The 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment

This 36th Symposium will represent a major event in the long series of internationally recognized ISRSE meetings. The overall theme of the symposium is the use of Earth Observation systems and related Remote Sensing techniques for understanding and managing the Earth environment and resources.

ISRSE-36 will feature recent milestones in the development of Earth observation programmes addressing sustainable development, global environmental issues and resilience to disasters:

• The Copernicus Programme which is the European Earth Observation and Monitoring Programme, where the first mission Sentinel-1A has been launched successfully, others will follow soon.
• Other significant Earth Observation programmes world-wide, public as well as private, such as the US Land Imaging Program and its Landsat legacy, the SPOT, Radarsat, ALOS or CBERS programmes.
• The TerraSAR-X mission and, together with its twin satellite, the TanDEM-X mission. Both missions are implemented in a public-private partnership of the German Aerospace Center DLR with Airbus Defence and Space. 2015 will witness the full completion of the TanDEM-X global Digital Elevation Model. This will be an unique dataset with unprecedented quality and coverage. The RapidEye mission has been launched in 2008, where DLR supports its scientific exploitation. DLR also prepares for the EnMAP Hyperspectral Imaging mission to be launched in 2017.