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Preface

    International Conference on Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis, 4. (GEOBIA)
    Rio de Janeiro - RJ, May 7-9, 2012


 

We are pleased to present the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis - GEOBIA 2012. The event, organized by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio (Brazil) and the National Institute for Space Research - INPE (Brazil), takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from May 7 to 9.

Following the successful meetings held in Salzburg, Austria (2006), Calgary, Canada (2008), and Ghent, Belgium (2010), the biannual international conference on GEOBIA reaches South America, demonstrating the world-wide interest in the development of the set of concepts, methods and applications related to this emerging field.

The meeting gathers over 150 participants from 31 countries and its technical program counts with more than 110 works, between oral and poster presentations, 4 keynote talks, and industry workshops.

As a novelty in relation to previous editions, the program includes a special panel with representatives from the current and previous editions of the conference, where the major achievements, trends, and challenges of the field will be discussed.

Additionally, all keynote talks, oral presentations and the special panel will be recorded in video and posted on the conference website, so that a large number of researchers, academics, and students all over the world can benefit from GEOBIA 2012.

The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters will foster the publication of high-quality papers presented at GEOBIA 2012.

Finally, we consider the GEOBIA meetings a very important initiative for developing the research in this field. We hope that the activities included in our program will be highly valuable to all participants and that the proceedings become an important source of study and reflection aiming at the worldwide progress of GEOBIA.


Raul Queiroz Feitosai
Gilson Alexandre Ostwald Pedro da Costa
Cláudia Maria de Almeida
Leila Maria Garcia Fonseca
Hermann Johann Heinrich Kux
GEOBIA 2012 General Coordinators