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Commission-Sponsored Activities or Publications

Journal Special Issue by Environmental Management: Land Use and Watershed Assessment (Guest Editors: Yang, X. Chen, L., and Chen, Y.; to be published in 2012)

This special edition of peer-reviewed papers features the research contributed by scholars who presented a paper at the several special sessions of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) that the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery sponsored.
Book: Advances in Mapping from Aerospace Imagery: Techniques and Applications (Editors: Yang, X. and Li, J.; to be published by the CRC Press in 2012)

With contributors mainly from North America and Europe, this edited volume will provide a state-of-the-art review on remote sensors and data processing techniques applied for topographic and thematic mapping.

LIDAR & RADAR 2011-the International Symposium on LIDAR and RADAR Mapping, Nanjing, China, 26-29 May 2011

LIDAR & RADAR 2011 was hosted by Hohai University in Nanjing, China, with a sponsorship from the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery and four additional international professional societies, i.e., International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and International Association of Geodesy(IAG). Dr. Jonathan Li (Vice-Chair of the Commission) and Dr. Xiaojun Yang (Chair of the Commission) led the Scientific Committee.
The Third International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (EOGC2011), Munich, Germany, 13-15 April 2011.

The EOGC2011 was hosted by the Technical University of Munich, with a sponsorship from the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery and three additional international professional societies, i.e., International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), International Association of Geodesy (IAG), and International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE). Dr. Xiaojun Yang (Chair of the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery) and Dr. Jonathan Li (Vice Chair of the Commission) served as co-chairs of the EOGC2011 Scientific Committee. In addition, Dr. Yifang Ban (Swedish Representative for the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery) and Dr. Julian Smit (Representative of South Africa for the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery) served in the EOGC2011 Scientific Committee. The EOGC 2011 major themes covered a wide range of topics such as global geodetic observing systems, land changes, natural hazards, geospatial data processing for global change studies, among others. A total of nine technical sessions were included. A selected collection of the papers that were presented at EOGC2011 will be included in a book to be published by Springer.
Journal Special Issue: Remote Sensing and Earth Observation for Environmental Management and Hazard Management. Edited by Yang, X. and Li. J., published by the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 4(3) (2011).

This SCI-indexed special issue is one of the four major publications as related to the Second International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (EOGC2009) that the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery has sponsored (see ICA Newsletter No. 54). This volume includes seven papers selected from more than twenty submissions that have been peer reviewed according to the established criteria. These papers cover urban impervious surface mapping, soil moisture retrieval, urban heat island intensity simulation, coastal water dynamics, flood mapping, and subsidence estimation.
ICA Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Algorithms for Topographic and Thematic Mapping in Orlando, Florida, 19 November 2010

The ICA Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Algorithms for Topographic and Thematic Mapping has been successfully held in Orlando, Florida, USA, 19 November 2010. The event was organized by the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery with co-sponsorship from the ICA Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling. It was held in conjunction with the Special Joint Symposium of ISPRS Technical Commission IV and AutoCarto2010. Three oral paper sessions were included in the Workshop, which covered a variety of topics ranging from new remote sensors, improved information extraction algorithms, and innovative topographic and environmental mapping applications. Workshop attendees included active scholars from the United States, Canada, Sweden, and China. Professor Zhilin Li, ICA Vice President, was present during the Workshop.
Book: Advances in Earth Observation of Global Change. Edited by Chuvieco, E., Li, J. and Yang, X., published by Springer in 2010, 283p.

This book is one of the four major publications as related to the Second International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (EOGC2009) that the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery has sponsored (see ICA Newsletter No. 54). This book provides a summary of key case studies where satellite data offer critical information to understand the causes and effects of those environmental changes, minimizing their negative impacts.
Conference Proceedings: Remote Sensing of the Earth Surface Process. SPIE Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes, Volume 7471 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2009) (Editors: Zhang, X. Li, J., Liu, G. and Yang, X. )

This SCI-indexed special issue is one of the four major publications as related to the Second International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (EOGC2009) that the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery has sponsored (see ICA Newsletter No. 54).
The Second International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (EOGC 2009) in Chengdu, China, 25-29 May 2009

EOGC2009 was successfully held in Chengdu, China, 25-29 May 2009. The EOGC2009 was sponsored by the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery, together with three other international professional societies, i.e. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), International Association of Geodesy (IAG), and International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE). Dr. William Cartwright (ICA President) and Dr. Zhilin Li (ICA Vice President) served in the EOGC2009 International Advisory Committee. Dr. Xiaojun Yang (Chair of the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery) and Dr. Jonathan Li (Vice Chair of the Commission) led the EOGC2009 Scientific Committee. In addition, Dr. Yifang Ban (Swedish Representative for the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery) and Dr. Julian Smit (Representative of South Africa for the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery) served in the EOGC2009 Scientific Committee).
Remote Sensing & Geospatial Technologies Conference in Tallahassee, Florida, USA, 28-29 March 2008

Our Commission recently sponsored this student-oriented research meeting. It was organized by the Florida State University (FSU) Department of Geography, and the Society for Geospatial Sciences (the FSU Student Chapter of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing-ASPRS). This conference attracted several dozens of graduate students from the United States, along with several world-class scholars, to the city of Tallahassee from 28 to 30 March 2008. Dr. Xiaojun Yang, Chair of the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery, served as Scientific Advisor to this conference, and the keynote speaker was Dr Marguerite Madden, President of ASPRS. This conference attracted early-career researchers, mainly from the United States, to their first involvement with ICA activities.
Workshop on Land Degradation Mapping from Satellite Imagery

This workshop was organized jointly with the organising committee of the 10th Spanish Conference of Remote Sensing in September 2007, Mar del Plata, Argentina. The theme of the workshop was ‘land degradation mapping from satellite imagery’. More information for this workshop can be found from the conference web site (in Spanish).
CARTOGRAPHICA and the ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery-- Special Issue Call for Papers (note that this special issue was eventually called off)
United Nations/Zambia/ESA Regional Workshop on the Applications of Global Navigation Satellite System Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa --click here for the details.
International Course 'GIS and Mapping for Agricultural Decision Support' --click here for the details.


Participants of the ‘GIS and mapping for agricultural decision Support’ workshop


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