Theme and Topics
The theme of the International Conference is: “Supporting Sustainable Development for Belt and Road Region (B&R) Using Big Earth Data”. The symposium will address the following topics:
Topic 1: Digital Earth and Spatial Data Infrastructure
- Digital earth and integrated earth observation system
- Network of satellite, constellation and virtual ground station
- Spatial data infrastructure and data sharing
- Big earth data processing and application
- Regional cooperation and GEOSS
Topic 2: Remote Sensing for Agriculture Monitoring and Food Security
- Monitoring on agri-climatic, agronomic, production, as well as crop disease
- Early warning on food security
- Big data for agriculture
- Climate change impact on agriculture and risk analysis
Topic 3: Environmental Monitoring and Analysis for Sustainable Development and Management of Coast and Sea
- Port and port cities development: status and planning
- Coastal ecosystem and environment: monitoring and designing policy recommendation
- Sustainable development and utilization of the coast
- Acquisition, analysis, and simulation of oceanic information
- Marine disaster prevention/mitigation and integrated coastal zone management
- Marine environment protection and resource utilization
Topic 4: Remote Sensing for Global Environment Change
- Terrestrial ecosystem change
- Land use and land cover changes
- Ecosystems and global change
- Environment change and adaptation/mitigation of arid and semi-arid regions
- Environment change and adaptation/mitigation of temperate and boreal forest regions
- Environment change and adaptation/mitigation of tropical and subtropical regions
Topic 5: Natural and Cultural Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development
- Earth observations for global change impacts on natural and cultural heritage
- Remote sensing and gis analysis for risk monitoring and conservation of natural and cultural heritage
- Integrated applications of spaceborne, airborne and ground-based remote sensing in archaeolandscape
- Space information technology for sustainable development of natural and cultural heritage
- Space information technology for past human-environment interactions along the belt and road
Topic 6: Big Earth Data for Disaster Risk Reduction
- Innovative technologies for disaster reduction
- Distribution, sharing, and integration of disaster information and product
- Collaboration mechanisms for disaster risk reduction in the belt and road
Topic 7: Remote Sensing for Water Resources
- Observation capabilities for water cycle in the Belt and Road regions (in-situ and satellite)
- Advances in fundamental physical processes in water cycle: modelling and data assimilation
- Current and future products for water resources: quantification of uncertainties
- Applications in water resources and water use: adaptation of water management systems under climate change/infrastructure development, water harvesting, water productivity and water accounting, drought and flood monitoring, high elevation hydrology, etc.
- Applications relevance to other DBAR themes and future plans for observation of water resources
Topic 8: Urban Environment and Sustainable Urban Development
- Earth observation for urban mapping , monitoring and assessment
- Urbanization and environmental impacts
- Urban ecology and urban sustainability
- Urban heat island effect and urban climate
- Urban resilience and disaster risk management
- Big data and smart city construction
Topic 9: Observations and Adaption to Changes in High Mountain and Arctic Cold Regions
- Earth observations and geophysical parameters retrieval technique
- Data assimilation and integration of in-situ and remote sensing
- Climatology data products, assessment and time series analysis in last decades
- Hydrological processes and ecological change in three pole regions
- Teleconnections of changes between arctic and high mountain area
- Ecosystem effects, climatic and societal impacts of and adaption to changes