The conference has been postponed to 13-17 September due to the Corona Pandemic.
We are pleas ed to announce that the 16th ICRSS will take place at the
University of Alaska Fairba nks, in the Golden Heart City of Alaska. < /p>
The ICRSS is returning to Fairbanks for the first time in more than t wo decades. The International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium was firs t held in Yellowknife, Canada in 1990 and since then it has alternated betw een North American and Europe on a biennial basis. It grew from the often-e xpressed need for exchange of information among those in governments, unive rsities, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector interested with remote sensing research and applications in the polar environments.
The symposium provides a platform for the exchange of current applied r esearch and best practices, the presentation of new technology and further innovation, and the advancement of international cooperation in the circump olar regions of the world. We look to build on the more than 100 participan ts and the record 50% attendance by students and early career researchers a t the 15th ICRSS!
This symposium deals specifically with remote sensi ng applications in the polar environments, both Arctic and Antarctic. Earth ’s Polar Regions feature cold-climate environments characterized by unique landscapes, biota, and processes. Many of these features and dynamics are C ryosphere-driven and either are already subject to or have the potential fo r fundamental and rapid changes in a warming world. Earth observation techn ologies provide crucial tools to understand and quantify these changes.
This symposium will be of interest to scientists, scholars, and industry and government professionals involved in studying and quantifying Arctic a nd Antarctic Change, renewable and non-renewable resource management, and d evelopment of new technologies and methods targeting remote sensing observa tions of polar environments. The symposium will provide a platform for the exchange of current applied research and best practices, the presentation o f new technology and further innovation, and the advancement of internation al co-operation in the circumpolar regions of the world.
The theme of the 16th ICRSS is Convergence at the Poles – Addressing urgent research qu estions and management needs through remote sensing in the Arctic and Antar ctic.
The 16th ICRSS is being hosted at the University of Alaska Fair banks. Oral presentations will take place in the Wood Center Ballroom and v arious conference activities will be scattered through the greater Universi ty and Fairbanks community.
Website: https://www. awi.de/en/science/geosciences/permafrost-research/conferences/icrss.html