7th International Conference on Geo-information Technologies for Natural Disaster Management (GiT4NDM 2015) & the 5th International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (EOGC 2015)

About the conference:

The 5th International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (EOGC 2015) and the 7th International Conference on Geo-information Technologies for Natural Disaster Management (GiT4NDM2015) are designed to advance the research and development as well as encouraging innovative applications of Geomatics technologies in global change studies, and to specifically address the international aspects of the coupled social, land and climate systems in global change studies using advanced geospatial tools, spatiotemporal models, and earth observation systems.

The conference offers an interdisciplinary forum in the fields of remote sensing, surveying and mapping, geodesy and geosciences, geography, marine science, forestry, renewable energy, environment, transportation, natural hazards, disaster management, and climate change science.

The conference will provide a forum to present ongoing research and ideas related to earth observations and global change, natural hazards and disaster management studies with respect to geospatial information technology, remote sensing, and global navigation satellite systems. The conference will hold pre-conference workshops, keynotes, panel discussions and technical sessions. Authors are invited to submit an abstract and if accepted, to submit a full paper via the conference website.

Conference topics:

• Earth Observation Satellite Missions for Global Change Studies.
• Monitoring and modeling land use and land cover changes.
• Global geodetic observing systems for global change studies.
• Global land cover and change information services and systems.
• Remote Sensing of changes in snow and ice, frozen ground, ice sheets and glaciers and arctic water sea ice.
• Climate-induced hazards mapping and vulnerability assessment.
• Modeling and analyzing of impacts from sea level rise.
• Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS for predicting, monitoring and responding to hydro-meteorological extremes.
• Spatiotemporal modeling of global landscape dynamics.
• Quality assurance for global change databases.
• New earth observation systems for natural hazard monitoring.
• UAV systems for hazard mapping and damage assessment.
• Laser scanning for indoors mapping and evacuation simulations.
• Web based multidimensional GIS for disaster risk management.
• Multi-sensor integration for monitoring marine disasters.
• Mobile mapping for transportation emergency response.
• New geospatial technologies in early warning, forecasting and monitoring of natural hazard chains.
• Public participation GIS for disaster preparedness and planning.
• Foggy weather/heavy rain, impact on quality of life (e.g., car accidents).
• Red tide, impact on marine life and policy management.
• Sand twisters and rigorous winds.

Register online through the event website. Registration deadline: 30 November 2015.