By African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE)
Today, Africa faces major pressing issues: climate change impact, water scarcity, energy shortage, environmental stresses and food crisis, which affect citizens, business and the community at large. Efforts were made by African countries to work out strategies and policies coordinated in the fields of the environment and the sustainable development. On all these challenges, constitution of coherent seamless and up-to-date spatially enabled information is an essential precondition for setting up coordinated policy and strategy.
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 |
Important dates
Abstract Submission
30 May 2010 |
Acceptance Notification
30 June 2010 |
Final Paper Submission
01 September 2010 |
Borchure :http://www.aarse2010.org/documents/brochure.pdf
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