Special Interest Group Education and Training

Contents

• Home
• The Workshop
• Workshop Flyer
• New: Workshop Programme
• New: Abstract Book
• Scientific and Organising Committee
• Registration
• Guidelines for Preparing and Presenting a Poster
• Venue and Accomodation
• Publication
• Important Dates

The Workshop

You are cordially invited to attend the first workshop of the Special Interest Group on Education and Training of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories, to be held at the Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey, on 6 June 2008. The workshop aims to make the results obtained at the more than 250 EARSeL member institutes available to the public. Remote sensing of the earth covers many topics that are significant for all natural science disciplines in school and university curricula. Satellite imagery and data derived from satellite sensors are available from studies of local or regional phenomena. This covers larger scales, as it is typical for remote sensing using satellites, but also the region around schools, and allows thus to point out the dependence between local and global scales. Remote sensing data are used to explain actual conditions on earth. But they also allow to outline the methods for predicting future developments – e.g. of the climate system – with models.

The workshop is further addressed to the Global Environment and Security (GMES) programme of the European Commission and the European Space Agency. The success of GMES services and information products depends on specific training activities which include remote sensing for earth observation as a core element.

Topics:

• Earth Observation for Kids
  
• Science Education at Schools, High Schools and Universities
  
• Applications in Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Physics and Mathematics Curricula
  
• Training Activities in GMES, GEOSS and other International Programmes
  
• Public Outreach of Environmental Sciences and Global Change
  

The workshop will be followed by an open meeting of the EARSeL project Science Education through Earth Observation for High Schools SEOS on 7 June 2008 at the Istanbul Technical University.
The working language at the Workshop is English.

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Workshop Chairmen

Mario Hernandez, Unesco, Paris
Rainer Reuter, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Alexander Siegmund, University of Education Heidelberg, Germany

Scientific Committee

Jessica Bunning, Unesco, Paris
Valborg Byfield, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, U.K.JRC ISPRA, Italy
Maurizio Fea, ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Rudi Goossens, Ghent University, Belgium
Eberhard Hilf, ISN Oldenburg, Germany
Christina Klose, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Ioannis Manakos, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Chania, Greece
Keith Raymond McCloy, Aarhus University, Denmark
Francesco Sarti, ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Hans van der Woerd, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alexandra Wolf, University of Education Heidelberg, Germany

Organising Committee

Gesine Böttcher, EARSeL Secretariat, Hannover, Germany
Derya Maktav, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Geraldine Schmiechen, University of Oldenburg, Germany

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Registration

Registration for workshop attendance is done with the Conference Management System. A registration can be done anytime and also on-site at the Registration Desk.

Payment of the registration fee is done with the Registration Fee Transfer Form which can be downloaded here. The fee includes the Abstract Book, lunch and coffee breaks, and publications in the Workshop Proceedings and in EARSeL eProceedings (reviewed papers) with a free issue on CD ROM. Presenting authors of workshop contributions, oral and poster, are kindly requested to transfer the registration fee before 15 May 2008 to ensure that their contribution will be included in the final programme.

Participation in the workshop requires a registration through the Conference Management System and payment of the workshop fee with the Registration Fee Transfer Form.

Payment	before 15 May 2008	- after 15 May 2008
EARSeL Members	100 Euro	+20%
Non-Members	150 Euro	+20%
Students (EARSeL Members)	50 Euro	+20%
Students (Non-Members)	80 Euro	+20%

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Venue and Accommodation

The workshop will be held in the ITU Conference Hall at Istanbul Technical University, Ayazaga Kampüsü, Süleyman Demirel Kültür Merkezi, Maslak / 34469 Istanbul.

Istanbul is Turkey’s most populous city, and its cultural and financial centre. It is located on the Bosporus Strait, and extends both on the European (Thrace) and on the Asian (Anatolia) side of the Bosporus. The city was chosen as joint European Capital of Culture for 2010. The Historic Areas of Istanbul were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985.

Detailed travel information with links to city maps, consulates for visa applications and more is found on the EARSeL Symposium Website.

There is a wide range of hotels available in different price categories, see here.

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Publication

Contributions presented at the workshop will be published in the Workshop Proceedings on CD-ROM. Manuscripts must be prepared according to the style guide in the sample paper (80 kB rtf file). Please save the file on your computer and use it as a sample paper for manuscript preparation. A conversion to Microsoft Word might be appropriate to reduce the file size if graphics are included in your document. There is no limit as to the number of pages and colour graphics.

The manuscripts will also be available on the Internet within EARSeL's Workshop Proceedings Series.

Authors are particularly encouraged to submit their manuscripts to EARSeL's reviewed open-access journal EARSeL eProceedings.

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Important Dates

Abstract due date: 25 March 2008
Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2008
Preliminary Programme on-line: 5 May 2008
Author registration due date: 15 May 2008
Workshop Programme with abstracts on-line: 20 May 2008
Manuscript submission for Workshop Proceedings: 6 June 2008 (at workshop)
Manuscript submission for reviewed publication in EARSeL eProceedings at any time.

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