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Co-located Event

SECURITY + DEFENCE

Focused on Satellite-based imaging systems and the data generated by themPresent at the event that offers engineers, scientists, programme managers, and policy makers access to the latest developments in earth observing systems, technologies, and applications.

RS101: Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology (Neale, Maltese) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

RS102: Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, Coastal Waters, and Large Water Regions 2018 (Bostater, Neyt, Mertikas) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

RS103: Sensors, Systems, and Next-generation Satellites (Neeck, Bézy, Kimura) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

RS104: Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere (Kassianov, Comeron, Schäfer) . . . . . 9

RS105: Environmental Effects on Light Propagation and Adaptive Systems (Stein, Gladysz) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

RS106: Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring (Notarnicola, Pierdicca, Santi, Bovenga) . . . . . . . . . 11


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Conferences: 10–13 September 2018 Exhibition: 11–12 September 2018

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RS107: Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing (Bruzzone) . . . . . . .12

RS108: Remote Sensing for Earth Resources, Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications and Geology (Michel, Schulz) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

RS109: Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing (Singh, Tzeremes) 14

RS110: High-Performance Computing in Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Huang, López, Wu) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

RS111: Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments (Ebertseder, Chrysoulakis, Zhang) . .18

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We cordially invite you to participate in the 2018 SPIE Remote Sensing symposium.

Over the past 24 years SPIE Remote Sensing has become the largest and most prestigious annual international meeting on this subject in Europe.

Each year comprehensive coverage of scientific topics are presented, such as, remote sensing applications, sensors, systems, and satellite platforms. With more than 25 countries represented at every meeting, the event provides a unique opportunity for scientists, engineers, programme managers and policy makers from around the world to learn about the trends, recent developments and achievements in the area of remote sensing. Attendees exchange ideas, as well as present and discuss the most recent developments and applications.

The 2018 symposium in Berlin, will be the 25th in this series and follows last year’s successful symposium in Warsaw, Poland. This year we offer eleven conferences covering the most exciting and prosperous areas in the field of remote sensing.

The conferences are designed to meet the scientific, technical, and particularly the business needs of the remote sensing community. Each conference will include oral and poster presentations with top researchers and company representatives as invited speakers. The conferences include information that is up to date and thus represents one of the finest training opportunities and sessions in the world for practical remote sensing as well as research training.

Remote Sensing systems continuously provide a tremendous amount of data leading to specific ”big data” applications and problems. Today’s machine learning and deep learning methods are widely seen as powerful instrument to solve derived problems. Thus during this 2018 symposium we specifically encourage special sessions and training related talks concerning machine learning based solutions related to all of the above conferences.

The 25th SPIE Remote Sensing symposium will be co-located with the 15th SPIE Security + Defence. Explore new opportunities to collaborate with partners from other fields of activity. Showcase your multidisciplinary research and applications in this major international forum.

The Organising Committee of SPIE Remote Sensing invites you to submit papers for presentation and for publication in this historically important and very exciting meeting. Help to make it a symposium of the highest quality. We look forward to seeing you in the beautiful city of Berlin.

SYMPOSIUM CHAIR SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIR

Plan to Participate

Christopher M. U. Neale Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln, Daugherty Water for Food Institute (USA)

Karsten SchulzFraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB (Germany)

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Jean-Loup Bézy, European Space Research and Technology Ctr. (Netherlands)

Charles R. Bostater, Florida Institute of Technology (USA)

Fabio Bovenga, CNR ISSIA (Italy)

Lorenzo Bruzzone, Univ. degli Studi di Trento (Italy)

Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (Greece)

Adolfo Comerón, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)

Thilo Erbertseder, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt e.V. (Germany)

Szymon Gladysz, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany)

Bormin Huang, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)

Evgueni I. Kassianov, Pacific Northwest National Lab. (USA)

Toshiyoshi Kimura, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan)

Sebastian López, Univ. de las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

Antonino Maltese, Univ. degli Studi di Palermo (Italy)

Stelios P. Mertikas, Technical Univ. of Crete (Greece)

Roland Meynart, European Space Research and Technology Ctr. (Netherlands)

Ulrich Michel, Jade Univ. of Applied Sciences (Germany)

Christopher M. U. Neale, Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln (USA)

Steven P. Neeck, NASA Headquarters (USA)

Xavier Neyt, Royal Belgian Military Academy (Belgium)

Claudia Notarnicola, EURAC-Institute for Applied Remote Sensing (Italy)

Nazzareno Pierdicca, Univ. degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)

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Emanuele Santi, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (Italy)

Klaus Schäfer, Atmospheric Physics Consulting (Germany)

Karsten Schulz, Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB (Germany)

Upendra N. Singh, NASA Langley Research Ctr. (USA)

Karin Stein, Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB (Germany)

Georgios D. Tzeremes, European Space Agency (Netherlands)

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS

As a committed supporter of excellence in student research, SPIE supports Best Student Paper Awards at SPIE conferences across the globe. In addition to cash prizes and award cer-tificates, winners receive SPIE Digital Library downloads and complimentary SPIE Student Membership.

The awards are designed to encourage and acknowledge excellence in oral and poster stu-dent paper presentations. Best student papers will be recognized within each of the Remote Sensing and Security + Defence conferences.

In order to be considered for this award, the student must meet the following requirements:

• Student must be the presenting author at the conference and must make their oral presen-tation as scheduled

• Student must be the leading author of the manuscript

• Papers submitted by graduate and under-graduate students are eligible

• Student must enter the best student paper award by responding to an award announce-ment e-mail

- The best student award announcement will follow the acceptance notification and will include all details necessary to enter and qualify for the competition

A panel of experts will evaluate the papers, both for quality and content.

See website for SPIE Remote Sensing 2017 Best Student Paper Award Winners.

2018 PLENARY SPEAKER

Jürgen BeyererFraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung IOSB (Germany)

Zhensen Wu, Xidian Univ. (China)

Ying Zhang, Natural Resources Canada (Canada)

Fraunhofer IOSB (Institute for Optronics, Systems Engineering and Image Evaluation)

Advancing the exploration and development of multisensorial systems to help humans to understand their environment and how best to interact with it.

See web for additional plenary presentations to be added in the upcoming months.


Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology (RS101)Conference Chairs: Christopher M. U. Neale, Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln (USA); Antonino Maltese, Univ. degli Studi di Palermo (Italy)

Programme Committee: Wim G. M. Bastiaanssen, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (France); Antonino Maltese, Univ. degli Studi di Palermo (Italy); Christopher M. U. Neale, Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln (USA)

Remote sensing technology continues to play a sig-nificant role in the understanding of our environ-ment. It has evolved into an integral research tool for the natural sciences. Disciplines such as clima-tology, hydrology, and studies of the terrestrial bio-sphere have all developed a strong remote sensing analysis component. Moreover, remote sensing has facilitated our understanding of the environment and its many processes over a broad range of spa-tial and temporal scales. This is a highly important aspect of land surface research, especially in the management of land and water resources and for the detection of environmental change.

Remote sensing applications have greatly en-hanced our ability to monitor and manage our natural resources, especially in the areas of agri-culture, ecosystems, and water resources. Howev-er, in spite of significant progress in recent years, there are still many areas where the potential of remote sensing has not been fully realized, and these are areas of active research.

Of unique importance are those efforts that are focused on gaining a better understanding of what sensors are actually measuring as well as new applications and inverse modelling tech-niques. Contributions using visible, near- and thermal infrared, microwave and other wavebands are solicited, as well as applications using laser/LiDAR or hyperspectral imaging. The conference is especially interested in papers, which empha-size the use of data from satellite, nanosatellites, airborne and UAV platforms, describing recent research results in the hydrological, agricultur-al and ecosystems sciences. Contributions are sought for state-of-the-art research and opera-tional applications, in particular related to water cycle research and climate change. Invited key-note speakers will present overviews of problems, progress and prospects in key areas. Supporting papers are requested that review the latest con-tributions of Earth Observations (EO) to water cycle and soil-vegetation-atmosphere sciences from global to basin to plot scales (e.g., precip-itation, soil water content, water levels, surface

water, groundwater, land and water mass and heat exchanges). Also assessing the advances and identify the needs in physical modeling, including uncertainties and consistency quantification and data assimilation of EO-based observations to improve our knowledge of water, vegetation and ecosystems processes and our ability to assess fu-ture changes in water cycle, extreme events and hydrological hazards.

Understanding of small-scale complex environ-mental systems is still a challenging problem due to interface between global and regional data sets. This is driven by lack of in situ observations and the variety of downscaling techniques used to model the regional issues. These are the pre-req-uisites for addressing urban to regional problems such as agriculture health, water resource man-agement, drought and food security.

In recent years, opportunities for big data analy-sis in food and agricultural production are arising. Technological advancements in remote sensing coupled with advances in IT, mobile/cloud com-puting (smart phones, wearable devices), wide spread adoption of GPS, internet of things (every-thing gets connected in the internet), and all ad-vanced digital technologies have created a unique opportunity for implementing smarter solutions for large and smallholder farmers globally, leading to increased productivity, reduced resource con-sumption, and improved food security.

Moreover, geomatic engineering is a rapidly de-veloping discipline that focuses on principles of spatial information and incorporating land survey-ing also for hydrological and agricultural remote sensing. These techniques allow for the delivery of high-tech agricultural services and precision agri-culture based on remote sensing.

Also, distributed networks provide the opportuni-ty for setting up integrated processing for near re-al-time regional or global monitoring products for hydrology; agriculture; and ecosystems: e.g., HF radar networks, ground stations, GPS networks, flux towers, etc.

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Papers related (but not limited) to the following topics are solicited:

HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES • hydrogeomatic (surveying work carried out

above the surface areas of water and for hydrological applications)

• hydrological modelling • sensors for monitoring in hydrology and water

resources • data assimilation in hydrology (interpolation,

smoothing and filtering applications) • data scaling • water balance applications • soil water content • satellite-based rainfall estimation and

modeling (e.g., meteorological RADAR, thermal infrared)

• surface temperature estimation and modelling • radiative transfer modelling • precipitation, snow and ice hydrology • water resource management • drought monitoring, analysis and prediction • sedimentation and erosion • radar applications in hydrology (interferometry

for land slide detection; canopy, soil moisture and soil roughness characterization; flooding)

• lidar applications in hydrology • remote sensing in depth to ground water

modeling and detection (passive and active microwaves, thermal infrared, gravimetry, ground penetrating radar)

• remote sensing in surface water topography and hydrodynamic

• water quality • estuarine and coastal applications • remote sensing applied to hydrodynamic • flood mapping and modeling.

AGRICULTURAL BIOSPHERE • agrogeomatic (geomatic techniques

application for a precise management of agriculture)

• smarter solutions for farmers based on IT, cloud computing, mobile technology, GPS

• reflectance properties of soils • soil organic carbon content • bidirectional reflectance function for bare soil

and vegetated surfaces • precision farming applications • crop yield modelling • food production, energy and water nexus • open data for agriculture and food production• agrifood remote sensing systems • water securing for food • agriculture disease detection • fluorescence applications in agriculture • wildfire applications • forestry dynamics and carbon cycle studies • canopy and leaf optical models • vegetation indices applications • biomass monitoring • photosynthetically active radiation • evapotranspiration and energy balance (EB)

applications • energy balance model validation methods

(eddy covariance, surface renewal, Micro Bowen ratio systems, scintillometry etc.).

ECOSYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE • ecosystem management • ecological monitoring • climate modeling, prediction and

environmental change • forecasting techniques • long-term data records for water cycle and

climate • big data for sustainable development • regional and global vegetation monitoring

early warning techniques.

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Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, Coastal Waters, and Large Water Regions 2018 (RS102)Conference Chairs: Charles R. Bostater Jr., Florida Institute of Technology (USA); Stelios P. Mertikas, Technical Univ. of Crete (Greece); Xavier Neyt, Royal Military Academy (Belgium);

Programme Committee: Richard J. Breitlow, Agfa Corp. (USA); Jean-Paul Bruyant, ONERA (France); Alexander Gilerson, The City College of New York (USA); Carlton R. Hall, NASA Kennedy Space Ctr. (USA); Frederic Lamy, ONERA (France); Ana M. Martins, Univ. dos Açores (Portugal); Petri Pellikka, Univ. of Helsinki (Finland)

Remote sensing science is one of the most mod-ern approaches for studying oceans, littoral regions, seas and large lakes, as well as sea ice covered regions. An important aspect of remote sensing science is the ability to monitor complex environmental media (air, land, water) and their interfaces (water surface wave, air-sea interac-tion, water-sediment, and internal interfaces). Understanding complex environmental system phenomena is key to scientific understanding of oceans, littoral zones, estuaries, coastal areas, large lakes, ports and waterways as well as sea ice dynamics since remote sensing data provides valuable monitoring information. This informa-tion often serves as input to complex numerical models of environmental systems, such as climate change models, coupled oceanic-atmosphere models at the global (planetary) scale as well as at the mesoscale space and time scales. Remote sensing techniques also provide the most valu-able tool set and techniques for monitoring and mapping different bottom features in aquatic systems, such as coral reefs, submerged aquatic vegetation and other “targets” of interest to the oceanographic and aquatic community. Also of interest are robotic and mechatronic platforms for in-situ sensing of interfaces and unique sensing systems & platforms for coastal and ocean mon-itoring and associated data assimilation into pre-dictive models.

There is a need to improve the accuracy and pre-cision of retrieved geophysical parameters from remote sensing data, and a need to use optical signal processing or filtering of remotely sensed signals from instruments to help improve under-water visibility and atmospheric aerosol influenc-es that affect mapping subsurface water prop-erties, features, and targets. In this context, it is often necessary to integrate data from different sensors as well as to include the knowledge of different disciplines. This is especially important in remote sensing of water quality, submerged aquatic vegetation and coupled ocean-atmo-

sphere models. From a remote sensing point of view, these data are mainly extracted from active or passive sensor systems, and models of complex phenomena are important. Techniques important to the above include radar, acoustic, optical, sens-ing systems and resulting data and EO sensing of aerosols and turbulence.

With reference to the above, this conference will address the above remote sensing systems and platforms with special emphasis on areas such as: • detection of coastal & ocean currents and

oceanic frontal features; radar and altimeter uses

• subsurface sensing using acoustics, optical, laser and magnetic systems, hyperspectral systems

• ocean sensing techniques and systems including microwave, acoustic and magnetic sensing and EO modeling

• ocean wave measurement & altimetry as well as coastal imaging systems and analysis including remote sensing of breaking waves, whitecaps, foam, bubbles, and aerosol exchanges

• use of remote sensing data in global and regional ocean observing platforms

• use of satellite & airborne data in ocean, coastal & coastal lagoon water quality assessments

• coastal ocean, estuarine and large lake water-quality monitoring (suspended sediments, dissolved organic matter, phytoplankton pigments and biomass, submerged aquatic vegetation) as well as other bottom feature and target recognition studies

• oceanic photochemistry and hyperspectral remote sensing; coupled oceanic and mesoscale models at the air-sea boundary, remote sensing input and data assimilation into atmospheric sea breeze models, weather forecasting uses of marine remote sensing data & imagery


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• sensors, imaging and modeling of microwave signatures of ocean and coastal waves and sea ice

• studies of glaciers, shore-fast ice; polar regions, sea ice prediction monitoring and modeling

• multisatellite, sensor integration, georegistration and sensor integration from various platforms

• data fusion, optical signature analysis and modeling, hyperspectral imaging and remote sensing

• sensor calibrations, airborne sensors & systems and data analysis

• radar and related active-passive (Raman) sensing theory, applications, systems and techniques

• regional and global sea and ice monitoring in climate change research, particularly work related to new satellite and suborbital missions with the new SAR instruments designed to investigate continental and marine sea ice thickness change

• novel use of GNSS signals in coastal regions, lakes and large water region sensing

• operational glacier and sea ice monitoring systems and requirements

• active and passive remote sensing and techniques for improving underwater imaging for mapping ports, waterways and harbors, and effects of aerosols and turbulence in retrieving geophysical variables

• airborne (manned & unmanned) remote sensing missions for observation of oceanic, coastal, sea ice and large water regions, and nearby urban environments; sensor design and calibrations

NOTE: SPECIAL SESSIONS AND VOLUNTEER SESSION CHAIR CALL(a) Hyperspectral remote sensing, modeling

& applications related to breaking waves, foam, whitecaps, bubbles, air-sea gas and aerosol exchange phenonmena

(b) Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Sea-breeze modeling with satellite & EO data assimilation, weather forecasting and satellite data use in marine environments

Abstracts and papers concerning the above topics and special sessions are invited for review and acceptance for presentation at the conference & publication in the proceedings. Those interested in developing the special session or joint sessions may contact the session chairs, members of the technical committee or contact Charles Bostater at Florida Institute of Technology: [email protected] .


Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites (RS103)Conference Chairs: Steven P. Neeck, NASA Headquarters (USA); Jean-Loup Bézy, European Space Research and Technology Ctr. (Netherlands); Toshiyoshi Kimura, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan)

Conference Co-Chairs: Haruhisa Shimoda, Tokai Univ. (Japan); Roland Meynart, European Space Research and Technology Ctr. (Netherlands)

Programme Committee: Olivier Saint-Pe, Airbus Defence and Space (France); Xiaoxiong J. Xiong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA)

Many new remote sensing programs are under way throughout the world, in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and elsewhere. NASA’s Earth Science Di-vision is developing and implementing a broad range of Earth spaceborne remote sensing mis-sions to answer fundamental scientific questions requiring the view from space and to meet soci-etal needs. These include missions from the Na-tional Research Council’s Earth Science Decadal Survey, Climate Continuity missions and selected instruments to assure availability of key data sets, operational missions to ensure sustained land im-aging provided by the Landsat system, and small-sized competitively-selected small satellite and constellation missions and instruments belonging to the Earth Venture Program. The Japan Aero-space Exploration Agency (JAXA) is developing and operating the ALOS-2, GOSAT, GCOM, GPM/DPR, and EarthCARE/CPR series of programmes. The European Space Agency (ESA) is developing and implementing the METOP, METEOSAT, Coper-nicus, and Earth Explorer programs. A number of new remote sensing programmes are also under development by other organisations and nations for research and operational use. Many of the above are contributing to the Global Earth Obser-vation System of Systems (GEOSS) as envisioned by the intergovernmental Group on Earth Obser-vations (GEO). Each of these programs comprises a set of remote sensing systems to address their science and applications objectives.

Papers are solicited on the following and related topics: • sensors being developed • satellites being developed • enabling technologies for sensors and satellites • new design concepts for sensors, systems and

satellites • hyperspectral sensors • sensor calibration techniques • in-situ sensor measurement assimilation • modeling and simulation techniques for sensor

concept development • focal plane assemblies including detectors and

spectral filters • future LIDAR missions • system precursors including test beds and

airborne simulators • data systems being developed • new data processing techniques (applications

to Big Data and remote sensing).

SESSIONS ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS ARE BEING PLANNED: • Japanese missions and technologies • European missions and technologies • US missions and technologies • ISS attached payloads for Earth observation • small satellites (nano/cubesats, microsats) and

constellations for Earth observation • new satellite technologies • on-ground and in orbit calibration • drone systems for Earth observation • focal plane technologies.

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Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere (RS104)Conference Chairs: Adolfo Comerón, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain); Evgueni I. Kassianov, Pacific Northwest National Lab. (USA); Klaus Schäfer, Atmospheric Physics Consulting (Germany)

Conference Co-Chairs: Richard H. Picard, ARCON Corp. (USA); Konradin Weber, Fachhochschule Düsseldorf (Germany)

Programme Committee: Aldo Amodeo, Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale (Italy); Christoph C. Borel-Donohue, U.S. Army Research Lab. (USA); Young Joon Kim, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)

This conference will focus on all aspects of remote sensing of clouds and Earth and planetary atmo-spheres, with planned specialised sessions:

REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUDS, INCLUDING TOPICS: • cloud detection and characterization; cloud

screening • retrieval of cloud properties • cirrus modeling and measurements, including

scattering and absorption by nonspherical particles.

RADIATIVE TRANSFER, INCLUDING TOPICS: • Earth radiation budget • 3D radiative transfer and approximation

methods • retrieval methods, profiling, and data

assimilation • atmospheric correction.

REMOTE SENSING OF THE MIDDLE AND UPPER ATMOSPHERE, INCLUDING TOPICS: • studies of middle and upper atmosphere

variability and climatology • non-LTE radiative effects and transfer codes • non-LTE retrieval methods • remote sensing of constituents, dynamical and

electrical structure, and wave motions • advances in instrumentation.

PROFILING OF ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS, TRACE GASES, AND METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS, INCLUDING TOPICS: • trace gas retrieval and measurements from

ground, air and space • aerosol detection, measurements and

retrievals from ground, and mobile (space/airborne) platforms

• limb (infrared, microwave) satellite retrievals targeting the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (MIPAS, ACE-FTS, MLS, OMPS,....)

• air pollution monitoring including data and information fusion

• hyperspectral data processing.

REMOTE SENSING BY FTIR, DOAS AND OTHER SPECTROMETRIC METHODS, INCLUDING TOPICS: • measurements of industrial, agricultural,

biospheric, and volcanic emissions, including determination of emission source strengths

• environmental, disaster, and fire monitoring • application of imaging methods • GIS applications and data fusion • advances in instrumentation and new

technologies, including remote sensing of gas and aerosol releases.

LIDAR, RADAR, AND PASSIVE (MICROWAVE, INFRARED, VISIBLE AND ULTRAVIOLET) ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES, INCLUDING TOPICS: • advances in instrumentation • advances in data evaluation and retrieval

methods • observations from mobile (space/airborne)

platforms • satellites to improve agri-food systems • measurement accuracy assessment • validation of satellite remote sensing • sensor networking and interplay with mobile

devices • data fusion • hyperspectral data processing • applications of femtosecond lasers.


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Environmental Effects on Light Propagation and Adaptive Systems (RS105)Conference Chairs: Karin U. Stein, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany); Szymon Gladysz, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany)

Programme Committee: Sukanta Basu, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands); Ivo Buske, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Germany); Christopher C. Davis, Univ. of Maryland, College Park (USA); Denis Dion Jr., Defence Research and Development Canada, Valcartier (Canada); Christian Eisele, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany); Michael Hart, Univ. of Arizona (USA); Andrey V. Kanaev, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA); Florian Kerber, European Southern Observatory (Germany); Luc Labarre, ONERA (France); Andrew J. Lambert, UNSW Canberra (Australia); Vladimir P. Lukin, V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics (Russian Federation); Nicolas Perlot, Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (Germany); Alexander M. J. van Eijk, TNO Defence, Security and Safety (Netherlands); Arthur D. van Rheenen, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (Norway); Marie-Thérèse Velluet, ONERA (France); Oskar F. von der Lühe, Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (Germany)

The use of sensors for active and passive remote sensing of the Earth, its atmosphere and the oceans, for free-space laser communications, and for high-resolution imaging of ground-based, im-mersed and airborne objects are fields of growing interest for both civilian and military applications.

Such high-resolution optical sensing systems use spectral regions varying from UV to Radar. How-ever, they all must deal with detrimental environ-mental influences, be it over km-long ranges in the atmosphere or even over only several meters when light propagates through very turbid media such as ocean water. Instrument and measure-ment analysis therefore depends crucially on a thorough understanding of all optical effects that limit the sensor performance operating in an absorbing, scattering, and radiating random medium. Increasingly important in this area are modern methods used to ameliorate these effects through compensative hardware, algorithms, and measurements of environmental parameters per-formed at various locations around the World.

Contributions are invited on the following topics and those related to them: • Characterization of the Propagation

Environment: profiles of temperature, humidity, extinction,

refractivity, radiance (also non-LTE), optical turbulence; updates of transmission and radiance codes, atmospheric refraction, atmospheric turbulence, VIS and IR backgrounds, statistics of propagation parameters; measurements of scattering and turbulence underwater.

• Propagation and Imaging through Optical Turbulence:

meteorological models, the strong turbulence regime, laser beam propagation, laser speckle effects; correction methods for atmospheric effects in remote sensing, compensation for anisoplanatism and scintillation.

• Propagation and Imaging through Inhomogeneous and Dense Media:

laser beam propagation, scattering and multiple scattering effects, aero-optic and jet plume effects; correction methods for atmospheric effects; coherent and incoherent imaging in anisoplanatic conditions; laser beam projection on an extended target; double-pass propagation and target-in-the-loop compensation of atmospheric turbulence.

• Laser-based Sensing and Laser Communications:

laser beam focusing, sensing, and free-space communications, system and atmospheric simulations, hardware configurations, communications theory issues, bandwidth limits, multiplexing issues, adaptive optics use for increased performance, loss of coherence for active (laser) systems.

• Techniques for Mitigation of Atmospheric Effects:

adaptive optics, deconvolution, “lucky imaging”, global and local image stabilization and de-warping, sensor fusion, image post-processing

• New Devices for Atmospheric Measurement or Compensation:

novel optical components such as liquid crystal and MEMS devices, wavefront sensors, high-frame rate and low-noise IR detectors.


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Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring (RS106)Conference Chairs: Fabio Bovenga, CNR ISSIA (Italy); Claudia Notarnicola, EURAC research (Italy); Nazzareno Pierdicca, Univ. degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy); Emanuele Santi, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (Italy)

Programme Committee: Richard Bamler, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Germany); Maria-Paola Clarizia, Univ. of Michigan (USA); Fabio Covello, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italy); Katarzyna Dabrowska-Zielinska, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography (Poland); Mihai P. Datcu, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Germany); Fabio Del Frate, Univ. degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” (Italy); Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA); Carlos Lopez-Martinez, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain); Simonetta Paloscia, Istituto di Fisica Applicata “Nello Carrara” (Italy); Luca Pulvirenti, CIMA Research Foundation (Italy); Stefan Schneiderbauer, EURAC research (Italy); David Small, Univ. of Zürich (Switzerland)

The main objective of the conference is to pres-ent an updated view of the state-of-the-art in active and passive microwave remote sensing techniques and to provide a playground for sci-entists coming from different microwave sectors and final application domains. In this context, the conference will offer a platform to exchange ideas and foster applications, which may take advantage from the use of radar and microwave radiometers alone, as well as their joint exploita-tion and combination with other sensors to take advantage from complementarity of the different techniques (SAR, scatterometer, radiometers, al-timeter, GNSS-R).

Particular attention will be given to applications and algorithms exploiting data of operation-al sensors such as Sentinel 1, Sentinel 3, ALOS2, TerraSAR-X, COSMO-SkyMed, RADARSAT-2, AMSR-E/AMSR2, SSMI / SSMIS, SMOS, Metop and SMAP. Applications based on time series anal-ysis are addressed as well. In fact, the incoming growing capabilities of the most recent sensors, in terms of temporal revisit time and electromag-netic spectrum sampling (in active and passive mode), offer a potential tool for new environmen-tal applications especially related to the monitor-ing of natural disasters (such as earthquake, flood, drought, landslides, avalanches), environmental issues, and to the food and energy challenges, which can particularly benefit from multi-tempo-ral image analysis.

Contributions are solicited on the following and related topics: • microwave (active and passive)

electromagnetic modelling and simulation in different scenarios (land and ocean, atmosphere)

• inversion algorithms for the retrieval of bio-geophysical parameters from microwave data

• microwave data (radar and radiometer) processing techniques

• active and passive data merging, disaggregation approaches

• polarimetric methods, techniques and applications

• SAR interferometry techniques and applications

• bistatic radar, including GNSS reflectometry • radar altimeter and scatterometer techniques

and applications • application of microwave sensing to risk

prevention and disaster management • applications of the above-mentioned

techniques to food security, energy and biodiversity.

During the conference, one session will be dedi-cated to the presentations of PhD students. These presentations will participate in the best student paper competition.

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Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing (RS107)Conference Chairs: Lorenzo Bruzzone, Univ. degli Studi di Trento (Italy)

Conference Co-Chairs: Francesca Bovolo, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy); Jon Atli Benediktsson, Univ. of Iceland (Iceland)

Programme Committee: Selim Aksoy, Bilkent Univ. (Turkey); Luciano Alparone, Univ. degli Studi di Firenze (Italy); José M. Bioucas-Dias, Univ. Técnica de Lisboa (Portugal); Gustavo Camps-Valls, Univ. de València (Spain); Jocelyn Chanussot, Lab. des Images et des Signaux (France); Chi-Hau Chen, Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth (USA); B. S. Daya Sagar, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore (India); Fabio Dell’Acqua, Univ. degli Studi di Pavia (Italy); Begüm Demir, Univ. degli Studi di Trento (Italy); Peijun Du, Nanjing Univ. (China); Andrea Garzelli, Univ. degli Studi di Siena (Italy); Juha M. Hyyppä, Aalto Univ. (Finland); Jordi Inglada, Ctr. d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (France); Allan A. Nielsen, Technical Univ. of Denmark (Denmark); Antonio J. Plaza Miguel, Univ. de Extremadura (Spain); David Small, Univ. Zürich (Switzerland); Yuliya Tarabalka, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (France); Florence Tupin, Télécom ParisTech (France); Benoit Vozel, Univ. de Rennes 1 (France); Josiane B. Zerubia, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (France)

The main goal of this conference is to address ad-vanced topics related to signal processing, image analysis, pattern recognition, machine learning and data fusion methodologies in the field of re-mote sensing.

Papers describing recent and original work in the following and related research topics are wel-come: • calibration and registration techniques • image enhancement and restoration • edge detection and segmentation • shape and texture analysis • target detection and object recognition • automatic classification • estimation of geo- bio-physical parameters • statistical and structural pattern recognition

techniques • machine learning techniques • change detection and analysis of

multitemporal data • analysis of multispectral images • analysis of hyperspectral images • analysis of SAR and LIDAR signals • analysis of very high resolution multispectral

and SAR images • multisensor and multisource data fusion • data mining techniques • image coding and data compression • data processing applications.

Note: To assure a high quality conference, all ab-stracts will be reviewed by the conference scien-tific committee and co-chairs for technical merit and content.


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Remote Sensing for Earth Resources, Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications and Geology (RS108)Conference Chairs Ulrich Michel, Jade Univ. of Applied Sciences Oldenburg (Germany); Karsten Schulz, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany)

Conference Co-Chairs: Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos, Univ. of Patras (Greece)

Programme Committee: Markus Boldt, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany); Dimitri Bulatov, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany); Matthias S. Moeller, Univ. of Applied Sciences Berlin (Germany); Kyriacos Themistocleous, Cyprus Univ. of Technology (Cyprus); Christine Wessollek, TU Dresden (Germany)

Satellite remote sensing has become a common tool to investigate the different fields of Earth and environmental sciences. The progress of the per-formance capabilities of the optoelectronic and radar devices mounted on-board remote sensing platforms have further improved the capability of instruments to acquire information about the Earth and its resources for global, regional and local assessments.

With the advent of new high-spatial and spectral resolution satellite and aircraft imagery new ap-plications for large-scale mapping and monitoring have become possible. The integration with Geo-graphic Information Systems (GIS) allows a syner-gistic processing of multi-source spatial data. The present conference will be an occasion to outline how scientists involved in the Earth and environ-mental studies can take advantage of new remote sensing techniques and the advances in spatial technology. Particular subjects are:

SENSORS AND PLATFORMS• new sensor developments • radiometric calibration studies • geometric correction approaches • mobile solutions • simulation studies.

PROCESSING METHODOLOGIES • fusion of multi-source and multi-scale data • multitemporal remote sensing • machine learning methods for remote sensing • integration of remote sensing and GIS • analysis of optical and thermal data • hyperspectral analytical approaches • 3D techniques: LIDAR and Stereo.

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING CONCEPTS• land degradation studies • natural hazards (floods, landslides) • landscape modeling • sustainability and planning • coastal zone management • interaction sea-land • resource management • global climate change.

HAZARD MITIGATION GEOLOGIC APPLICATIONS• geological hazards, mine waste • earthquakes and volcanoes • lithological and mineral mapping • mineral and petroleum exploration • structural geology, tectonics • hydrogeology.

INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN AREAS • 3D urban modeling • change detection • remote sensing for urban information systems • virtual city models • urban feature extraction with high resolution

SAR-sensors.

REMOTE SENSING FOR ARCHAEOLOGY, PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE.



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Optical remote sensing techniques are being widely used for continuous, systematic moni-toring of atmospheric constituents and mete-orological parameters using ground-, air-, and satellite-based remote sensing instruments. The ability of laser/ telescope systems to reach out to great distances in the atmosphere has opened up a major field of applied optics that now attracts the efforts of scientists and engineers from many countries.

This technology makes it possible to rapidly ob-tain profiles of atmospheric properties (e.g. tem-perature and wind) and constituents (e.g. H2O, O3, CH4 and CO2). Lidar practice now incorporates a wide variety of optical phenomena (absorption, backscattering, fluorescence, etc.). Applications are increasing in the areas of meteorology, urban and industrial air pollution, aircraft safety (volca-nic ash monitoring), global monitoring of ozone and climate change, and the basic processes of atmospheric dynamics. Global wind profiling and CO2 measurement from space requires high-ener-gy and high-power lasers for extended operation. Laser risk reduction, technology maturation and life time testing at component and system level has become an important issue for space de-ployment. Similarly, thermal, contamination, and radiation effects need to be fully understood for developing highly efficient, long life, high power

laser sources for long-term operation in space. As the world moves towards increased population and industrial development, laser remote sens-ing will become more and more important as the method of choice for obtaining the environmental data needed in intelligent decision-making for re-source management. This conference focuses on current and future laser remote sensing technol-ogies, techniques, applications, and observations related to environmental monitoring.

To allow maximum participation, a wide range of topics will be considered for presentation and dis-cussion at the conference. The suggested list of topics to be covered in this conference is:• solid state and fiber laser developments for

lidar applications • innovative lidar detector and receiver

technologies • efficient, compact, ground-, air-, and space

borne lidar systems • lidar methods for constituent monitoring

(Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL); Raman, Raman/DIAL, Resonance)

• atmospheric aerosols and cloud studies lidar applications to global issues (ozone depletion, climate change, global transport of pollutants)

• lidar applications to regional issues (urban pollution, dust transport)

Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing (RS109)Conference Chairs: Upendra N. Singh, NASA Langley Research Ctr. (USA); Georgios D. Tzeremes, European Space Agency (Netherlands)

Programme Committee: Arnoud Apituley, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (Netherlands); Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Univ. de Granada (Spain); Andreas Behrendt, Univ. Hohenheim (Germany); Andreas Fix, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Germany); Fabien Gibert, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (France); Philippe L. Keckhut, LATMOS (France); Panayotis Kokkalis, National Technical Univ. of Athens (Greece); Eduardo Landulfo, Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (Brazil); Pamela S. Millar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA); Kohei Mizutani, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan); Fred Moshary, The City College of New York (USA); Doina Nicoleta Nicolae, National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics (Romania); Tamer F. Refaat, NASA Langley Research Ctr. (USA); Valentin B. Simeonov, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Manoj K. Srivastava, Benares Hindu Univ. (India); Iwona S. Stachlewska, Univ. of Warsaw (Poland); Ulla Wandinger, Leibniz Institut für Troposphärenforschung (Germany); Tobias Wehr, European Space Research and Technology Ctr. (Netherlands)


CALL FOR PAPERS

• polar cloud monitoring (PSCs, NLCs, PMC) • multisensor mobile stations and campaigns for

comprehensive atmospheric characterization • tunable IR to mid-IR lidar for chemical/

pollution detection • coherent and direct detection lidar for wind

field profiling • space lidars: space reliability and thermal,

contamination, and radiation effects on component and systems for space

• global scale monitoring by satellite-borne lidars

• synergy of lidars with other active-passive instruments.


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AUTHOR NOTIFICATION:

26 May 2018The contact author will be notified of acceptance by email.

POST-MEETING MANUSCRIPT DUE DATE:

15 August 2018

PLEASE NOTE: Submissions imply the intent of at least one author to register, attend the conference, present the paper as scheduled, and submit a (6-page minimum) manuscript for publication in the conference proceedings.


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High-Performance Computing in Geoscience and Remote Sensing (RS110)Conference Chairs: Bormin Huang, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (USA); Sebastián López, Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain); Zhensen Wu, Xidian Univ. (China)

Conference Co-Chairs: Jose M. Nascimento, Instituto de Telecomunicações (Portugal); Jun Li, Sun Yat-Sen Univ. (China); Valeriy V. Strotov, Ryazan State Radio Engineering Univ. (Russian Federation)

Programme Committee: Saeed H. Al-Mansoori, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (United Arab Emirates); Boris A. Alpatov, Ryazan State Radio Engineering Univ. (Russian Federation); Dora Blanco Heras, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela (Spain); Chein-I Chang, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA); Yang-Lang Chang, National Taipei Univ. of Technology (Taiwan); Mingmin Chi, Fudan Univ. (China); Qian Du, Mississippi State Univ. (USA); Dustin Feld, Univ. zu Köln (Germany); Carlos E. Garcia Gonzalez, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain); Lixin Guo, Xidian Univ. (China); Eduardo Juarez, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (Spain); Francesco Leporati, Univ. degli Studi di Pavia (Italy); Qiguang Miao, Xidian Univ. (China); Caner Özcan, Karabük Üniv. (Turkey); Shen-En Qian, Canadian Space Agency (Canada); Enrique S. Quintana-Orti, Univ. Jaume I (Spain); Jarno Mielikainen, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (USA); Antonio J. Plaza, Univ. de Extremadura (Spain); Sergio Sanchez Martinez, Masdar Institute of Science & Technology (United Arab Emirates); Roberto Sarmiento, Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain); Yuliya Tarabalka, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (France); Carole Thiebaut, Ctr. National d’Études Spatiales (France); Tanya Vladimirova, Univ. of Surrey (United Kingdom); Shih-Chieh Wei, Tamkang Univ. (Taiwan); Jiaji Wu, Xidian Univ. (China); Yuanfeng Wu, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (China)

Advances in sensor technology with higher spa-tial, spectral and temporal resolutions are revolu-tionizing the way remote sensing data are collect-ed, managed and processed. Latest-generation instruments for Earth and planetary observation are now producing a nearly-continual stream of high-dimensional data, and this explosion in the amount of collected information has rapidly intro-duced new processing challenges.

In particular, many current and future applications of remote sensing in Earth and space sciences re-quire the incorporation of high performance com-puting techniques and practices to address appli-cations with high societal impact such as retrieval of Earth and planetary atmospheres, monitoring of natural disasters including earthquakes and floods, or tracking of man-induced hazards such as wild-land and forest fires, oil spills and other types of chemical contamination.

Many of these applications require timely re-sponses for swift decisions which depend upon (near) real-time performance of algorithm anal-ysis. These systems and applications can great-ly benefit from high performance computing techniques and practices to speed up data pro-cessing, either after the data has been collected and transmitted to a ground station on Earth, or

during the data collection procedure onboard the sensor, in real-time fashion. Parallel and distrib-uted computing facilities and algorithms as well as high-performance FPGA and DSP systems have become indispensable tools to tackle the issues of processing massive remote sensing data.

In recent years, GPUs have evolved into highly parallel many-core processors with tremendous computing power and high memory bandwidth to offer two to three orders of magnitude speedup over the CPUs. A cost-effective GPU computer has become an affordable alternative to an expensive CPU computer cluster for many researchers per-forming various scientific and engineering appli-cations.

This conference provides an interdisciplinary fo-rum for exchanging the latest research results and views in the area of high-performance computing applied to remote sensing problems. The confer-ence is expected to bring together experts from many different institutions to provide a remark-able sample of the latest advances in the field. Specifically, papers and reviewers will be solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:



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• high-performance computing in remote sensing image and video coding, decoding and error correction

• high-performance computing for spaceborne, airborne, or ground-based remote sensing instruments

• high-performance computing in geophysical parameter retrieval from remote sensing data

• high-performance computing in remote sensing data modeling or assimilation for environmental and weather monitoring and forecast

• high-performance computing algorithms or techniques for ultraspectral, hyperspectral and multispectral data

• high-performance computing algorithms or techniques for microwave, visible, ultraviolet, radar, and lidar remote sensing data

• high-performance computing in passive and active remote sensing data processing

• high-performance computing in remote sensing forward models and inverse problems

• high-performance computing for visualization of large remote sensing data

• high-performance computing for efficient transfer and storage of large remote sensing data

• high-performance computing for on-board processing, compression and communications.

Save the dateABSTRACTS DUE:

21 March 2018

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POST-MEETING MANUSCRIPT DUE DATE:

15 August 2018

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Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments (RS111)Conference Chairs: Thilo Erbertseder, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Germany); Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (Greece); Ying Zhang, Natural Resources Canada (Canada)

Programme Committee: Matthias Budde, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany); Thomas Esch, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Germany); Wieke Heldens, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Germany); Zina Mitraka, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (Greece); Christopher Small, The Earth Institute (USA); Carlos Tavares Calafate, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)

The global urbanization constitutes an epochal transformation of the Earth. Since 2007 for the first time in human history more people have lived in cities than in the countryside. According to the United Nations in 2050, around 75% of the worldwide population will be living in cities. The population density, traffic and infrastructure, environmental and energy problems, climate change, migration, demographic change, aspects of vulnerability and sustainability, new forms of mobility and sharing--unprecedented challenges and opportunities are continuously arising. In any case, the urban environment plays a major role in the development of humanity and the quality of life of the individual citizen.

Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications offer a wealth of possibilities and opportunities to monitor the urban environment, to support planning processes, to enhance the availability of relevant information, to shape the sustainable city and to improve the quality of life of citizens. We invite papers related to advanced remote sens-ing technologies, applications and information systems focusing on the urban environment that push beyond the state-of-the-art. These include:

REMOTE SENSING OF URBAN AIR QUALITY AND CLIMATE• monitoring of air pollutants • characterization of meteorological parameters • urban air quality and climate under climate

change • CO2 emissions, capture and sequestration • urban Energy Budget and heat fluxes • local climate zones • urban heat island.

REMOTE SENSING AND URBAN PLANNING • 2D, 3D and multi-temporal mapping of the

built environment • urban morphology, infrastructures and traffic • urban land cover and biodiversity • urban metabolism (water, energy, waste) • remote sensing-based urban planning

indicators • Nature-based Solutions.

SMART CITIES • information services and mobile applications • crowd sourcing and micro-sensors • data assimilation (combining measurements

and models) • quality of life services • support to people at risk and the health

community • the sustainable and resilient city.



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