==== Special Session on Image Processing for Natural Risks (IPNR) ====

Natural risks are unpredictable, dangerous and may be widespread. It is often not
straightforward, cost-effective, or accurate to use metrological sensors in the
ground, for example, to study and track their global evolution. The use of image
data is a powerful way to do this: this: imaging technology enables the phenomena
to be observed continuously, safely, and economically without the use of expensive equipment for a single purpose. High-resolution, multispectral, and
remote/proximal sensing can be achieved with standard imaging technologies.
Once the image/video data is acquired, research into image/video processing is
subsequently necessary to obtain useful and timely information about the nature of the risk arising from the natural phenomena drawing on a range of techniques in a well-established and productive field of research.

The use of satellite, multispectral radar, and stereo images combined with
image/video processing for the study of natural risks which may include:
  *  Tsunami
  *  Flooding
  *  Fire
  *  Storm
  *  Volcanic eruption
  *  Ocean and sea pollution
  *  Desertification
  *  Deforestation
  *  Glacier elevation changes
  *  Avalanche
  *  Monitoring of the ozone layer

**Program committee**
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|Lucile Rossi (France)|
|Bonazountas Marc (Greece)|
|Kurosh Madani (France) |  
|Neil Robertson (United Kingdom)|
|Enis Cetin (Turkey) |
|Brigitte Leblon (Canada) |
|Moulay Aklhoufi (Canada) ||


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