ISPRS Technical Commission VII Mid-term Symposium 2014

The rapid developments in remote sensing and related technologies over recent years have been driven by the needs of modern societies and economies. These developments have improved our ability to assess, monitor and analyse ecosystems, environments, and resources. This, along with associated improvements in techniques to handle and manipulate this information, has resulted in increasing interest from the academic, governmental and industrial communities and beyond.

The potential applications, and potential benefits, are enormous. Remote sensing is used in meteorology, oceanography, climate change studies, environmental modelling and analysis, disaster management and preparedness, telecommunications, geography, the Earth sciences, and so on – the list is endless.

Within this context, the ISPRS Technical Commission VII – Thematic Processing, Modelling and Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data – aims to promote remote sensing in general, and information extraction in particular. Together with its working groups, it strives to keep abreast of technological advances such as the new remote sensing capabilities provided by multi-spectral imagers, SAR satellites, and Lidar instruments. Meanwhile, it promotes new methods to process, exploit and organise the resulting information.

The TC VII 2014 Mid-term Symposium is being held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 29 September to 2 October 2014. The event is an excellent opportunity for researchers to present and discuss their research in remote sensing and related fields. We are looking forward to hosting this meeting and welcoming everyone. As the symposium is being hosted by TC VII, the primary focus will be on the themes of the working groups, which are as follows:

(WG1) Physical Modelling and Signatures in Remote Sensing

(WG2) DEM Generation and Surface Deformation Monitoring from SAR Data

(WG3) Information Extraction from Hyperspectral Data

(WG4) Methods for Image Classification

(WG5) Methods for Change Detection and Process Modelling

(WG6) Remote Sensing Data Fusion

(WG7) Synergy in Radar and Lidar; (ICWG) Pattern Analysis in Remote Sensing (TC III and TC VII Joint WG).

Papers accepted for the Symposium will be published in the ISPRS Annals (by double-blind full paper review) or the International Archives (by abstract review) of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. A special issue of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing will contain the best papers from the Annals and Archives.