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Scope and topics

Urban environments are characterised by highly dynamic changes in the socio-economic and biophysical domain. Sustainable management strategies for such environments involve procedures of mapping, monitoring, and environmental assessment, which in turn require reliable base information and robust analytical frameworks. Today, remote sensing and GIS play a vital role as sources of information and for decision making in support of a wide array of urban applications. At the same time, rapid advances in imaging technology and image analysis techniques with importance in the urban context evolve. Following the increasing significance of urban growth as well as a rising number of urban agglomerations and world-wide mega cities, an expanding scientific community focuses on topics related to urban remote sensing research. The EARSeL Special Interest Group on Urban Remote Sensing (SIG URS) bundles research on methodological developments for urban remote sensing analysis as well as on applications focussing on urban and suburban environments.

Presentations may cover the following topics in relation to the urban focus of the symposium:

• Megacities, urban/suburban growth
• Differentiation of the inner structure of cities
• Human settlements and impact analysis
• Quantification/estimation of sealed surfaces
• Remote sensing of urban vegetation
• Ecological aspects of urban/peri-urban landscapes
• Remote sensing of contaminated land in urban areas
• Models of urban change and remote sensing
• Remote sensing, GIS and urban information systems
• New observation systems for urban monitoring
• Digital photogrammetric applications
• Geometric VHR data for urban applications
• Hyperspectral sensors and urban remote sensing
• Radar applications
• Thermal remote sensing

Scientific committee

• Prof. Dr. Eyam Ben-Dor, Israel
• Prof. Dr. Patrick Hostert, Germany (WS chair)
• Prof. Dr. Carsten Jürgens, Germany (chair of EARSeL SIG URS)
• Prof. Dr. Hermann Kaufmann, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Birgit Kleinschmit, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Jianxin Li, China
• Prof. Dr. Derya Maktav, Turkey (co-chair of EARSeL SIG URS)
• Dr. Maik Netzband, Germany/USA
• Prof. Dr. Eberhard Parlow, Switzerland
• Prof. Dr. Tarek Rashed, USA
• Prof. Dr. Dieter Scherer, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Christopher Small, USA

Information for authors:
 

Abstract Instructions:
Abstracts must be 500 words (+/- 100) and should concisely describe the proposed paper/poster.
Abstracts should be typed and in Word for Windows PC format.

Abstracts must include:
- author's names: please list authors by surname followed by initials and indicate the presenting author by underlining his/her name
- presenting author's contact details (company or university, department, full address, telephone, fax and email)
- preference for type of presentation (oral / poster)
 

Oral and poster presentations will similarly present state-of-the-art in research, will be reviewed after the same standards, and full papers will - in the case
of acceptance - be published in the same way.
 

Submit abstracts electronically to:
sig-urs@hurs.de
 

Online information at:
www.hurs.de

Timetable

• Reduced registration fee until:     31 Dec 2005
• Full registration fee from:              01 Jan 2006
• Submission of abstracts:              31 Oct 2005
• Notification of acceptance:           30 Nov 2005
• Ready to print manuscripts due:  31 Dec 2005
• Preliminary programme:              15 Jan 2006
• Final programme:                         15 Feb 2006
   

Language
The official conference language will be English.
 

Registration fee

• Full Participant::          EUR 290*,    EUR 330**
• EARSeL members:    EUR 250*,    EUR 290**
• Students (with proof): EUR 120*,    EUR 150**

* Registration and payment in 2005
** Late registration

Enclosed are:

• oral and poster presentations
• abstract band
• coffee, tea, snacks
• icebreaker
• symposium dinner
• symposium materials
• 72 hour travelling ticket & Berlin welcome card

Venue

Berlin:Metropolis of Science and Culture

Contacts:
 

Prof.Dr. Patrick Hostert (chair SIG Workshop)
(contact for queries concerning scientific issues, abstracts, papers, local organizational matters and the programme)

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institute of Geography, Geomatics Department
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49-(0)30-2093 6805
Fax: +49-(0)30-2093 6844
Email: hostert@hurs.de

Gesine Böttcher (EARSeL secretariat)
(contact for queries concerning registration, payments and EARSeL)

University of Hannover
Institute for Photogrammetry and GeoInformation
Nienburger Str. 1
D-30167 Hannover, Germany
Phone: +49-(0)511-7622482
Fax: +49-(0)511-76224843
Email: boettcher@ipi.uni-hannover.de

Prof.Dr. Carsten Jürgens (chair SIG URS)
(contact for queries concerning the Special Interest Group Urban Remote Sensing and ISPRS-WG VIII/1)

Ruhr-University Bochum
Geography Department, Geomatics/Remote Sensing Group
Universitätsstraße 150
D-44780 Bochum, Germany
Phone:+49-(0)234-3223376
Fax: +49-(0)234-3214877
Email: carsten.juergens@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Prof.Dr. Derya Maktav (co-chair SIG URS)
(contact for queries concerning the Special Interest Group Urban Remote Sensing and ISPRS-WG VIII/1)