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Call for Papers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Environmental Research Laboratory's Environmental Sciences Division in Las Vegas will be hosting a workshop dedicated to "Spectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation." Interested researchers are encouraged to submit an abstract relevant to one of the below topic areas. Please note that potential topics are not limited to these subject areas.
The proceedings for this conference will be published on CD-ROM. All authors are encouraged to submit materials for the Proceedings.
Authors are asked to submit a 250-word abstract. Potential categories include, but are not limited to:
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Species Identification |
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Infrared Applications |
| Use of spectral techniques to identify vegetation species directly or using modeling methods | Vegetation phenomenology in the SWIR to thermal portion of the spectrum | ||
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Stress Detection |
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Agricultural Applications |
| Methods to understand the vegetative effects due to environmental stress such as water stress, salinization, ozone, etc. | Crop identification, precision agriculture, water quality and nutrient load estimation, rangeland condition | ||
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Analysis/Detection of Contaminants |
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Canopy/Foliar Chemistry |
| Vegetative effects due to plant uptake of industrial contaminates, chemical agents, or military ordinance | Spectral investigations of leaf and plant chemistry | ||
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Regional & Program Applications |
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Biogeochemistry/Geobotany |
| Use of spectral remote sensing techniques in federal, state, local, and nonprofit agency programs | Carbon flux/sequestration, N-flux, exploration geology, ecological studies utilizing plant/geology relationships | ||
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Fluorescence Sensors & Applications |
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Hyper/Ultra-spectral & Polarmetric Sensors |
| Applications of optical reflectance and laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) imaging for terrestrial and aquatic studies | Use of high-dimensional data or optical polarimetry for vegetation studies | ||
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New Sensors & Applications |
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New Analytical & Computational Techniques |
| Discussion of new research or operational sensor systems | Data fusion, inverse modeling, and other computational techniques | ||
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Radiative Transfer Modeling |
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Coastal/Wetland & Aquatic Applications |
| Application of RTM methods for vegetation studies | Spectral remote sensing in the coastal zone or in the water column |
Please submit all abstracts via this website by October 01, 2002. Authors will be notified of acceptance by October 28, 2002.