Symposium on 'Trends in Geo-Information' and Inauguration of Michael Schaepman
7/8 October 2004
Wageningen University & Research Centre
Centre for Geo-Information
Droevendaalsesteeg 3
6708 PB Wageningen
Registration
Travel to Wageningen
Accomodation in and around Wageningen
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Programme
Programme
October 7, 2004
Workshop Chairman Arnold Bregt
Organizing Committee: Arnold Bregt, Sytze de Bruin, Jan Clevers, Gerrit Epema, Ron van Lammeren, Michael Schaepman
| 09:30 - 09:40 |
Welcome from Wageningen University and Research Centrum (WUR) |
Prof. Dr. W. van Vierssen (1)
(1) Director Environmental Sciences Group, WUR |
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| 09:40 - 10:00 |
The Centre for Geo-Information at WUR |
Ir. Gerard Nieuwenhuis (1)
Prof. Dr. Arnold Bregt (2)
Prof. Dr. Michael Schaepman (2)
Ir. Tamme van der Wal (3)
Dr. David Dent (4)
(1) Alterra - Centre for Geo-Information, Wageningen, NL
(2) Wageningen University - Centre for Geo-Information, Wageningen, NL
(3) Alterra - Centre for Geo-Information - W!SL, Wageningen, NL
(4) International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC), Wageningen, NL
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| 10:00 - 10:45 |
Trends in Geo-Information: Three Views |
Prof. Dr. Arnold Bregt (1)
Prof. Dr. Martien Molenaar (2)
Prof. Dr. Steven De Jong (3)
(1) Wageningen University - Centre for Geo-Information, Wageningen, NL
(2) International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, NL
(3) Utrecht University - Geosciences - Physical Geography, Utrecht, NL
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| 10:45 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
ESA's key to environmental observations from space |
Dr. Michael Rast (1)
(1) ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy - Challenges and Perspective |
Prof. Dr. Klaus I. Itten (1)
Dr. Jens Nieke (1)
(1) Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich, Zurich, CH |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 |
New directions in remote sensing of mountain snowcover |
Dr. Thomas Painter (1)
Dr. Richard Armstrong (1)
Dr. Robert E. Davis (2)
Prof. Dr. Jeff Dozier (3)
Dr. Brian Duval (4)
Dr. Robert O. Green (5)
Dr. Dar A. Roberts (3)
Dr. Michael Mishchenko (6)
Dr. William Thomas (7)
(1) National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, USA
(2) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, USA
(3) Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Univ. California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
(4) Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
(5) NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA, USA
(6) NASA GISS, New York, NY, USA
(7) Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Does Spatial matter? |
Dr. Andrej Vckovski (1)
Dr. Peter Kohler (1)
Jason Brazile, MCS (1,2)
(1) Netcetera AG, Zuerich, CH
(2) Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zuerich, CH |
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| 15:00 - 16:00 |
Transfer |
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| 16:00 - 16:45 |
Spectrodirectional Remote Sensing: From Pixels to Processes*  |
Prof. Dr. Michael Schaepman (1)
CGI WUR, Wageningen, NL |
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| 17:00 |
Reception |
* The Inaugural Address of prof.dr. M.E. Schaepman will be held at the Auditorium Aula, Building 362, Generaal Foulkesweg 1a, Wageningen.
October 8, 2004
Master Class on 'State-of-the-art remote sensing in agro-ecosystems'
Workshop Chairman: Gerrit Epema
Co-sponsored by PE & RC
| 09:30 - 10:30 |
Remote Sensing in Agro-Ecosystems (key-note) |
Dr. Frederic Baret (1)
INRA, Avignon, France |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Thematic working groups on Remote Sensing with emphasis on: |
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- Agro-Ecosystems
- Computing, Data Techniques, and Algorithms
- Ecology and Biodiversity
- Field measurement techniques, scaling and uncertainties
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| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Continuation working groups |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Presentation of results of thematic working groups |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Summary and closure |
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| 16:00 |
Reception |
Please register if you plan to attend:
7 October all day 15years_mgi.ESD@wur.nl
7 October inauguration only (afternoon) inauguration_sch.ESD@wur.nl
7/8 October (MasterClass) lena.elings@wur.nl
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