<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><div>Dear Suchith, All,</div><div><br></div><div>There will be an ISPRS event in Hyderabad later this Dec with a session on Education, Tech transfer and Capacity development. Are you aware of anyone planning to present <span>ICA-OSGeo Lab Network at this session? If not, I would like to use this opportunity to spread the word in the community and promote our Network.<br> </span></div><div><span> </span></div><div><span>regards,<br></span></div><span>Rajan</span></div><div><span> </span><br></div><div><span name="x"></span>----------------------------------------------------------<br>K S Rajan, Ph.D.<br><div><br></div>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<span name="x"></span><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"S K Srivastav" <sksrivastav@iirs.gov.in><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, August 19, 2014 6:51:08 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Req for contributions in ISPRS Symposium during 09-12 December 2014 at Hyderabad<br><div><br></div><span style="font-family: Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Dear All,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The Technical Commission (TC)-VIII
of ‘International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing’ (ISPRS) is
organizing an International Symposium on “Operational Remote Sensing
Applications: Opportunities, Progress and Challenges” at Hyderabad, India
during 09-12 December, 2014. <b>Joint
sessions with ISPRS TC-IV and TC-VI are also planned during the symposium
(flyer for the event attached).</b></span></p>
<h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> </span></h1>
<h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">One of the themes in the above
event is "Education, Technology Transfer and Capacity Development"<span style="font-weight: normal;"> (</span><a href="http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/MTSTC8/sessionprogramme" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/MTSTC8/sessionprogramme</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">),
which is covered under the TC-VI of ISPRS. Under this major theme, there are
six Working Groups (WGs 1 to 6) covering the following sub-themes: (1) Web-based Resource Sharing for Education and Collaborative Research; (2)
E-Delivery of Education Services; (3) Promotion of International Collaborative
Education Programs; (4) Promotion of Regional Cooperation and Regional Capacity
Development in Geoinformatics; (5) Promotion of the Profession to Young People;
and (6) Technology Transfer and Capacity Development. For details, refer the
ISPRS website (</span><a href="http://www.isprs.org/" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">www.isprs.org</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">).</span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I am writing this email as Secretary of TC VI/2 (being with India) to invite your contributions (extended abstracts)
for the overall theme of “Education, Technology Transfer and Capacity
Development".</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>The last date for submission
of abstracts is extended to September 8, 2014</b>. The abstract can be submitted online (<a href="http://meetings.copernicus.org/mtstc8_2014/contribution_management/" target="_blank">http://meetings.copernicus.org/mtstc8_2014/contribution_management/</a>)
as per the guidelines provided in orange book (attached). The abstract has to
be minimum one page (about 1000 words) containing all the relevant aspects
needed for review.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The <span lang="EN-IN">papers accepted for the symposium
will be published in two categories namely: The International <b>Annals </b>(based
on double-blinded peer-review) of the photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and
Spatial Information Sciences and The International <b>Archives </b>(based
on extended abstract review) of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial
Information Sciences.<b> </b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span lang="EN-IN">Please visit symposium website (</span><a href="http://www.nrsc.gov.in/isprs/2014tc8symposium.html" target="_blank">http://www.nrsc.gov.in/isprs/2014tc8symposium.html</a><span lang="EN-IN">) for
further details.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">It
is also requested to give wide publicity to the above event and forward it to
all concerned colleagues working in this area.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Looking forward for your
contributions and with best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">S.K. Srivastav</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Secretary, ISPRS TC VI/2</span></span></p><div style=""><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">_____________________________________<br></span><div style=""><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Head, Geoinformaics Department</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS)</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">ISRO | Dept. of Space | Govt. of India</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">4, Kalidas Road</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Dehradun-248001, INDIA</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tel: +91-135-2524131</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Fax: +91-135-2741987, 2748041</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;" face="Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Email: sksrivastav@iirs.gov.in</span></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div></body></html>