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Discussion Topics include Remote Sensing of the Arctic, Subarctic and Antarctic Regions:
• Environmental monitoring
• Wildlife management and habitat protection
• Arctic vegetation
• Land and water management
• Pollution control
• Snow and ice
• Climatology
• Oceanography
• Geology
• Mineral and oil and gas exploration
• Archaeology
• Data processing
• Geographic Information System and Web based portals
This symposium is unique in that it deals specifically with remote sensing applications in Arctic and Antarctic environments. It provides an international forum of the exchange of current applied research in remote sensing and GIS applications for land and resource management, environmental monitoring, mineral exploration and in other fields. There will be two types of contributions to the symposium available:
1 - Verbal presentation
2 - Poster
Abstracts are required for both types of presentations. It is encouraged that a short (3-5 pages) paper be submitted along with the abstract for inclusion into the proceedings. Currently, discussions are being conducted to publish proceedings from this conference in the Polar Record. Instructions to Authors can be found at (http://assets.cambridge.org/POL/POL_ifc.pdf).
All abstracts, presentations, posters, and semi-length papers will be given in English
Abstracts
Interested contributors should submit an abstract of 250-500 words or less, accompanied by the following information:
Paper / poster title
Author(s) name, title, affiliation, mailing address
Proposed presenter(s)
Phone, fax and email of author(s)/presenter(s)
Abstracts should be sent electronically, as an unformatted (i.e., no tabs, columns, bolding, etc.) Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or ASCII document to the conference email address (acbrown2@usgs.gov) by 01 March 2006
Accepted authors will be asked to confirm their participation in the conference by April 1, 2006. Abstracts will be available on the conference web site shortly after this date.
Posters
Recommended size of posters is 1 m tall by 2 m long. Posters should be on a single sheet of paper or multiple sheets to fit within this area. Text should be short and to the point (recommended no more than 2000 words) with ample graphics to relay only the most important aspects of the work. Poster authors should stand next to their posters for the first 30-minutes of the poster session, and then periodically revisit their poster after that to answer any questions viewers may have.
Oral presentations
Oral presentations should be in Microsoft Power Point format and given to the session moderator on a CD-ROM or USB external drive for loading onto the conference laptop. If the presentation is on a USB external drive, it is recommended that the author also have a back-up on a CD-ROM. All presentations should be delivered to the session moderator the day before, and no later than, the break preceding the presentation. Presentations will be given in English. At the present time, authors should plan for a maximum of 20 minutes, with a few minutes allowed for questions. The allotted time may increase to 30-minutes depending on the number of presenters. Please check the symposium web-page in early April for changes to the allotted time.
Semi-length versions
Authors of accepted abstracts are encouraged to provide a semi-length (3-5 pages) version of their work for inclusion in the conference proceedings. Papers submitted are to be turned in as Word files (RTF or DOC format) with figures as appropriate. The semi-length papers are due 01 March 2006 with the abstract. Information at the top of each paper should include:
Paper title
Author(s) name, title, affiliation, mailing address
Phone, fax and email of author(s)/presenter(s)
Full-length papers
Arrangements are currently being made to have the proceedings from this symposium published in the Polar Record. The Polar Record is the Journal of the Scott Polar Research Institute, in Cambridge, UK, and is an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal publishing results from a wide range of polar research areas. The Polar Record has published proceedings from the 1994 symposium. Papers being submitted for publication will be required to follow guidelines according to the information given by "Instruction to Contributors". You can also see examples on line at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=POL. The dead line for this submission will be given at the conference, although perspective authors should be ready to provide a manuscript at short notice. The symposium committee will be collecting manuscripts for peer review prior to being submitted to the Journal.
Fees
All authors will be required to pay the full registration fee for the symposium.
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