Call for Abstracts Now Open for Shallow Survey 2018 Conference

The 8th International Conference on High Resolution Surveys in Shallow Water is now accepting abstracts for its conference. The event will take place at the Delta Hotel in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, from 1-3 October 2018. The Fisheries and Marine Institute of the Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Canadian Hydrographic Service invite interested parties to submit proposals for presentations on high-resolution surveys in shallow water. 

All conference abstract submissions must be made by e-mail to Kirk Regular or Paul Brett at s[email protected] no later than 15 May 2018. Notification of decisions on submitted abstracts will be issued on 15 June 2018.

Wide swath of approaches to shallow water hydrography

In keeping with the broad scope of promoting progress in seabed mapping in the coastal environment, the organisation welcomes abstracts from a wide swath of approaches to shallow water hydrography – from multibeam, to swath (or swathe), to Lidar, to satellites; AUVs, ASVs, UAVs, and advanced data processing, fusion and visualisation techniques - highlighting both the practical developments in these technologies, as well as advancements in our understanding of the seabed gained as a result. 

The conference organizers would like to showcase the technologies being developed to address current and future hydrographic requirements are enabling the hydrographic community to ask questions and set standards that were previously not practical to even consider. Presentations should be proposed in the form of an abstract and include:

• Title, author's name and contact information, including title, employer, address, telephone, fax and e-mail
• Identification of primary speaker where different from the author or where there are multiple authors
• Abstract (no more than 300 words)
• Author's biographical information (no more than 150 words)
• List of any other events or venues where the presentation may have been previously presented.
  
  

A template for proposal submission can be found at www.shallow-survey.com.

Important Dates:

15 May 2018: Abstract submission deadline
15 June 2018: Notification of acceptance/rejection of abstracts
1-3 October 2018: Conference presentations