Natural Resources Management

• Agriculture & Soils

• Forestry and Environment

• Geology and mineral resources

• Marine and coastal

• Water Resources and Cryosphere      

Atmosphere, Ocean, Weather & Climate

• Atmospheric parameter retrieval and modelling

• Weather monitoring and modelling

• Ocean applications

• Climate change and its impact       

Disaster Monitoring, Damage Assessment and Risk Reduction

• Hydro-meteorological

• Geological

• Environmental

Infrastructure and Development Planning

• Infrastructure mapping and development planning

• Urban and regional planning and Smart city planning

• Rural development planning      

Emerging Trends

• EO Sensors and data processing : Optical, Thermal and Microwave

• Data acquisition and Cloud computing

• UAS and Applications

• Mobile Apps, Crowd Sourcing and Citizen Science

• Big data analytics and information Science

• Cultural heritage monitoring

• Health GIS

• Information mapping from social media       

Education and Outreach     

• Needs and requirements in different countries

• Active Learning models

• UAS and Applications

• Cross-border education through web-resources sharing

• Tools development for training and outreach