HUANG Mingrui. Literature analysis of the 34thAsian Conference on Remote Sensing[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2014,18(6):1268-1275. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20144045.
The 34 thAsian Conference on Remote Sensing( ACRS) was held during October 20— 24
2013
in Bali
Indonesia.The theme of ACRS was"Bridging Sustainable Asia". Based on the conference proceedings
we analyzed and summarized the 970 a bstracts from 52 countries and regions
then conducted a thorough review of the current situation of technological development in terms of current progress trends and research directions for remote sensor
data processing
and remote sensing applications.A thorough literature review of the conference proceedings was carried out to identify the current progress and future research directions of remote sensing technologies and applications. Based on the contents of the conference abstracts
papers presented at the conference were grouped into three categories: sensor technology
data processing
and application. Then we provided an overview of the current status and future research directions in the three areas.Results indicated that the conference articles were extremely rich
including dynamic and basic academic disciplines representing cutting-edge remote sensing science and technology. This review also found that Asian countries illustrated significant achievements in remote sensing technology development and applications. China( including Taiwan and Hong Kong) contributed the most abstracts to this conference
indicating that China is now an academic powerhouse in Asian remote sensing research.A total of 702 conference abstracts elaborated on the theme of remote sensing applications
accounting for 72% of the total a mount of papers. These applications mainly concentrated in the research of marine
agriculture
disaster
cities
forests
watersheds
and land use monitoring. A total of 226 abstracts elaborated on the theme of remote sensing technology
accounting for 23%of the total amount of conference papers that focused on data processing
LIDAR
satellite launch
UAV
and software and hardware d evelopment. This review also found some hot topics
such as Small Satellites and Big Data. However
these topics were not d iscussed much at this conference
suggesting that they may need more attention at future events.