Forthcoming conference on remote sensing: ForestSat 2010
The ForestSat 2010 brings together the researchers, developers and end users giving them a chance to present and discuss remote sensing techniques and methodologies to improve land management in general and forestry in particular. The conference will take place at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) campus in the city of Lugo (Galicia, Spain), from the 7th to the 9th of September, 2010.
The conference aims to:
- Present the tools available for capturing information on a mass scale to forestry technicians.
- Identify state-of-the-art forestry applications in remote sensing.
- Develop and improve the technological transfer methods between science and business users.
- Ensure that the scientific community, forest managers and developers communicate in the same language and share goals.
- Improve accessibility to information derived from new mapping techniques and the management of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs).
Therefore, the focus of the technical seminars is on improving the operational use of remote sensing and new technologies so that techniques for capture, analysis and presentation of information are faster, cheaper and more precise, thereby improving their accessibility for different types of users.
A parallel session on GMES (Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security) Forest user activities is being organised by the User Executive Body (represented by Environment Agency Austria and the European Forest Institute) of GSE (GMES Service Element) Forest Monitoring, and also the European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information (ETC-LUSI). The main aim of the session is to present current activities in order to raise awareness on the GMES programme and the respective roles/activities of the GMES Forest User Platforms. This will be followed by an open discussion on how to expand the user involvement in these platforms, with further information on benefits of active participation, possibilities for obtaining additional funding, and a critical review of additional items that GMES Forest users would like to experience.
The ForestSat 2010 conference is being organized by the Laboratorio do Territorio (LaboraTe), a research and teaching group at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), which incorporates teachers and researchers from diverse areas of knowledge, and Forest Research, a forestry research centre based in Edinburgh (UK). EFI is one of the co-organisers of the parallel session on GMES.
Further details of the conference program and registration are available at
the conference website.