Conference Themes
Climate/Climate Change, Meteorology, and the Atmosphere
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Atmospheric and meteorological parameters
- Greenhouse gases, trace gases, emissions and concentrations
- Weather information and forecasting
- Carbon budgets
- El Nino and La Nina effects
Geohazards and Disasters
- Floods
- Droughts
- Earthquakes
- Dust Storms
- Cyclones, Tornadoes
- Forest Fires
- Land-Sliding
- Avalanches
- Understanding risks, response, and recovery
- Disaster alert, preparedness, and mitigation
- Natural hazard regulations and policymaking
- Forest fires and environmental impacts
Agriculture and Food Security
- Agriculture monitoring
- Crop identification
- Crop area, yield estimation and forecasting
- Food security and early warning
- Plant disease monitoring
- Combating desertification
Forest, Biodiversity, and Ecosystems
- Forest characterization and biomass estimation
- Monitoring deforestation, degradation, and restoration
- Land cover monitoring
- Land surface dynamics
- Wetlands, Biodiversity conservation
- Wildlife monitoring
- Sustainable development through ecosystem accounting
- Impacts of climate change on ecosystems and forests
Water Resources and Water Cycle
- Water Resources (Surface, underground)
- Hydrological studies/applications
- Glaciology, Cryosphere studies,
- Oceanography, Bathymetry
- Wetlands monitoring
- Water resource management
- Water quality and invasive species in water bodies
- Water scarcity and security in major river systems
- Water bodies as a sustainable resource for fishery, tourism and transportation
- Soil moisture, soil erosion, corrosion
- Understanding the water cycle and the major impacting factors
- Desertification and droughts
Marine and Coastal Environment Resources and Dynamics
- Understanding and monitoring marine and coastal environments and resources
- Healthy Coastal Economy
- Operational monitoring of Illegal, Unreported, Unregulated (IUU) fishing
- Offshore operations and marine pollution
- Ship traffic
- Ocean state and dynamics
- Marine forests
- Marine ecosystems
- Marine landuse/landcover change assessment
Urbanization, Sustainable/Smart Societies, and Industrialization
- Urban planning (town, city, and regional planning)
- Urban heat island
- Urban sprawl and its impacts
- Industrialization and impacts
- Infrastructure and transportation
- Infrastructure planning
- Smart cities
- 3D Building Information Management Systems
- Sustainable development goal indicators
- Socio-economic development
- Smart cities
- Improving Connectivity
- Archaeology and Culture heritage
Public Health
- Monitoring infectious disease outbreaks
- Vector-borne diseases
- Water-related diseases
- Air quality and health
- Smog and its impacts
- Impact of extreme weather conditions
- Geospatial data for developing resilient and sustainable public health systems
- Heatwaves and impacts
- Monitoring and tracking of heatwaves
Change and Adaptation in Deltaic and High Mountain Systems
- Impact of climate change on food and feed, Impact on water scarcity, natural hazards regulation
- How climate change affects spirituality and cultural identity, aesthetics, and recreation
- Building technical capacity to analyze, visualize, interpret, and integrate data from observations into services
- Use of optical data from one or multi-channel spectral imagers or RGB cameras, image processing, computer vision, and machine learning; also interested in medical and bio-medical image problems, underwater species especially in Coral reefs and other endangered areas
- Permafrost hydrology
- Paleo-permafrost features and their climatic relevance
Geological studies, mineral resources and applications
- Structural Geology and Tectonics
- Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
- Geomorphology
- Geological Engineering
- Mineralogy
- Petrology & Volcanology
- Seismology
Data and Information Systems and Spatial Data Infrastructures
- Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry [Sensors (optical, microwave, thermal, hyperspectral, LIDAR), and their applications]
- Digital Earth, current & future Earth observation missions & programmes, observation data, data products & models
- Multi-sensor data processing techniques, interoperability, and analytics
- GIS and its applications
- Android, Desktop, and Online geospatial applications
- Standards, interfaces, and systems for spatial data
- Big data challenges and solutions
- Real-time operational systems
Educating on Climate Change and Sustainable Development
- Climate change education for sustainable development
Capacity building, networking, resource sharing
- Capacity building, education, and outreach
- Sharing of geospatial resources (data, software, labs, computing machines, human resources)
- Networking, collaboration, and its importance
- Open source and software/algorithms/models, data, services, etc.
Other theme(s)
- Abstracts (presentation/poster) from other themes are welcome (subject to the approval of Conference Technical & Review Committee)
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