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Silvilaser Conference Set for Oct. 14-16
Oct. 1, 2009
Contact: Sorin Popescu, 979-862-2614, s-popescu@tamu.edu
COLLEGE STATION—Silvilaser 2009, the ninth international conference on LIDAR applications for assessing forest ecosystems will be presented Oct. 14-16 at Texas A&M University.
LIDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, is a remote sensing system used to collect topographic information. According to conference chair, Sorin Popescu, Ph.D., scientists, educators and students will be able to examine LIDAR uses for forest inventory, ecological and habitat applications, ground-based applications, and satellite-based systems. Popescu is an associate professor of spatial sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at Texas A&M.
In addition to Popescu, the conference co-chairs are Ross Nelson, Ph.D., with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Amy Neuenschwander, Ph.D., with the Center for Space Research at the University of Texas; and Kaiguang Zhao, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow in the Spatial Sciences Laboratory at Texas A&M. In addition, the organizing committee includes 26 scholars from institutions throughout the world.
Jeffrey R. Seemann, Ph.D., vice president for research at Texas A&M, will present the opening address. Keynote speeches will be given by Erik Naesset, from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Kathleen Bergen, from the University of Michigan; K. Jon Ranson, from NASA; and Randolph Wynne, from Virginia Tech.
A total of nearly 40 presentations and posters are planned.
This is the second time that the conference has been held in the United States; the first was in 2005 at Virginia Tech. The conference has been held in the United Kingdom, Finland, Japan, Germany, Australia, and Canada.
Pre-registration has closed, but on-site registration will be available during the conference. The registration fee is $475, $250 for students.
For more information: http://silvilaser.tamu.edu/
About the college:
With an enrollment of almost 6,700 students in 14 academic departments, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate degrees and has a faculty of nearly 400 members, including two Nobel laureates. Research programs include food sustainability and safety, human and animal health, genetics, renewable natural resources and bioenergy. Mark Hussey is Vice Chancellor and Dean.
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