First Call for Papers on
International Workshop

Spatial Information Technologies for Monitoring the Deformation of
Large-Scale Man-made Linear Features

國際研討會

監測大型人工線狀地物形變的空間信息技術

Lecture Theatre 1, Esther Lee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
January 11-12, 2010

香港中文大學利黃瑤璧樓一號演講廳
2010 年1月11日至12日

Millions of dollars of resources have been invested into the development and maintenance of various large-scale man-made linear features around the world, as one of important characters of civilization. Many of them are landmarks in the world. However, the deformation has become a serious problem of those man-made features, for the loss not only of financial investment but also lives at many places, as where subsidence was caused by underground construction of subways or reservoirs. Traditional surveying methods are not enough to help because of the costs and infeasibilities at many situations.

Satellite remote sensing methods have been sought in recent years for monitoring deformation problems of those large-scale man-made linear features. Active remote sensing methods, InSAR and Lidar in particular, and satellite positioning systems have attracted people’s attention. However, many theoretical and technical issues for the deformation monitoring need to be solved before a standard can be accepted for engineering applications.

This workshop will serve as an open forum to exchange ideas with latest development in this area. We are now inviting research papers related to the deformation of the following large-scale man-made linear features:

- High-speed highways/railways
- Subways and urban beltway systems
- Dams and dykes of reservoirs, great lakes and rivers
- Oil/gas pipelines
- Others

Keynote Speeches:

• "Spaceborne SAR's: impact of wavelength and scan modes on ground motion studies."
  by Professor Fabio Rocca, the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
• "The Progress in Deformation Monitoring of Dams, Bridges and Power Lines."
  by Professor Jingnan Liu, Wuhan University, China.

Other Topics:

• “Theoretical background of microwave remote sensing for subsidence measurements.”
• “Subsidence measurement at linear infrastructure elements.”
• “Precise measurement of urban subsidence.”
• “Subsidence measurement at key infrastructure elements.”

Organizers:

Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
National Remote Sensing Center of China

Sponsors:

MTR Corporation Limited
KC Wong Education Foundation
Beijing Eastdawn Information Technology Inc.
International Association of Chinese Professionals in GPS (CPGPS)
International Association of Chinese Professionals in GIS (CPGIS)
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS)

Conference Language:

English