For more information concerning this symposium please visit:
http://www.gov.nt.ca/RWED/rs/circumpolar2000
Sixth Circumpolar Symposium on Remote
Sensing of Polar Environments
12-14 June 2000, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
This will be the sixth symposium to deal with remote sensing applications in
polar environments. It will provide an international forum for the
discussion of work currently being carried out in the circumpolar regions of
the worlds in the following topic areas:
- Land and water management
- Global change
- Forestry and fire management
- Environmental monitoring
- Wildlife management & habitat protection
- Snow and Ice
- Mineral and oil and gas exploration
- Oceanography
- Pollution Control
- Archaeology
- Data processing
- Geographic Information Systems
This symposium will be of interest to scientists, scholars, and industry and
government professionals involved in renewable and non-renewable resource
management in polar environments. The symposium will provide a forum for the
exchange of current applied international research, the presentation of new
technology, and the advancement of internal co-operation in the circumpolar
regions of the world.
The Northwest Territories centre for Remote Sensing (NWTCRS) in the
Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic development, Government of
the Northwest Territories is organizing the symposium.
Abstracts of 250 words or less, in English, should be submitted
electronically by February 1, 2000 in unformatted Word, Word Perfect, or
ASCII text format to the conference E-mail address,
circumpolar2000 [at] gov.nt.ca.
Registration materials and information on accommodations are available at
our website http://www.gov.nt.ca/RWED/rs/circumpolar2000
or contact
NWT Center for Remote Sensing
Department of Resources
Wildlife and Economic development
Government of the Northwest Territories
600 5102 - 50th Avenue
Yellowkinfe, NT, Canada X1A 358
circumpolar2000 [at] gov.nt.ca
867/920-3329
867/873-0221 fax