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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#3333FF">Selected young researchers and PhD students coming from "southern countries" will be funded (a participation to the travel, registration and lodging
costs) to participate to the PhD and young researchers conference (June 18 and 19) AND to participate to the GEOBIA2018 conference.
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</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#3333FF">Application : </span>
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The candidates will present (1) their thesis or their research project (3 pages) ;
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(2) a CV + (3) a motivation letter (1 page). <br>
Please send your application: <a href="mailto:christiane.weber@teledetection.fr">
christiane.weber@teledetection.fr</a></span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#3333FF">The conference GEOBIA 2018 will be preceded by a<b> two days PhD Colloquium on New Ways of Satellite Image Acquisition and Operational GEOBIA processing using eCognition and ORFEO ToolBox.
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<b><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:red">GEOBIA 2018 in Montpellier (France) ---
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CALL FOR ABSTRACT - SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE EXTENDED <br>
to January 3th ! </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">The GEOBIA community is organizing the <b>7th edition of its international symposium on GEOgraphic-Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA)</b>, a newly evolving sub-discipline of GIScience devoted to partitioning
remote sensing (RS) imagery into meaningful image-objects, and assessing their characteristics through spatial, spectral and temporal scale.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">GEOBIA’18 </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">( </span><a href="https://www.geobia2018.com/">https://www.geobia2018.com/</a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">) is
expected to gather scientists, professionals and users, from academia, industry, the public sector and government from all over the world. GEOBIA'18 will continue to be a platform to present research and development on the traditional topics: theory/concept,
methods/algorithm and OBIA applications. Special focus will cover today challenges as big data integration, open sources solution, cloud analyses, semantic and knowledge integration. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">The theme of this edition is <b>"GEOBIA in a changing World - From pixels to Ecosystems and Global Sustainability ».</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#3333FF">An Internet-based GEOBIA Survey on Key Research Priorities will be launched through the symposium
website. </span></b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Schedule: </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">– From 18th June to 19th June: PhD Colloquium<br>
– From 20th June to 22th June : GEOBIA conference<br>
– Wednesday 22th June - afternoon: Side Evenst GEOBIA </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Important dates:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">· Opening abstract submission site: November, 2017</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">· Abstract Submission deadline: January 3, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">· Selection of young researchers award for all event: until January 6, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">· Selection of proposed side event subjects: until January 6, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">· Early registration: January 14, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">· Spécial issue deadline: August 14, 2018 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Contact : </span><a href="mailto:geobia2018@sciencesconf.org">geobia2018@sciencesconf.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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