[CODATA-international] Announcement of 2018 Digital Earth Summit in Morocco

Asha CODATA asha at codata.org
Mon Jul 24 11:06:16 EDT 2017


*Announcement of2018 Digital Earth Summit in Moroccoand CALL for Abstract*

International Society for Digital Earth

The* 7th Digital Earth Summit 2018*, DES-2018, on Digital Earth for
Sustainable Development in Africa will be held in El Jadida, Morocco, at
the Faculty of Science, Chouaib Douakkali University from April 17-19, 2018.

This conference will be a major event in the African and international
community of Earth observation and geo-spatial information science in
2018.  It will be organized by International Society for Digital Earth
<http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/> and the Chouaib Douakkali University
<http://www.ucd.ac.ma/>  in partnership with the the African Association of
Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) and  the Moroccan Association of
Remote Sensing of the Environment (MARSE).

The main objective of DES-2018 is to bring together scientist and
professionals from the African and international community to present
latest achievements, discuss challenges and share experiences. The
conference program will feature keynote speeches delivered by leading
scholars, technical sessions with reports of the latest research outcomes,
discussion sessions on operational topics such as capacity building,
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), big data, space policy, programmes and
projects, as well as commercial exhibitions showing latest products and
services in Digital earth and geospatial information technologies.

<http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/news/806>
*CONFERENCE THEME:*
The  DES-2018, will cover all the aspects of geo spatial data and
information themes , Earth sciences, space sciences and information
sciences and technology to assess, monitor and  forecast natural and human
phenomena under the overarching theme: “ *Digital Earth for Sustainable
Development in Africa* ”

*CONFERENCE SUB-THEMES:*
1: Digital Earth: best practices and applications
2: Earth Observation and Applications to Science and Policy
3: Digital Earth technologies to Implementing the Sustainable Development
Goals
4: Digital Earth and Citizen Well-Being
5: Zero Hunger with Digital Earth technology
6: Geo-ethics, Educating next-generations with Digital Earth

*ABSTRACT SUBMISSION*
Participation in DES-2018 is open to all individuals interested in or
working in the fields of earth observation and geo-information science. For
all sub-themes, papers for oral presentation, discussion and poster
sessions are invited.
Abstracts received by the deadline will be considered for program placement
under the standard peer review process. Late abstracts cannot be accepted
due to the large number of submissions and short review schedule. Authors
should indicate the sub-theme under which their papers fall.
The DES-2018 Scientific Committee (SC) will organize all accepted abstracts
into either oral or interactive poster sessions based upon their potential
contribution to the conference and the composition of high-quality sessions.
Only accepted papers that are registered and presented at the conference in
El Jadida will be published in the conference proceedings (CD-rom) and be
considered for peer-reviewed publication in a dedicated international
journal.

IMPORTANT DATES
April, 30 2017           Announcement and call for papers
October, 31 2017      Notification of abstract
December, 31 2017   Deadline for papers
February, 28 2018    Early registration closed
March, 31 2018         Final Program
April, 17 2018            Conference

*For more information and updates please continue to visit the conference
website: www.desummit2018.org <http://www.desummit2018.org/> or contact:
info at desummit2018.org <info at desummit2018.org>*

Source:http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/news/806

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