8^th AARSE CONFERENCE

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission

30 May 2010

Acceptance Notification

30 June 2010

Final Paper Submission

01 September 2010

Sponsors:

The central Theme of the AARSE 2010 Conference is:

Earth Observation for Africa's Development Agenda

The four major Scientific Sub-Themes of the conference are:

For more details about the above sub-themes click here

Topics List

Food and water security	Energy resources	Disaster risk reduction	Marine and costal management
Mapping Production Zones	Assessment of energy demand and supply	Risk assessment for sustainable development	African Coastal Resources & Sustainable Development
Yield Forecast	Spatial analysis of potential renewable energy resources	Provision of geo-information on hazards and risks	Marine Ecosystem
Agricultural and Pastoral Systems	Biomass energy modelling	Disaster risk reduction in national policy	Coastal, Marine, and Oceanography Resources Management
Assessing (quality and quantity) of water resources in Africa	Water, solar, wind and biomass as decentralised local energy resources	Strengthening community level capacities to reduce disaster risk at the local level	Assimilation, Modelling and Forecasting: Towards Ocean and coastal Products and Services in Africa
Surface water body monitoring	Bio-fuels/-energy and food security	Disaster Mitigation	Quantitative indicators of risk and resilience of coastal populations
Seasonal hydrological characteristics assessment	Energy production and conservation	Vulnerability to compounded disasters	Impacts of coastal inundation on coastal ecosystems
Flood forecasting	Policy-relevant information for de-centralized sustainable energy resources in Africa	Predicting vulnerability to urbanization and to climate change	Monitoring and Modelling Coastal Lagoons-Management

Conference sub-themes of a more operational nature are:

Capacity-building: achievements and challenges
Spatial Data Infrastructure, SDI
Space Policy in Africa
National and regional programs and projects
New products and services

For these topics discussion sessions will be organized with a duration of 90min each. Each session is moderated and introduced by a keynote (15min) followed by short presentations (5min) to facilitate the sharing of experience and further enhance the exchange among presenters and audience (20-30min). Contributions should be focused on key findings and /or critical issues for discussion. The Scientific Committee will nominate session moderators who will select keynotes and short presentations from the submitted contributions. Authors of accepted abstracts will be requested to submit extended abstracts of 2 pages for publication in the conference proceedings.