<div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="gmail-templateContainer" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(242,242,242)"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="gmail-templateHeader" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border-top:0px;border-bottom:0px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-headerContainer" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table class="gmail-mcnTextBlock" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="gmail-mcnTextBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding-top:9px"><table class="gmail-mcnTextContentContainer" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="color:rgb(96,96,96);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;padding:0px 18px 9px"><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:22.5px;text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(139,69,19)"><strong><span style="font-size:24px"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,"times new roman",serif">Announcement of<br><br>2018 Digital Earth Summit in Morocco<br><br>and CALL for Abstract</span></span></strong></span><br><span style="font-family:georgia,times,"times new roman",serif"> <br><span style="font-size:19px">International Society for Digital Earth</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="gmail-mcnImageBlock" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="gmail-mcnImageBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding:9px"><table class="gmail-mcnImageContentContainer" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-mcnImageContent" valign="top" style="padding:0px 9px;text-align:center"><img alt="" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a889f433fba3dd2febb24d4a1/images/221f3487-565f-4aa5-b58c-5cf19c16df2d.jpg" class="gmail-mcnImage" width="564" align="middle" style="border: 0px; outline: none; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 986px; padding-bottom: 0px; display: inline;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="gmail-templateBody" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border-top:0px;border-bottom:0px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-bodyContainer" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table class="gmail-mcnTextBlock" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="gmail-mcnTextBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding-top:9px"><table class="gmail-mcnTextContentContainer" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="color:rgb(96,96,96);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;padding:0px 18px 9px"><br><span style="font-family:georgia,times,"times new roman",serif">The<strong> 7th Digital Earth Summit 2018</strong>, 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.<br><br>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 <a href="http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(109,198,221)">International Society for Digital Earth</a> and the <a href="http://www.ucd.ac.ma/" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(109,198,221)">Chouaib Douakkali University</a> 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).<br><br>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.</span><br> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="gmail-mcnImageBlock" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="gmail-mcnImageBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding:9px"><table class="gmail-mcnImageContentContainer" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-mcnImageContent" valign="top" style="padding:0px 9px"><a href="http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/news/806" title="" class="gmail-" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word"><img alt="" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a889f433fba3dd2febb24d4a1/images/74b11f5d-f5a3-4f68-904c-7f13ba74c62c.jpg" class="gmail-mcnImage" width="557" align="left" style="border: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 557px; padding-bottom: 0px; display: inline;"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="gmail-mcnTextBlock" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="gmail-mcnTextBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding-top:9px"><table class="gmail-mcnTextContentContainer" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="color:rgb(96,96,96);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:22.5px;padding:0px 18px 9px"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,"times new roman",serif"><em>CONFERENCE THEME:</em><br>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: “ <span style="color:rgb(218,165,32)"><strong>Digital Earth for Sustainable Development in Africa</strong></span> ”<br><br><em>CONFERENCE SUB-THEMES:</em><br>1: Digital Earth: best practices and applications<br>2: Earth Observation and Applications to Science and Policy<br>3: Digital Earth technologies to Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals<br>4: Digital Earth and Citizen Well-Being<br>5: Zero Hunger with Digital Earth technology<br>6: Geo-ethics, Educating next-generations with Digital Earth<br><br><strong><span style="color:rgb(139,69,19)"><em>ABSTRACT SUBMISSION</em></span></strong><br>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.<br>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.<br>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.<br>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.<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>April, 30 2017 Announcement and call for papers<br>October, 31 2017 Notification of abstract<br>December, 31 2017 Deadline for papers<br>February, 28 2018 Early registration closed<br>March, 31 2018 Final Program<br>April, 17 2018 Conference<br> </span><br><em><span style="font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(139,69,19)">For more information and updates please continue to visit the conference website: </span><strong><a href="http://www.desummit2018.org/" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(109,198,221);font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(139,69,19)">www.desummit2018.org</span></a></strong><span style="color:rgb(139,69,19)"><strong> </strong>or contact: <a href="mailto:info@desummit2018.org">info@desummit2018.org</a></span></span></em><br><br><span style="font-family:arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Source：</span><a href="http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/news/806" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(109,198,221)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/news/806</span></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px">-------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">CODATA 2017 International Conference, ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven Research’, Saint-Petersburg, <span><span>8-13 October</span></span>, Registration and Information: <a href="http://codata2017.gcras.ru/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://codata2017.gcras.ru/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">CODATA 2017 International Conference, ‘Global Challenges and Data-Driven Research’, Now Accepting Proposals for Sessions and Papers: <a href="http://conference.codata.org/2017/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://conference.codata.org/2017/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">What has CODATA delivered recently? 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