Dear colleagues,
We invite paper submissions to a three-day workshop on
Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences. We invite both methodological contributions and substantial papers from research at the interface of social and Earth system science, as well as work from either discipline that advances understanding
or offers new potential for the other.
The workshop will take place in person at
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany, from
November 26 to 28. We plan to have an in-depth and rich discussion of up to fifteen papers and welcome our keynote lecturers,
Prof. Dr. Monika Kuffer from the University of Twente and Dr. Ana Andries from the University of Surrey.
Article abstracts (max. 500 words) should be send to
dennis.abel@gesis.org
by August 6.
Please see the attached file for the full call for abstracts.
Our keynote speakers
Prof. Dr. Monika Kuffer
Monika Kuffer
is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation at the University of Twente. Her research focuses on sustainable development (SDGs), particularly
poverty (deprivation), living quality, and economic development in urban/rural environments using remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and AI-based methods. Her current projects include
IDEAtlas and SPACE4ALL. Among other positions, she is the Dutch representative
of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL).
Dr. Ana Andries
Ana Andries is a Lecturer in GIS and Remote Sensing with applications in sustainability assessment at the University of Surrey. Her expertise
spans environmental impact assessment, environmental auditing, spatial analysis, and sustainable development. She has worked on multiple projects exploring EO technologies for tackling environmental and socio-economic challenges, leading the
Space4Sustainability initiative at the University of Surrey. Before her academic role, she gained industrial experience as a GIS Quality Control specialist at the Rural Payment Agency (RPA) under the UK Department for Environment,
Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
The organizing team
Dennis Abel, Stefan Jünger, Jonas Lieth, Amelie Veit
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GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Dr. Dennis Abel
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department for Survey Data Curation
Team Survey Data Augmentation
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6220-2511
Tel: +49 (0)221-47694-479