Side-event Workshops Call for Expression of Interest

You are cordially invited to the 13th Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment – AARSE2020. As you might be aware the AARSE 2022 Conference will take place from 24th October to 28th October, 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda. This 13th session will represent a major event in the long series of internationally recognized AARSE conferences. AARSE 2022 takes place at a strategic moment, when Africa faces major pressing issues such as climate change impact, water scarcity, energy shortage, environmental stresses, natural resource related conflicts and food crisis, which affect citizens, business, and the community at large. On all these challenges, Earth Observation can play a greater role in making up factual, precise, and updated information for better decision-making.

The overall theme of AARSE2022 is Space and geospatial technologies for the Africa we want.

Conference Sub-Themes:

• 1. Remote sensing for natural resource management


• 2. EO and geospatial information for sustainable -human security


• 3. Geospatial information for smart city development.


• 4. Space and geospatial technologies for land administration and management


• 5. Space technology for environmental monitoring and sustainability.


• 6. Space technology in natural hazard and disaster management


• 7. Integrated geospatial technologies in agriculture and food security


• 8. Remote sensing Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies


• 9. African Space Development under the African Space Agency:
  a. Space Capacity building and utilisation
  b. Innovative space technologies


• 10. Big data analysis and Spatial data infrastructures

The Conference will include plenary and thematic sessions, poster and discussion sessions, as well as side events on issues of interest to scientists, policy makers, and resource managers in the public and private sectors.

Call for side-event Workshops

AARSE2020 welcomes dedicated workshops -organized as pre- or post-conference events or as half-day events concurrent with the conference scientific programme (the latter in exceptional cases only). Workshops should present state-of-the-art research and cover the development, deployment and operational use of Earth observing systems both space- and airborne.

Workshop Summary Submission

Interested parties should submit a summary of the workshop they propose. The summary must include:

+ Title of workshop;
+ Relevant keywords;
+ Full name and title, e-mail address, fax, telephone of workshop organizer(s);
+ Short description of the workshop (maximum one page);
+ Target audience;
+ Proposed duration of workshop

The Workshop summary should reach the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee: Dr. Fr. Fabian HAGENIMANA by email to vc@ines.ac.rw and copy to jossam2003@ines.ac.rw not later than 31 Jun 2020. Workshop proposers will be notified of acceptance as soon as the requirements are fulfilled (see Workshop Policy below).

AARSE policy on workshops organized by 3rd parties in conjunction with AARSE 2020

Please be aware that the following policy of the AARSE Executive Council on workshops organized by other parties applies: - Organizers of a pre-/concurrent-/post-conference workshop must pay a fixed amount of € 3000 to cover expenses for projector, venue, writing materials, and microphone. Anything extra is to be borne by the workshop organizer. However, organizers of a pre-/concurrent-/post-conference workshop who pay the conference registration fee for 8 of their participants, 2 months prior to the conference date, pay a fixed amount of € 1500 to cover costs of projector, venue, writing materials and microphone.