Remote Sensing Events: The Tenth International Symposium on High Mountain Remote Sensing Cartography

(HMRSC X) will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal from 8 to 11 September, 2008. The subject of High Mountain Remote Sensing Cartography is not new to the Himalayan region. In 1992 when the second symposium on High Mountain Remote Sensing Cartography (HMRSC II) was held in Beijing and Lhasa, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) hosted the oral presentation in Kathmandu. ICIMOD with support from the ESA, the ICA, the Graz University of Technology and the University of Graz is organising HMRSC-X with the objective of promoting and exchanging experiences on developing and applying remote sensing techniques on high mountain regions.


The topics that will be treated in the HMRSC X are diverse and they include remote sensing techniques, environmental studies, morphological mapping, monitoring of environmental and global change biodiversity, amongst others.