Program

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