CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 THE 4TH WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS  
 SCI'2000
 
 SPECIAL SESSION ON 
 GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING AND REMOTE SENSING
 
 July, 23-26, 2000
 
 Orlando, Florida(USA)
 Sheraton World
 
 The Special Session on Geographical Information Processing and Remote
 Sensing will be organized as part of the multiconference. The objective
 of this special session is to bring together researchers from
 universities and industry, and to discuss topics relevant to academic
 and industrial research and development. A general call for papers for
 SCI'2000 is attached. 
 
 Topics of the special session (include, but are not limited to)
 - feature extraction and selection 
 - remote sensing images enhancement
 - classification and segmentation
 - object and change detection
 - sensor and knowledge fusion
 - spatial reasoning and image understanding
 - content based image description and retrieval
 - scene modeling and reconstruction
 - integration of remote sensing data into GIS 
 - specific remote sensing techniques
 - applications in mapping, natural resources and disaster 
   monitoring, surveillance, etc.
 
 PAPER SUBMISSION
 
 You are invited to contribute in the form of extended abstracts and/or
 paper drafts, in English. The submissions must contain sufficient
 content for peer review and should indicate a relation to the special
 theme of the Session on Geographical Information Processing and Remote
 Sensing. 
 
 EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND PAPER DRAFTS SUBMISSION FORM
 
 Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent according the
 following format:
 1. Major theme of the paper, according to the major themes given above.
 2. Paper title.
 3. Extended abstract of 500 to 1500 words and/or paper drafts of 2000 to
    5000 words, in English.
 4. Author or co-authors with names, addresses, telephone number, fax
    number and e-mail address.
 Preferred electronic formats for submissions are either ASCII
 (especially for extended abstracts), Postscript, PDF or RTF. 
 
 Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent via Internet, as
 attachments to e-mails addressed to Reinhold.Huber@dlr.de.
 Exceptionally, three copies of extended abstracts or paper drafts might
 be sent to the following postal mail address and/or faxed to the
 following number:
 
 Dr. Reinhold Huber, Aero-Sensing Radarsysteme GmbH
 c/o DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Muenchener Str. 20, D-82234 Wessling, Germany
 Fax Number: +49-8153-28-1543
 
 IMPORTANT DATES (Attention, different from general SCI'2000 dates)
 
 February 15, 2000   Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500 words) or 
                     paper draft(2000-2500 words)
 March 31, 2000      Acceptance notifications
 April 20, 2000      Submission of camera/ready papers: hard copies and 
                     electronic versions
 
 PAPERS REVIEWING AND PUBLICATION
 
 Submitted papers will be refereed. Accepted papers, which should not
 exceed six single-spaced typed pages, will be published by means of
 paper and electronic proceedings. The full paper should be sent via
 Internet and by means of diskette and photoready hard copies of artwork,
 not later than April 20, 2000. 
 
 FURTHER INFORMATION
 
 For further general information, please refer to the attached general
 call for papers and the conference web page quoted therein. For further
 information concerning the Special Session on Geographical Information
 Processing and Remote Sensing, send an e-mail to Reinhold.Huber@dlr.de. 
 
 Dr. Reinhold Huber, Aero-Sensing Radarsysteme GmbH
 c/o DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Münchener Str. 20, D-82234 Weßling, Germany