Summer School: 'GISLERS - Bridging GIS, Landscape Ecology and Remote Sensing for Landscape Planning'

Location

Salzburg, Austria

Date

June 29, 2010

Duration

All day, every day.
End date

July 9, 2010

The Z_GIS Summer School 2010 is dedicated to the theme of Bridging Geographic Information Science (GIS), Landscape Ecology (LE), and Remote Sensing (RS) for landscape analysis and landscape planning and is hosted by Salzburg University's Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS).

Participants with an interest in GIS, Remote Sensing and Landscape Ecology are welcome to attend the short intensive course from June 29 - July 09, 2010 in the world cultural heritage city of Salzburg. Participants also have access to the Geoinformatics Forum / AGIT conference from July 06 - 09, 2010. Conferences are included in the course fee.

The summer school has been designed to:

Support the training and development of the next generation of landscape ecologists, GIS and remote sensing experts
Facilitate communication and the exchange of information between young scientists and established scholars from around the world in the field of GIS, remote sensing and Landscape Ecology scientists, and
Enable young researchers to develop and discuss their ideas in the context of other approaches and perspectives
Enhance knowledge and technical capabilities
Advocate the use of sound policy decisions based on concepts, approaches, theories and methods in landscape ecology applied in the domain of GIS and RS
Promote technical skills while doing terrain classification using object-based image analysis (OBIA).

The course is especially offered to:

Students and alumni from universities worldwide
Employees of public and private institutions interested in landscape topics
Technical staff coming from the area of GIS and remote sensing (landscape planners and architects, etc.)
The Summer School targets students from Geography, IT and GI-Science, and landscape ecology. Students with a curricular requirement for an International Summer School will be given priority admission.

More information about the programme, the venue, the course fee and registration can be found on the website of the summer school: www.edu-zgis.net.