Symposium title: From Human Needs to SDGs

- Specific SDGs

• Climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Greenhouse gas observation and monitoring,
• Monitoring atmospheric parameters and trace gases
• Carbon budgets
• El Nino effects
• Improving weather information and forecasting

• Agriculture monitoring
• Optimizing agricultural production
• Area and yield forecasting
• Agricultural statistics and area frame sampling
• Food security and early warning
• Plant diseases
• Combating desertification

• Forest characterization and biomass estimation
• Monitoring deforestation, degradation and restoration
• Land cover monitoring
• Land surface dynamics
• Wetlands, Biodiversity conservation
• Wild life monitoring
• Sustainable development through ecosystem accounting
• Impacts of climate change on ecosystems and forests

• Water resource management,
• Water quality and invasive species in water bodies
• Water scarcity and security in major river systems
• Water bodies as a sustainable resource for fishery, tourism and transport
• Soil moisture
• Understanding the water cycle and the major impacting factors

• Understanding and monitoring marine and coastal environment and resources
• Healthy Coastal Economy
• Operational monitoring of Illegal, Unreported, Unregulated (IUU) fishing
• Offshore operations and marine pollution
• Ship traffic
• Ocean state and dynamics

• Sustainable development goal indicators
• Socio-economic development
• Monitoring and modeling increased urbanization and its Impacts
• Population Growth and Dynamics
• Smart cities
• Improving Connectivity
• Planning, monitoring and managing infrastructure and transportation
• Border security monitoring
• Culture and world heritage
• Archaeology
• Characterising the Social Environment from Space surrogate measures of social environments and vulnerabilities from EO data

• Monitoring and responding to infectious disease outbreaks
• Vector borne diseases
• Water related diseases
• Air quality and health
• Impact of extreme weather
• Use geospatial data to establish resilient public health systems

- Regional Focus & International Initiatives

• Understanding risks by long term monitoring
• Disaster alert and mitigation
• Disaster response and post-disaster recovery
• Preparedness in high-risk regions
• Natural hazard regulation
• Humanitarian support, Subsidence

• Impact of climate change on food and feed, Impact on water scarcity, natural hazards regulation
• How climate change affects spirituality and cultural identity, aesthetics and recreation
• Building technical capacity to analyse, visualize, interpret and integrate data from observations into services
• Use of optical data from one or multi-channel spectral imagers or RGB cameras, image processing, computer vision and machine learning; also interested in medical and bio-medical image problems, underwater species especially in Coral reefs and other endangered areas

• Environmental impacts of forest fires and new approaches in fire prevention
• Fire Risk Management, Decision Support Systems and Tools
• Fire Management
• Fuel management and Socio-economic Issues

• Mucilage event in Marmara Sea
• Water quality measurements
• Modelling, Causes & effects of pollution
• Water management and socio-economic issues

- Enabling Programmes & Technologies

• Systems to manage, process, store and distribute Earth observation data and products
• Standards, interfaces and systems for spatial data
• Managing the Big data challenge
• Computationally intensive data processing
• Real-time operational systems
• Digital Earth

• Status and planning of the latest and future Earth observation missions and programmes
• Progress and impact of international programs (Copernicus, CEOS, GEO) ASEAN space segment
• Micro and nano satellites
• Airborne platforms and campaigns
• Multi-sensors technics and interoperability
• Mainstreaming Earth observation into governments
• Capacity development for those most in need
• Education and outreach