<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Geological Society of America Annual Meeting</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Denver, Colorado, 27-30 October 2013</div>
<div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Greetings,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The deadline for the GSA Abstract submission (Aug 6) is approaching. </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">We would like to bring the following session to your attention:</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Abstracts submission deadline: 6 August</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2013/sessions/topical.asp" target="_blank">http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2013/sessions/<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">topical</span>.asp</a></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Session Details:</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">T91. Geological and Geomorphological Applications of Digital Terrain Analysis</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sponsors: GSA Geoinformatics Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">"Digital terrain data provide insight into Earth’s topography, allowing quantification of processes and spatial relationship of features. We welcome contributions highlighting advances in methods, algorithms, and applications of digital terrain analysis to geology and geomorphology."</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Geoinformatics | Remote Sensing/Geographic Info System | Geomorphology</font></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Keynote Speakers: Helena Mitasova, Paola Passalacqua </span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Monitoring and quantification of rates of geomorphic processes requires repeated acquisition of accurate, high-resolution topographic information. The rapid growth in the availability of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) such as the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, TerraSAR-X Satellite Mission, ICESat and CryoSat missions, photogrammetric-derived DEMs from orbital imagery (ALOS, ASTER, SPOT) or from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and laser altimetry/scanning (LiDAR), provide a way to look at the topography of our planet with an unprecedented detail, often allowing the recognition of previously unknown features and the establishment of their spatial relationships.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Digital Terrain Analysis (DTA) provides the framework for terrain quantification, segmentation and classification, aiming at the recognition and simulation of geomorphic processes. Advances in</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">DTA have had impacts in areas such as hazard andrisk assessment, geomorphologic process evaluation, morphotectonic interpretation, and geophysical data processing.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This session will provide an excellent opportunity to present and discuss recent advances in methods,algorithms, and applications of DTA to geology and geomorphology. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The 2013 <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">GSA</span> annual meeting takes place one week after the Geomorphometry2013 (<a href="http://geomorphometry.org/2013" target="_blank">http://geomorphometry.org/2013</a>) international conference in Nanjing, China; we expect this session at<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">GSA</span> to build on the momentum from the China conference and to extend and expand DTA discussions and networking between scientists in this rapid-growing field.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://community.geosociety.org/2013AnnualMeeting/Home" target="_blank">http://community.geosociety.org/2013AnnualMeeting/Home</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Prof. Carlos Henrique Grohmann<br>Institute of Geosciences - Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil<div>- Digital Terrain Analysis | GIS | Remote Sensing - </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://carlosgrohmann.com/" target="_blank">http://carlosgrohmann.com</a></div>
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