Dear Members of the Scientific Community,
Wishing you a very Happy New Year!
The National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, the R & D wing of the Earth System Science Organization of the Ministry of Earth Sciences is holding a special session at the SCAR International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (XII ISAES 2015), (http://isaes2015goa.in/ index.php) to bring together researchers working on remote sensing aspects in the Antarctic environment. The symposium will take place in beautiful and historic place Goa (India), from July 13-17, 2015.
We hope you will consider joining us to make an oral or poster presentation on your research in this session. Abstract submission is now open on the website, with a submission deadline of 27th February 2015.
Early career scientists and students are encouraged to submit abstracts. Limited financial support will be available to them. Check the symposium web page for details www.isaes2015goa.in.
Hoping to see you all at ISAES-2015 in Goa.
Kind regards,
Session conveners,
Shridhar D. Jawak (shridhar.jawak@gmail.com)
Alvarinho J. Luis (alvluis@ncaor.gov.in)
Eugene MIkhalsky (emikhalsky@mail.ru)
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Theme: Frontiers in Antarctic Earth Sciences
Session: New Frontiers in Remote Sensing in Antarctic Earth Sciences: Cross-disciplinary advances.
Details: Technological developments in geospatial science over the last decade have motivated major advances in our understanding of the Antarctic continent and surrounding oceans. These developments include the use of new satellite remote sensing platforms (e.g. WorldView and Landsat series of satellites) and methods to obtain geospatial information on various geoscientific aspects, such as, automatic/semi-automatic extraction of information from remote sensing images, new mapping techniques for ice sheet properties such as roughness, thickness and velocity, usage of remotely sensed data for Antarctic glaciological and mass balance studies (e.g. ICESat, ERS‐1/‐2, ENVISAT, RISAT, ALOS PALSAR, TerraSAR-X, Cosmo-SkyMed, Radarsat-2, hyperspectral data etc.), ice sheet flow and geodynamics over short temporal scales, remote sensing of the marine cryosphere and its interactions with ocean and atmosphere, generation of digital elevation models (DEMs) of Antarctic regions, geo-hazards and environmental monitoring, regional and global scale geophysical datasets, 3-D geological mapping, 4-D geology, and applications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to investigate small scale changes. The session will also cover data and data systems collected and built in support of Antarctic earth science, especially those enhancing our understanding of the geological structure and evolution of the Antarctic, geological and geophysical mapping and modelling at any scale, etc. This session will focus on such cross-disciplinary research across a range of Antarctic geoscientific disciplines and includes new and emerging research frontiers in Antarctic earth science.
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