******************************************************** Call for papers: Special Issue ?Volcano Remote Sensing? ******************************************************** From: Gerald Ernst <plumeman2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> Special Issue in ?Volcano Remote Sensing?, International Journal of Remote Sensing: Call for papers! A special conference session focusing on advances in remote sensing of volcanoes, of eruptions and of volcanic hazards, with special interest in those advances that could be, or are already applied to advancing efforts to monitor and to better understand less well-known volcanoes in the developing world and elsewhere took place at the University of Portsmouth, UK on September 6-9, 2006. The special session took place during the RSPSoc Conference organised by the ?Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society? (RSPSoc) and by the ?Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG) of the Geological Society of London?. The theme of the RSPSoc-GRSG Conference was: ?Measuring, Monitoring and Mapping a Hazardous World?. The conference was, it seems, an unprecedented success. In the VRS special session, over 30 papers were contributed and have been invited for submission to a special issue of the peer-reviewed, International Journal of Remote Sensing (IJRS). We already anticipate receiving between 10 and 30 papers from the conference contributors, including papers on applications of VRS in Africa, Indonesia, Galapagos and Central America and papers highlighting and illustrating relevant new RS techniques or approaches. Here we would like to broaden the call for papers to any VRS contributors, especially to those who perceive their research could help accelerate application of RS or integrated approaches including RS to advance understanding and monitoring of volcanoes in the developing world. In our view, this special IJRS volume is one exciting opportunity to gather recent VRS advances. This may help the volcanology and RS communities evaluate recent developments and we hope it may serve open up new avenues to help monitoring and understanding of those volcanoes that have so far received only little or moderate attention ? sometimes extremely little attention. It is our opinion that a scaling-up of such efforts in the coming decade is much needed to both help colleagues and efforts in LDCs and generate an unprecedented wealth of fresh data that may contribute many new insights on how volcanoes and eruptions work in the future. We would be grateful if you would help us in this crucial effort by considering sending your contributions so that the IJRS special issue may be the success we hope and help us all assess the state-of-the-art and identify most needed efforts. Deadlines: 1. Confirmation - to Gerald ERNST or Richard Teeuw - that you wish to submit a paper, along the paper's title and a brief outline of its content (including main headings and likely sub-headings), by March 5, 2006. 2. Submission of the full paper, by May 15, 2006. We plan to allow one month for the reviewers to make their comments, and then one month for authors to modify your manuscripts accordingly. Authors should aim to produce a paper of between 5000 and 8000 words. The IJRS instructions for authors can be found at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/tresauth.asp Please follow the IJRS guidelines when preparing your manuscript. We intend to use electronic submission and reviewing throughout the production stages, which should speed up the whole publication process. We will email details about the IJRS electronic submission system to those potential contributors who will have answered the call by submitting their initial brief proposals for IJRS papers by the deadline. We look forward to proposals & outlines of those papers to be submitted to IJRS. Please do not hesitate to email us if you have any queries. With best wishes and kind regards, Richard TEEUW & Gerald ERNST ----- Dr. Richard M. TEEUW, Chair, Geological Remote Sensing Group (a Special Interest Group of the Geological Society of London and the Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society - http://www.grsg.org) Email: richard.teeuw@xxxxxxxxxx ----- Dr. Gerald GJ. ERNST, Belgian NSF Researcher, Geological Institute, Mercator & Ortelius Research Centre for Eruption Dynamics, and Joseph Plateau Geological Fluid Dynamics (now operational), University of Ghent, Krijgslaan 281/S8, 9000 Ghent, Belgium Emails: plumeman2000@xxxxxxxxxxx ============================================================== To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxxx To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxxx Please do not send attachments. ==============================================================
