At a general assembly in Johannesburg in 2014, Uganda was honored to host the next AARSE (African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment) international conference. Makerere University is the lead institution in organizing the conference and two departments i.e. Department of Geography, Geo-Informatics and Climatic Sciences (CAES) and the Department of Geomatics and Land Management (CEDAT) are involved in coordinating the activities of the conference.
The theme for the conference is
“Our Earth, our Heritage: Harnessing Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Development in Africa”.
There are 10 subthemes namely;
1. Space and earth observation technology for sustainable development goals (SDG’s)
2. Disaster risk management and resilience
3. From climate change to climate risk management
4. Human capital development in geospatial science
5. Big Data and spatial data infrastructure utility and management
6. Africa space policy and strategy: Cost benefit of space technology
7. Geospatial science and technology for water and watershed management
8. Conflict management, human security and peace
9. Cities and demographic transitions
10. Geospatial technologies for Energy Management
Details of the conference can be found at www.aarse2016.org.
We expect high profile participation of institutions in the domain of remote sensing, space science, earth observation and GIS to participate in the conference including Airbus, SANSA, ESRI, NASA, RCMRD., Google, Hexagon. We also expect about 40 firms in geospatial technology to exhbit their products and services at the conference.
The call for abstracts is already out. Abstracts will be accepted until 30th June 2016. Abstracts can be submitted at: http://aarse2016.org/call-and-submission-abstracts .
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