Conferences
12–17 August 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
The First 'Symposia of Remote Sensing Applied to Soil Science', as part of the "21st World Congress of Soil Science, 2018"
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the first Symposia of Remote Sensing (RS) as part of the World Congress of Soil Science, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 12–17 August, 2018; it will be composed of key speeches, and selected oral and poster presentations. The importance of RS as a ´partner´ in soil science is not new, and dates back more than 100 years (i.e., aerial photographs). Since then, much equipment has been developed, and from a simple tool, RS has become an innovative scientific discipline. The symposia will host some important figures in the area: Prof. Eyal Ben-Dor who was behind the Near Infrared Reflectance Analysis of soils and was the first scientist and pioneer to apply Hyper Spectral Remote Sensing technology to soils; and Prof. José Alexandre Demattê who was the first full professor in RS and soil spectroscopy in Brazil. In addition to the above two scholars, we have the honor of presenting Prof. Marcos Rafael Nanni as the third leading figure organizing this session. Prof. Nanni is an expert in proximal and remote sensing of soil, and has worked in RS with drones and AISA-Fenix airborne hyperspectral sensors. Today, he is the head of one of the most powerful and well-equipped groups on proximal and remote sensing of soils in Brazil. In addition to the organizers’ short presentation, we will have two important keynote speeches, from Prof G. Zalidis: Promoting Remote Sensing Applications for Optimizing Soil and Water Management Supporting Climate Smart Agriculture in the Balkan Region; and from Prof. J. Cierniewski: Remote Sensing as a Tool to Study Soils and Their Impact on the Earth’s Climate. This is a great opportunity to improve the status of remote sensing in the soil science discipline and be part of history. Thus, we encourage all researchers and users to register and be part of this Special Issue. In addition to the publication of abstracts at the Congress, selected papers will be invited for publication, in full-paper form, in this Special Issue of Remote Sensing.
Deadline for Submissions to the Congress: 20 January 2018
Directions for submission: To make an adequate submission to the session, access the 21st World Congress of Soil Science at www.21wcss.org, Go to Registration process. In the Participant Area, go to Send Abstract, Select Division 1: Soil in Space and Time. Click on Symposia, Select C1.2 - Soil geography, Select C1.2.2 - Remote sensing applied to soil science. Fill in your application.
Topics of Interest for Submission/Objectives, Poster/Oral Presentations
Papers related to remote sensing and soils of any specific area (erosion, physics, fertility, chemistry, microbiology, mineralogy, soil classification, mapping, pollution, soil management) will be welcome. In addition, other topics, such as (a) updating remote sensing technology for soil science applications; (b) soil remote sensing data analyses by chemometric methods; (c) integration of the multi and hyperspectral sensors data for soil science; (e) use of remote sensing data in digital soil mapping, (f) precision agriculture, (g) soil attributes prediction, land use, soil monitoring and soil environment impact; (h) available platforms and data bases for soil remote sensing studies; (i) integration of remote sensing with soil science; (j) data-mining soils in remote images; (k) integration of proximal with remote sensing soil data, (l) reviewing the new technology and missions for future soil science; (m) proximal sensing papers related to remote sensors; (n) all platforms: satellites, airborne, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs); (o) sensors from any part of the spectrum (i.e., gamma, x-ray, ultraviolet, optical, middle infrared, radar, others) are welcome.
