Important Due Deadlines March 15, 2012: A bstract submission March 30, 2012: Acceptance notice

1. With Immense amounts of data available from satellite observations, sophisticated models and inversion algorithms have been developed and a series of satellite products have been generated. This meeting will assess the current progress and identify the future research directions of land remote sensing. Both experimental, potential and operational land products are relevant, including surface radiation and energy budget components (e.g., incident solar radiation, albedo, emissivity, skin temperature, net radiation, sensible and latent heat fluxes), biophysical variables (e.g., LAI/FPAR, fractional vegetation coverage, canopy biochemical properties, canopy profiles, biomass, GPP/NPP), hydrological variables (e.g., soil moisture, snow water equivalent, water storage), and land cover and land use changes. Both review and technical papers are solicited on modeling and inversion/mapping algorithms, production, validation, and utilization of these relevant land surface products. Scientific Committee Prof. Guanhua Xu (Chair), Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology Prof. Jing Chen, University of Toronto, Canada Dr. Melba Crawford, Purdue University, USA Dr. Ivan Csiszar, NESDIS, NOAA, USA Prof. Jianya Gong, Wuhan University, China Prof. Wei Deng, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, CAS; Dr. XingfaGu, Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, CAS, China Prof. Huadong Guo, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, CAS Dr. Alex Held, CSIRO, Australia Dr. Simon Hook, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Dr. Tom Jackson, USDA/ARS at Beltsville, Maryland, USA Dr. Fred Jacob, IRD / LISAH , France Prof. Yaqiu Jin, Fudan University, China Prof. YimingJu, Nanjing University, China Prof. Chris Justice, University of Maryland, USA Dr. Yann Kerr, CNES/CESBIO, France Dr. Williams Kustas, USDA/ARS at Beltsville, Maryland, USA Dr. Philip Lewis, University College London, UK Prof. Xiaowen Li, Beijing Normal University, China Prof. Zhengyuan Li, Chinese Academy of Forestry Sciences Prof. Shunlin Liang, University of Maryland, USA Prof. Jiyuan Liu, IGSNRR, CAS, China Dr. Qinhuo Liu, Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, CAS, China Prof. Guoxiang Liu, Southwest Jiaotong University Dr. Tim McVicar, CSIRO, Australia Prof. Ranga Myneni, Boston University, USA Dr. Bernard Pinty, EU joint Research Centre, Italy Dr. Jean-louis Roujean, METEO France Prof. Michael Schaepman, University of Zurich, Switzerland Prof. Crystal Schaaf, University of Massachusetts, USA Prof. Jose Sobrino, University of Valencia, Spain Dr. Jiancheng Shi, Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, CAS, China Dr. James Smith, NASA, USA Prof. Alan Strahler, Boston University, USA Prof. John Townshend, University of Maryland, USA Prof. Leung Tsang, University of Washington, USA Dr. Eric Vermote, University of Maryland, USA Prof. Wolfgang Wagner, Vienna University of Technology, Austra Dr. Bob Yu, NESDIS, NOAA, USA Dr. Xiwu Zhan, NESDIS, NOAA, USA Local Organizing Committee Co-Chairs: Shunlin Liang, University of Maryland/Beijing Normal University Ainong Li, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, CAS Jiancheng, Shi, Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, CAS Members: Bo Kong, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, CAS Dandan Li, Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, CAS Jiayun Lin , Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, CAS Liya Ma, Beijing Normal University Yi Wang, Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, CAS Hongmin Zhou, Beijing Normal University Important Due Deadlines March 15, 2012: Abstract submission March 30, 2012: Acceptance notice April 25, 2012: Early registration Contact Information Ms. Liya Ma Phone: 86-10-5880-5245 E-mail: islrs2012@163.com Dr. Shunlin Liang Phone: 1-301-405-4556 Email: sliang@umd.edu Web Site http://www.landremotesensing2012.com