Dear HOT friends and colleagues, the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) has recently founded the *Capacity Building project* named “Capacity Building for High-Resolution Land Cover Intercomparison and Validation” [1]. The main objective of the project is to develop learning material on the intercomparison and validation of high resolution Land Cover maps, which especially targets researchers and professionals in developing countries. This new learning material will be tested in three field workshops (two of which held in developing countries): in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) with the support of World Bank, in Nairobi (Kenya) with the support of the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development, and in Delft (The Netherlands) within the ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium 2018.
In the frame of this initiative, we kindly ask your help to fill two short questionnaires about: 1) the state of the art in training material on the intercomparison and validation of Land Cover maps, where we ask you to indicate available learning resources on the intercomparison and validation of Land Cover maps. The questionnaire is available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4uUFzfPmzLE0vYUQxQ2aXmcQNOmRJ6yV-lZeVDGbTSzhgGQ/viewform If you are not aware of any of these resources, switch directly to the second questionnaire. 2) the Requirements and use cases for Land Cover maps production and validation, where we assess the awareness about Land Cover maps and ask about significant use cases/requirements. The questionnaire is available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetFVUqq-fSn1kjodtbzzFhsxa9nZBuik0egPrhv2vKi_fuaw/viewform We kindly ask to fill the questionnaires before *April 28, 2018*. Filling each questionnaire requires just a couple of minutes and will be of invaluable importance to reach the project objectives. Responses from people working in developing countries will be particularly useful. Thank you very much for your cooperation, Marco Minghini on behalf of the ISPRS Capacity Building Project: Prof. Chen Jun, Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli, Dr. Hao Wu, Dr. Marco Minghini, Mr. Peng Shu, Dr. Xinyan Zheng, Dr. Monia Elisa Molinari, Prof. Sisi Zlatanova Local Workshops Organizers: Msilikale Msilanga, Devotha Laurent, Phoebe Oduor and Kenneth Kasera [1] http://www.isprs.org/society/ecbi/default.aspx Marco Minghini, Ph.D. GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - DICA Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy) +39 02 23996409 marco.mingh...@polimi.it @MarcoMinghini <https://twitter.com/MarcoMinghini>
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