4th International Conference “Earth from Space"

20 November 2009, 1:07pm

Preliminary program of the 4th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions”, that is to take place on December 1-3, 2009 in the Moscow Region “Vatutinki” recreation center of the RF President Administration, has been published.

The Organizers of the conference are ScanEx RDC and NGO Transparent World.

Sponsors of the conference are ImageSat Int. N.V. (golden sponsor), SPOT Image S.A., Infoterra GmbH,MDA Corporation (silver sponsors), and Yandex as the sponsor of the mini-conference «Web&GIS».

The conference is the biggest in sphere of Earth remote sensing from space in Russia and CIS countries and will be held supported by the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ISPRS, GIS-Association and World Resources Institute (WRI, USA).

Information support of the event is provided by the «GisInfo» newspaper, GeoTop catalog, «Geoprofi», «Inzhenernye izyskaniya», GIS Development, GIM International, GeoConnexion, GEO Informatics, MundoGEO and Vector1Media magazines. CNews hi-tech publishing house is the info partner of the «Web&GIS» mini-conference.

The conference agenda:

December 1-3 – Exhibition of technology and services in sphere of remote sensing,

December 1 – “Kosmosyomka” association founders meeting,

December 2 – Master-classes of satellite operators: GeoEye, e-Geos, Infoterra

December 3 – “Web&GIS” mini-conference

December 3 – Technical tour through the office of ScanEx RDC

Exhibition of technology and services in sphere of remote sensing will be participated by:

1. ImageSat International N.V. (Israel);
2. ООО "Yeniseylab" (Krasnoyarsk);
3. ПНИИИС (Russia);
4. Infoterra GmbH (Germany);
5. SPOT Image S.A. (France);
6. GIS Terra (Kazakhstan);
7. Racurs (Russia);
8. Geosystems Polska Ltd. (Poland);
9. GeoEye (USA);
10. Hitachi (Japan);
11. e-Geos (Italy);
12. NGO «Transparent World» (Russia).

In addition, the conference of the ScanEx’s products and services users will be held on November 30 and free training on space images processing and interpretation will take place on December 4-6.

More information about the 4th International Conference “Earth from Space – the Most Effective Solutions” is available at this hyperlink, or on the conference web-site.

The conference will be participated in by the representatives of the Federal Space Agency, RF Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology, RF Ministry of Emergencies (EMERCOM), National Center for Crisis Management, RF Ministry of Transportation, regional and municipal administrations, as well as by representatives of educational institutions and major business-structures, foreign space agencies and large RS satellites Operators. To date, over 300 application forms have been submitted by the participants from Russia and 32 world countries.

Application forms and registration is still ongoing. Please, fill in the registration form to take part in the conference. Please address to the Organizing Committee for more information. Organizing Committee Deputy Chairperson — Anna Golovina, phone: +7 985 764 07 87. Organizing Committee Executive Secretary — Irina Petrenko, phone: +7 495 739 73 85 (ext. 124).

Conference website

Conference registration form

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