<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Sorry for Cross Posting, if any</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Dear All,</div><div>A special session on FOSS4G, titled "Open Source Open World" is being organised as part of the Asian Conf on Remote Sensing 2017 @New Delhi during October, under the auspices of ISPRS WG V/8 - Promotion of Open Source in geospatial technology. The details are given below in this email. </div><div>Please note that the call for abstracts ends on 1st July. </div><div>-Rajan<br><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="line-height: 16.1px; color: #2d4a74;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px; color: #2d4a74;"><span>ISPRS</span> WG V/8 <span>Special</span> <span>Session</span> in <span><span><span>ACRS</span></span></span> <span>2017</span></span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="line-height: 16.1px; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: #c00000;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: #c00000;">Open Source Open World</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: 'times new roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: 'times new roman',serif;"><span><span>October 23</span></span>-27, <span>2017</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: 'times new roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: 'times new roman',serif;">New Delhi, India</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: 'times new roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: 'times new roman',serif;"><span><span><a href="http://www.acrs2017.org/" data-mce-href="http://www.acrs2017.org/">www.acrs2017.org</a></span></span></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;"><strong>About <span><span><span>ACRS</span></span></span> <span>2017</span></strong> </p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;">The 38th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (<span><span><span>ACRS</span></span></span> <span>2017</span>) will take place during <span><span>October 23</span></span>-27, <span>2017</span>, New Delhi, India. <span><span><span>ACRS</span></span></span> <span>2017</span> will represent a major event in the long series of successful <span><span><span>ACRS</span></span></span> conferences. The main theme of the conference is Space Applications: Touching Human Lives. <span><span><span>ACRS</span></span></span> <span>2017</span> will bring together students, researchers, scientists, engineers, policy makers, professionals and practitioners from developed and developing countries from and around Asia to share insights into the challenges and opportunities of Remote Sensing and related geospatial technologies in building resiliency and encouraging inclusive economic growth in one, dynamic Asia. It also aims to be a platform for international engagement to ensure that knowledge is generated in partnership with society.</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-size: large;" data-mce-style="font-size: large;">About </strong><strong><span>ISPRS</span> WG V/8</strong><br><span style="text-align: justify; color: black;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify; color: black;"><span>ISPRS</span> Working Group V/8 aims to promote</span><span style="text-align: justify; color: black;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify; color: black;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.95px;" data-mce-style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.95px;">open source and the development of free software on geospatial technologies, mainly in the fields of photogrammetry, remote sensing, and GIS. To facilitate this, the WG organizes joint <span>sessions</span>, tutorials and webinars to promote and exchange the experiences of open source development. The WG will collaborate closely with OSGeo and other <span>ISPRS</span> working groups, and will cooperate with other local and international groups to promote and contribute to open source. The promotion of open source can provide us free software and make accessible the latest geospatial technologies to the wider <span>ISPRS</span> community.</span><strong><br></strong></p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;"><strong><br></strong></p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Call for Abstracts</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">We invite you to submit an abstract to share your open source, free software/system, and knowledge to the <span>special</span> <span>session</span>covering the following topics:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: wingdings; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="font-family: wingdings; text-align: justify;"><br></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: wingdings; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="font-family: wingdings; text-align: justify;"></span><strong>Open Sources on Geospatial Technology</strong>(Emerging technologies that have an impact on future geospatial development)<br></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"> -- Internet of things</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"> -- Big data</span></p><p style="text-indent: 33pt; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-indent: 33pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">-- Drones</span></p><p style="text-indent: 33pt; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-indent: 33pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">-- Machine learning</span></p><p style="text-indent: 33pt; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-indent: 33pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">-- Photogrammetry and remote sensing</span></p><p style="text-indent: 33pt; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-indent: 33pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">-- Geographic information science</span></p><p style="text-indent: 33pt; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-indent: 33pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">-- Airborne/Terrestrial LiDAR</span></p><p style="text-indent: 33pt; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-indent: 33pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"><br></span></p><ul><li style="font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: wingdings; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="font-family: wingdings; text-align: justify;"></span><strong>Applications using Open Sources</strong>(How free geospatial tools/software are used within the sciences and engineering)<br> -- Remote sensing and environment</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"> -- Agriculture and forestry</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"> -- Natural hazards mitigation and management</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"> -- Public health</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"> -- Data science</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"><br></span></p><ul><li style="font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: wingdings; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="font-family: wingdings; text-align: justify;"></span><strong>Education</strong>(How free geospatial tools/software are used and taught in academic courses)<br> -- Active learning models</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: 33pt;" data-mce-style="text-indent: 33pt;"> -- Cross-border education through web-resources sharing</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: 33pt;" data-mce-style="text-indent: 33pt;"> -- Tools development for training and outreach</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Abstract Submission</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">Abstract must be submitted online through the abstract submission system at </span><span><span><a href="http://www.acrs2017.org/" data-mce-href="http://www.acrs2017.org/"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">www.acrs2017.org</span></a></span></span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">. <strong>Select the topic (6) Education and Outreach or (7) Others for <span>ISPRS</span> <span>special</span> <span>sessions</span>.</strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;"><strong>Important Dates</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"><span><span>July 1</span></span>, <span>2017</span> :Abstract Submission Deadline</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"><span><span>July 31</span></span>, <span>2017</span> :Abstract Paper Acceptance</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"><span><span>Aug 31</span></span>, <span>2017</span> iscounted Registration</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">Sept 10, <span>2017</span> :Full Paper Submission</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;"><span><span>Oct 23</span></span>-27, <span>2017</span> : Conference</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;"><strong><span>ISPRS</span> WG V/8 Contact Information</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.8px;">Chair:<strong> Dr. Chao-Hung Lin</strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.8px;">Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="font-family: 'segoe ui symbol',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'segoe ui symbol',sans-serif;">☏</span> <span style="line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.8px;"><a href="tel:+886%206%20275%207575" data-mce-href="tel:+886%206%20275%207575">+886-6-2757575 ext. 63836</a></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Helena Mitasova</span></strong></p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, USA</span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="font-family: 'segoe ui symbol',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'segoe ui symbol',sans-serif;">☏</span> <span style="line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.8px;"><a href="tel:+886%206%20275%207575" data-mce-href="tel:+886%206%20275%207575">+886-6-2757575 ext. 63836</a></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Lalu Muhamad Jaelani</span></strong></p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Dept. of Geomatics Engineering, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia</span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="font-family: 'segoe ui symbol',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'segoe ui symbol',sans-serif;">☏</span> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',serif; font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman',serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span><a href="callto:+6231-5994251-54" data-mce-href="callto:+6231-5994251-54">+6231-5994251-54</a></span></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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line-height: 16.8667px;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.8px;">Secretary:<strong> Dr. Chi-Kuei Wang</strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.8px;">Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="font-family: 'segoe ui symbol',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'segoe ui symbol',sans-serif;">☏</span> <span style="line-height: 16.8px; color: black;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.8px; color: black;"><span><a href="callto:+881-6-2757575" data-mce-href="callto:+881-6-2757575">+881-6-2757575</a></span> ext. 63725</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-family: wingdings; color: #555555;" data-mce-style="font-family: wingdings; color: #555555;">*</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #555555;" data-mce-style="color: #555555;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #555555;" data-mce-style="color: #555555;"> </span></strong><span><span><a href="mailto:chikuei@mail.ncku.edu.tw" data-mce-href="mailto:chikuei@mail.ncku.edu.tw"><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">chikuei</span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">@</span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">mail</span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">.</span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">ncku</span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">.</span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">edu</span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">.</span><span style="line-height: 16.1px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 16.1px;">tw</span></a></span></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p></div><div><br></div><div>Regional Coordinator: <strong>K S Rajan</strong><br>International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India<br><span class="tel">+91-40-66531276</span><br><a class="email" href="mailto:rajan@iiit.ac.in" data-mce-href="mailto:rajan@iiit.ac.in">rajan@iiit.ac.in</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><br>----------------------------------------------------------<br>K S Rajan, Ph.D.<br><br>Head, Lab for Spatial Informatics,<br>Associate Professor,<br>International Institute of Information Technology<br>Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500032, Andhra Pradesh, India<br>Tel: (+91-40)6653 1276<br>Fax: (+91-40)6653 1413<br>E-mail: rajan@iiit.ac.in<br>GeoLocation: 17.4454 N, 78.3503 E</div></div></body></html>