First Call for
Papers
Workshop
GMES,
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
Bolzano/Bozen,
Italy, 7 to 8 June 2007
in the framework of the
27th
EARSeL Symposium Geoinformation in Europe
Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 4-7 June 2007
Contents
o Scientific
and Organising Committee
o Registration
and Abstract Submission
o Guidelines for Preparing and Presenting a Poster
GMES
(Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is a key initiative taken up by both
ESA and the EU in order to improve the environment and security in Europe for
citizens and all relevant stakeholders. From an EARSeL point of view, remote
sensing technology fed by relevant research activities has proven to be a
unique tool to support this initiative. It will provide it with relevant, accurate
and timely data to be processed with in situ data through ad hoc models in
order to deliver the requested information. GMES has been developed in the 6th
FP of the EU as well as by ESA, and it is emerging as a major EU initiative in
the use of space data in support of environmental monitoring strategies. GMES
and GEOSS have a relevant role also in the incoming 7th European Framework
Programme (2007-2013) in the sub-programmes Space (GMES) and Environment and
Climate (GEOSS) and in the ESA (GSE) initiatives planned up to 2008.
2008 has been initially planned to
be the starting year of the operational GMES services. This switch to an
operational phase will certainly take time, but the GMES planning has to be
taken into full consideration. This implies technology transfer from research
to a research-fed industry.
GMES should have a major and
structuring impact in the European Remote Sensing Research. Missing or
neglecting it would be missing a unique policy supported opportunity. So, the
workshop addresses a main issue that will structure our professional life and
medium-term plans:
"What
role for remote sensing European research in preparing and implementing GMES?”
So, the EARSeL 2007
symposium is the right event at the right time to raise that question and
discuss about it to have such a 'think tank' in a strategic way. The
restored relationship between EARSeL and ESA-ESRIN, and the direct relationship
with EC-JRC, Ispra and EC Bruxelles are a quite encouraging framework.
Topics:
The topics follow the GMES key themes:
0 - Introduction - Political
framework (EC & ESA)
1 - Land
2 - Ocean
3 - Atmosphere
4 - Risks / Security
and their investigation with Remote Sensing:
§
Scientific aspects related to using remote
sensing techniques within GMES and GSE
§
Are GMES taken into proper account in the
remote sensing research? Are there scientific or technical gaps?
§
Are there already some successs stories in
technology transfer related to GMES?
The working language at the Workshop is
English.
Gerard Begni, MEDIAS France
Annamaria Nassisi, Alcatel
AleniaSpazio, Rome
Marc Leroy (France), Land
Steffen Kuntz (Germany) , Land
Organising
Committee
Gesine
Böttcher, EARSeL Secretariat, Hannover, Germany
Mario Angelo Gomarasca, IREA-CNR,
Milano, Italy
Gerard Begni, MEDIAS France
Registration and Abstract Submission
Registration and abstract submission should
be done with the Conference Management System. The due date
for an abstract submission will be on 5 February 2007.
A
registration for workshop attendance can be done any time and also on site. Presenting
authors of workshop contributions, oral and poster, are requested to kindly
transfer the registration fee before 1 May 2007 to ensure that their
contribution will be included in the final programme.
Payment of the registration fee is done with the Registration fee
transfer form which can be downloaded here. The fee includes the Abstract Book,
lunches, coffee breaks, participation in the icebreaker, the Workshop
Proceedings and a copy of the EARSeL eProceedings (reviewed papers) on CD ROM,
if authors submitted their contribution for publication in there. .
|
Payment |
before 1 May 2007 |
after 1 May 2007 |
|
EARSeL Members |
180 Euro |
+20% |
|
Non-Members |
250 Euro |
+20% |
|
Students (EARSeL Members) |
100 Euro |
+20% |
|
Students (Non-Members) |
150 Euro |
+20% |
The workshop will be held at the Four Point Sheraton Bolzano/Bozen, Via Bruno
Buozzi Str. 35, I - 39100 Bolzano / Bozen, Italy. Rooms with reduced rates for workshop
participants and cheap accommodation for students are available.
Bolzano in southern Tyrol is a famous
historic centre, surrounded by the Alps and close to the Dolomites. The Four
Point Sheraton is located in Bolzano's new business park, close to the airport
and the city centre, see on the map.
There is a wide range of hotels available in different price categories,
see here. A map of Bolzano/Bozen and its
surroundings can be found here.
Contributions presented at the workshop will
be published in the Workshop Proceedings on CD-ROM. The manuscripts will also
be available on the Internet within EARSeL's Workshop Proceedings Series.
Authors are particularly encouraged to submit their manuscripts to EARSeL's
reviewed open-access journal EARSeL eProceedings.
Abstract due date: 5 February 2007
Notification of acceptance: 5 March 2007
Preliminary Programme on-line: 20 April 2007
Workshop Programme with abstracts on-line: 7 May 2007
Manuscript submission for Workshop Proceedings: 7 to 9 June 2007 (at workshop)
Manuscript submission for reviewed publication in EARSeL
eProceedings at any time.