ACRS 2011, the 32nd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing

摘要

During October 3-7, 2011, the Asian Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (AARS) held its 32nd Annual Symposium in Taiwan. The event was organised by Liang-Chien Chen from the Chinese Taipei Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Taipei's International Convention Center hosted the symposium, in the shadow of the Taipei 101 tower, a 500 m high landmark skyscraper. The event was visited by 850 participants, more than 400 came from outside Asia. The programme offered 47 oral presentation sessions with 251 contributions in six parallel sessions. In three interactive sessions 189 posters were presented. The number of no-shows was low: oral: 9%, poster: 29%. 117 presentations from students contributed to the success of the symposium. Nine special sessions were organised by space agencies and other remote sensing organisations (e.g. NSPO from Taiwan, JAXA from Japan, NCDR from China, and IEEE GRSS) on selected topics of their activities. 21 companies presented state-of-the-art products in commercial technical presentations and exhibitions accompanying the symposium. 538 manuscripts were published in the Symposium Proceedings, and distributed to all attendees.