Event Type
Conferences and Workshops

"Towards Horizon 2020: Earth Observation and Social Perspectives"

Event Dates
2013-06-03 - 2013-06-06
Location
Matera, Italy

Contributions to the following topics are invited:

  • Scientific applications of remote sensing, emerging methods, and technologies
  • Capacity building at organizations and authorities involved in environmental monitoring and protection
  • Remote sensing for archaeology
  • Land use and land cover, degradation, and desertification
  • Urban remote sensing
  • Open ocean remote sensing
  • Natural and man-made disasters
  • Forestry and forest fires
  • Remote sensing and its associated support to the understanding of climate change
  • Hydrological applications: water management, underground water sources, and land, ice, and snow
  • 3D remote sensing, radar, lidar, and thermal remote sensing
  • New instruments and methods, including ground truth

Contributions are particularly welcome in the following areas: EO for improving Smart City management; monitoring and protecting biodiversity; support of regenerative energy production and transport; improving climate observations; improving agriculture, water, and fisheries management; and supporting disaster management.