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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.

Commission Chair and Vice Chair for 2007-2011

At the 13rd General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) in Moscow, Russia, August, 2007, Dr. Graciela Metternicht and Dr. Xiaojun Yang were elected to serve as Chair and Vice Chair of ICA's Commission for Mapping from Satellite Imagery for the term of 2007-2011. Following Professor Graciela Metternicht's recent resignation, Dr. Xiaojun Yang becomes Chair and Dr. Jonathan Li Vice-Chair of this Commission for 2008-2011.

Commission Meeting Minutes

On 6 August 2007, our Commission had a meeting in Moscow, Russia during the 23rd International Cartographic Conference, and the minutes for this Commission meeting are posted here.

Commission Report for 2003-2007

As the Acting Chair, Professor Graciela Metternicht has prepared a report summarizing the activities of our Commission for the period of 2003-2007. A copy of this report can be accessed here.

GIM international has just published an article on our Commission (21:3, 2007)

This article was authored by Prof. Graciela Metternicht. This article can be accessed from GIM's website. Alternatively, you can access a pdf copy of this article.

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).

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