Overview

The ISPRS2012 Congress offers delegates eight exciting days of tutorials, workshops, presentations and technical tours. The main technical programme will consist of plenary sessions, oral presentation sessions with up to eleven parallel streams, and short+interactive (ePoster) sessions.

All technical sessions will be held in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC). Most of the technical sessions will be on level 2 of the convention centre, and the remainder will be held in rooms adjacent to the exhibit area.

Each of the eight Technical Commissions will have an oral presentation stream in almost every session, and the extra parallel streams will comprise special sessions, the Computer Aided Teaching Contest (CATCON) and the 16^th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry conference.

The 90 minute technical sessions will consist of an invited paper plus three oral presentations, four oral presentations or five oral presentations. Invited speakers will be have 35 minutes to make their presentation, whilst oral presentations will be allowed either 22 or 17 minutes.

This congress will be the first to use electronic posters (ePosters) that allow dynamic content. The 90 minute short+interactive sessions will give authors the opportunity to make a brief presentation to highlight the main issues in the paper. Then, once all presentations are completed, presenters can discuss their ePoster with individual delegates using poster 'pods' (large screen monitors controlled by an iPad), available in the exhibit area and the area immediately outside of the presentation rooms. Or delegates can use any Internet-capable mobile device (eg notebook PCs, tablet PCs, smartphones) and the conference web site or app. Wireless Internet access will be available free of charge, but subject to download limits, in the conference centre and exhibit area.

Guidelines for Oral and Short+Interactive Session presenters are available here.

Guidelines for Session Chairs are available here.

Authors will be able to upload their presentations and ePosters at the conference centre. A presenters room will be located next to the registration area. Support staff will assist presenters to do the upload from USB or other media.

Working Group and Poster Sessions
Youth Forum
Pre Congress Workshops
Theme Sessions
Special Sessions
Publication
Awards and Honours
CATCON
16ARSPC
Meetings

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Programme Overview

Opening Ceremony
Date and Time: Saturday August 25, 4:00-5:30pm
Opening speeches will be delivered, some major ISPRS awards will be presented and an Australian cultural and artistic performance will be a highlight of the ceremony.

Plenary Presentations
Four plenary presentation sessions will be held during the technical program of the Congress. Each will feature keynote presentations on the latest developments in the fields of photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information.

Closing Ceremony
Date and Time: Saturday September 1, 1:30-3:00pm

Technical Sessions

There will be four types of technical sessions within the general congress programme:
TS: Oral presentations within one topic area associated with one Working Group.
ThS: Oral presentations on a specific theme that is associated with multiple Working Groups from one or more Technical Commissions.
SS: Oral presentations on special topics that are conducted jointly with sister societies or organizations that collaborate with ISPRS.
PS: Short+Interactive sessions which may span a number of topics or Working Groups associated with one Technical Commission.

Working Group And Poster Sessions

Technical Commission I
I/1 Standardization of Airborne Platform Interface
I/2 LIDAR, SAR and Optical Sensors for Airborne and Spaceborne Platforms
I/3 Multi-Platform Multi-Sensor Inter-Calibration
I/4 Geometric and Radiometric Modeling of Optical Spaceborne Sensors
I/5 Integrated Systems for Sensor Georeferencing and Navigation
I/6 Small Satellites for Earth Observation ICWG I/V Unmanned Vehicle Systems (UVS) for Mapping and Monitoring Applications
ICWG V/I Land-Based Mobile Mapping Systems

Technical Commission II
II/1 Cognition and Modeling of Space and Time
II/2 Multi-Scale Representation of Spatial Data
II/3 Spatial Analysis and Data Mining
II/4 Uncertainty Modeling and Quality Control for Spatial Data
II/5 Multidimensional and Mobile Data Models
II/6 Geo-Visualization and Virtual Reality
II/7 Spatial Decision Support and Location-Based Services
ICWG II/IV Semantic Interoperability and Ontology for Geospatial Information
ICWG IV/II Geo-Sensor Networking and GEOGRID

Technical Commission III
III/1 Pose Estimation and Surface Reconstruction from Image and/or Range Data
III/2 3D Point Cloud Processing
III/3 Image Analysis for Indexation and Image Retrieval
III/4 Complex Scene Analysis and 3D Reconstruction
III/5 Image Sequence Analysis
ICWG III/VII Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing
III and V Medical Imaging and Human Motion

Technical Commission IV
IV/1 Geospatial Data Infrastructure
IV/2 Automatic Geospatial Data Acquisition and Image-Based Databases
IV/3 Mapping from High Resolution Data
IV/4 Virtual Globes and Context-Aware Visualisation
IV/5 Distributed and Web-Based Geoinformation Services and Applications
IV/6 Global DEM Interoperability
IV/7 Planetary Mapping and Databases
IV/8 3D Spatial Data Integration for Disaster Management and Environmental Monitoring
ICWG IV/II Geo-Sensor Networking and GEOGRID
ICWG IV/VIII Updating and Maintenance of Core Spatial Databases
ICWG II/IV Semantic Interoperability and Ontology for Geospatial Information

Technical Commission V
V/1 Vision Metrology-Best Practice, Systems and Applications
V/2 Cultural Heritage Data Acquisition and Processing
V/3 Terrestrial Laser Scanning and 3D Imaging
V/4 Image-Based and Range-Based 3D Modelling
V/5 Image Sensor Technology
V/6 Close Range Morphological Measurement for the Earth Sciences
ICWG V/I Land-Based Mobile Mapping Systems
ICWG I/V Unmanned Vehicle Systems (UVS) for Mapping and Monitoring Applications
ICWG V/I Mobile LiDAR – Present and Future Trends

Technical Commission VI
VI/1 Web Based Education
VI/2 E-Delivery of Education Services
VI/3 Cross-Border Education 1: Frameworks for Cross- Border Education
VI/4 Cross-Border Education 2: Joint Educational Programs
VI/5 Promotion of the Profession to Young People
VI/6 Special Interest Group "Technology Transfer CARAVAN"

Technical Commission VII
VII/1 Physical Modelling and Signatures in RemoteSensing
VII/2 SAR Interferometry
VII/3 Information Extraction from Hyperspectral Data
VII/4 Methods for Land Cover Classification
VII/5 Methods for Change Detection and ProcessModelling
VII/6 Remote Sensing Data Fusion
VII/7 Theory and Experiments in Radar and Lidar
ICWG III/VII Pattern Recognition for Remote Sensing

Technical Commission VIII
VIII/1 Disaster Management
VIII/2 Health
VIII/3 Atmosphere, Climate and Weather
VIII/4 Water
VIII/5 Energy and Solid Earth
VIII/6 Agriculture, Ecosystems and Bio-Diversity
VIII/7 Forestry
VIII/8 Land
VIII/9 Oceans
VIII/10 Cryosphere
ICWG IV/VIII Updating and

Youth Forum

A Youth Forum will be organised for Monday 27 August, comprising four sessions of oral presentations, a poster session, a panel session and a general assembly. The poster session will comprise brief presentations followed by the opportunity for participants to view digital posters.

Young researchers (under 30 years on 1 July 2012) are encouraged to attend the sessions of their interests. Papers submitted to the Youth Forum sessions should be clearly indicated on the Abstract Submission Form. Abstracts must be submitted by October 24, 2011. Authors are requested to consult the ISPRS Orange Book (www.isprs.org/documents/orangebook.html) for instructions on paper preparation.

Papers accepted as oral and poster presentations of the Youth Forum sessions will be published in a Special Volume of the Congress Proceedings.

Youth Forum Best Paper and Best Poster Awards
Two Youth Forum Best Paper Awards and three Youth Forum Best Poster Awards will be granted for the best papers and posters presented at the ISPRS Youth Forum Sessions. The first author (who must be under 30 years on 1 July 2012) of a multi-author paper is qualified to apply for such awards. The deadline for submission of full papers is 31 January 2012.

Student Consortium
The ISPRS Student Consortium (SC), established at the Istanbul Congress in 2004, represents the next generation of ISPRS scientists and professionals with more than 500 members from 76 countries. The main purpose of the SC is to link students, young researchers and professionals in different countries and provide a platform for exchange of information, to organize student-specific events and other actions that integrate youth more effectively into ISPRS.

For the XXII ISPRS Congress in Melbourne, the SC will organize, in cooperation with the Congress Director and his team, numerous activities:

• A week-long summer school before the Congress with lectures, practical laboratories, social events and lots of fun.
• As noted above, the Youth Forum, a full day event with student paper presentations and posters, awards, invited speakers and the General Assembly where the new SC Board will be elected.
• City tours and social events will be waiting for young participants throughout the Congress organized by local students for their international peers.

Efforts will be made to keep costs as low as possible. Scholarships and travel support will be provided for some participants for inexpensive or even free accommodation (staying at the homes of Australian students).

For more information about the summer school and the Youth Forum Session, please visit http://www.isprs-studentconsortium.org

Pre Congress Workshops

Pre Congress Workshops will be organized on Friday August 24 and Saturday August 25, 2012 before the Congress. The objective of tutorials and workshops is to introduce participants to new developments in research, technology, data products, and information processing systems, or provide a means for in-depth discussion of topics relevant to the ISPRS community of practice. Tutorials and workshops must be self-financed. A minimum of 20 participants will be required for each tutorial or workshop to ensure they are financially viable. Therefore, the decision on whether or not a tutorial or workshop will be conducted will be made on 30 May 2012. Notification will be provided via the Congress website.

The tutorials and workshops to be offered, contingent on the conditions stated above, are as follows:

Friday 24 August

• Remote Sensing Spatial-Temporal Multispectral Data for Specific Crop Mapping - Anil Kumar, IIRS/NRSC/ISRO, India Brochure
• Probabilistic Data Analysis Using Graphical Models - Forstner
• Geovisual Analytics - Pettit, Çöltekin, Griffin, Robinson

Saturday 25 August

• Orientation and Processing of Full Waveform Laser Scanning Data - This workshop has now been cancelled
• Aeronautical and Aerospace Tracking Applications of Close-Range Photogrammetry - Robson/Shortis - This workshop has now been cancelled
• LiDAR Waveform: The Potential and Benefits for Topographic Mapping - Toth
• Introduction to SAR processing and Interferometry using SARscape - Susan Parks - This workshop has now been cancelled

More tutorials and workshops are welcome to be included. Please contact Simon Jones via workshops@isprs2012.org or tutorials@isprs2012.org for further information.

Theme Sessions

IV/2, IV/II GeoSensor Networks and Sensor Web
IV/II, IV/8, IV/1 Volunteered Geospatial Information
IV/2, IV/VIII, II/IV Crowd Sourcing for Acquisition and Update of Geospatial Databases
IV/2, IV/VIII Machine Learning for Change Detection and Automatic Updating Geospatial Databases
IV/2, IV/4 Point Cloud Processing, Management and Visualization
IV/2, IV/5, IV/3 Enterprise and Web-photogrammetry
IV/1, IV/4, IV/5, II/2, II/6, IV/8 Data Modeling for Online Geographic Information Services
IV/5, IV/4, IV/1, II/6, VI/1, VI/2, IV/8 Web-based Virtual and Shared Geospatial Environments
IV/5, IV/1, II/IV, IV/8, IV/3 Free and Open Source Web Mapping and Processing
V/3, V/4 Range Cameras
V/6, IV/8 Morphological Change Detection
Wgs from IV, VI, VII and VIII Global Digital Learning Environments for Exploring Digital Earth
VII/3, VII/6, III/2, V/3 Integration of Hyperspectral and Lidar Data
VII/7, III/2, V/3 Waveform Lidar for Remote Sensing
VII/7, III/2, V/1, V/3, ICWG V/I Low-cost UAVs (UVSs) and Mobile Mapping Systems and Applications to Remote Sensing
VIII/1, VIII/2, IV/8, IV/VIII Updating and Maintenance of Core Spatial Databases

Special Sessions

CIPA, ICOMOS and WG V/2: Advances in Digital Documentation
CIPA, TC IV: 3D Dynamic Landscape Visions for Cultural Heritage/Archaeology
EuroSDR and WG IV/2: Automatic Updates of National Core Geospatial databases
GEO and CEOS: Global DEM
IAA and ISPRS: Space Agencies Forum
IAA, IISL and IPAC: General legal issues concerning EO satellite data,
including applications
IAG, TC I: New Trends in Direct Geo-referencing Technologies
ICA and WG IV/5: Crowdsourcing and Volunteered Geographic Information
ICA and WG IV/7: Exploring the Moon!
ICA and WG IV/8: Maps, Imagery and Crowd Sourcing for Disaster Management
ISPRS and GSDI:Spatially Enabled Society
ISPRS and IAA: Pléïades Inflight Calibration and Performance Assessment
ISPRS and OGC: Open Geospatial Consortium Forum
URSI and ISPRS: Disaster Management

CATCON6

The sixth Computer Assisted Teaching CONtest (CATCON) will be organized on Thursday 30 August by the ISPRS Technical Commission VI Working group 2. The main objective of the contest is to promote the development and dissemination of effective, educational and user-friendly multimedia tutorials, simulations and virtual environments, information packages or data sets and application software for computer assisted teaching in photogrammetry, remote sensing or spatial information science.

All registrants at the ISPRS Congress may nominate a software system or a data set for the contest. In principle, all tutorials, software or data sets nominated for CATCON should be non-commercial and should be provided to users without license charges for not-for-profit use. Contestants are required to provide their own notebook computer to demonstrate the software or data set. Each participant will be allocated five minutes for a brief presentation, followed by approximately two hours for demonstrations to attendees.

To register for CATCON6, please go to the WG IV/2 web page. For further information please contact the Secretary of Technical Commission 6 Working Group 2, Christiane Katterfeld.

The Gold Award, Silver Award, and Bronze Award will be presented to the winners at the Closing Ceremony.

The CATCON Awards are supported by The ISPRS Foundation.

16ARSPC

The Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Commission of the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute hosts this bi-annual conference, which concentrates on the technology and application of remote sensing and photogrammetry within the Australasian context. Continuing the tradition that began with the joint ISPRS Commission V meeting and the 2^nd Australian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference in 1994, the ARSPC will be held in conjunction with the ISPRS Congress in 2012. The 16ARSPC program will comprise plenary, oral presentation and poster sessions.

Meetings

General Assemblies
25 August 2012 09:30 - 12:30
25 August 2012 13:30 - 15:30
27 August 2012 09:00 - 12:30
29 August 2012 14:00 - 18:00
31 August 2012 14:00 - 17:00

Official delegates of Ordinary, Associate and Regional Members of ISPRS are requested to register with the ISPRS Secretary General to receive their credentials and badges for admittance to the General Assembly. The offices of the Secretary General and Treasurer will be open on Friday 24 August from 9:00 to 17:00 and on Saturday 25 August from 8:00 to 17:00.

Business Meetings
Open Business Meetings of ISPRS Commissions will be convened by each of the eight ISPRS Technical Commissions. These sessions offer the opportunity for all Congress participants to review and contribute proposals for Resolutions that will steer scientific and technologic activities of the ISPRS Commissions and their Working Groups during the period 2012-2016. Meetings will be held during 13:00 - 14:00 from Sunday 26 August through to Friday 31 August.

Closed Business Meetings of all eight commissions with their WG officers will be held in the Commission Rooms.

Other Meetings will be convened in the offices of the Council and/or Technical Commission Presidents at appropriate times during the Congress.

ISPRS Council And Technical Commission Presidents

About the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)

Established in 1910, the ISPRS is a truly international society, with an established reputation in the broad areas of photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences. It is devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry, remote sensing, spatial information sciences and their applications. The direction and management of the Society is undertaken through the quadrennial Congress, the General Assembly, the Council, the Financial Commission, the Technical Commissions and the Sustaining Members Committee. Its scientific activities are entrusted to and conducted by eight Technical Commissions and their Working Groups.

For more informations on ISPRS Council and Technical Commission Presidents:
Council 2008-2012
Technical Commission Presidents 2008-2012

Awards And Honours

ISPRS 2012 Financial Assistance

Pursuant to its aims of developing and advancing international cooperation in the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing recognizes individual accomplishments through the sponsorship of awards and
honors which are granted at each quadrennial ISPRS Congress.

Nominations for awards in 2012 must be made on the ISPRS website and must be in accordance with the Terms of Reference and submitted before the date indicated. The Terms of Reference for the awards are provided on the ISPRS home pages (www.isprs.org/documents/awards.html) and published in the Silver Book (ISPRS Organisation and Programmes). The year of initial presentation of each award or honour is denoted in parentheses.

The Brock Gold Medal Award (1956)
The Award, sponsored by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, is presented for an outstanding landmark contribution to the evolution of photogrammetric theory, instrumentation, or practice. The award consists of a gold medallion. Ordinary Members of ISPRS are encouraged to nominate candidates for the Award.
Nominations must be signed by two individuals of different nationality and also different from the candidate. Awarded in 2008 to Armin Grün (Switzerland).

The Otto von Gruber Award (1964)
The Award, sponsored by the ITC Foundation, is presented to a young (under 40 years) sole author of a paper of outstanding merit on photogrammetry, photointerpretation or remote sensing and written in the four year period preceding the Congress. The Award consists of a medal and a monetary
grant. Awarded in 2008 to Matthias Butenuth (Germany).

The U. V. Helava Award (2000)
The Award, sponsored by Elsevier Science bv and Leica Geosystems, LLC, consists of a grand prize of CHF 10,000 and a silver plaque presented to the author(s) of the most outstanding paper published exclusively in the ISPRS International Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
during the four years preceding the Congress. Three runner up prizes of a Journal subscription and certificate are awarded to the author(s) of the best paper published in each of the other
three years. Grand prize awarded in 2008 to Martin Raubal, Stephan Winter, Sven Tessmann, and Christian Gaisbauer for a paper entitled "Time geography for ad-hoc shared-ride trip
planning in mobile geosensor networks".

The Giuseppe Inghilleri Award (2012)
The award,sponsored by the Italian Society for Surveying and Photogrammetry (SIFET) is presented to a person who has significantly enhanced the applications of photogrammetry, remote sensing or spatial information sciences in the 4 years preceding the Congress. The award consists of SFr. 2,500 and a certificate.

The Eduard Dolezal Award (1996)
The Award, sponsored by the Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation, is a limited travel and expense grant to assist individuals or representatives of institutions, from developing or reform countries, to participate in the ISPRS Congress. Candidates are those who have permanently
implemented a practical application of photogrammetry, remote sensing or GIS in an efficient manner or who have achieved outstanding success in support of these fields. Awarded in 2008 to Nguyen Dinh Duong (Vietnam).

The Schwidefsky Medal (1988)
The Award, sponsored by the German Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, is presented to persons who have made significant contributions to photogrammetry and remote sensing, either through the medium of publication as author or editor, or in another form. The award consists of a medal manufactured in porcelain and a certificate. Awards in 2008 to Gerhard Kemper(Germany) and Klaus Szangolies (Germany).

The Willem Schermerhorn Award (1988)
The Award, sponsored by Geo – Information Netherlands, is presented to a person who has most significantly contributed to the activities of a Working Group of the ISPRS during the four-year Congress period. The award consists of a certificate. Awarded in 2008 to Sisi Zlatanova (Netherlands).

The Samuel Gamble Award (1988)
The Award, sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Geomatics, is presented to up to three individuals who have contributed significantly to the development, organization or professional activities of photogrammetry and/or remote sensing, at the national or international level. The award consists of a certificate. Awarded in 2008 to Wilber K. Ottichilo (Kenya), Jide Kufoniyi (Nigeria) and Li Deren (China).

The Wang Zhizhuo Award (2008)
The Award, is sponsored by the Chinese Society of Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography (CSGPC). It will be granted at each quadrennial ISPRS Congress to a person who has made significant achievement or innovation in the spatial information sciences. It consists of a medal and a monetary grant (CHF. 2,500). Nominations for the Award should be sent
to President Altan by 2^nd January 2012. Awarded in 2008 to Christopher M. Gold (United Kingdom).

The Karl Kraus Medal (2010)
The award is sponsored by the German Society of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Spatial Information Sciences (DGPF), the Austrian Society of Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG), and the Swiss Society of Photogrammetry, Image Analysis, and Remote Sensing (SGPBF), is awarded to authors of excellent textbooks in the fields of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Spatial
Information Sciences, written in one of the official languages of the ISPRS, and published no more than eight years prior to the commencement of the quadrennial ISPRS Congress at which it is to be presented. Awarded in 2010 to �ŒClose Range Photogrammetry: Principles, Techniques and Applications�Œ by:
Professor Thomas Luhmann (Germany), Professor Stuart, Robson (UK), Dr. Stephen Kyle (UK) and Professor Ian Harley (UK).

The Frederick J. Doyle Award (2012)
This new award will be awarded to an individual who has made significant accomplishments in advancing the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences and technologies. A recipient of the award should typically be less than 50 years of age and have outstanding stature within the ISPRS community. The award consists of a silver medal and a monetary grant.

The ISPRS Prizes for Best Papers by Young Authors
The Prizes are sponsored by donor organizations and by ISPRS to authors who are under 35 years old and are the sole author of a high quality paper presented to the Congress. Each prize consists of a certificate and a CHF 2,500 grant to make it possible for the winner to participate in the Congress.
To be eligible, young authors must submit their papers to Congress Director Cliff Ogleby by 31^st January 2012. Awards in 2008 to Marta Blazquez (Spain), Margarita Kokla (Greece),
Min Deng (Hong Kong, China), Sander Oude Elberink (Netherlands), Pengfeng Xiao (China), David Belton (Australia), Francesco Dell'Endice (Switzerland), Long-qi Zhang (China) and Yuan Li (China).

Best Poster Papers Awards (1988)
At the Congress, a total of 16 Best Poster Papers Awards (1988) are sponsored by ISPRS. A jury for each of the eight ISPRS Commissions observes the poster presentations and selects the two best Poster Papers from the Commission. The award consists of a gift and a certificate from the Congress
Director.

The CATCON Prizes (1996)
A Computer Assisted Teaching CONtest is organized by ISPRS Technical Commission VI. The main objective of the contest is to promote the development and dissemination of good/user-friendly software packages, Internet contents and data sets for computer assisted teaching, which preferably are non-commercial and free. The Gold Award, Silver Award, and Bronze Award with a certificate are planned to be given to the winners at the Closing Ceremony of the Congress. The CATCON Awards are supported by ISPRS Foundation.

The President's Honorary Citation (1988)
The Award is a certificate of recognition presented by the President of ISPRS to a chairperson, co-chairperson or member of a working group of each ISPRS Technical Commission. The citation is to recognize special, personal and meritorious contributions to the operation of the relevant
Technical Commission's activities and advancement of its interests during the quadrennial term of the Society. Nominations should be made by the Technical Commission
Presidents to President Altan by 4^th March 2012.

Publication

The International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences will be published as Vol. XXXIX of the continuing series founded by Prof. Eduard Dolezal in 1911. These archives document advances made in photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information extraction from images. By tradition, they will be published in two parts:

Part A contains the official Proceedings of the Congress. It includes contents of the plenary sessions, the special sessions, the General Assemblies and the Resolutions approved by the General Assembly, including the recommendations for the scientific and technologic activities to be conducted by the ISPRS Commissions for the period 2012-2016. Part A also contains a complete list of exhibitors and participants. Furthermore, it will include summaries and photos of other aspects of the Congress, supporting programs and the Exhibition. It will be published in a hard copy and mailed after the Congress to all subscribers.

Part B will be produced on USB and will contain the full text of all papers presented orally or by posters at technical sessions, provided they have been submitted by a registered participant no later than 30 April 2012 and are in the proper format as specified in the instructions to authors. The price of the USB version of Part B is included in the registration fee and will be distributed to all registered participants.

A hard copy version of Part B, produced in paperback, will be available at extra cost, provided that there is sufficient demand. Separate volumes or the whole set or 9 volumes of Part B must be ordered in advance of the Congress.

Preliminary Registration Information

Registration Fees
All prices are quoted in Australian dollars (inclusive of GST).
Payment in any other currency will not be accepted.

Conference Registration Fees

Prior to 24/02/2012
Basic $875.00
Basic Students & Seniors* $550.00
Standard $1,155.00
Standard Students & Seniors* $830.00
Full $1,295.00
Full Students & Seniors* $1,030.00
Basic + Dinner $1,050.00
Basic + Dinner Students & Seniors* $825.00
Accompanying Persons $420.00
Day Registrations $550.00

After 24/02/2012
Basic $1,075.00
Basic Students & Seniors* $750.00
Standard $1,355.00
Standard Students & Seniors* $1,030.00
Full $1,495.00
Full Students & Seniors* $1,230.00
Basic + Dinner $1,250.00
Basic + Dinner Students & Seniors* $1,025.00
Accompanying Persons $520.00
Day Registrations $600.00

On Site
Basic $1,275.00
Basic Students & Seniors* $950.00
Standard $1,555.00
Standard Students & Seniors* $1,230.00
Full $1,696.00
Full Students & Seniors* $1,380.00
Basic + Dinner $1,450.00
Basic + Dinner Students & Seniors* $1,225.00
Accompanying Persons $620.00
Day Registrations $650.00

*Please email your scanned student card or evidence of
Senior status to the Congress Office via
isprs2012@icms.com.au

Basic Registration Entitlements
Entry to all sessions
Attendance at Welcome Reception
Conference Satchel
Copy of Final Programme
Digital Copy of Proceedings
Entry to the Exhibition
Morning and Afternoon Tea
Attendance at the Exhibitor's Reception

Standard Registration Entitlements
Entry to all sessions
Attendance at Welcome Reception
Conference Satchel
Copy of Final Programme
Digital Copy of Proceedings
Entry to the Exhibition
Lunch each day of the Congress
Morning and Afternoon Tea
Attendance at the Exhibitor's Reception

Full Registration Entitlements
Entry to all sessions
Attendance at Welcome Reception
Conference Satchel
Copy of Final Programme
Digital Copy of Proceedings
Entry to the Exhibition
Morning and Afternoon Tea
Lunch each day of the Congress
Attendance at the Conference Gala Dinner
Attendance at the Exhibitor's Reception

Day Registration Entitlements
Entry to all sessions, ceremonies and receptions on the day of registration
Conference Satchel
Copy of Final Programme
Entry to the Exhibition

Accompanying Persons Entitlements
Access to the Exhibition
Attendance at the Welcome Reception
Attendance at the Opening Ceremony
Conference Satchel
Attendance at the Closing Ceremony
Attendance at the Exhibitor's Reception

Hotel Reservations
A sufficient number of rooms have been reserved at international standard category hotels in Melbourne for the Congress. Special rates will be obtained for the participants of the Congress. However please note that this rate will be applied only if you book through the Congress Office. Please refer to the Congress website for detailed hotel information and reservation after 3 October 2011.

Cancellation and Refund Policy
Cancellations must be advised in writing to the Conference Office. The reservation deposit will be forfeited for all cancellations received after Friday, 22 July 2012, or if the room is not occupied on the advised date of arrival.

Speakers

• Peng Gong
• Rainer Sandau
• Piero Boccardo
• Stewart Walker
• Konrad Schindler
• Gordon McBean
• Ranganath Navalgund
• Stuart Lane
• Lawrie Jordan
• Jürgen Dold

Peng Gong

Peng Gong received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Nanjing University, China, in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1990.
He was a Research Scientist with the Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science, North York, Canada, and an Assistant Professor with the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of

Calgary, Calgary, Canada, before joining the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, in 1994, where he became a Full Professor in 2001. He was the Advisor to the Ministry of Science and Technology of China in 2004-2006, the Founding Director of the International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, between 2000 and 2007 and the Founding Director of the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, jointly sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Beijing Normal University, China, between 2004 and 2010. He became the Director of the Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2010. He has authored/coauthored over 400 publications including more than 260 journal articles in the field of remote sensing, geography, and environmental science and six books. His present interest is environmental remote sensing and global environmental change and health.

Prof. Gong received a number of honors and awards including the outstanding contribution award in remote sensing from the Association of American Geographers in 2008 and the Talbert Abrams Grand Award from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 1994.

Rainer Sandau

Rainer Sandau is retired from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and acts currently as

• adjunct Professor of Baylor University, Texas, USA,
• Technical Director Satellites and Space Applications of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA),
• Chair of the International Advisory Committee (IPAC) of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS),

He has over 30 years of experience in airborne and spaceborne activities. He has led and been involved in instrumentations of four space missions to Venus, Mars and Earth, and also numerous concepts for instruments and small satellites for or with different countries and space agencies, e.g. Argentina, GB, Russia, Taiwan, Tunesia, ESA, NASA, ranging from Earth observation applications, e.g. the concept of a German stereo camera on-board the French SPOT 5 mission, to a lander concept jointly done with NASA/JPL for ESA's cometary mission ROSETTA. His stereo camera WAOSS (Wide-Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner), developed for the Russian Mars 96 mission, flies also on DLR's micro satellite BIRD, dedicated for forest fire detection and assessment from the Earth orbit, and was also used as the basis for the technology transfer he did as project manager resulting in the production of Leica's ADS 40, the first commercially available digital airborne camera for photogrammetry and remote sensing.

He is member of various national and international associations where he served in different functions.

He authored or co-authored over 250 publications, holds over 25 patents, and is co-author or editor/co-editor of 21 books or conference proceedings all dealing with the topics small satellite missions, remote sensing and photogrammetry. He is member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Piero Boccardo

Born in Torino, September, the 20^th, 1964

From 2001, Associate Professor in the field of surveying and mapping at the Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Ingegneria del Territorio, Ambiente e Geotecnologie,.
From 2006, Director of ITHACA (Information Tecnology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action), a joint project between Politecnico di Torino, SiTI and WFP (World Food Programme).

Degree at the Politecnico di Torino, Ph.D in "Geodetic and Topographic Sciences" at the Dipartimento Georisorse e Territorio of the Engineering Faculty of Politecnico di Torino.

He his President of the Remote Sensing Italian Association (AIT) from 2011; member of the ASITA Scientific and Steering Committees from 1997; chair of the Working Group 1 (Remote Sensing and Disasters) of Commission VIII (Remote Sensing Application) of ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) and Director and member of ITHACA (Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action) Board of Directors

He is in charge of Remote Sensing University courses at the Politecnico di Torino. He also participated as lecturer in different public and private training courses. He has been supervisor of more than 70 dissertation thesis both at university and Ph.D. Degree.

Author of more than 110 publications, edited at National and International level, he has been attended as speaker and chairman, more than 75 National and International scientific congresses.

Stewart Walker

Stewart Walker is director of product initiatives for BAE Systems' Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP) business in San Diego, California, U.S.A. He holds a masters of arts, masters of science and doctorate in geography and geomatics from the universities of Glasgow, New Brunswick and Bristol, and a masters in business administration from Heriot-Watt. He is an ASPRS-certified photogrammetrist and a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He has authored approximately 200 technical papers.
Initially pursuing an academic career at the University of East London, Stewart transitioned to the private sector in 1987 after spending a year-long sabbatical with Ordnance Survey. He supported sales, product management and business development for the Surveying and General Instrument Company, Kern, Leica, LH Systems and Leica Geosystems in England, Switzerland and the U.S.

Stewart became product manager for SOCET SET(r) in 1991 when Leica undertook worldwide distribution and joined BAE Systems in 2004. He is currently responsible for strategic growth and development of SOCET GXP(r), GXP Xplorer and enterprise software products for image analysis, geospatial analysis, photogrammetry and mapping.

As an active member in the photogrammetry community, he served as honorary secretary of the Photogrammetric Society (now RSPSoc) in the 1980s and was secretary of ISPRS Commission IV from 1984 to 1988. He has served ASPRS in various capacities, most recently as president and national director of the Southwest U.S. region.

Stewart lives in Poway, California, with his wife Sheila. His son Anton is a sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley, and his daughter Sophie is an analyst with Mission Measurement in Washington, D.C.

Konrad Schindler

Konrad Schindler, born 1974, grew up in Austria in the cities of Vienna and Graz. His interest in geometry and cartography led him to study Surveying and Geodesy, first at Graz University of Technology then at Vienna University of Technology, where he specialized in Photogrammetry and Geoinformation. He graduated from the Institute for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, then lead by Prof. Karl Kraus, in 1999. After two years in the mapping industry as a photogrammetric engineer with ARGE Digitalplan ZT GmbH (Graz) he returned to academia. As research assistant with Prof. Franz Leberl and Prof. Horst Bischof at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision of TU Graz he worked on the automated reconstruction of buildings and archaeological reliefs from close-range images, and received his PhD in 2003 (with distinction) for a thesis on “Piecewise planar building reconstruction from images”. The seamless combination of Photogrammetry, Image Processing and Computer Vision which he experienced at that institute continues to be an important influence for his work. After post-doctoral positions at Monash University in Melbourne (Australia) with Prof. David Suter and at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) with Prof. Luc Van Gool he was appointed assistant professor for Image Understanding at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) in 2008. In September 2010 he returned to ETH Zurich as a tenured professor, where he leads the Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing group and serves as head of the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry.

Gordon McBean

Dr. Gordon McBean is a Professor with the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction at Western University, London, Canada. He is the President-elect of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and was the Chair of the international Science Committee for the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk program. His present research includes, as Canadian Principal Investigator, an integrated natural-social-health sciences study Coastal Cities at Risk, focusing on Vancouver, Lagos, Bangkok and Manila, in cooperation with Global Environmental Change START (regional networks and capacity building in Africa and Asia) International of which he is President of the Board. He was a Convening Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Climate Extremes. He is also Chair of the Ontario Regional Climate Change Consortium and the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences; and member of: the UNESCO High Panel for Science for Development; and UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Science and Technical Committee. From 1994 to 2000, he was Assistant Deputy Minister in Environment Canada responsible for climate, weather and air quality sciences and services in the federal government. He has been appointed a Member of the Orders of Canada and Ontario. He shared in the awarding of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC. He is a Fellow of the: Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the American Meteorological Society and the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society; and received the Patterson Medal for distinguish contributions to meteorology by a Canadian.

Ranganath Navalgund

Dr. Ranganath R. Navalgund, Distinguished Scientist, is currently the Director of the Space Applications Centre (SAC), one of the major Centres of the Indian Space Research Organisation, Ahmedabad. He also served as the Director of the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad during the period 2001 to 2005.

Dr. Navalgund was the President of Technical Commission-VII of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing on Resource and Environmental Monitoring for the period 2000-2004. He was also the Chair of the Working Group of the International Academy of Astronautics on Disaster Management/Natural Hazards.

Dr. Navalgund is an Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics and Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Fellow of Indian Society of Remote Sensing and Astronautical Society of India.

His main research areas of interest are in use of earth observation data for applications of societal relevance.

He has been a member of the International Ocean Colour Co-ordinating Group (IOCCG), member of the Analysis Group of the CEOS and has been the co-Chair of Indo-US Joint Working Group on Civil Space Cooperation, ISRO-ESA Working Group on Earth Observation, ISRO-CNES Joint Science Working Group and the ISRO-Chinese National Space Agency Working Group. He was instrumental in setting up India-Myanmar Friendship Remote Sensing Centre in Yangoon.

Stuart Lane

Stuart Lane is Professor in the Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment, University of Lausanne, having previously held lecturer and Professor posts at the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Durham in the U.K. and visiting scientist positions in both New Zealand and Canada. His Ph.D research in both Geography (University of Cambridge) and Engineering Surveying (City University, London) pioneered the the coupling of oblique (then analytical) photogrammetry to computational fluid dynamics, to understand relationships between form and process in braided rivers. Subsequent research has developed and applied a range of high resolution remote sensing techniques for the quantification of topography and topographic change, from scales ranging from a few mm to many km. He has published over 200 scientific journal articles and book chapters and has been the recipient of the Ralph A Bagnold medal of the European Geoscience Union, the President's Prize, of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society, and the Jan de Ploey award of the International Association of Geomorphologists, amongst other awards. A former Editor of the Photogrammetric Record, he is now the Managing Editor of the journal Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Lawrie Jordan

Lawrie Jordan is Director of Imagery for Esri, as well as Special Assistant to Jack Dangermond, President of Esri. In this capacity, he serves as an advocate for successful applications of all forms of imagery within the GIS enterprise, including environmental, civil, defense and intelligence community solutions.
Mr. Jordan has over 30 years of experience as a leader in the field of image processing and remote sensing, including a long standing strategic partnership with Esri. He has been an advisor to numerous government organizations on current and future trends involving imagery and satellite programs. His background education is in Landscape Architecture, with degrees from The University of Georgia and Harvard University.

Jürgen Dold

Prior of becoming President of Hexagon Geosystems and Leica Geosystems in 2010, Juergen Dold assumed various management positions within Leica Geosystems where he started his industry career as Product Manager in 1995. Before joining Leica Geosystems, Mr. Dold served as academic council and assistant professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany). He holds a diploma degree in Geodesy from University Bonn, Germany and PHD from the University of Federal Armed Forces Germany in Munich, Germany.

Probabilistic Data Analysis Using Graphical Models

Presenter:
Wolfgang Forstner, University Bonn

Summary:
Probabilistic graphical models are a versatile tool for data analysis, both image and laser range data, e. g. for restoration, stereo analysis, semantic segmentation or reconstruction.
The strength of graphical models comes from their ability to efficiently model highly structured data and the rich arsenal of learning and inference tools.
The tutorial provides the basic knowledge from statistics, information theory, classification and estimation. It introduces the various instances of graphical models, such as Markov-chains, Bayesian networks and Markov random fields. Special emphasis is laid on learning methods and on inference techniques. The concepts are illustrated using classical tasks from image and range data analysis.
The following topics, among others, are adressed:

• Classification, learning and inference
• Generative and discriminative models
• Information and probability
• The complexity of classification
• Basic elements from graph theory
• Mixture models
• Feature vectors and structures
• Factorization of pdfs
• Rigorous inference on chains and trees
• Directed graphs: Bayesian networks (BNs)
• Undirected graphs: Markov random fields (MRFs)
• Bayesian networks as Markov random fields
• Geodetic networks as MRFs
• Exact and approximate inference on graphs
• Apprioximate parameter learning
• Joint modelling of neighbourhoods and hierarchies
• Restauration of images
• Stereo reconstruction
• Semantic segmentation of images and laser range data

Aeronautical and Aerospace Tracking Applications of Close-Range Photogrammetry

Presenters:
Professor Stuart Robson, UCL
Professor Mark R. Shortis, RMIT University

Summary:
3D vision metrology systems have been in a rapid development phase during the last two decades. The frantic pace of change has been generated primarily by demands for whole field capture, high accuracy and efficiency from the aerospace, aeronautical and manufacturing industries, along with very strong competition amongst commercial providers of systems and services. The current trends are toward full automation of the measurement set up, calibration and acquisition process, user-directed real time measurement, and provision for direct input of three dimensional coordinates, meshes and objects into CAD based inspection systems, within a user defined reference frame.
The precision and reliability of the acquired data have been steadily improving, due to better system design, high resolution digital cameras, Ethernet communications and increased computer processing capability. Vision metrology systems are now widely seen by users as "off the shelf" tools to produce the desired results for a particular application in the most efficient manner.
The significant exception to this trend is measurement in dynamic situations, particularly tracking applications for aeronautical models and structural testing. When the object of interest is moving, off the shelf tools may not be able to be used in standard configurations and may not be cost effective for long duration tests. Tracking applications very often require a specific measurement design that caters to the range of movement of the object, a two stage approach to calibration and offline processing of the captured image sequences in order to ensure accuracy and reliability.

LiDAR Waveform The Potential And Benefits For Topographic Mapping

LiDAR waveform processing is becoming widely available, as the waveform acquisition technology is, by and large, affordable and there is a growing selection of various software tools to support waveform processing at the user level. This intermediate-level workshop aims at providing a review on the state-of-the-art waveform processing methods and their potential for topographic mapping. The main topics addressed are:

• Introduction to waveforms (Full Waveform Data – FWD)
• Overview of LiDAR systems, system components
• The theory behind waveforms, concept, and definitions
• Airborne/spaceborne FWD LiDAR systems
• LiDAR waveform data processing
• Waveform in applications
• Waveform processing software
• Discussion and future trends

Geovisual Analytics

Presenter
A/Prof Chris Pettit, Uni of Melb. Australia
Dr Arzu Coltekin, Uni of Zurich, Switzerland
Dr Amy L. Griffin, Uni of NSW, Australia
Dr Anthony Robinson, Penn State Uni, U.S

7 CPD points for SSSI Members

Summary
Geovisual analytics couples visually-enabled software tools with dynamic methods for supporting analytical reasoning about geographic phenomena. They support decision-making as well as the process of obtaining new insights and inferences from complex data sets. Examples of geovisual analytics tools include interactive maps, digital globes, geo-virtual environments, space time cubes and coordinated multiple view visualization environments. Geovisual analytics tools are used to support decision-making about problems involving complex, dynamic phenomena, whose solutions require the synthesis of multiple visual, statistical, and analytical methods. This workshop will provide both theoretical grounding for the design and use of geo-visual analytic tools as well as practical experience with geovisual analytics applications for exploring spatial data and decision spaces. The workshop will expose participants to a range of geovisual analytic tools and techniques for understanding their use.

The workshop is planned for a full day from 9am to 5:30pm. The first half of the workshop consists of four lectures approaching geovisual analytics from four different perspectives.

Lecture 1: How can user-friendly geo-visualisation tools such as digital globes, gaming engine tools, 3d object libraries and touch screens assist planners and decision-making in exploring complex spatial-temporal information? This lecture will examine some of the practical considerations and lessons learnt in providing end users (planners and decision-makers) access to geographical data products and computer simulation models in dealing with real world issues such as population growth and climate change.

Lecture 2: How can our knowledge of human vision can support visualization design? This lecture will provide an overview of vision inspired visualizations taking the 'human factors' into account, hence potentially enabling more efficient visual analytics processes. The lecture will further focus on stereoscopic vision and visualization as well as virtual and augmented environments, and use of multimedia to enhance and support analytical reasoning.

Lecture 3: Technological capabilities for producing new visualizations have outstripped our understanding of how well users can explore, think and reason with visual tools. For example, we know from change blindness studies that users can miss significant amounts of information presented in animated maps. So how can we design better animated maps that help to mitigate this problem? This lecture will review what we know about which human perceptual and cognitive limits and capabilities should be kept in mind when putting together suites of tools for geovisual analytics.

Lecture 4: Developing connections between emerging analytical needs, new geographic visualization methods, and end-users requires us to choose among a wide range of user-centered design techniques. This lecture will review a diverse range of approaches taken by the GeoVISTA Center at Penn State University to design and evaluate geovisual analytics tools for crisis management, homeland security, and disease surveillance contexts.

The second half of the workshop will include demos and hands-on exercises for investigating the usability of these tools. Workshop participants will work with a range of geovisual analytics tools including online visualisation interfaces that leverage geospatial social media, and usability methodologies such as eye-tracking.

Who would benefit from attending this workshop?
While we welcome anyone interested; this workshop will be of particular benefit to people whose work involves generating information to support spatial decision-making in complex problem contexts. You will be introduced to state-of-the-art tools and methods that can help you understand how to choose and design tools that are most effective for your application area. The workshop is also beneficial to scientists and researchers who are interested in user-centered geovisualization design and evaluation.

Provisional Program

Morning Presentations

9-9.45 Presentation Applications of geographical visualization in spatial planning and decision-making - Chris Pettit

9.45-10:30 Presentation: What can we learn from vision to enhance geographic visualizations? - Arzu Coltekin

Coffee break (morning tea)

11:00-11:45 Presentation: How should perceptual and cognitive factors inform the design of geovisual analytics displays? - Amy Griffin

11:45-12:30 Presentation: User-centered design and evaluation to support analytical reasoning with geographic information- Anthony Robinson

Lunch

Afternoon practical sessions

13:30-17:30 Practical sessions

13:30-14:00 Intro & Demo 1: Exploring and visualising urban research data through the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure (AURIN) portal, Chris Pettit & Martin Tomko

14:00-15:00 Exercise 1: Social media mapping with SensePlace2, Anthony Robinson (eye tracking hands-on experience in parallel)

15:00-15:30 Coffee break (afternoon tea) (eye tracking hands-on experience in parallel)

15:30-16:30 Exercise 2: Use of Digital Globe for exploring what if? Future scenarios (eye tracking hands-on experience in parallel)

16:30-17:30 Demo 2: Wrap-up and initial results from eye tracking, discussion (focus group for eye tracking), Arzu Coltekin & Amy Griffin

Organisers

Chris Pettit, PhD (University of Melbourne)

Associate Professor Chris Pettit is the Strategic Implementation Coordinator of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN), the University of Melbourne. He is Chair of the ISPRS working group on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality. He has published more than 100 papers in the areas of geographical visualization, e-research, spatial planning and decision support systems. His current research interests lie in the design of user-centric participatory planning tools which can be applied to a myriad of spatial planning problems including climate change adaptation and managing the built and urban environment.

Arzu Çöltekin, PhD (University of Zurich)

Dr. Arzu Çöltekin is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer in the Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis Unit in GIScience Center of Department of Geography in University of Zutrich, Switzerland. She is an executive member of the ISPRS working group on Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality. Arzu has an interdisciplinary research agenda with a focus on geographic visualization design. She leads and takes part in projects that investigates theories based on human vision to inform visualization, stereoscopic vision and displays, eye tracking for gaze contingent displays and user experience studies, image and video processing, temporal information visualization and analysis based on image and video, and multimedia visual analytics.

Amy Griffin, PhD (University of New South Wales Canberra)

Dr. Amy Griffin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences at the University of New South Wales-Canberra. Her research seeks to understand the perceptual and cognitive processes people invoke when they read maps and information graphics and think and reason with spatial information. Knowledge of these processes is fundamental to producing useful and usable geovisualization and geovisual analytics tools. Her recent research has looked at how highlighting helps to connect different visualization tools together and how different visualization methods can mitigate change blindness in animated maps.

Anthony C. Robinson, PhD (Penn State University)

Dr. Anthony Robinson is Assistant Director for the Department of Geography's GeoVISTA research center at the Pennsylvania State University. Robinson's research focuses on the science of interface and interaction design for geographic visualization software tools. He has developed interface design and usability assessment methods for integrating geographic visualization tools with work in epidemiology, crisis management, and homeland security. Robinson's recent research projects have focused on the design of map symbol standards, developing tools for collecting and adding meaning to geographic information, and eye-tracking to design new geovisualization techniques. In addition to externally-funded research activity, Robinson serves as the lead faculty member for Penn State's M.S. in GIS and post-baccalaureate GIS Certificate programs.

Orientation and Processing of Full Waveform Laser Scanning Data

The workshop provides an introduction into the principles of full waveform laser scanning (LS) and the software OPALS (Orientation and Processing of Airborne Laser Scanning data). In the morning session, the basic theory of LS and the software concept of OPALS is presented in a series of lectures including: full waveform signal processing, radiometric calibration, quality control, airborne laser scanning (ALS) strip adjustment, and an introduction to the software OPALS. In the afternoon the workshop is dedicated to the practical processing of full waveform ALS data using OPALS. Starting from simple processing tasks it is shown how to build up comprehensive automatic processing chains (e.g. from full waveform decomposition to DEM) within OPALS.

From the participants it is expected to bring a Windows notebook (Microsoft Windows XP or higher) with OPALS being installed to perform the practical processing examples on their own computer. A special OPALS Version including demo data can be retrieved from http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/workshop-isprs2012 after the 13^th of August 2012.

For more information on this workshop please click here

Introduction to SAR processing and Interferometry using SARscape

Full day seminar.

Please join us for this hands-on seminar to learn more about processing SAR (radar) data with the SARscape Basic and Interferometry modules in ENVI. The SARscape modules are easy to use SAR-based processing modules that combine ENVI?s best tools for visualization and analysis with robust SAR processing support. You will learn how to use SARscape for common processing and analysis of SAR data, and explore other new analysis capabilities with the ENVI SARscape modules.

The functionality of ENVIs SARscape Basic module covered in this seminar includes:

• Importing commonly used SAR datasets
• Coregistration techniques
• An overview of multilooking and speckle filtering processes
• Geocoding and Radiometric correction with SAR data
• Extracting Features from processed SAR data

The functionality of ENVIs SARscape Interferometry module covered in this seminar includes:

• An overview of Interferometry processes
• Creation of a DEM using Interferometry techniques

No previous experience is required and this seminar is suitable for users of all levels. Pre-registration is required.

Presenter: Susan Parks, Exelis Visual Information Solutions
Susan Parks currently works at Exelis Visual Information Solutions in Boulder, Colorado as a Senior Product Marketing Specialist. Susan has an MSGIS degree from the University of Denver, as well as undergraduate degrees in Biology from the University of Waterloo, and Forestry from the University of British Columbia. For her MS degree, Susan investigated the applications of using Landsat ETM+ satellite imagery for spatial pattern analysis of logging intensity and extent in the Eastern Amazon.