[Esip-opensource] FYI -- November 2015 Special Issue Call for Papers

Mon Jul 7 19:18:05 EDT 2014

*Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS)*

*N**ovember 2015 Special Issue Call for Papers*

*“Climate Change & National Security: A Geospatial Perspective**”*

Todd Johanesen, Defense and Intelligence Committee Chair (ASPRS)Tim Hale,
WoolpertJerome Lenczowski, Jerome Lenczowski ConsultingDavid Alvarez,
Woolpert

Climate change is affecting the U.S. and the world in far-‐reaching ways. I
mpacts related to climate change are already seen through a wide range of a
ctions and activities across every region of the world and in many sectors o
f the global economy.  Climate change could have significant impacts to U.S.
National security including water supply, agriculture, food  security, human
health, transportation, energy and ecosystems. U.S Intelligence agencies are
warning some of these impacts are likely to trigger major conflicts in the n
ear future.

Climate change presents a major challenge for society and as a society we n
eed to find ways to work together to make our communities stronger and more
resilient to its impacts. One way is to use the enormous data sets regularly
collected by NASA, NOAA, ESA, and other agencies in the U.S and around the w
orld and apply the ingenuity, creativity, and expertise   of technologists
and entrepreneurs to help create easy-‐to-‐use tools for regional planners,
farmers, hospitals, and businesses across the globe to empower our communiti
es to prepare themselves for the future.

The changes in our environment have begun to impact how we look at our global
connectedness and thus our national security. Thought, leadership, and resea
rch are required for us to move towards viable solutions.

This  special  issue  will  solicit  articles  related  to  national  security
 through  the  following topics at global, continental, regional or local l
evels:

•      Defense-‐civilian geospatial cooperation in fostering natural resou
rce/climate change  resilience

•      Extreme weather and rising sea level

•      Impact of increasing ship access (including Artic)

•      Impacts and opportunities of offshore development (including Artic)

•      Increasing coastal erosion

•      Changes in geography and freshwater availability

•      Impacts on defense infrastructure (necessitating logistic and operati
on change)

•      Human health impact (including pandemics)

•      Disaster-‐response capabilities do to extreme weather

•      Food security (availability, stability, utilization, and access)

•      Data  standardization,  organizational  and  legal  aspects  of  sh
aring  geospatial  data across countries on climate change related issues

Authors must prepare manuscripts according to the PE&RS Instructions to Aut
hors, published in each issue of PE&RS and also available on the ASPRS web site
*http:/*www.asprs.org/pers/AuthorInstructions.
<http://www.asprs.org/pers/AuthorInstructions>

All submissions will be peer-‐reviewed in accordance with *PE&RS *policy. B
ecause of page limits, not all submissions recommended for acceptance by the
review panel may be included in the Special Issue. Under this circumstance,
the guest editors will select the most relevant papers for inclusion in the
special issue. Papers that are reviewed favorably, but will not fit within t
he Special Issue, can be revised and submitted for review as a new paper to
the *PE&RS *Editor-‐in-‐Chief for possible publication in a future regular
issue of *PE&RS*.

*Important  Dates:*

*P**lease e-‐mail your manuscript directly to:*

Manuscripts  Due:

12/01/14

*Dav**id Alvarez*

Decision to Authors:

04/01/15

*Phone**: *(614) 827 6113

Final Papers Due:

05/01/15

Email:   *dav**i**da**l**va**r**ez76**@**g**m**a**il.c**om*
<davidalvarez76 at gmail.com>

Publication:

11/01/15
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