Geo Message (January 2012)

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Request for contributions

George Cho, Professor of Geoinformatics and the Law, Faculty of Applied Science�

University of Canberra, is seeking expressions of interests from Australians who have an interest in the legal issues related to Earth observations, to make contributions to sessions at the ISPRS Congress in Melbourne in August this year. The proposed sessions to be held at the Congress are as follows:

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Session 1: Frans von der Dunk (IPAC/ISPRS, IAA, IISL) & TBD (IAA)
General Legal Issues Concerning Space Law and EO Satellite Data

Liability aspects of space systems: theory and practice
International law obligations on provision of information and EO data
Public access� to electronic data
intellectual property rights issues in the context of EO data
privacy and very high resolution EO data

Session 2: Irmgard Niemeyer (IPAC/ISPRS) & Steven Freeland (IISL)

Treaty Monitoring and Law Enforcement By Means of Spaceborne Remote Sensing

Importance and practice of disarmament treaties monitoring
National law and the use of satellites for monitoring
Environmental treaties and climate change agreements/protocols verification
Maritime surveillance from space (ship traffic, discharge oil, illegal fishery, illegal immigration, trafficking and piracy…)

Session 3: George Cho (IPAC/ISPRS) & Lesley Jane Smith (IAA)

The Value of Evidence of EO Satellite Data in Court Cases: Theory and Practice

State of the art in EO satellite data products (reliability, audit trail…)
The use of evidence in international court cases
�The use of evidence in common law proceedings (judge and attorney perspectives…)
The use of evidence in civil law proceedings (judge and attorney perspectives…)

Those interested in participating in these sessions should contact George Cho at George.Cho@canberra.edu.au.�

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Full details of the ISPRS Congress and the concurrent 16^th ARSPC can be found at www.isprs2012.org/ and www.16.arspc.com.� The ISPRS IPAC (the International Policy Advisory Committee) is described at www.isprs.org/structure/ipac.aspx �.

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John Trinder

Chair RS&P Commission

January 2012