Preliminary Program

Preliminary program of the 3rd International Conference “Earth From Space – The Most Effective Solutions” has been made public. The conference, organised by RDC ScanEx and NGO Transparent World, is to take place in the Moscow Region recreation center of the Presidential Administration “Vatutinki” on 4-6 December 2007. The first day of the conference on 4th December will be dedicated to the discussion of remote sensing data integration into information services, to emergency situations and risk management and to real-time RS data reception issues. As 2007 has been announced as the International Polar Year, the problems of polar, offshore territories and glaciology research work using remote sensing data will be discussed at one of the first day sessions. Master-classes aimed at the selection and handling of proper remote sensing data and methods will be held at the same time with the workshop on special hydro-meteorological support.

Practical application of satellite-based monitoring of natural resources and environment will be discussed on the second day. In particular, remote sensing methods in forest fund inventory. The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) will hold its own session headed by Prof. Dr. Orhan Altan, Secretary General of ISPRS and Prof. Dr. John Trinder, First-Vice President of ISPRS. Four master-classes on data processing technology will be also arranges on the second day.

During the third day the participants will learn about the possibilities of satellites of the leading RS operators and the application of space data to resolve region development management tasks (cartography, cadastre, Russian Infrastructure of Spatial Data, Town Planning Information Support Systems). A special session “Internet and remote sensing data” is to be held as well to discuss the interaction between these two and some additional information services.

The third day of the conference will open doors to the educational session “Education for Sustainable Development: New Information Technology”, including the section dedicated to the professional training in this branch, as well as the “Micro satellites for Science & Education” workshop. Educational session will be continued next day at the Cosmonautics Memorial Museum.