Announcement: Workshop on SRTM Data Validation and Applications

Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers:

"The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - Data Validation and
Applications"

June 14-16, 2005
Reston, Virginia, USA

February 2005 marked five years since the flight of the Shuttle Radar
Topography Mission (SRTM), a joint project of the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration. The result of the mission is an unprecedented
near-global high-resolution elevation dataset. Since the Shuttle
flight, the mapping community has eagerly anticipated the availability
of this new source of basic topographic information. All SRTM data
production has been completed, and the data are now being used in
numerous applications. To help document the SRTM data quality and
characteristics, and to describe applications benefiting from the data,
a workshop is being convened for the SRTM data user community.

Workshop Sponsors: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA); United States Geological Survey (USGS); Committee on Earth
Observation Satellites, Working Group on Calibration and Validation
(CEOS/WGCV); International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing (ISPRS)

Workshop Dates and Location: The workshop will be held Tuesday through
Thursday, June 14-16, 2005 at the USGS national headquarters facility
in Reston, Virginia (suburban Washington, D.C.).

For further information on the workshop program, registration, and
abstract submission, see the workshop web site at:
http://edc.usgs.gov/conferences/SRTM/