Call for papers
 
 

First International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images (MultiTemp-2001)

Trento, Italy
September 13-14, 2001




Introduction

The analysis of multi-temporal remote-sensing images is one of the most important ways of using remote-sensing data. In particular, people working in several application domains related to environmental monitoring have recently devoted increasing attention to both change detection and analysis. 

However, it is felt that the advances in change-detection methodologies have been under-illuminated with respect to other remote-sensing image analysis topics (e.g. classification). At the same time, the link between the end-users' needs and the scientific community seems too weak. 

For this reason, we think that a high quality workshop, focusing on the methodological aspects of multi-temporal remote-sensing image analysis, is much needed. The workshop will address the scientific development in connection with real applications and end-user requirements. 

Objectives

The workshop's main goal is to assess the state of the art of both theory and applications in the analysis of multi-temporal remote-sensing images and geospatial data. This workshop should greatly contribute to define common research priorities according to end-users' needs, and its proceedings should become a unique, first-class reference for multi-temporal geospatial data analysis. 

Workshop Format

The workshop will be conducted in two days with four sequential sessions (two sessions per day). Adequate time between presentations will allow discussion of the papers being presented. At the end of each session, a round table discussion should address the main topics considered in the presentations and should provide recommendations on the future research directions. 

Papers will be solicited in the following topic areas: 

  • Registration techniques and reduction of registration noise 
  • Correction and calibration algorithms for multi-temporal images 
  • Supervised and unsupervised change-detection techniques 
  • Detection of spectral changes and land-cover transitions 
  • Understanding changes 
  • Shape change detection 
  • Updating of geographic information 
  • Change detection in hyperspectral data 
  • Data fusion in the analysis of multi-temporal images 
  • Classification of multi-temporal images 
  • Assessment of performances in change detection 
  • Applications 
The session titles will be decided on the basis of the submitted papers. 

An invited speaker will introduce each session. To-date, two speakers have agreed to deliver a lecture: Prof. D. Landgrebe (Purdue University, USA) and Dr. R. Lunetta (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA). 

Procedure

Contributions have been received from the research community developing new techniques for the analysis of multi-temporal data, as well as from the application community using the results obtained from the automatic analysis. This workshop will greatly contribute to define common research priorities according to end-users' needs, and its proceedings should become a unique, first-class reference for multi-temporal geospatial data analysis. 

During the workshop, an abstract book will be made available. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. In addition, extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of an international journal. 

Schedule:

June 6, 2001: Notification of Acceptance
July 31, 2001: Camera-Ready Manuscripts
July 31, 2001: Early registration (mandatory for presenting authors; one per presentation)