GEOSS Summer School: Advancing Earth Observation Data Understanding
September 3 – September 5, 2009
Sinaia, Romania
Thursday, 3 September 2009
08.00 Registration
08.30 Welcome address
Roger King, Mississippi State University
Session 1: Advanced methods for Earth Observation image analysis
09.00 Classic and modern data clustering (.pdf 689 KB)
Speaker: Marina Meila, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle
10.30 Students group discussions
10.45 Questions and answers session with the speaker
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 Compression based Learning Systems for Image Analysis (.pdf 4.25 MB)
Speaker: Toshinori Watanabe, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo
13.00 Students group discussions
13.15 Questions and answers session with the speaker
13.30 Lunch
15.00 Spatial Relationship Models for Image Information Mining (.pdf 4.91 MB)
Speaker: Selim Aksoy, Bilkent University, Ankara
16.30 Students group discussions
16.45 Questions and answers session with the speaker
17.00 – 18.00 Panel discussions (.pdf 2.37 MB)
Chairperson: Roger King, Mississippi State University
Members:
Marina Meila, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle
Toshinori Watanabe, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo
Selim Aksoy, Bilkent University, Ankara
19.00 Dinner
Friday, 4 September 2009
Session 2: Earth Observation imaging sensors and applications
09.00 Overview of Earth Observation Imaging Sensors (.zip 12.3 MB)
Speaker: Klaus Seidel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich
10.30 Students group discussions
10.45 Questions and answers session with the speaker
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 Hyperspectral Earth Observation Imaging and Analysis: An Agricultural Perspective (.zip 9.1 MB)
Speaker: Roger King, Mississippi State University
13.00 Students group discussions
13.15 Questions and answers session with the speaker
13.30 Lunch
15.00 Synthetic Aperture Radar Earth Observation Imaging (.pdf 63.9 MB)
Speaker: Mihai Datcu, German Aerosapce Center DLR
16.30 Students group discussions
16.45 Questions and answers session with the speaker
17.00 – 18.00 Panel discussions (.pdf 1.04 MB)
Chairperson: Mihai Datcu, German Aerosapce Center DLR
Members:
Klaus Seidel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich
Roger King, Mississippi State University
19.00 Dinner
Saturday, 5 September 2009
Session 3: Knowledge based Earth Observation
09.00 Semantics and Knowledge Representations: A Multimedia Perspective (.pdf 8.85 MB)
Speaker: Mario Doller, University Passau, Germany
10.30 Students group discussions
10.45 Questions and answers session with the speaker
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 Knowledge based Earth Observation - KEO System
Speaker: Michele Iapaolo, European Space Agency (ESA)
13.00 Students group discussions
13.15 Questions and answers session with the speaker
13.30 Lunch
15.00 KEO/KIM System Applications
Practical applications sessions coordinated by Michele Iapaolo, European Space Agency (ESA)
17.00 Closing panel and conclusions
17.30 End of summer school