Call for Papers – Disaster Mitigation and Response
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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
NASA Daily Image
Remnant of a Supernova
Vital clues about the devastating ends to the lives of massive stars can be found by studying the aftermath of their explosions. In its more than twelve years of science operations, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has studied many of these supernova remnants sprinkled across the galaxy. The latest example of this important investigation is Chandra's new image of the supernova remnant known as G350.1-0.3. This stellar debris field is located some 14,700 light years from the Earth toward the center of the Milky Way. Evidence from Chandra and from ESA's XMM-Newton telescope suggest that a compact object within G350.1+0.3 may be the dense core of the star that exploded. The position of this likely neutron star, seen by the arrow pointing to "neutron star" in the inset image, is well away from the center of the X-ray emission. If the supernova explosion occurred near the center of the X-ray emission then the neutron star must have received a powerful kick in the supernova explosion. Data suggest this supernova remnant, as it appears in the image, is 600 and 1,200 years old. If the estimated location of the explosion is correct, this means the neutron star has been moving at a speed of at least 3 million miles per hour since the explosion. Another intriguing aspect of G350.1-0.3 is its unusual shape. Many supernova remnants are nearly circular, but G350.1-0.3 is strikingly asymmetrical as seen in the Chandra data in this image (gold). Infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (light blue) also trace the morphology found by Chandra. Astronomers think that this bizarre shape is due to stellar debris field expanding into a nearby cloud of cold molecular gas. The age of 600-1,200 years puts the explosion that created G350.1-0.3 in the same time frame as other famous supernovas that formed the Crab and SN 1006 supernova remnants. However, it is unlikely that anyone on Earth would have seen the explosion because of the obscuring gas and dust that lies along our line of sight to the remnant. These results appeared in the April 10, 2011 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. Image Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/I. Lovchinsky et al; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech