Session Title： Global Watch on Origin Security Verification of Agriculture Products Session abstract： The origin and security verification have nowadays become an essential global concern in identifying the producing or manufacturing places and locations for agricultural products. Countries with agricultural products as their primary exports and imports, e.g., Australia, New Zealand, Chili, Japan and … etc., have all elaborated the origin verification processes as the key procedures to prevent the fraud and adulteration of the nation’s own products, so as to protect the nation’s relative industry as well as the nation’s trade benefit. Legislation for border control of food security have also been enforced vigorously by every country to protect the people’s benefits of health keeping and also the national trade policies in exports and imports. In the recent two decades, due to the great advancement and improvement of the chemical element analyzing technologies as well as the apparatus of Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (IRMS), the provenancing techniques have been greatly improved and widely adopted on studies in various fields such as geology, marine sciences, environmental changes, medicine and medical analysis, agricultures, ecology, and world climate, … etc.. In this session, there are 6~8 papers, including foreign and domestic authors are presenting their recent works on identification technology and verification methodology for origins study on agricultural products. Session Chairs： Dr. Ming-Chee Wu & Dr. Russell Frew Session Title： UAS applications in Taiwan for earth observations Session abstract： UAV coupled with remote-sensing sensors becomes a useful UAS for earth observations. The applications of a UAS in Taiwan become increasingly important due to that various application researches are adopted in these years. In this session, some specific applications in Taiwan in the areas of rural geothermal reconnaissance, landcover, evapotranspiration, digital terrain models and 3D building models, and 3d cloud platforms for archiving UAS datasets. The up-to-date UAS applications will be presented. Session Chairs： Dr. Jin-King Liu, Dr. Kuan-Tsung Chang Session Title： Advances of Remote Sensing in Biodiversity Research Session abstract： In this age of drastic environmental changes and rapid species extinctions, understanding the spatial patterns and temporal dynamics of the biota has become an essential component for biodiversity conservation. The synoptic view provided by earth-imaging sensors constitutes an important source of information on biodiversity at different spatial and temporal scales. In recent years, the development of novel analytical techniques and the availability of open remote sensing data and tools have allowed the spatial, spectral and temporal information content of remotely sensed imagery to be more fully exploited in order to quantify a broader range of ecosystem characteristics. This session wil l feature advances in the synoptic assessment of species distributions and biodiversity patterns, with presentations on applications of remote sensing techniques to biodiversity research, including the development of methodologies for assessment, monitoring, and modeling, as well as their implications for management and conservation. Session Chairs： Dr. Mao-Ning Tuanmu |
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