Operational remote sensing for sustainable development

The eighteenth annual symposium of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL jointly organized with The Netherlands Society for Earth Observation and Geo-Informatics (NESOG), will be held in Enschede, The Netherlands, from 11 to 14 May 1998.

The theme of this year's symposium will be "Operational remote sensing for sustainable development". Plenary sessions during the first two days of the symposium will address the following topics:

- Remote sensing for sustainable development: State-of-the-art;
- Implementation strategies and cost-benefit analyses;
- Land-use and nature management;
- Water quality and pollution monitoring;
- Coastal zone management;
- New airborne and space-borne techniques;
- Geomorphological hazards and floods;
- New processing and analysing techniques;
- Climate change and interaction with land-use;
- Sustainable development in developing countries;
- Monitoring environmental impact.

The third day of the symposium will be devoted to specialist workshops jointly organized with the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). The first workshop will be led by the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC) and will cover "Remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems for non-renewable resources in developing countries". The second workshop will be led by NESOG and will cover "Land-use and land-cover change: Methods and applications".

A software exhibition and a publishers' exhibition will run in parallel with the symposium.
For further information, please contact:

EARSeL Secretariat
2 avenue Rapp
F-75340 Paris
Tel. +33-1-45567360; Fax +33-1-45567361
E-mail: earsel@meteo.fr