17th International Seaspace Remote Sensing Conference

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Land and Vegetation Direct Readout workshop

Mexico-City: 8th-11th of October 2007

Location: Unidad de seminarios / UNAM

Hosted by: CONABIO (National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity)

Conabio (The National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity) will host the combined Seaspace Remote Sensing Conference and the Land and Vegetation Direct Readout workshop from the 8th to 11th of october 2007 . Both workshops will be held at the Unidad de seminarios of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. The data user community is invited to participate in one or both events.

17th International Seaspace Remote Sensing Conference (8th-9th of October 2007)

The Seaspace conference is an annual forum for interchange of information ranging from future satellite instruments to in-depth scientific presentations on atmospheric, land and ocean remote sensing applications from scientists around the world.
The 2-day workshop will stimulate the scientific exchange of Seaspace product users and will give an overview about current and future developments at Seaspace.

Land and Vegetation Direct Readout workshop (10th-11th of October 2007)

Direct broadcast/direct readout technologies provide near real-time access to imagery and derivative land and vegetation data products integral to numerous applications worldwide. The Land and Vegetation Direct Readout Workshop will be an opportunity to discuss current and future direct readout programmatic and technical issues regarding high temporal, moderate resolution sensors. The two-day workshop will focus specifically on land and vegetation applications based on MODIS, AVHRR, VIIRS and other moderate resolution environmental sensors that support direct readout.

The Land and Vegetation Direct Readout Workshop is co-sponsored by NASA, the Global Observations of Forest Cover and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC/GOLD), the Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad (CONABIO) and the USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center. The workshop is primarily intended for scientists and data producers from direct readout facilities, land/vegetation product scientists for MODIS, AVHRR, VIIRS and similar environmental sensors, and members of academia.

Primary goals of the workshop will include:

• Discussions of the current state of Direct Readout and future missions
• A forum for technical exchange between direct readout data producers and
scientists on land/vegetation science algorithms and applications
• Formation of regional/continental direct readout data integration networks

Additional information can be found under:

http://www.fao.org/gtos/gofc-gold/index.html 

http://gofc-fire.umd.edu/ 

http://www.seaspace.com/