Pacific Islands GIS & RS Conference 2021

The Pacific GIS&RS User Conference was held the 22 and 23 November 2021 in Port-Vila, Vanuatu, as a hybrid event.

Deep Learning for Earth Observation and Remote Sensing

The Pacific GIS & RS Conference is the largest opportunity for Pacific Island and related stakeholders to share experiences and knowledge in the development and use of GIS and Remote Sensing tools and products. Over 300 participants register each year and look forward to the range of presentations, workshops and events.

This year’s leading topic is using AI and Machine learning to help solve challenges for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation.

A variety of remote sensing imagery has been available at an increasingly higher resolution and a faster pace to better empower many applications such as earth observation, due to the advancement of various sensing technologies. This year conference aims to solicit and present high quality innovative papers on the following topics, but not limited to application of AI and ML for:

  • Environment Monitoring (e.g., Land, Forest, Soil, Water and Ocean)
  • Natural Disaster Prediction and Detection
  • Marine Applications
  • Remote Sensing Object Detection
  • Remote Sensing Image Change Detection

Deep Learning for Earth Observation and Remote Sensing

The International journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (Impact Factor 5.993, Q1, Top) will publish a special issue “Recent Advances in Geocomputation and GeoAI for Mapping”.
The topic of this special issue is closely related to the scope of the 2021 Pacific GIS & RS User Conference.

Yongze Song, Researcher from Curtin University and manager of this special issue, is happy to support the conference through this special issue. Participants of the conference may consider to extend the poster or abstract to a full paper and submit to this special issue.

More information HERE!

Gold Sponsors

Sponsors

Pacific GIS&RS User Conference 2021

Go to the Poster Competition page for more informations

 

 

Please find here update for the Vanuatu Travel arrangements,

Please contact Salote Viti or Wolf Forstreuter for more information.

Why Attend?

The Pacific GIS & RS Conference is the largest opportunity for Pacific Island and related stakeholders to share experiences and knowledge in the development and use of GIS and Remote Sensing tools and products. Over 300 participants register each year and look forward to the range of presentations, workshops and social events such as the APSEA awards, awarded at the conference closing cocktail.

Social Activities

A range of activities are offered everyday during the conference week, from the opening cocktail to the pubcrawl night and the infamous Sandbank Picnic on Saturday. These opportunities allow participants to enjoy downtime while also network informally.

Workshops

Workshops are held at the end of the conference week by experts from across the Region and World. These workshops always prove to be a popular and important activity during the conference week. Workshops are held concurrently and are usually at the SPC, Geoscience Division Campus in Nabua and at the University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus. See the 2018 list here.

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