Latin American Activities – 2010
The main purpose was to promote the activities of ISPRS in the region, help the
member to be more active in ISPRS.
The most important activities that took place and were coordinated by the region
representative are:
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Encouraging the participation of the Geographic Institutes and professional
associations in the “Latin American Remote Sensing Week”(LARS) 2010 – Chile
October 4 through 8. My work was to promote the conference in Latin-American
countries.
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Organizing SELPER’s Symposium, celebrated in Guanajuato, Mexico, November
8th trough 12th. I was part of the technical committee in charge of selecting the
papers, lectures, key note speakers and posters. Presence at the Mike Reslow
conference (he made a plenary presentation) and at SELPER’s general assembly.
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Participated at the ISPRS centenary celebrated in Vienna during the month of July.
It is important to mention that in this meeting the MOU was signed between
EARsel (Europe) AARS (ASIA), AARSE (AFRICA) y SELPER (LatinAmerican).
In Vienna I had the opportunity to meet with the Brazilian Society for Cartography,
Geodesy, Photogrammetric and Remote Sensing, with the Delegates of “Instituto
Geográfico de Chile, and with delegates of the Chilean Air Force.
Myriam Ardila
Cadastral and Geodetic engineer
Msc in Geography
ISPRS Latin-American Representative
Tel 571-6387272/ 3694096
mardila@prosis.com