Call for Papers – Disaster Mitigation and Response ­

Earthzine is soliciting articles for its theme issue on observing and monitoring Disaster Mitigation and Response, including contributions addressing current issues, techniques and applications of remote sensing, GIS, and geovisualization. The theme issue is scheduled for the first quarter of 2009.

Earthzine is an informative scientific webzine dedicated to promoting global interconnections among earth observers. It is sponsored by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) in support of the Group on Earth Observation’s Global Earth Observation System of Systems.

May we invite you to examine Earthzine, and to submit an article to us? We can offer as incentives participation in building the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), and the values of being part of a professionally diverse and global readership network. In less than a year, Earthzine has developed a readership of more than 8,000 in more than 100 countries.

We are most interested in receiving articles dealing with innovative examples of the use of GIS, remote sensing, or geovisualization for disaster or hazard planning, response, or assessment. Topics focusing on, but not limited to, the use of GIS and remote sensing for predictive modeling of natural hazards and disasters, analyses of damage potential and risk exposure, methods of post‐disaster assessment with remote sensing, geospatial datasets utilized in disaster mitigation and response, novel sensors and technologies for hazard and disaster research, methods for visualizing disaster impacts, and the use of GIS and remote sensing for assessing the human impact of disasters are all of interest.

Types of articles we are interested in receiving are program, project, organization descriptions; latest discoveries, unusual findings, examples of interdisciplinary and/or cross‐regional research. In addition to running a peer‐review process for original articles we also publish opinions, letters, book and art reviews.

Please consult the Writer’s Guidelines for further information.

Do you have other topics to propose? Can you recommend others to contact? We would be most grateful for any assistance you can provide to Earthzine.

Please submit articles in a format compatible with Microsoft Word to John Kostelnick or Christoph Aubrecht by January 1, 2009.

Important dates:
Submission of original articles for review begins: January 1, 2009
Submission of letters, opinions, book and art reviews begins: January 1, 2009

Publication:
All accepted contributions will be published on-line at www.Earthzine.org in the second quarter of 2009 and will be freely accessible to the public. Original articles which pass the review process will be put in section 01: Original Articles in the category dedicated to ‘Disasters’ – one of the nine societal benefit areas of GEOSS.

Information:
Earthzine website: http://www.earthzine.org
Writer’s Guidelines: http://www.earthzine.org/about-2/writers-guidelines
GEO/GEOSS website: http://www.earthobservations.org

Editor-in-Chief:
Paul E. Racette, DSc
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD, USA

Managing Editor:
Maeve Hickok, MA
Freelance Professional Writer

Associate Editors:
Christoph Aubrecht
Austrian Research Centers GmbH ‐ ARC systems research
Vienna, Austria

John Kostelnick
Illinois State University
Department of Geography‐Geology
Normal, IL, USA