会议名称(英文)：  International GEOBIA conferences
所属学科：  测绘与遥感
开始日期：  2014-05-21
结束日期：  2014-05-23
所在国家：  希腊
所在城市：  希腊
具体地点：  Thessaloniki, Greece
主办单位：  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki、Democritus Univesrity of Thace
协办单位： 
联系电话：  +30 2310 992699
传真：  +30 2310 998897
E-MAIL：  geobia2014@auth.gr
会议网站：  http://geobia2014.web.auth.gr/geobia14/

会议背景介绍： 
Following the international GEOBIA conferences held in Salzburg, Austria in 2006, Calgary, Canada in 2008, Ghent, Belgium in 2010, and Rio De Janeiro, Brasil in 2012, the  5th GEOBIA  conference of 2014, will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece between the 21st and 23rd of May.

The 5th GEOBIA conference is organized by three remote sensing units of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, namely, the Lab of Forest Management and Remote Sensing - School of Forestry and Natural Environment, the Lab of GIS and Remote Sensing - School of Agriculture, and the Lab of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Department of Survey Engineering, in collaboration with the Balkan Environment Center and Democritus Univesrity of Thace.

Previous GEOBIA conferences have demonstrated the world-wide interest in the emerging field of Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis. GEOBIA events bring together the technical and scientific community of remote sensing and environmental sciences, promoting the development of GEOBIA concepts, methods and applications. The international audience is expected to include scientists, professionals and users, of academic, industry, public sector and governmental background, coming from the fields of environment and mineral resource management, agriculture, forestry and urban development. Attendees will enjoy the opportunity to communicate new research results, share technical information, network with fellow experts, and build communities of common interests.

The conference programme will include keynote speeches by invited renowned experts in GEOBIA, stakeholder round table discussions, oral presentations of selected studies, and poster exhibition.

These sessions intend to address advancements, trends and challenges, related to the theory and concepts, methods and algorithms as well as applications, to promote the growth of emerging GEOBIA.

Extended illustrated abstracts of the presented studies will be included in conference proceedings and published on the 5th GEOBIA website.

Selected articles will be published in a special issue of Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing journal, published by the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Conference live streaming will be available through the GEOBIA 2014 website, and archived videos of the keynotes speeches, opening and closure sessions, will also be available after the end of the event.

征文范围及要求： 
The conference will cover three key GEOBIA topics:

Theory & concepts
Methodological issues and challenges
Geographic object-based classification and modeling
Multiscale and multitemporal interpretation strategies and representations
Comparative studies of object-based and pixel-based methods
Accuracy assessment
Integration with GIS
Methods & algorithms
Classification algorithms
Feature extraction methods
Change detection techniques
Multitemporal analysis
Image segmentation
Evaluation of segmentation methods
Application of machine learning methods
Visualization
Applications: mapping & monitoring
Forest and natural ecosystems mapping and monitoring
Urban and environmental monitoring
Automated feature detection for specific targets
Disaster management
Semiautomated map updating
Heat island detection and monitoring
Health and social science related applications
Archeological applications
Applications of new data & sensor systems (SAR, InSAR, LiDAR, Hyper-spectral, Thermal, Videography, etc.)