Plenary
IGARSS 2012 Opening Session and Plenary
July 23, 09:00 - 12:30, ICM, Room 1
| Opening Session | |
| 09:00 | Welcome to IGARSS 2012 |
| Alberto Moreira and Yves-Louis Desnos - General Co-Chairs | |
| 09:10 | Welcome from the Bavarian Government |
| Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology Martin Zeil | |
| 09:20 | Welcome from IEEE GRS Society |
| Jón Atli Benediktsson, President | |
| 09:30 | Welcome from IEEE |
| Peter W. Staecker, IEEE President-Elect 2012 | |
| 09:40 | Major Awards and Recognitions |
Presented by Werner Wiesbeck 2012 IEEE Fellows Special Recognition on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of IEEE GRSS for: Fawwaz Ulaby, Werner Wiesbeck and Wolfgang-Martin Boerner |
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| 10:10 | Break |
| Plenary Session | |
| 10:50 | Remote Sensing for a Dynamic Earth |
| Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) | |
| 11:20 | The European Earth Observation Program |
| Volker Liebig, Director of Earth Observation Programmes, European Space Agency (ESA) | |
| 11:50 | Recent Progress and Future Opportunities in Earth Observations |
| Ghassem Asrar, Director of the World Climate Research Programme | |
| Symposium Introduction | |
| 12:20 | IGARSS 2012 Technical Program |
| Irena Hajnsek and Helmut Rott, Technical Program Co-Chairs | |
| 12:25 | Closing remarks |
| Alberto Moreira and Yves-Louis Desnos, General Co-Chairs | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |