ERC Press Release on Starting Grant results: "Over 400 top researchers selected in the ERC's third prestigious 'Starting Grant' competition" http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/ERC_Press_release_StG2010_results.pdf Statistics http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/Statistics_StG2010.pdf List of results by country http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/ERC_StG2010Results_All_by_Country.pdf

Geomorphometry 2011: Five days of Digital Terrain Analysis (Conference + Workshops) September 7-11, 2011 (Wednesday to Sunday) ESRI Campus Redlands, California, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS 1. John P. Wilson, University of Southern California 2. Michael Gould, ESRI 3. Ian S. Evans, Durham University 4. Tomislav Hengl, Wageningen University and Research KEY DATES * Workshop proposals due: December 2010 * Extended abstracts due: 1 March 2011 * Notification of

The spatial resolution of imaging sensors has increased dramatically in recent years, and so too have the challenges associated with extracting meaningful information from their data products. Object-based image analysis (OBIA) is gaining rapid popularity in remote sensing science as a means of bridging very high spatial resolution (VHSR) imagery and GIS. Multiscalar image segmentation is a fundamental step in OBIA, yet there is currently no tool

This paper presents a procedure to optimize parametrization and scale for terrain-based environmental modeling. The workflow was exemplified on crop yield data, which is assumed to represent a proxy for soil productivity. Focal mean statistics were used to generate different scale levels of terrain derivatives by increasing the neighborhood size in calculation. The degree of association between each terrain derivative and crop yield values was established

Geomorphometry 2009 29 August - 2 September 2009 Zurich, Switzerland http://2009.GEOMORPHOMETRY.ORG e-mail: 2009@geomorphometry.org PROGRAM CHAIRS Ross Purves University of Zurich Stephan Gruber University of Zurich Tomislav Hengl University of Amsterdam KEY DATES Registration open 1 March 2009 Extended abstracts due 1 March 2009 Notification of acceptance 1 April 2009 Final camera-ready manuscripts due 1 May 2009 Early registration deadline 15 May

We are glad to invite you to submit your contribution to the Symposium No 6- 'The third and fourth dimensions of landscapes' to be held within the IALE EU Conference 2009 in Salzburg, between July 12-16, 2009. http://www.iale2009.eu/ Please find below a short description of topics we would like to discuss during the symposium: http://www.iale2009.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=118&Itemid=81 Please find here the submission instructions

Z_GIS- Centre for Geoinformatics and Department of Geography and Geology University of Salzburg, Austria 3 year PhD position for the project “Scales and hierarchies in landform classification” SCALA Applications are invited for a three year doctoral position within the project SCALA. The objective of SCALA is to develop a coherent framework of nested hierarchical organization of topography. For geomorphometry and all fields that need morphometry

The main objective of this chapter is to segment and classify Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data into specific landforms. Based on the results of previous research (Dragut and Blaschke 2006), a classification system of landform elements was improved and adapted for SRTM 3 arc second data. Terrain derivatives such as elevation, slope gradient, slope aspect, profile curvature, and plane curvatures were classified in a multiresolution object-oriented