Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Announcement: The 5th International Summer School on Radar/SAR

Announcement: The 5th International Summer School on Radar/SAR


The 5th International Summer School on Radar/SAR takes place from 12 to 19 July 2013 near Bonn, Germany. For more information about the summer school visit our web-site and/or download the poster or flyer.


The fee, which includes full board, lodging and handout-material, is 600 Euro for students, 900 Euro for PhD candidates, and 1200 Euro all others for the whole summer school week. The participants have only to organize and pay their travel to Haus Humboldtstein, the location of the summer school. See the programme for more detail.


Fraunhofer FHR cordially invites appropriate candidates to visit our website for further information and to download the application form. Specific queries regarding the summer school should be addressed to: matthias  (dot) weiss (at) fhr (dot) fraunhofer (dot) de.


!!! Note that the order of applications is crucial for acceptance. !!!

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

ASPRS Certification Deadline


Upcoming Workshops in the ASPRS Webinar Series:
Check out the list of webinars we have lined up for you this year.
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Register by March 5, 2013 for the next in our series of webinars
The ASPRS Certification Program is now accredited by
the Council of Engineering and Scientific Specialty Boards

Registration Deadline: March 5, 2013
Webinar date: March 7-8

Price: ASPRS members = $300, Nonmembers = $450, ASPRS Student Members = $150

This webinar is specifically for those interested in preparing for the ASPRS Certification Exam.
The webinar is 8 hours total, offered in two 4-hour segments.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Thursday, March 7th – 11:00 am - 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Eastern Time
Friday, March 8th – 11:00 am - 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Eastern Time
(You must attend ALL segments to qualify for CEUs)

Webinar date: April 30
Price: ASPRS members = $200, Nonmembers = $350, ASPRS Student Members = $100

Registration Deadline: May 14, 2013
Webinar date: May 16
Price: ASPRS members = $200, Nonmembers = $350, ASPRS Student Members = $100

Registration Deadline: May 31, 2013
Webinar date: June 4
Price: ASPRS members = $200, Nonmembers = $350, ASPRS Student Members = $100
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For complete information on these Webinar Workshops, go to

The online Registration forms for these workshops are available immediately.
Don’t wait; sign up today.
If you have any problems with the registration, please contact the Meeting Registrar at registrar (at) asprs (dot) org

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Join the ISPRS Student Consortium: It's free!

Dear ASPRS student members,

Have you all joined the ISPRS Student Consortium? It's free! Once you join, you will have access to international summer schools, workshops, conferences, a newsletter (in which you can publish articles and news for your peers to review), and more.


You can join here: http://www.isprs-studentconsortium.org/. We are also on Facebook - join our Facebook group for lots of postings on scholarships, training and job opportunities.

As an inside note: we have an announcement for a contest to win free satellite imagery for academic purposes. So join and take advantage of this opportunity.

Cheers,

Elena Lobo

Free Satellite Imagery from DMCii

Announcement: Submit your proposal for free satellite imagery from DMCii before 31.3.2013 (for ISPRS Student Consortium members only).

Interested students and young professionals who are ISPRS SC members, should submit 1-2 page proposals by e-mail to the following e-mail address elenastudent (at) hotmail (dot) com Please read on for more information on how to prepare your proposal, the type of imagery and allowed use of this imagery: 
  1. The total number of satellite images for all winners will be 50 image tiles total (up to 10 image tiles per participant). 
  2. An 'image' means an image tile as it appears in DMCii catalogue (http://isprs-sc.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1d15152c7ac07acf40e1c5423&id=9ad0aeeffe&e=550a1158e9). Images vary in size according to how the satellite was configured on the day of acquisition, but the max size tiles are 330 km x 330 km. 
  3.  Proposals should include archive images only; no new acquisitions will be done as part of this announcement. 
  4. In the proposal, include the full name of the images that you would like to use after you identify them in the image catalogue. 
  5. Satellite images included must be from the UK-DMC2 satellite only. Select only images with ID numbers beginning U2 (UK-DMC2) or DU (UK-DMC1) from the catalogue. 
  6. By default, L1R products will be supplied. These are band registered and radiometrically corrected, not-orthorectified. If there is an L1T product available that appears in the catalogue it can be included in the proposal. 
  7. Data will be licensed for academic use only (no commercial use of the data can be done at any stage). 
  8. Offer open to members of ISPRS Student Consortium only. 
  9. All winners need to select their datasets by the end of 2013.
  10. Selection criteria. Studies that match the following criteria are encouraged: - Applications that really exploit the wide area/multitemporal aspect of DMC data or the use of DMC data to fill gaps in Landsat time-series; - Applications those are really suitable for 22 m resolution.
  11. Winners will supply ISPRS and DMCii with a copy of copy of relevant theses/papers that emerge from their use of the imagery, as well as some brief slides showing results; ISPRS and DMCii will have permission to present these at conferences with the due credit and reference to the authors.

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

26th International Cartographic Exhibition Call for Participation


Call for Participation
26th International Cartographic Exhibition
Dresden, Germany
August 25-30, 2013

The U.S. National Committee (USNC) to the International Cartographic Association (ICA) is soliciting maps and other cartographic items for the United States entries in the 26th International Cartographic Exhibition to be held in Dresden, Germany, August 25-30, 2013. The USNC must select materials for display in Dresden in compliance with numerical and space limitations imposed by the ICA. Items that can be submitted are categorized as paper maps, atlases, digital products, educational cartographic products, and other cartographic products including globes and tactile maps. All entries will be evaluated by a cartography jury during the Dresden ICC and winning entries will be selected in each category. All submitted items must be edited or modified after August 2011, the date of the last International Cartographic Exhibition. To submit an item to be considered for entry into the United States exhibit the item and a complete description must be provided as detailed in the following guidelines.

All entries must be submitted to E. Lynn Usery no later than March 15, 2013. Digital entries may be submitted as email attachments to usery@usgs.gov. Hardcopy paper maps, atlases, books, globes and other physical materials must be submitted to the following address:

E. Lynn Usery
U.S. Geological Survey
1400 Independence Road
Rolla, MO 65401

Questions concerning submissions can be directed to E. Lynn Usery via email at usery@usgs.gov or by phone at 573-308-3837.

Each submission must include a detailed description as documented by the Dresden ICC Local Organizing Committee on the following pages. This description should be emailed to usery@usgs.gov no later than March 15, 2013. The item to be exhibited and entered in the competition also must be delivered to E. Lynn Usery via email or at the above address on or before March 15, 2013.

Maps on Panels (printed maps)
• Title (in English)
• Type of material (paper / plastic / other - specify)
• Scale
• Dimensions of the sheet (in millimeter)
• Authors
• Published by
• Date published
• Language(s) of the legend
• Picture of the map (JPEG, TIFF) with minimum input scanning resolution 300 dpi for full color, 350-400 dpi for half tones
• Brief abstract or additional comments (maximum 100 words in English)

Atlases
• Title (in English)
• Number of pages
• Dimensions
• Authors
• Published by
• Date published
• Language(s) of the text
• Picture of the cover (JPEG, TIFF) with minimum input scanning resolution 300 dpi for full color
• Brief abstract or additional comments (maximum 100 words in English)

Digital Products
• Title (in English)
• Type (vector map, image-map, sample or extract from a GIS,multimedia CD-ROM, web site, etc.)
• Format (file type, structure of coverages/themes, etc.)
• Software platform in which it is managed
• Authors
• Published by
• Date published or most recently updated
• Nominal scale
• Language of the alphanumeric elements
• Screen shot (JPEG, TIFF) with resolution 300 dpi
• Brief abstract or additional comments (maximum 100 words in English)

Educational Cartographic Products
• Title (in English)
• Type (map, digital product, other - specify)
• Authors
• Published by
• Date published
• Picture of the product (JPEG, TIFF) with minimum input scanning resolution 300 dpi for full color
• Brief abstract or additional comments (maximum 100 words in English)

Other Cartographic Products
• Title (in English)
• Material (paper, plastic / other - specify)
• Authors
• Published by
• Date published
• Picture of the product (JPEG, TIFF) with minimum input scanning resolution 300 dpi for full color
• Brief abstract or additional comments (maximum 100 words in English)

By submitting an entry the product and the use of the winning products in analogue or digital form, is granted to ICA for further promotional use. After the ICC2013 display the analogue and digital winning entries remain available to ICA for further use and archiving

Open PhD position in Geomatics/GIS at the University of Florida


The Geomatics Program at the University of Florida is seeking a PhD candidate to work on spatio-temporal analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information.

The research will be primarily carried out at UF’s Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center (http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu/ ), located ~ 20 miles north of Miami. The position includes a tuition waiver, health insurance, and an annual stipend. Funding for up to 4 years is available.

Please find further details in the full position announcement here.

Please contact Dr. Hartwig Hochmair at hhhochmair (at) ufl (dot) edu , or by phone at +1-954-577-6317, if interested in the position.

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Paid Research Opportunity in Math, Biology, & Engineering

Greetings:

Please find information about the upcoming Multidisciplinary Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program on "Research, Education and Training in Computational Mathematics and Nonlinear Dynamics of Biological, Bio-inspired and Engineering Systems" (June 3 - Aug 2, 2013). More details about the program can be found below. 


The Department of Mathematical Sciences at George Mason University will host a two-year multidisciplinary REU program in computational mathematics and nonlinear dynamics of biological, bio-inspired and engineering systems from June 3 - Aug 2, 2013 . This nine-week summer program will expose thirteen highly qualified undergraduate students and two K-12 teachers to advanced topics in mathematics, problem-solving, visualization techniques and applications to bio-inspired and engineering systems. Selected problems range from Aneurysm mechanics and bioinformatics to Modeling of Micro Air Vehicles, Design of photovoltaic nanodevices, Porous substrates and Phase diagram calculation for materials engineering applications, as well as the design of efficient educational tools. Through these research problems, we hope to encourage students and teachers to learn by discovery and enhance their understanding of the multidisciplinary role of mathematics in engineering, science and medicine. The metro region of Washington, DC is a particularly fertile area for research and work opportunities, including consulting, teaching and government.

Applicants must be undergraduate students with a good academic record preferably completing their junior year by June 2013. Students intending to pursue careers in teaching and mathematics education are also encouraged to apply. Financial support for students include a stipend of $3,375, free on-campus housing and meals, and a travel allowance up to $550. Students with a strong background in advanced calculus, linear algebra and differential equations are eligible. Women and underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Please note that under NSF rules, only U.S. Citizens and permanent residents are eligible to receive stipends and support for housing and travel costs.

The deadline for receiving all the application material is "March 1, 2013" and accepted applicants will be notified shortly thereafter. For more details on the program and application details, go to the program website: http://math.gmu.edu/reu/

For additional information, please contact us via email at: reu (at) math (dot) gmu (dot) edu or via phone (703) 993-9787 or (703) 993-9688

Dr. Padmanabhan Seshaiyer and Dr. Maria Emelianenko
REU Program Coordinators
George Mason University