International Acossiation for 
Pattern Recognition


   

Technical Committee 7: Remote Sensing

Members

Maria Petrou (chairman) m.petrou@eim.surrey.ac.uk
Sebastiano Serpico   vulcano@agostina.dibe.unige.it
Henri Maitre   maitre@ima.enst.fr
Paolo Gamba gamba@ele.unipv.it
Thomas P. Bronez bronez@computer.org
Paul C. Smits paul.smits@jrc.it
Lorenzo Bruzzone lorenzo.bruzzone@ing.unitn.it
Sergei Ablameyko abl@newman.bas-net.by
Gianni Vernazza vernazza@ugdibe.uucp
Gunther R Drevin rkwgrd@puknet.puk.ac.za


TC7 Aims

TC7 aims at promoting the use of pattern recognition methods in the analysis of data collected from satellites or airborne sensors used for Earth observation. It tries to encompass researchers that do not necessarily work in the main stream pattern recognition or methodology development, but are focused in the particular application. Often these researchers employ pattern recognition methodologies and present their results in conferences and workshops aimed at the remote sensing community. To meet its aims TC7 started a series of workshops with the title ``Pattern Recognition for Remote Sensing''. The first one was held in Andorra in September 2000. These workshops are co-sponsored by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

The next workshop will be held in Niagra Falls, in August 2002, immediately after ICPR 2002
(PRRS2002).



How to join

Please send an email to m.petrou@eim.surrey.ac.uk


 
 



 
 

Report on the 1st International workshop on Pattern Recognition for Remote Sensing  (PRRS) (Sponsored by IAPR-TC7 and IEEE)




Andorra la Vella, Andorra
September 1, 2000


For many years Pattern Recognition found a fertile ground of applications in Remote Sensing. A large number of Pattern Recognition scientists at some stage in their career found themselves  dealing with cloud detection or pixel classification in remote sensing images. However, as Earth observation satellites proliferated, and as images coming from their sensors starting filling up filing cabinets, overflowing, filling up rooms, overflowing and filling up buildings, the processing of these images created its own large fora of expression like major international conferences where thousands of people go, and its own community of researchers quite distinct from all others. Pattern recognition also moved in all sorts of directions, encompassing a range of applications and a range of methodologies.

Remote sensers still use pattern recognition techniques and Pattern recognition people still demonstrate their ideas using remote sensing applications, but there are very few people who nowadays keep a foot in both camps. Among all this fragmentation,  the first workshop on Pattern Recognition for remote sensing made a timid attempt to bring the two communities together.

The workshop was organised by the Technical Committee for Remote Sensing (TC7) and it was co-sponsored by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.  It took place in Andorra, a Principality on the top of the Pyrenees, between Spain and France, about two hundred kilometres from Barcelona and Toulouse. Several of the participants met coincidentally at the Andorra bus stop of Barcelona airport. The bus journey took just over 3 hours, among breathtaking scenery of the Pyrenean landscape.  The venue was the Crowne Plaza Hotel in La Vella with excellent facilities and very helpful staff. The workshop was attended by 16 people. It is not a bad number given that it was just a single day meeting  with 12 speakers only, and it was the first attempt of this sort to strengthen and renew the links between the two communities.

The workshop proceedings were published by BMVA Press (ISBN 1 901725 12 X). To obtain a copy please send an email to m.petrou@eim.surrey.ac.uk. A special issue of the Pattern Recognition Letters with papers from the workshop is planned for later this year.

The organisers are now planning the next workshop, on August 16 2002, near Niagara Falls, just after the end of ICPR 2002 which takes place in Quebec between August 11 and 15.



Maria Petrou,
TC7 chairman