Current Announcements
SpecNet Europe Meeting June 30 - July 4, 2008
Centro di Ecologia Alpina – Fondazione Edmund Mach
38100 Viote del Monte Bondone
Trento, Italy
Dr. Annapaola Rizzoli (Director)
Past Announcements
SpecNet North Meeting
Sept 10-14, 2007
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
SpecNet Special Issue Published
The SpecNet Special Issue of Remote Sensing of Environment (volume 103) is now published, and contains 14 SpecNet-related papers. For a full list, see the Bibliography link of this web page.
SpecNet meets TropiDry
SpecNet has joined forces with Tropi-Dry (http://tropi-dry.eas.ualberta.ca), a network that applies remote sensing, ecological tools, and social science methods to better understand the dynamics of the dry tropical forests of Latin America. Several TropiDry sites are newly developing SpecNet sites. Optical sampling and flux measurements being added to these sites, promising to add new insights into tropical dry forest phenology and function.
NCEAS Working Group (Sept 18-22, 2006)
SpecNet is holding a Working Group meeting at NCEAS (National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis) at Santa Barbara, CA, Sept 18-22. The primary focus of this meeting will be the informatics needs of SpecNet. A better definition of protocols and data and metadata standards will facilitate the SpecNet goals of cross-site integration, model development, and satellite validation. All SpecNet sites and participants are encouraged to submit samples of data and/or metadata for this meeting. Please visit the Call for Data link of this website for further instructions on how to submit data or metadata.