
Others
PORSEC Sessions
Global climate Change
Medium-range Climate change. ENSO
Regional Applications
Remote Sensing
Technologies and New developments
General and cross-cutting topics
Special session (or Symposia) (tentative)
For additional and detailed information or questions, please contact the Executive Director of KSRS The Korean Society of Remote Sensing (KSRS) c/o Department of Information System Engineering, Hansung University 389 Samsun-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 136-792, Korea E-mail: kilee at hansung.ac.kr Tel.: +82-2-760-4254, Fax: +82-2-760-4347
For anyone wishing to propose a workshop and/or special session(such as national
remote sensing program, multi-national research projects, etc…) please contact the
Conference Technical Chair Prof. Yoon, Hong Joo (yoonhj at pknu.ac.kr) for instruction.
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