REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS

Land
LA01. Remote Sensing of Hydrologic and Soil Parameters 
LA02. Hydrology, Water Resources and Quality
LA03. Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture
LA04. Agricultural Mapping and Monitoring
LA05. Land Use, Land Cover and Land Cover Change
LA06. Vegetation and Crops Monitoring and Growth 
LA07. Forest Classification and Monitoring
LA08. Forest Parameter Estimation by Multi-parameter SAR Interferometry
LA09. Floods, Droughts, Evapotranspiration and Soil Erosion
LA10. Wetlands
LA11. Arid and Semi-Arid Lands
LA12. Land Surface Dynamics

Oceans
OC01. Pollution Detection and Monitoring 
OC02. Ocean Color
OC03. Monitoring Extreme Ocean Events
OC04. Radar Observations of Current Features
OC05. Active Microwave and HF Sensing of the Ocean
OC06. Passive Microwave Observations of the Ocean
OC07. Ocean Surface Winds from Space
OC08. Skin and Multi-Sensor Sea Surface Temperature 
OC09. Underwater Sensing

Atmosphere
AT01. Precipitation and Clouds
AT02. Aerosols, Air Pollution and Climate 
AT03. Earth Radiation Budget
AT04. Atmospheric Profiling
AT05. Ozone layer monitoring

Cryosphere 
CR01. Sea Ice and Snow
CR02. Permafrost, Ice Sheets, Glaciers and IPY
CR03. Regional and Global Sea Ice Monitoring in Climate Change Monitoring

Disaster and Hazards 
DH01. Early Warning, Monitoring and Management of Natural Disasters. 
DH02. Geological Hazards
DH03. Fire Mapping and Monitoring
DH04. Crustal Movements, Earthquakes and Volcanoes
DH05. Mine and Subsurface Object detection
DH06. Land Slides and Avalanches.


Environmental, Urban and Other Applications
EU01. Ecosystems
EU02. Environmental Monitoring of Land and Sea
EU03. Environmental Degradation and Polution.
EU04. Environmental Modeling
EU05. Carbon Cycle and Modeling
EU06. Coastal and Riparian Environments
EU07. Geology and Geomorphology
EU08. Cartography and Topography 
EU09. Urban Monitoring, Transportation and Modeling
EU10 Resource Management
EU11. Industrial Applications


ELECTROMAGNETICS MODELING AND SIMULATION

EM01. Wave Propagation
EM02. Scattering, Absorption and Emission
EM03. Radiative Transfer Modeling
EM04. Numerical Algorithms and Techniques
EM05. Microwave and Optical Modeling of Terrestrial surface and atmosphere.

INSTRUMENTATION AND TECHNIQUES

Radar
RA01. Monostatic, Bistatic and Multistatic Radar
RA02. Ground and Foliage Penetrating Radar
RA03. Radar Interferometry
RA04. Radar Polarimetry
RA05. Pol-InSAR Applications and Methodology
RA06. Active Scatterometry or with Signals of Opportunity 
RA07. Altimetry
RA08. Radar and SAR Calibration

Microwave Radiometry
MR01. Microwave Radiometer Technology
MR02. Interferometric Radiometers
MR03. Polarimetric Radiometers
MR04. RFI Mitigation for Microwave Radiometry
MR05. Calibration of Microwave Radiometers

Lidar
LI01. Lidar Sensors
LI02. Lidar Altimetry
LI03. Lidar: Information Extraction and Applications
LI04. Lidar Calibration

Passive Optical sensors
OP01. Multispectral and Hyperspectral Sensors
OP02. Imaging Spectroscopy
OP03. Polarimetric Optical Radiometers
OP04. Optical Sensors Calibration

Advanced Sensors
AS01. Advanced Sensor Concepts
AS02. Very high resolution sensors
AS03. Enabling Technologies
AS04. UAV-based Sensors
AS05. Sensor Networks, Sensor Webs, and Cooperative Sensors
AS06. Remote Sensing using GPS

MISSIONS AND CAMPAIGNS

MC01. GEOSS Architecture and Data Management.
MC02. Integrated Earth Observations Systems for GEOSS
MC03. Space Agencies Missions and Technologies
MC04. Planetary Remote Sensing
MC05. Instruments and Programs: Terra, Aqua, ALOS, AMSR, Radarsat, 
          Aquarius/SAC-D, SMOS, TRMM, GPM, TerraSAR, ENVISAT...
 
DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

DP01. Change Detection and Multitemporal Analysis
DP02. Data Compression and Format Techniques
DP03. Data Mining, Archiving and Retrieval
DP04. Developing, Deploying, and Operating Standard-based Data Systems
DP05. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Data Visualization
DP06. Geophysical Processes and Parameter Estimation
DP07. Hyperspectral Image Analysis
DP08. Registration and Feature Extraction
DP09. Statistical Approaches for Image Exploitation and Analysis
DP10. Data Assimiliation
DP11. Data Fusion
DP12. Multisensor and Multitemporal Data Fusion
DP13. Image Enhancement and Restoration
DP14. Image Classification
DP15. Image Segmentation and Analysis
DP16. Edge detection.
DP17. Spatial Scaling and Remote Sensing
DP18. Radar Processing Techniques
DP19. SAR Image Processing Techniques
DP20. LIDAR Data Processing
DP21. Inverse Problems
DP22. Target Detection and Object Recognition

EDUCATION AND POLICY 

EP01. Remote Sensing Educational Activities and Innovations
EP02. Data Access Policy
EP03. Remote Sensing & the Internet
EP04. Remote Sensing and Public Policy and Management Decissions
EP05. Interagency collaborations
EP06. RFI and Frequency Management

INVITED SESSIONS 

IS01. L. Tsang / J. C. Shi
IS02. V. Chandrasekar
IS03. V. Kaupp
IS04. A. Hahne / M. Martín-Neira
IS05. Y. Kerr / J. Font
IS06. J. Johnson / D. Kunkee
IS07. D. Thompson / B. Chapron
IS08. L. Di / M. Schwaller
IS09. R. Ramapriyan / L. Di
IS10. J. Reagan
IS11. B. Lienert
IS12. R. Arbiol (ISPRS joint session)
IS13. S. Ahmed / T. Lukowski
IS14. G. Ruffini / S. Lowe
IS15. S. Reising / A. Camps
IS16. C. Ruf / N. Skou
IS17. M. Roca / W. Emery
IS18. E. Lobl
IS19. T. Cooley
IS20. Y.L. Desnos / M. Engdahl
IS21. B. Rosich
IS22. P. Regner / R. Doerffer
IS23. B. Hoersch
IS24. S. Paloscia
IS25. E. Ledrew / S. Drobot
IS26. E. Ledrew / L. Wu
IS27. F. Lombardini
IS28. P. Gader / J. Wilson
IS29. P. Gamba / J. Chanusot
IS30. M. Mohamed / C. Luther
IS31. P. Kersten / L. Ferro-Famil
IS32. C. Martínez / E. Poittier
IS33. K. Papathanassiou / E. Colin
IS34. D. Goodenough / J. Pearlman
IS35. A. Plaza / M. Schaepman
IS36. J. Moreno / M. Berger
IS37. M. Datcu / R. Touzi
IS38. M. Datcu / R. King
IS39. C. Luther / S.C. Reising
IS40. W.M. Boerner / Kun-Shan Chen
IS41. A. Roth
IS42. T. VonDeak
IS43. M. Shimada / A. Rosenqvist
IS44. A. Coletta
IS45. S. Volz
IS46. M. Sato