UAV SIG Workshop, Annual Lecture & Conversazione
7th July, 2011 – 8th July, 2011
This two-day workshop is a joint initiative of the NERC EO Technology Cluster Programme (EO Cluster Flyer) and the RSPSoc UAV Special Interest Group and will take place at Durham University, UK. The Annual Lecture will take place on the 7th July 6.00 – 7.30 pm; there is no Registration fee for the Annual Lecture – it is free. The Conversazione social event will take place after the Lecture (St Hild & Bede College: The Joachim room). The Workshop and Annual Lecture will take place in the Kingsley Barrett Lecture Theatre (CLC407) on the top floor of the Calman Learning Centre, Science Site.
The first flyer is available here: First Announcement
Delegates will need to register for the Workshop and Conversazione. The registration form is available here:
Completed forms, with payment, should be returned to Kathy Wood:
noting that the REGISTRATION DEADLINE DATE is: 1st June 2011.
Annual Lecture Speaker:
Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada, Director, Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (IAS) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Alameda del Obispo, s/n
14004 – Córdoba, Spain
Provisional Title: Sustainable agriculture and new remote sensing technologies
Provisional Biography: Dr Pablo Zarco-Tejada obtained an Agricultural Engineering Degree from the University of Córdoba (Spain), a Masters Degree in Remote Sensing from the University of Dundee (Scotland, UK), and a Ph.D. in Earth and Space Science at York University, Toronto (Canada). He works with airborne CASI and AVIRIS hyperspectral data to estimate leaf biochemical and canopy biophysical variables through leaf and canopy modelling, and the effects of chlorophyll fluorescence on leaf apparent reflectance through Radiative Transfer Modelling. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California , Davis , working with MODIS satellite for vegetation water content estimation using leaf and canopy models. He is currently at the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where he works with AHS, ROSIS, Hyperion, AVIRIS, CASI, HyMAP and MERIS sensors over forest and agricultural canopies for pigment, nitrogen, water content and LAI estimation. His main interests are related to applications of remote sensing for vegetation stress monitoring, water stress detection with thermal imagery, and precision agriculture.
The PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME is available HERE
Location: Durham University, UK
Contact: Danny Donoghue,
Alternatively you may contact:
Alison Marsh,
EO Technology Cluster Manager
