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The purpose of LiDAR 2009 is to provide a platform for academics and professionals in LiDAR Technology and remote sensing areas to meet, exchange ideas, and establish professional networks. It is a forum to focus on specific disciplinary research, as well as on multi-disciplinary studies. The uniqueness of LiDAR is that it crosses narrowly defined subject areas and gathers researchers from not only technical areas, but also from areas which use the technology.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following research and development areas/fields:

INSTRUMENTATION AND TECHNIQUES

LiDAR

• LiDAR Sensors

• LiDAR Altimetry

• LiDAR: Information Extraction and Applications

• LiDAR Calibration

• Data Acquisition

• Modelling

• Integration

• LiDAR data Processing

• Image Processing

• Data Management

• New Technology & Trends

Radar

• Monostatic, Bistatic and Multistatic Radar

• Ground and Foliage Penetrating Radar

• Radar Interferometry

• Radar Polarimetry

• Pol-InSAR Applications and Methodology

• Active Scatterometry or with Signals of Opportunity

• Altimetry

• Radar and SAR Calibration

 Microwave Radiometry

• Microwave Radiometer Technology

• Interferometric Radiometers

• Polarimetric Radiometers

• RFI Mitigation for Microwave Radiometry

• Calibration of Microwave Radiometers

 Passive Optical sensors

• Multispectral and Hyperspectral Sensors

• Imaging Spectroscopy

• Polarimetric Optical Radiometers

• Optical Sensors Calibration

 Advanced Sensors

• Advanced Sensor Concepts

• Very high resolution sensors

• Enabling Technologies

• UAV-based Sensors

• Sensor Networks, Sensor Webs, and Cooperative Sensors

• Remote Sensing using GPS

DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

• Change Detection and Multitemporal Analysis

• Data Compression and Format Techniques

• Data Mining, Archiving and Retrieval

• Developing, Deploying, and Operating Standard-based Data Systems

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Data Visualization

• Geophysical Processes and Parameter Estimation

• Hyperspectral Image Analysis

• Registration and Feature Extraction

• Statistical Approaches for Image Exploitation and Analysis

• Data Assimilation

• Data Fusion

• Multisensor and Multitemporal Data Fusion

• Image Enhancement and Restoration

• Image Classification

• Image Segmentation and Analysis

• Edge detection.

• Spatial Scaling and Remote Sensing

• Radar Processing Techniques

• SAR Image Processing Techniques

• Inverse Problems

• Target Detection and Object Recognition

APPLICATIONS

Land

• Remote Sensing of Hydrologic and Soil Parameters

• Hydrology, Water Resources and Quality

• Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

• Agricultural Mapping and Monitoring

• Land Use, Land Cover and Land Cover Change

• Vegetation and Crops Monitoring and Growth

• Forest Classification and Monitoring

• Forest Parameter Estimation by Multi-parameter SAR Interferometry

• Floods, Droughts, Evapotranspiration and Soil Erosion

• Wetlands

• Arid and Semi-Arid Lands

• Land Surface Dynamics

 Oceans

• Pollution Detection and Monitoring

• Ocean Colour

• Monitoring Extreme Ocean Events

• Radar Observations of Current Features

• Active Microwave and HF Sensing of the Ocean

• Passive Microwave Observations of the Ocean

• Ocean Surface Winds from Space

• Skin and Multi-Sensor Sea Surface Temperature

• Underwater Sensing

Atmosphere

• Precipitation and Clouds

• Aerosols, Air Pollution and Climate

• Earth Radiation Budget

• Atmospheric Profiling

• Ozone layer monitoring

Cryosphere

• Sea Ice and Snow

• Permafrost, Ice Sheets, Glaciers and IPY

• Regional and Global Sea Ice Monitoring in Climate Change Monitoring

Disaster and Hazards

• Early Warning, Monitoring and Management of Natural Disasters.

• Geological Hazards

• Fire Mapping and Monitoring

• Crustal Movements, Earthquakes and Volcanoes

• Mine and Subsurface Object detection

• Land Slides and Avalanches.

Environmental, Urban and Other Applications

• Ecosystems

• Environmental Monitoring of Land and Sea

• Environmental Degradation and Polution.

• Environmental Modeling

• Carbon Cycle and Modeling

• Coastal and Riparian Environments

• Geology and Geomorphology

• Cartography and Topography

• Urban Monitoring, Transportation and Modeling

• Resource Management

• Industrial Applications

 EDUCATION AND POLICY 

• Remote Sensing Educational Activities and Innovations

• Data Access Policy

• Remote Sensing & the Internet

• Remote Sensing and Public Policy and Management Decissions

• Interagency collaborations

• RFI and Frequency Management

 MISSIONS AND CAMPAIGNS 

• GEOSS Architecture and Data Management.

• Integrated Earth Observations Systems for GEOSS

• Space Agencies Missions and Technologies

• Planetary Remote Sensing

• Instruments and Programs: Terra, Aqua, ALOS, AMSR, Radarsat,

• Aquarius/SAC-D, SMOS, TRMM, GPM, TerraSAR, ENVISAT.

Business, Commercial and Industry delegates are welcome with or without a presentation.

See also: Paper presentation guide